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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Beowulf Socks Are Written in Anglo-Saxon


These socks by The Sanguin Gryphon contain untranslated passages of the 8th Century poem Beowulf:
Thus begins the immortal tale of the hero Beowulf, the bard summoning the attention of his audience. And so begin these socks, which give the text of the first page of the surviving manuscript, a copy dating to around 1000 CE. The writing flows from one sock to the other, so that you may read it uninterrupted.

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