# original poem (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover original poem. Page: Feed: --- ## [Beowulf in the Original, so to speak](https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2026/04/beowulf-in-original-so-to-speak.html) _2026-04-17 · A.Z. Foreman · The bLogicarian_ Beowulf is an early poem out of a lost world. In a very important way, that was already true in turn-of-the-millennium Wessex. By the time the Nowell Codex was produced around 1000 AD, written Old English itself was probably a somewhat more "artificial" language than it had been in the pre-Alfredian period. The language of Old English verse in particular was rather removed from anybody's everyday… ## [The Battle of Pelennor Fields: A Couple Pages from "Return of the King" in Old English](https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2026/04/ahe-battle-of-pelennor-fields-couple.html) _2026-04-16 · A.Z. Foreman · The bLogicarian_ Stiernmód nú wæs Éomer, and eft ferhðclǽne. Bebéad hornas tó bláwenne, tó gegadrienne ealle menn tó his fanan þá þe cúðon þider cuman, for þæt hé áþóhte tó wyrcenne gréatne bordweall in ende, and standenne, and þǽr on fóte feohtenne oþ þæt ealle féollon, and wóþlíc gúþweorc tó wyrcenne on Pelennores Feldum, éac gif nán Westan cwicra nǽron to gemunenne þone endenéhstan Mearccyning. Swá rád hé oþ… ## [The Matter of Principle](https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-matter-of-principle.html) _2025-03-23 · A.Z. Foreman · The bLogicarian_ The Matter of Principle The period of principles can last No more than winking years, or a decade. Soon we must count our way to first from last. Narrow your comprehensions of the past As if in our grand-throated gasconade The period of principles can last. Though ballots will continue to be cast, Though cheers yell honestly at the parade Soon we must count our way to first from last. Only when…