Beowulf spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
“What a deal hast uttered,
dear my Unferth,
drunken with beer, of Breca now,
told of his
triumph! Truth I claim it,
that I had more of might in the sea
than any man else, more ocean-endurance.
We twain had talked, in time
of youth,
and made our boast, -- we were merely boys,
striplings
still, -- to stake our lives
far at sea: and so we performed it.
Naked swords, as we swam along,
we held in hand, with hope to guard
us
against the whales. Not a whit from me
could he float afar o’er
the flood of waves,
haste o’er the billows; nor him I
abandoned.
Together we twain on the tides abode
five nights full
till the flood divided us,
churning waves and chillest weather,
darkling night, and the northern wind
ruthless rushed on us: rough
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I listened to this twice the other day and then realized a funny thing:
Beowulf is basically every 80's action movie ever made.
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