When I first started reading Beofulf, I found it too hard. Way, way too hard.

So I went to my mom (as I was homeschooled) and told her, ‘I can’t read this’. Canterbury Tales had been painful (more because it sucked than because of the Middle English), but this was beyond me.

She then pointed out that they only had the first few paragraphs in Anglo Saxon. The actual thing followed in full in Modern English.

Someday I shall learn Old English and read about the Danes in days past. Hwaet!