Writer inscribes first line of Heaney's Beowolf when testing shop pens!

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Monday, 15 August 2016 at 07:40

Nigerian writer Teju Cole writes the first line of Seamus Heaney's Beowolf when testing out a pen in a shop.

That's according to an article in the Washington Post.

He says he writes out the line as translated by the Bellaghy born Nobel Laureate.

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