This is not your 10th-grade English teacher’s “Beowulf.”

The highest — and driest — bit of early Western civilization to survive the ages is that pre-medieval Germanic epic poem in an indecipherable old English dialect that has been giving high schoolers headaches since long before the iPod.

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