Monday, April 09, 2007

Exodus complete, Daniel beginning

Just a quick update to note that over at Anglo-Saxon Aloud, I've finished posting the podcasts of the entire poem of Exodus and, today, started posting the next poem in the Junius Manuscript, Daniel. Thus all of Exodus should be available for download on iTunes any time now.

When you listen to Exodus you'll find, at various part of the poem, lines that are more closely similar in style to Beowulf than any other lines in Anglo-Saxon poetry (except the lines in Andreas that are almost direct quotes, but that's another kettle of fish, which I'll talk about when I get to Andreas). You'll also hear the poet having just a grand old time with the destruction of the Egyptian army.

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