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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Sally Evans
Sent: 06 December 2008 15:53
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Subject: Beocat
have most of you seen this? Henry Beard, I understand.
Brave Beocat, brood-kit of Ecgthmeow,
Hearth-pet of Hrothgar in whose high halls
He mauled without mercy many fat mice,
Night did not find napping nor snack-feasting.
The wary war-cat, whiskered paw-wielder,
Bearer of the burnished neck-belt, gold-braided collar band,
Feller of fleas; fatal, too, to ticks,
The work of wonder-smiths, woven with witches' charms,
Sat on the throne-seat, his ears like sword-points
Upraised, sharp-tipped, listening for peril-sounds,
When he heard from the moor-hill howls of the hell-hound,
Gruesome hunger-grunts of Grendel's Great Dane,
Deadly doom-mutt, dread demon-dog.
Then boasted Beocat, noble barrow-kitten,
Bane of barrow-bunnies, bold seeker of nest-booty:
"If hand of man unhasped the heavy hall-door
And freed me to frolic forth to fight the fang-bearing fiend,
I would lay the whelpling low with lethal claw-blows;
Fur would fly and the foe would taste death-food.
But resounding snooze-noise, stern slumber-thunder,
Nose-music of men snoring mead-hammered in the wine-hall,
Fills me with sorrow-feeling; for Fate does not see fit
To send some fingered folk to lift the firm-fastened latch
That I might go grapple with the grim ghoul-pooch."
Thus spoke the mouse-shredder, hunter of hall-pests,
Short-haired Hrodent-slayer, greatest of the pussy-Geats.
Sally Evans
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Beowulfs YOGH
> ... for no particular reason, I am minded to mention Skarphethin in _Njals
> Saga_.
>
> Dunno why -- the name simply floated across my precious mind.
>
> Off all the Icelandic mental boys -- think Starkather -- he has to be the
> worst.
>
> Patrick would no doubt thoroughly disapprove, but when they peeled him
> from the wall in the wake of the Burning, he had a cross stapled to his
> chest.
>
> They took religion seriously in them days, so they did.
>
> Nox (J.)
>
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