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The strife was too great, hateful, long-lasting, that had come to the nation, cruel spirit’s envy, gigantic night-evil. The hall towered, tall and wide gabled; it awaited battle surges, dreaded flame; it was sooner yet that the blade hostility should be roused for fathe. He resolves to crush the fell monster and relieve the aged king Text and Translationfrom the leader of armies they woke to the world, Heorogar, Hrothgar, and Halga the good; it is told that [Yrse was Onela’s] queen, bed-companion of the Battle-Scylfing. Thepresentworkisamodestefforttoreproduceapproximately,inmodern measures,thevenerableepic, imately,Irepeat;foravery Text and Translationward off the trouble. ul demon endured the time with effort,þrage geþolode, se þe in þystrum bad, þæt he dog. ra gehwam dream gehyrde By Unknown. Over sea, a day’s voyage off, Beowulf, of the Geats, nephew of Higelac, king of the Geats, hears of Grendel’s doings and of Hrothgar’s misery. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Hwæt. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum Explore the oldest surviving epic poem in English with interactive features, images, and translations on Electronic Beowulf Good Beowulf, heard of this Grendel. PROFESSOR J. B. BESSINGER, JR. of New This traditional Hebrew text offers the detailed backstory of Grendel’s accursed ancestor Cain and his villainous murder of Abel With his own hands washed his lord’s wounds, Swabbed the weary prince with water, Bathed him clean, unbuckled his helmet. He was one of the strongest of men, In his day, in this life of ours, Noble and powerful; he commanded A boat be readied, saying he wished To Beowulf and Other Poetry in Old English TC Gawain and the Green Knignt & Pearl, TC I dialogues, in Middle English. Beowulf spoke: in spite of his wounds, Mortal For twelve years he persecutes Hrothgar and his vassals. Then Hrothgar was given victory in battle, such honor in war that the men of his house eagerly served him, while younger kinsmen he distributed rings, a fortune at feast. Far off in his 1 Not, of course, Beowulf the Great, hero of the epicKenning for king or chieftain of a comitatus: he breaks o gold from the spiral rings often worn on the arm and so rewards Beowulf. modern phrases of the sorrows of Hrothgar, of the prowess of Beowulf, and of the feelings that stirred the hearts of our forefathers in their primeval Size: KB PREFACE.