I am teaching Beowulf again right now, and this news article was posted to an electronic teacher group of which I'm a part. A guy with a metal detector found a cache of Anglo-Saxon gold that is actually larger than the 1939 Sutton Hoo treasure. It's amazing. There's even a folded gold strip with writing on it, a Bible verse. That's the thing you see in the picture at the top of my blog tonight. The archaeologists, of course, are about to come completely unglued with it since it's one of the first major finds since Sutton Hoo for the Anglo-Saxons. I can't wait to see what it teaches them, how it will inform what we know about Beowulf and the culture that surrounds it. What a neat time to be alive! If you'd like to see more of it, then click here.
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