Beowulf
Complete bilingual edition including the original anglo-saxon edition + 3 modern english translations + an extensive study of the poem + footnotes, index and alphabetical glossaryBy Anonymous
Length40h 37m
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Beowulf: complete bilingual edition including the original anglo-saxon edition + 3 modern english translations + an extensive study of the poem + footnotes, index and alphabetical glossary" contains 5 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland. The numerous different translations and interpretations of Beowulf turn this monumental work into a challenge for the reader.
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Table of contents
1Beowulf: complete bilingual edition including the original anglo-saxon edition + 3 modern english translations + an extensive study of the poem + footnotes, index and alphabetical glossary
105The Story of Beowulf
2PREFACE.
106i. And First of the Kindred of Hrothgar.
3ARGUMENT.
107ii. Concerning Hrothgar, and How he Built the House Called Hart. Also Grendel is Told of.
4BEOWULF.
108iii. How Grendel Fell Upon Hart and Wasted it.
5I.
109iv. Now Comes Beowulf Ecgtheow’s Son to the Land of the Danes, and the Wall-Warden Speaketh with Him.
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6II.
110v. Here Beowulf Makes Answer to the Land-Warden, who Showeth Him the Way to the King’s Abode.
7III.
111vi. Beowulf and the Geats Come into Hart.
8IV.
112vii. Beowulf Speaketh with Hrothgar, and Telleth How he Will Meet Grendel.
9V.
113viii. Hrothgar Answereth Beowulf and Biddeth Him Sit to the Feast.
10VI.
114ix. Unferth Contendeth in Words with Beowulf.
11VII.
115x. Beowulf Makes an End of His Tale of the Swimming. Wealhtheow, Hrothgar’s Queen, Greets Him; and Hrothgar Delivers to Him the Warding of the Hall.
12VIII.
116xi. Now is Beowulf Left in the Hall Alone with His Men.
13IX.
117xii. Grendel Cometh into Hart: Of the Strife Betwixt Him and Beowulf.
14X.
118xiii. Beowulf Hath the Victory: Grendel is Hurt Deadly and Leaveth Hand and Arm in the Hall.
15XI.
119xiv. The Danes Rejoice; They Go to Look on the Slot of Grendel, and Come Back to Hart, and on the Way Make Merry with Racing and the Telling of Tales.
16XII.
120xv. King Hrothgar and His Thanes Look on the Arm of Grendel. Converse Betwixt Hrothgar and Beowulf Concerning the Battle.
17XIII.
121xvi. Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf.
18XIV.
122xvii. They Feast in Hart. The Gleeman Sings of Finn and Hengest.
19XV.
123xviii. The Ending of the Tale of Finn.
20XVI.
124xix. More Gifts are Given to Beowulf. The Brising Collar Told of.
21XVII.
125xx. Grendel’s Dam Breaks into Hart and Bears off Aeschere.
22XVIII.
126xxi. Hrothgar Laments the Slaying of Aeschere, and Tells of Grendel’s Mother and Her Den.
23XIX.
127xxii. They Follow Grendel’s Dam to Her Lair.
24XX.
128xxiii. Beowulf Reacheth the Mere-Bottom in a Day’s While, and Contends with Grendel’s Dam.
25XXI.
129xxiv. Beowulf Slayeth Grendel’s Dam, Smiteth off Grendel’s Head, and Cometh Back with His Thanes to Hart.
26XXII.
130xxv. Converse of Hrothgar with Beowulf.
27XXIII.
131xxvi. More Converse of Hrothgar and Beowulf: The Geats Make Them Ready for Departure.
28XXIV.
132xxvii. Beowulf Bids Hrothgar Farewell: The Geats Fare to Ship.
29XXV.
133xxviii. Beowulf Comes Back to His Land. Of the Tale of Thrytho.
30XXVI.
134xxix. Beowulf Tells Hygelac of Hrothgar: Also of Freawaru His Daughter.
31XXVII.
135xxx. Beowulf Forebodes ill from the Wedding of Freawaru: He Tells of Grendel and His Dam.
32XXVIII.
136xxxi. Beowulf Gives Hrothgar’s Gifts to Hygelac, and by Him is Rewarded. Of the Death of Hygelac and of Heardred His Son, and How Beowulf is King of the Geats: The Worm is First Told of.
33XXIX.
137xxxii. How the Worm Came to the Howe, and How he was Robbed of a Cup; and How he Fell on the Folk.
34XXXI.
138xxxiii. The Worm Burns Beowulf’s House, and Beowulf Gets Ready to Go Against Him. Beowulf’s Early Deeds in Battle with The Hetware Told of.
35XXXII.
139xxxiv. Beowulf Goes Against the Worm. He Tells of Herebeald and HÆThcyn.
36XXXIII.
140xxxv. Beowulf Tells of Past Feuds, and Bids Farewell to His Fellows: He Falls on the Worm, and the Battle of Them Begins.
37XXXIV.
141xxxvi. Wiglaf Son of Weohstan Goes to the Help of Beowulf: NÆGling, Beowulf’s Sword, is Broken on the Worm.
38XXXV.
142xxxvii. They Two Slay the Worm. Beowulf is Wounded Deadly: He Biddeth Wiglaf Bear Out the Treasure.
39XXXVI.
143xxxviii. Beowulf Beholdeth the Treasure and Passeth Away.
40XXXVII.
144xxxix. Wiglaf Casteth Shame on Those Fleers.
41XXXVIII.
145xl. Wiglaf Sendeth Tiding to the Host: The Words of the Messenger.
42XXXIX.
146xli. More Words of the Messenger. How he Fears the Swedes when They Wot of Beowulf Dead.
43XL.
147xlii. They Go to Look on the Field of Deed.
44XLI.
148xliii. Of the Burial of Beowulf.
45XLII.
149Appendix
46XLIII.
150Persons and Places
47APPENDIX.
151The meaning of some words not commonly used now
48GENEALOGICAL TABLES.
152Prelude of the Founder of the Danish House
49PERSONS AND PLACES.
1531
50PLAN OF GLOSSARY.
1542
51GLOSSARY. (pt. 1)
1553
52GLOSSARY. (pt. 2)
1564
53GLOSSARY. (pt. 3)
1575
54PREFACE.
1586
55THE STORY.
1597
56ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES.
1608
57BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRANSLATIONS.
1619
58GLOSSARY OF PROPER NAMES.
16210
59LIST OF WORDS AND PHRASES NOT IN GENERAL USE.
16311
60I. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SCYLD.
16412
61II. SCYLD’S SUCCESSORS.—HROTHGAR’S GREAT MEAD-HALL.
16513
62III. GRENDEL THE MURDERER.
16614
63IV. BEOWULF GOES TO HROTHGAR’S ASSISTANCE.
16715
64V. THE GEATS REACH HEOROT.
16816
65VI. BEOWULF INTRODUCES HIMSELF AT THE PALACE.
16917
66VII. HROTHGAR AND BEOWULF.
17018
67VIII. HROTHGAR AND BEOWULF.—Continued.
17119
68IX. UNFERTH TAUNTS BEOWULF.
17220
69X. BEOWULF SILENCES UNFERTH.—GLEE IS HIGH.
17321
70XI. ALL SLEEP SAVE ONE.
17422
71XII. GRENDEL AND BEOWULF.
17523
72XIII. GRENDEL IS VANQUISHED.
17624
73XIV. REJOICING OF THE DANES.
17725
74XV. HROTHGAR’S GRATITUDE.
17826
75XVI. HROTHGAR LAVISHES GIFTS UPON HIS DELIVERER.
17927
76XVII. BANQUET (continued).—THE SCOP’S SONG OF FINN AND HNÆF.
18028
77XVIII. THE FINN EPISODE (continued).—THE BANQUET CONTINUES.
18129
78XIX. BEOWULF RECEIVES FURTHER HONOR.
18230
79XX. THE MOTHER OF GRENDEL.
18331
80XXI. HROTHGAR’S ACCOUNT OF THE MONSTERS.
18432
81XXII. BEOWULF SEEKS GRENDEL’S MOTHER.
18533
82XXIII. BEOWULF’S FIGHT WITH GRENDEL’S MOTHER.
18634
83XXIV. BEOWULF IS DOUBLE-CONQUEROR.
18735
84XXV. BEOWULF BRINGS HIS TROPHIES.—HROTHGAR’S GRATITUDE.
18836
85XXVI. HROTHGAR MORALIZES.—REST AFTER LABOR.
18937
86XXVII. SORROW AT PARTING.
19038
87XXVIII. THE HOMEWARD JOURNEY.—THE TWO QUEENS.
19139
88XXIX. BEOWULF AND HIGELAC.
19240
89XXX. BEOWULF NARRATES HIS ADVENTURES TO HIGELAC.
19341
90XXXI. GIFT-GIVING IS MUTUAL.
194By Raymond Wilson Chambers
91XXXII. THE HOARD AND THE DRAGON.
195PROF. WILLIAM WITHERLE LAWRENCE
92XXXIII. BRAVE THOUGH AGED.—REMINISCENCES.
196PREFACE
93XXXIV. BEOWULF SEEKS THE DRAGON.—BEOWULF’S REMINISCENCES.
197GENEALOGICAL TABLES
94XXXV. REMINISCENCES (continued).—BEOWULF’S LAST BATTLE.
198PART I
95XXXVI. WIGLAF THE TRUSTY.—BEOWULF IS DESERTED BY FRIENDS AND BY SWORD.
199CHAPTER I
96XXXVII. THE FATAL STRUGGLE.—BEOWULF’S LAST MOMENTS.
200CHAPTER II
97XXXVIII. WIGLAF PLUNDERS THE DRAGON’S DEN.—BEOWULF’S DEATH.
201CHAPTER III
98XXXIX. THE DEAD FOES.—WIGLAF’S BITTER TAUNTS.
202PART II: DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE STORIES IN BEOWULF, AND THE OFFA-SAGA. (pt. 1)
99XL. THE MESSENGER OF DEATH.
203PART II: DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE STORIES IN BEOWULF, AND THE OFFA-SAGA. (pt. 2)
100XLI. THE MESSENGER’S RETROSPECT.
204PART III: THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG
101XLII. WIGLAF’S SAD STORY.—THE HOARD CARRIED OFF.
205PART IV
102XLIII. THE BURNING OF BEOWULF.
206APPENDIX (pt. 1)
103ADDENDA.
207APPENDIX (pt. 2)
104Argument
208BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BEOWULF AND FINNSBURG
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