the right words

 

“He is hasped

     and hooped

          and hirpling with pain…”

 

Beowulf describing the wounded dragon, Grendel

Beowulf, p. 65

Seamus Heaney, trans.

New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 2000

 

Beowulf, the Old English epic poem, was written more than a thousand years ago. No one knows who wrote  it.

He or she had a way with words.

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