St George

[Steve Walker]

It's very hard to say anything much at all about the sources and composition of Beowulf. Or "bowf", and my Scottish born and educated wife calls it - she and her fellow English Lit students didn't much like studying it. I rather like it, and bought Seamus Heaney's new translation, but she pulls a face at the mention of it

[snakey1]

Níðhöggr - https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/N%C3%AD%C3%B0h%C3%B6ggr.html & http://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/tag/ni%C3%B0hoggr/

 

Andrew - I prefer this version even though they changed the name and words slightly for the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEb8r_M6ln0

[gozzer]

GOOD OWLD WIKI

 

You can say that again Andy. I vaguely remembered a story from Yorkshire similar to the lambton worm. I found it on Wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_of_Wantley

There seems to be a few around with varations of the same story. I like ours because in true Yorkshire style, he killed it with a good kick to the 'arse gut'.

 

John.