He Was Actually Four | Retractions

He Was Actually Four

Written by Douglas Wilson

Monday, 30 March 2009 09:27

In a post a week or so ago -- the one on a dragon in your heart -- I misstated the age of the boy who asked the elders if they had read Beowulf. He was four at the time, not two. Mea culpa . . .

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David Paul Regier

Monday, March 30, 2009 10:15 am

Whew! You sure know how to make homeschooling parents nervous. Eeek! Their kid is ahead of ours!

Valerie (Kyriosity)

Monday, March 30, 2009 10:16 am

Take heart. You were half right!

Chris Witmer

Monday, March 30, 2009 3:27 pm

I dunno, in the version handed down in my circles, the kid was three and it was the Song of Roland . . .

lewsta

Monday, March 30, 2009 5:27 pm

Oh well, four as against two only reduces the thunder by a few decibels....... I doubt many of ten years more could come up with a retort of the same impact, and such older chaps would likely be considered arrogant or rebellious with such a response. A four year old could pull it off the more easily. I still would have loved being there to watch the reactions of the examining elders. By any standards, Beowulf at less than ten is remarkable.

Jane Dunsworth

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:46 am

Whew, what a relief. My kids didn't read Beowulf until age 3, and I was worried. Of course they did read it in the original Old English....

Matt Colvin

Monday, October 05, 2009 3:03 am

Gotta love this category of your blog. It's been a year of blathering to all and sundry about every topic from homebirth to tattoos. You've been wrong a lot, but the only retractions are of utterly insignificant and unembarrassing claims of fact. Just basic unrepentance for the many Christian toes you've amputated with the serrated edge of your irresponsible rhetoric. The Lord rebuke you.

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