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