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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9609516" data-attributes="member: 6906155">That’s certainly true, but it indicates the possibility that Howard had access to a translation of Beowulf, perhaps via a library rather than school.Addendum: the 1910 New York published Gummere translation seems the most likely candidate, or possibly the 1922 Boston published Klaeber version. I assume since it was published in Boston it was English Language - Klaeber was German.“Inferior foreigner” then. But then the word “foreigner” itself has connotations of inferiority.</blockquote>