Three quick things

[yendi]

1. Thought things were slow enough to risk hopping back on LJ and email yesterday. Man, was I wrong. I was pretty much battered from 10-5 or so. Not fun. Not going to try to spend time online today.

2. We got to meet mnfiddledragon last night! Had a wonderful dinner at Maggiano's, followed by hanging out with her. She's just as nifty in real life as on LJ.

3. While I'm diving back into the pit of despair, boggle at the stupidity of Fundamentalists talking about Beowulf.

Comments

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

re: Beowolf

The whole thing reads like a Middle School student's term paper. Maybe it is.

This is my favorite line: "Pagans valued human strength, vengeance, boasting, and treasure gained by plunder. The poem extols all of these and not Christian virtues."

Yeah, cause as a Pagan, I'm all about the treasure and plundering my neighborhood, ya know? *headdesk*

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

The whole thing reads like a Middle School student's term paper. Maybe it is.

Ditto. That was my first thought.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

That reads like a bad high school essay.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

It may very well have been, although I hope younger than high school...the writing is pretty miserable.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

*eye spork*

(And I'm using this icon because I don't have a Norse one)

[bluedressdevil.livejournal.com]

The English major inside me dies a little after reading the article on Beowulf.

To counteract this article, a link to the BEST translation of Beowulf: Beowulf:The New Verse Translation (http://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-A-New-Verse-Translation/dp/0393320979/sr=8-1/qid=1157038298/ref=sr_1_1/002-4321678-2764819?ie=UTF8)

[fiddledragon]

aww...Thank you! And likewise, I really had a wonderful time visiting with the whole family :)