Aha, so it’s pronounced “BAY-wulf.” All these years my high school classmates and I have pronounced it “BEE-wulf,” like how were taught in English literature. The release of the movie should prompt us to consider holding one of our usual reunions just so we could officially adopt the proper pronunciation of the name.
You see, “Beowulf” isn’t just a story to us. Mention the word, and it brings back a lot of happy memories. We’re silly sentimental SOBs like that…
Beowulf the warrior is alive again, in a ridiculous new movie by Robert Zemeckis that purports to be another giant stride in filmmaking. It doesn’t use real actors, but computer-generated facsimiles whose looks and gestures were “captured” electronically from real performers. Ashushu.
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