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Seamus Heaney - Beowulf

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Beowulf arrives in the land of the Shieldings and explains his mission to Hrothgar, the Danish King. Poet Seamus Heaney reads his own translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem. Show more

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