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BEOWULF XXI BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: "Sorrow not, sage! It beseems us better friends to avenge than fruitlessly mourn them. Each of us all must his end abide in the ways of the world; so win who may glory ere death! When his days are told, that is the warrior's worthiest doom. Rise, O realm-warder! Ride we anon, and mark the trail of the mother of Grendel. No harbor shall hide her -- heed my promise! -- enfolding of field or forested mountain or floor of the flood, let her flee where she will! But thou this day endure in patience, as I ween thou wilt, thy woes each one." Leaped up the graybeard: God he thanked, mighty Lord, for the man's brave words. For Hrothgar soon a horse was saddled 98 XXI
BEOWULF wave-maned steed. The sovran wise stately rode on; his shield-armed men followed in force. The footprints led along the woodland, widely seen, a path o'er the plain, where she passed, and trod the murky moor; of men-at-arms she bore the bravest and best one, dead, him who with Hrothgar the homestead ruled. On then went the atheling-born o'er stone-cliffs steep and strait defiles, narrow passes and unknown ways, headlands sheer, and the haunts of the Nicors. Foremost he 1 fared, a few at his side of the wiser men, the ways to scan, till he found in a flash the forested hill hanging over the hoary rock, a woful wood: the waves below were dyed in blood. The Danish men 99 XXI
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Beowulf Translated by Gummere Orang
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BEOWULF Contents I.................
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BEOWULF PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF T
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BEOWULF on the breast of the boat,
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BEOWULF I Now Beowulf bode in the b
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BEOWULF that he heard each day the
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BEOWULF 4 A skilled minstrel. The D
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BEOWULF when once had been traced t
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BEOWULF and ne'er could the prince
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BEOWULF III THUS seethed unceasing
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BEOWULF headlands broad. Their have
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BEOWULF 1 Ship. 2 That is, since Be
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BEOWULF dark ill-doer, in dusky nig
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BEOWULF and the gleam of it lighten
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BEOWULF ne'er met I as strangers of
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BEOWULF VI HROTHGAR answered, helme
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BEOWULF Beowulf spake, -- his breas
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BEOWULF in the doom of the Lord who
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BEOWULF VII HROTHGAR spake, the Scy
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BEOWULF Gathered together, the Geat
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BEOWULF rolled the rough waves. In
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BEOWULF hard and hand-linked, help
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BEOWULF ne'er heard I a harder 'nea
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Page 67 and 68: BEOWULF XIV HROTHGAR spake, -- to t
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Page 79 and 80: BEOWULF Then wound up to welkin the
Page 81 and 82: BEOWULF XVII THEN hastened those he
Page 83 and 84: BEOWULF The lay was finished, the g
Page 85 and 86: BEOWULF 2 Nephew to Hrothgar, with
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BEOWULF and acts of honor. At ale h
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BEOWULF unknown to mortals. Some ma
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BEOWULF left to live, the last of t
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BEOWULF folded in fire: the folk of
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BEOWULF for sons of the soil; and s
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BEOWULF sad in heart, 'twas heavies
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BEOWULF their craft of contest, who
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BEOWULF XXXIV THE fall of his lord
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BEOWULF "Through store of struggles
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BEOWULF 2 That is, the king could c
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BEOWULF pact of peace, but pushed t
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BEOWULF old folk-defender, feud wil
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BEOWULF or endure those deeps, 4 fo
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BEOWULF naked in battle, as never i
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BEOWULF XXXVI WIGLAF his name was,
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BEOWULF for hard-sword and helmet,
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BEOWULF that board 4 to the boss, a
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BEOWULF XXXVII 'TWAS now, men say,
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BEOWULF "I would fain bestow on son
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BEOWULF XXXVIII I HAVE heard that s
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BEOWULF weakening fast by the wall
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BEOWULF XXXIX IT was heavy hap for
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BEOWULF Though well he wished it, i
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BEOWULF for liegemen all than a lif
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BEOWULF and heavy of heart a head-w
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BEOWULF tones of his trumpet; the t
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BEOWULF and the folk-king there was
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BEOWULF "Such is the feud, the foem
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BEOWULF Found on the sand there, st
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BEOWULF XLII A PERILOUS path, it pr
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BEOWULF to my liege and lord. Alive
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BEOWULF lying there lost. And littl
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BEOWULF deaths enow, and doom of ba
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