The Transliteration In Beowulf

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The transliteration was most certainly not easy for me. I was thankful for having read the article about the “12 letters that did not make it into the alphabet.” What I remembered from that article was helpful when trying to make sense of the Old English. All of my transliterations were just a little off. Most of the words were switched. Honestly, even being given the correct answers for the transliteration, I am still a little confused. The prompt asks which parts of the OE script were the easiest and which were most difficult to decipher. Well, for me, all of it was difficult. I even had a hard time following along to Beowulf when I read it in high school. The questions from part 1 actually helped me make a little sense of the passage, but

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