Special: The Norse Battle

At the end of our last actual play episode, you may have heard a segment that is new in your experience of tabletop games: the Norse Battle. This special episode shares exactly what this segment is for, where it comes from, and why we like to use it as a way to wrap up each game. Once you've listened to it, please share what you think about it, and if you use something similar, we'd love to know how you use it.

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Finally, here are the links to some various Beowulf translations:

• The Howell Chickering translation, complete with facing page translation
• The Lesslie Hall translation available freely through Project Gutenberg
• The Tolkien prose translation
• The Seamus Heaney treatment (aka Heaneywulf) that plays fast and loose with the text, but for the sake of giving it a strong poetic feel