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Stanley W. Greenfield, among the world’s foremost anglo saxon students, creates of why, after significantly more than thirty years of research, he began the Herculean job of making Beowulf into con­temporary passage: “I wanted my interpretation to become not just faith­ful for the unique but, whilst the late John Lennon might have set it, ‘A Poem in Its Write.’ I wanted it to ‘flow,’ to be simple to read, using the narrative motion of the contemporary writing tale; however to recommend the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I needed it both contemporary and Old English in its reactions and sen­sibilities, delighting both the overall audience and the anglo saxon expert. .