Hwaet!
Welcome to Hwaet! - the podcast that literally nobody was asking for but, in 2021, the year that just keeps on giving, here it is for you now: all 3,182 alliterative lines of Beowulf, recited in the original Anglo Saxon, with (very) crude translation and historical notes by your ill-educated but extremely passionate guide, Olivia Bell. Let's begin.
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- Update frequency
- every 47 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Episode 9: Sutton Hoo
Live episode from the most famous of burial grounds: plus, Grendel strikes the hall, and Hwaet's first special guest
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00:21:15 |
Sun 28 Aug 2022
Episode 8: Epic, bruv
What makes an epic epic? Plus: Anglo Saxons like it hot (or not), and a hashtag blessed translation
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00:26:10 |
Sat 16 Jul 2022
Episode 7: So, a monster walks into a bar....
Translation nerdery PLUS: Unferth gets salty, and an Anglo-Saxon's ABCs
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00:22:13 |
Wed 20 Apr 2022
Episode 6: A War on Wars
Beowulf appears to be a poem glorifying war - but is that all it is? PLUS: Where Hereot got its name, a thorny problem, and Hrothgar goes off on one
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00:14:11 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Episode 5: No weapons please
Beowulf comes before the king: PLUS, a question of faith, and a new year's greeting
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00:21:25 |
Mon 03 Jan 2022
Episode 4: To Heorot!
Beowulf leaves the beach: plus, why there's nothing wrong with failure, and lazy translators get a beating
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00:16:06 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Episode 3: The making of a hero
Beowulf arrives: plus, a catastrophic fire, a charred manuscript, and woodpeckers
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00:17:51 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Episode 2: Something wicked this way comes
The monster Grendel arrives: plus, kennings, oral tradition, and how bards became too clever for their own good
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00:18:59 |
Sat 21 Aug 2021
Hwaet! Episode 1
A time for stories
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00:16:26 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
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