New Beowulf Film November 19, 2007

Have any of you seen the new Beowulf film?  If so, did you like it?  How did it compare with the original text? 

Here’s a link to the Beowulf film trailer website: http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

Here’s a link to the original text of the epic: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf-oe.html (Old English) 

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AnoBeow.html (modern translation) 

You can hear part of Beowulf in Old English here: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/sesll/englang/ugrad/readings/OE/beowulf.htm