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  • This version of Beowulf looks more like he is the protagonist of a Chinese novel than a Viking epic.
    t-dugong
    t-dugong
    I don't see what you mean.
    Kamakura bakufu
    Kamakura bakufu
    In most version Beowulf is depicted as a hot blooded warrior and here is the opposite.
    t-dugong
    t-dugong
    Ah. Still don't get it. What does his depiction have to do with looking like a Chinese wuxia protagonist?

    Maybe you want to use another word instead of 'looking like'?
    This is an English translation I found on Wikipedia
    BEHOLD the unchangeably true and invisible, who existed through all eternity without origin; the far-seeing perfect intelligence, whose mysterious existence is everlasting; operating on primordial substance he created the universe, being more excellent than all holy intelligences, inasmuch as he is the source of all that is honorable. This is our eternal true lord God, triune and mysterious in substance. He appointed the cross as the means for determining the four cardinal points, he moved the original spirit, and produced the two principles of nature; the sombre void was changed, and heaven and earth were opened out; the sun and moon revolved, and day and night commenced; having perfected all inferior objects, he then made the first man; upon him he bestowed an excellent disposition, giving him in charge the government of all created beings; man
    The paragraph below is about God in Nestorian Christianity, it is very hard to translate to English but it sounds very badass in Vietnamese
    惣玄摳而造化妙衆聖以元尊者其唯我三一妙身无元真主阿羅訶歟判十字以㝎四方皷元風而生二氣暗空易而天地開日月運而晝夜作匠成厏物然立初人別賜良和令鎮化海)
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    Lerticus
    Lerticus
    The Apostle Nestor was the fiercest of Jesus' inner circle. Man could throw down a sacred beat.
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