All credit for this goes to er simon armitage for the translation. The is available in all decent bookshops. You can also check out the j r r tolkin version, which is more of a it's less poetic. It's not written in lines. Like this. That might be a good one to read too. Good telling of the story. If you want to find out what happened, you could, yes, read the book yourself and finish it off,. or you could go back to the previous episode. And i will speak to you again soon. But for now, it's time to say good bye. Bye.
Luke reads verses from a modernised version of this medieval poem, considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature.
Listen to hear the rhyme and rhythm of the poetry, the descriptive vocabulary and details of the story, with vocabulary explanations and comments from Luke.
This is part 2 of a double episode about this story. Video version available with on-screen text.
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