Beowulf
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:07:31Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:07:31Z |
| dc.date.created | 975-1025 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-07-09 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1897 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1897 |
| dc.description.abstract | Gummere, Francis Barton, 1855-1919 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Poems -- England -- 6th-10th century period |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Romances -- England -- 6th-10th century period |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gesta -- England -- 6th-10th century period |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Translations -- United States -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Poems |
| dc.title | Beowulf |
| dc.type | Text |
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The Internet Wiretap edition of
BEOWULF
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49.
Copyright, 1910 by P.F. Collier & Son.
This text is in the public domain, released July 1993.
Prepared by Robin Katsuya-Corbet <corbet@astro.psu.edu>
from scanner output provided by Internet Wiretap.
B E O W U L F
Translated by Francis B. Gummere
PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings
won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl . . .
