The word moot is an archaic term meaning "argue, debate, discuss." In early English history, a moot was a meeting to discuss local affairs. Moot comes from the Old English gemot, meaning "meeting."
This is the way to experience Beowulf. Two years ago Treebeard and the youngest entling and I saw bard, Benjamin Bagby perform his one man show and it was a transforming experience.
Bagby has a DVD now. I hope schools are sharing this with their students.
3 comments:
pretty cool! I'm going to have to check that one out.
I read Beowulf when I was a teenager, before I HAD too. I was just that weird a kid.
Did you read LOTR before you found Beowulf?
The Professor had much to say about Beowulf and even did his own translation which we have around here somewhere.
After. I read it because I knew he'd done a translation--probably from the biography I read.
Glad I finally made it over to bookmoot, btw, 2 months after kidlit!
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