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Comment by slwvx

17 hours ago

"What ho" as in British English seems like a descendant of this usage

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77151/what-ho-of...

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Rebelgecko 16 hours ago

There was a more colloquial translation a few years ago that rendered it as "Bro!"

chuho 15 hours ago

That's the 2021 translation by Maria Headley
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374110031/beowulfanewtran...