BEOWULF ***
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BEOWULF AN ANGLO-SAXON EPIC POEM
_TRANSLATED FROM THE HEYNE-SOCIN TEXT_
BY
JNO: LESSLIE HALL, Ph. D. (J.H.U.)
Professor of English and History in The College of William and Mary
D.C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, by
JNO: LESSLIE HALL,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO
My Wife
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface vii
Bibliography of Translations xi
Glossary of Proper Names xiii
List of Words and Phrases not in General Use xviii
The Life and Death of Scyld (I.) 1
Scyld's Successors } (II.) 3 Hrothgar's Great Mead-Hall
Grendel, the Murderer (III.) 5
Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar's Assistance (IV.) 8
The Geats Reach Heorot (V.) 10
Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace (VI.) 12
Hrothgar and Beowulf (VII.) 14
Hrothgar and Beowulf (continued) (VIII.) 17
Unferth Taunts Beowulf (IX.) 19
Beowulf Silences Unferth } (X.) 21 Glee is High
All Sleep save One (XI.) 24
Grendel and Beowulf (XII.) 26
Grendel is Vanquished (XIII.) 28
Rejoicing of the Danes (XIV.) 30
Hrothgar's Gratitude (XV.) 33
Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts upon his Deliverer (XVI.) 35
Banquet (continued) } (XVII.) 37 The Scop's Song of Finn and Hnæf
The Finn Episode (continued) } (XVIII.) 39 The Banquet Continues
Beowulf Receives Further Honor (XIX.) 41
The Mother of Grendel (XX.) 44
Hrothgar's Account of the Monsters (XXI.) 46
Beowulf Seeks Grendel's Mother (XXII.) 48
Beowulf's Fight with Grendel's Mother (XXIII.) 51
Beowulf is Double-Conqueror (XXIV.) 53
[vi] Beowulf Brings his Trophies } (XXV.) 57 Hrothgar's Gratitude
Hrothgar Moralizes } (XXVI.) 60 Rest after Labor
Sorrow at Parting (XXVII.) 62
The Homeward Journey } (XXVIII.) 64 The Two Queens
Beowulf and Higelac (XXIX.) 67
Beowulf Narrates his Adventures to Higelac (XXX.) 69
Gift-Giving is Mutual (XXXI.) 73
