Meme Characters Read the Beowulf Prologue in Old English

I’m not sure what else to say. Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorl(as)*. Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning. *The manuscript strictly has eorl, most amend it to eorlas for syntactic and metrical purposes. Since the premise of the meme is that they’re reading the manuscript, I kept eorl.
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