Tim Desmondes

Beowulf, Wulfgar and Their Friggin' Horny Gods Tim Desmondes

Oh, those Anglo-Saxons and their dirty four-letter words. The words weren?t dirty to the Anglo-Saxons back in the Dark Ages when they brought their English language to Britain from the Continent. The words were simply descriptions of body parts and functions. Fuck, cunt, piss, shit, arse ? what?s ?dirty? about those words? Later prudes chose Latin and French translations like intercourse, vagina, feces and derrière as polite substitutes. Bah! Prudery! And with their Anglo-Saxon words the earliest speakers of our language brought their Anglo-Saxon tales: Beowulf the Brave, the well-hung hero who fought three monsters, two of them with his ?member? rather than with his sword. Wulfgar the Stalwart, that anti-hero who was one mean mother? His sex partners included geese, sheep, women, and? oh yes. That one time?the good looking dude? Wulfgar was an equal opportunity sex fiend. With their earthy words and those randy heroes and anti-heroes, what kind of go