Lookout: Who are you, strangers? Beowulf: My friend, we are Geats and we come in peace. I am Beowulf and I wish to speak with Hrothgar, your king. Lookout: If you are truly the famous Beowulf then ...

Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in 1926 ... "It's bit like an old-fashioned dance step; like a quickstep, it advances quite slowly ...