#handshoe

[adiscoveredcountry]

i think my favorite part about beowulf so far is that scholars have argued for years and years about whether or not there really is a character named “handshoe” and tolkien’s take on the matter is “of course his name is handshoe” and then wrote him into his beowulf fanfic

[misschienlaterr-blog]

most days my translation from dutch to english is pretty good and other days i think the word 'handshoe' is a thing