Hwæt!

Hwæt!

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Translations of the first word of Beowulf. Created by @jesse.lansner.com. See more at https://hwaet.info.

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"Listen!" Beowulf: A Verse Translation and Introduction, 2006 Martin Puhvel 🇨🇦

"What" Beowulf: a Verse Translation with Treasures of the Ancient North, 1983 Marijane Osborn 🇺🇸

"What!" The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, 1895 William Morris and A. J. Wyatt 🇬🇧

"Did you hear that?" Beowulf: And How He Fought Grendel—An Anglo-Saxon Epic, 2004 Henriette Barkow 🇺🇸

"诸位安静!" [Zhūwèi ānjìng!] (Ladies and gentlemen, quiet!) 贝奥武甫 [Bèiàowǔfǔ], 1999 陈才宇 [Chén Cáiyǔ] 🇨🇳

"Lo!" The Song of Beowful rendered into English Prose, 1922 Robert Kay Gordon 🇬🇧

"What ho!" The Deeds of Beowulf: An English Epic of the Eighth Century, 1892 John Earle 🇬🇧

"Indeed" Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, 1967 Constance Bartlett Hieatt 🇬🇧

"What!" Beowulf: Anglo-Saxon Text with Modern English Parallel, 1975 John Porter 🇬🇧

"Lo!" Beowulf, an Epic Poem. Translated from the Anglo-Saxon into English Verse, 1849 A. Diedrich Wackerbarth 🇬🇧

I've always wondered how "hwæt" would be translated into feline.

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"Listen!" Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition, 1977 Howell D. Chickering 🇺🇸

"Lo!" Beowulf: a translation into modern English prose, 1901 John Richard Clark Hall 🇬🇧

"Listen!" Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, 1990 Marc Hudson 🇺🇸

"聽け!" [Ting ke] (Listen!) ベーオウルフ [Bēourufu], 1931 厨川文夫譯 [Kuiyagawa Fumio] 🇯🇵

"Eh quoi!" (What!) Beowulf, Epopée Anglo-Saxonne, 1877 Léon Botkine 🇫🇷

"Traun!" (Truly!) Dichtungen der Angelsachsen stabreimend übersetzt, 1857 Christian Wilhelm Michael Grein 🇩🇪

"Fucken A!" Wolf-boy versus Grinder (the Bow Valley Beowulf), 2026 James Harbeck 🇨🇦