Shoutout to the wikipedia editor who made this bit of the plot summary of Beowulf sound like the Anglo-Saxon model of alliterative poetry actually used in the story
It's not actually very much like it at all - the first syllables of each word don't actually sound much like each other; just having the same first letter isn't the same thing - but at least they tried
Oh that's interesting, thank you - I didn't realise it was supposed to be the entire syllable. Knowing Ezra Pound got this wrong too makes me feel slightly less foolish
