This is going to be a very non-literate response to a very literate essay, but I would just like to say that this is utterly fascinating and you rock for posting it. Though I never made it through enough Old English to read Beowulf out of translation and even Chaucer was a fight without footnotes.
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Date: 2003-03-08 07:26 am (UTC)Michelle, hopeless Modernist