[ShatteredOak] Beowulf Shrinklet

Laurentia McIntosh amsterdamsel at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 26 09:06:37 CDT 2008



Greetings Fellow Oakies:

I have finally located the Shrinklet (one of many) written by a medieval lit prof of the Epic poem Beowulf. Enjoy!

YIS,

Annora/Laurentia


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Beowulf Shrinklit
by Maurice Sagoff

Monster Grendel's tastes are plainish.
Breakfast? Just a couple Danish.

King of Danes is frantic, very.
Wait! Here comes the Malmo" ferry

Bring Beowulf, his neighbor,
Mighty swinger with a saber!

Hrothgar's warriors hail the Swede,
Knocking back a lot of mead;

Then, when night engulfs the Hall
And the Monster makes his call,

Beowulf, with body-slam
Wrenches off his arm, Shazam!

Monster's mother finds him slain,
Grabs and eats another Dane!

Down her lair our hero jumps,
Gives old Grendel's dam her lumps.

Later on, as king of Geats
He performed prodigious feats

Till he met a foe too tough
(Non-Beodegradable stuff)

And that scaly-armored dragon
Scooped him up and fixed his wagon.

Sorrow-stricken, half the nation
Flocked to Beowulf's cremation;

Round his pyre, with drums a-muffle
Did a Nordic soft-shoe shuffle.


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