The story commonly know as "Beowulf" fascinates me. I have memorized some of it. I can read it in the Old English (or, Anglo-Saxon) that it was once written in. The reader should note that Old English is not Elizabethan English. Elizabethan English is a manifestation of Early Modern English. The Old English alphabet applied letters that we do not use anymore, and sometimes scribes used letters from the runic alphabet to make certain sounds from the spoken language of the Angles (who initially used runes to write their sounds). England is Angle Land, or the Land of the Angles. English is Angle-ish. The Jutes and the Saxons were among other well-known tribes who spoke various forms of the Old English language. I will also be adding my own transcription of the original text herein, as too many artistic liberties have been taken in all other transcriptions that I have seen. Please keep in mind the arduousness of transcription; it wasn't fast nor easy! I will further note that the letters "H" and "r" have changed over the last thousand years. I use the modern equivalents in the transcription at the end of the article, because they (the two letters) are fairly close to the strokes of the Anglo-Saxons (and, because the letters do not seem to completely exist in current day font). Without further ado; here is the beginning of my translation of "Beowulf".