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Title: Beowulf
       An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, Translated From The Heyne-Socin
              Text by Lesslie Hall

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Release Date: July 19, 2005 [EBook #16328]

Language: English







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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

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
  • 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
  • The Hoard and the Dragon  (XXXII.)75
  • Brave Though Aged  (XXXIII.)78
  • Reminiscences
  • Beowulf Seeks the Dragon  (XXXIV.)81
  • Beowulf’s Reminiscences
  • Reminiscences (continued)  (XXXV.)83
  • Beowulf’s Last Battle
  • Wiglaf the Trusty  (XXXVI.)88
  • Beowulf is Deserted by Friends and by Sword
  • The Fatal Struggle  (XXXVII.)91
  • Beowulf’s Last Moments
  • Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon’s Den  (XXXVIII.)93
  • Beowulf’s Death
  • The Dead Foes  (XXXIX.)95
  • Wiglaf’s Bitter Taunts
  • The Messenger of Death  (XL.)97