Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
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Contents
- Preface
- The Story
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Bibliography of Translations
- Glossary of Proper Names
- List of Words and Phrases Not in General Use
- The Life and Death of Scyld
- Scyld’s Successors.—Hrothgar’s Great Mead-Hall
- Grendel the Murderer
- Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar’s Assistance
- The Geats Reach Heorot
- Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace
- Hrothgar and Beowulf
- Hrothgar and Beowulf.— Continued
- Unferth Taunts Beowulf
- Beowulf Silences Unferth.—Glee Is High
- All Sleep Save One
- Grendel and Beowulf
- Grendel Is Vanquished
- Rejoicing of the Danes
- Hrothgar’s Gratitude
- Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts Upon His Deliverer
- Banquet ( continued ).—The Scop’s Song of Finn and Hnæf
- The Finn Episode ( continued ).—The Banquet Continues
- Beowulf Receives Further Honor
- The Mother of Grendel
- Hrothgar’s Account of the Monsters
- Beowulf Seeks Grendel’s Mother
- Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother
- Beowulf Is Double-Conqueror
- Beowulf Brings His Trophies.—Hrothgar’s Gratitude
- Hrothgar Moralizes.—Rest After Labor
- Sorrow at Parting
- The Homeward Journey.—The Two Queens
- Beowulf and Higelac
- Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac
- Gift-Giving Is Mutual
- The Hoard and the Dragon
- Brave Though Aged.—Reminiscences
- Beowulf Seeks the Dragon.—Beowulf’s Reminiscences
- Reminiscences ( continued ).—Beowulf’s Last Battle
- Wiglaf the Trusty.—Beowulf Is Deserted by Friends and by Sword
- The Fatal Struggle.—Beowulf’s Last Moments
- Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon’s Den.—Beowulf’s Death
- The Dead Foes.—Wiglaf’s Bitter Taunts
- The Messenger of Death
- The Messenger’s Retrospect
- Wiglaf’s Sad Story.—The Hoard Carried Off
- The Burning of Beowulf
- Addenda