Beowulf

Book Id: WPLBN0000621959
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File Size: 0.6 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Beowulf
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Beowulf. (n.d.). Beowulf. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE LO, praise of the prowess of people?kings of spear?armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead?bench tore, awing the earls. Since erst he lay friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, till before him the folk, both far and near, who house by the whale?path, heard his mandate, gave him gifts: a good king he! To him an heir was afterward born, a son in his halls, whom heaven sent to favor the folk, feeling their woe that erst they had lacked an earl for leader so long a while; the Lord endowed him, the Wielder of Wonder, with world?s renown. Famed was this Beowulf:[1] far flew the boast of him, son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands. So becomes it a youth to quit him well with his father?s friends, by fee and gift, that to aid him, aged, in after days, come warriors willing, should war draw nigh, liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds shall an earl have honor in every clan.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Beowulf, 1 -- Translated by Gummere, 1 -- PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE, 2 -- I, 3 -- II, 5 -- III, 7 -- IV, 8 -- V, 10 -- VI, 11 -- VII, 13 -- VIII, 14 -- IX, 16 -- X, 18 -- XI, 19 -- XII, 21 -- XIII, 22 -- XIV, 24 -- XV, 25 -- XVI, 27 -- XVII, 29 -- XVIII, 31 -- XIX, 32 -- XX, 34 -- XXI, 36 -- XXI, 38 -- XXIII, 40 -- XXIV, 42 -- XXV, 44 -- XXVI, 46 -- XXVII, 47 -- XXVIII, 49 -- XXXI, 53 -- XXXII, 55 -- XXXIII, 57 -- XXXIV, 59 -- XXXV, 61 -- XXXVI, 64 -- XXXVII, 66 -- XXXVIII, 67 -- XXXIX, 69 -- XL, 70 -- XLI, 72 -- XLII, 74 -- XLIII, 76