Status Updates From Beowulf (Signet Classics)

"well actually, buddy, sit down, you're drunk.
unferth, you've run your mouth about breca, me
and our sea-swagger, but let me drop some truth
into your tangent. i've been better on the water,
deeper in the srink, and stronger in the swin,
than any man alive. breca and i were boys
together. our desires were only dares, one upon
the other, brother to brother, maybe you know this story?"

I don't understand why people say this is incomprehensible without years of study this is easier than Shakespeare

Seamus Heaney’s introduction to the text was truly delicious. Every sentence presented a new truth, and an undying fealty to the corpus of heroic saga.