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NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
11-19-2007
Translation of 'Beowulf' Revives Epic Tale

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Long relegated to the dusty shows of academe, the thousand-year-old poem is the basis of a movie that was number one at the box office this past weekend: "Beowulf."

But in many ways, popular interest in the story revived seven years ago with the publication of a new translation by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Here, he describes the end of Beowulf's desperate struggle with the demon, Grendel.

Mr. SEAMUS HEANEY (Poet, Ireland): The ...

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