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1 Not, of course, Beowulf the Great, hero of the epic. 2 Kenning for king or chieftain of a comitatus: he breaks o gold from the spiral rings often worn on the arm and so rewards his followers.
Beowulf tears Grendel’s shoulder from its socket, and the monster retreats to his den, howling and yelling with agony and fury. The wound is fatal. The next morning, at early dawn, warriors in numbers flock to the hall Heorot, to hear the news.
Beowulf subsequently becomes king of his own people, the Geats. After he has been ruling for fifty years, his own neighborhood is wofully harried by a fire-spewing dragon.
Preface to the Project Gutenberg Edition of Beowulf. This text is a revised and corrected version of the fourth edition of Harrison and Sharp in its entirety. It comes in two basic versions. The base version (available in 8-bit (Latin-1) text and HTML) presents the original text as printed.
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Beowulfisourfirstgreatepic.Itisanepitomizedhistoryofthelifeofthe Teutonic races.It brings vividly beforeusour forefathers ofpre-Alfredian eras,intheir love ofwar, sea, and adventure.
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beowulf 89 Then at the appointed time Scyld, very elderly, set out to pass into the keeping of the Lord. They bore him then to the ocean’s shore, his close confederates, as he himself had requested while he had command of words. The friend of the Scyldings, beloved leader of that race, had long owned—
This is a facsimile or image-based PDF made from scans of the original book. Citation Beowulf, edited with Textual Foot-Notes, Index of Proper Names, and Alphabetical Glossary, by A.J. Wyatt.
The epic tells the story of Beowulf (his name may mean "bear"), a Geat from Sweden who crosses the sea to Denmark in a quest to rescue King Hrothgar from the demonic monster Grendel.