Hwaet þe fuc?

[pallas_athena]

Just came back from seeing Beowulf. They could have saved a lot of time by rolling it and 300 into one movie called LOUD NAKED GUYS GET STABBY IN MONOCHROME.

Still, bonus points for bringing back the verb "to swive."

Comments

[speedlime.livejournal.com]

And big huge hairy bonus points for you for managing to render your subject line in Old English with all funny letters and stuff!

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

þanks!

[pvcdiva.livejournal.com]

saw it in 3D at the IMAX...very silly, and I'm sure not nearly as fun in 2D. B knows the poem very well and still enjoyed it...but then I liked 300 as well. Perhaps I watched Zulu too many times as a small child...

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Oh, I enjoyed it plenty-- it was just much more cheesy than I expected it to be. Still, stabby naked guys are rare in this world, so I'm not complaining!

[heptadecagram.livejournal.com]

"hþf" is my new Internets phrase.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Heh. Of course, that phrase isn't really in Anglo-Saxon... A/S for "the" would actually be "se", and as far as I know, no extant A/S text preserves any swearwords. Transcribed by monks, you know...

[awahlbom.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind a perfect stranger barging in months after everyone else... I only just found this post by googling "hwaet þe fuc", so I thought I'd show off the unusually on-topic icon I made a couple of years ago. :-)

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Barging is welcome, sir-- and that icon is fantastic. Good to meet you!

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

I shall not be seeing the movie. I like the original epic too much.

I did very much enjoy this review by the fantasy author Hal Duncan, who has now gone down on my list of writers to look out for.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

That review is great!
I have to admit I had fun mentally ticking off all the inaccuracies, both narrative and historical. (Longbows! Siege weapons! Giant stone castle!)

[zoecb.livejournal.com]

I lOVE the verb to swive!!!

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

It is a good verb, and I'd say definitely overdue for a revival.

[velvetdahlia.livejournal.com]

We were in Leicester Square and saw a bunch of flaming torches and a guy in a pelt beating a drum-- we only figured out later it was the premiere of this film. There wasn't a big crowd so we waited around to see who exactly was showing up in the big black cars but we recognized no one. It was pretty surreal.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Heehee. Surrealism rules. I am so glad about the guy in a pelt beating a drum-- that's perfect.

[justpolina.livejournal.com]

I think they ought to market the entire AngloSaxon course under that heading!

Sorry am not about much at the moment, website is doing my head in and I have the father, mother and all the little bastard offspring of All Colds.

Love and sneezes...

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

I hope you are now feeling better? How did Herring auditions go?

[laughingmagpie.livejournal.com]

He was like, all, he totally swived her.
And I was like, y'know, going Nerts!
Totally.

;)

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Beowulf vs Cagney... Anglo-Saxon brawn vs rapier-like wit. What a fight it would be.

Pass the popcorn, wouldja?