Great Balls of Fire
Beowulf: A New Translation
By Maria Dahvana Headley
Maria Dahvana Headley’s 2020’s Beowulf: A New Translation is… a new translation of Beowulf. This is fortuitous, as it would be terribly confusing if a book titled Beowulf: A New Translation were not a new translation of Beowulf.
Nor do the book’s positive qualities end with the title. But first, hark back to old Scandinavia.