Comment by slwvx
21 days ago
"What ho" as in British English seems like a descendant of this usage
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77151/what-ho-of...
21 days ago
"What ho" as in British English seems like a descendant of this usage
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77151/what-ho-of...
There was a more colloquial translation a few years ago that rendered it as "Bro!"
That's the 2021 translation by Maria Headley
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374110031/beowulfanewtran...
I feel like Lil Jon would remind us that "What?!" still works pretty well today.
I guess "What bro!" is less sexist than "What ho!"