Book: Beowulf

Believed to be the oldest poem writen in the English language.
Beowulf is an epic, loved by children still today.

• Beowulf (The Prelude)

  LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
  of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,

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• Beowulf (Episode 01)

  Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
  leader beloved, and long he ruled

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• Beowulf (Episode 36)

  WIGLAF his name was, Weohstan's son,
  linden-thane loved, the lord of Scylfings,

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• Beowulf (Episode 02)

  WENT he forth to find at fall of night
  that haughty house, and heed wherever

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• Beowulf (Episode 26)

  BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
  "Lo, we seafarers say our will,

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• Beowulf (Episode 03)

  THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene
  with the woe of these days; not wisest men

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• Beowulf (Episode 22)

  BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
  "Have mind, thou honored offspring of Healfdene

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• Beowulf (Episode 04)

  To him the stateliest spake in answer;
  the warriors' leader his word-hoard unlocked: --

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• Beowulf (Episode 32)

  THAT way he went with no will of his own,
  in danger of life, to the dragon's hoard,

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• Beowulf (Episode 05)

  STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the way
  to the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistened

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• Beowulf (Episode 40)

  THAT battle-toil bade he at burg to announce,
  at the fort on the cliff, where, full of sorrow,

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• Beowulf (Episode 06)

  HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings: --
  "I knew him of yore in his youthful days;

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• Beowulf (Episode 24)

  BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
  "Lo, now, this sea-booty, son of Healfdene,

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• Beowulf (Episode 07)

  HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings'-helmet: --
  "For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf,

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• Beowulf (Episode 28-30)

  HASTENED the hardy one, henchmen with him,
  sandy strand of the sea to tread

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• Beowulf (Episode 08)

  UNFERTH spake, the son of Ecglaf,
  who sat at the feet of the Scyldings' lord,

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• Beowulf (Episode 34)

  THE fall of his lord he was fain to requite
  in after days; and to Eadgils he proved

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• Beowulf (Episode 09)

  ME thus often the evil monsters
  thronging threatened. With thrust of my sword,

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• Beowulf (Episode 38)

  I HAVE heard that swiftly the son of Weohstan
  at wish and word of his wounded king, --

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• Beowulf (Episode 10)

  THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train,
  defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;

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• Beowulf (Episode 42)

  A PERILOUS path, it proved, he trod
  who heinously hid, that hall within,

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• Beowulf (Episode 11)

  THEN from the moorland, by misty crags,
  with God's wrath laden, Grendel came.

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• Beowulf (Episode 23)

  'MID the battle-gear saw he a blade triumphant,
  old-sword of Eotens, with edge of proof,

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• Beowulf (Episode 12)

  NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence
  suffer that slaughterous stranger to live,

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• Beowulf (Episode 25)

  "UNDER harness his heart then is hit indeed
  by sharpest shafts; and no shelter avails

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• Beowulf (Episode 13)

  MANY at morning, as men have told me,
  warriors gathered the gift-hall round,

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• Beowulf (Episode 27)

  CAME now to ocean the ever-courageous
  hardy henchmen, their harness bearing,

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• Beowulf (Episode 14)

  HROTHGAR spake, -- to the hall he went,
  stood by the steps, the steep roof saw,

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• Beowulf (Episode 31)

  "So held this king to the customs old,
  that I wanted for nought in the wage I gained,

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• Beowulf (Episode 15)

  THERE was hurry and hest in Heorot now
  for hands to bedeck it, and dense was the throng

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• Beowulf (Episode 33)

  THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out,
  and bright homes burned. The blaze stood high

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• Beowulf (Episode 16)

  AND the lord of earls, to each that came
  with Beowulf over the briny ways,

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• Beowulf (Episode 35)

  "THEN he goes to his chamber, a grief-song chants
  alone for his lost. Too large all seems,

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• Beowulf (Episode 17)

  THEN hastened those heroes their home to see,
  friendless, to find the Frisian land,

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• Beowulf (Episode 37)

  'TWAS now, men say, in his sovran's need
  that the earl made known his noble strain,

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• Beowulf (Episode 18)

  A CUP she gave him, with kindly greeting
  and winsome words. Of wounden gold,

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• Beowulf (Episode 39)

  IT was heavy hap for that hero young
  on his lord beloved to look and find him

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• Beowulf (Episode 20)

  HROTHGAR spake, helmet-of-Scyldings: --
  "Ask not of pleasure! Pain is renewed

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• Beowulf (Episode 41)

  "THE bloody swath of Swedes and Geats
  and the storm of their strife, were seen afar,

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• Beowulf (Episode 21)

  BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow:
  "Sorrow not, sage! It beseems us better

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• Beowulf (Episode 43)

  THEN fashioned for him the folk of Geats
  firm on the earth a funeral-pile,

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• Beowulf (Episode 16)

  AND the lord of earls, to each that came
  with Beowulf over the briny ways,

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• Beowulf (Episode 18)

  A CUP she gave him, with kindly greeting
  and winsome words. Of wounden gold,

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