And now, the Oxford Book of Parodies, “beginning with Anglo-Saxon doggerel and concluding with J.K. Rowling.” A parody of Beowulf gives us these lines: “Wonderlich were they enwraged / And wordwar waged.” Quote that on the subway.
And now, the Oxford Book of Parodies, “beginning with Anglo-Saxon doggerel and concluding with J.K. Rowling.” A parody of Beowulf gives us these lines: “Wonderlich were they enwraged / And wordwar waged.” Quote that on the subway.
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I note the inclusion of Sellers and Yeatman, whose wonderful book, 1066 and All That ought to be read (as a treat) by anyone with a fair knowledge of English history.
1066 was a favorite in my childhood household.
The Beowulf parody would be hard to top.