Episode 16: Beowulf, Part 2 of 3

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Episode 16: Beowulf, Part 2 of 3

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In today’s episode of The Bookening, we discuss how poems differ from novels, the character of Beowulf as a dudely dude, and the appropriate time to brag about how many sea monsters you’ve killed. Then Brandon and Jake go to war in an epic kenning-guessing context. It’s intense.

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