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Title: Beowulf
An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, Translated From The Heyne-Socin
Text by Lesslie Hall
Author:
Release Date: July 19, 2005 [EBook #16328]
Language: English
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BEOWULF
AN ANGLO-SAXON EPIC POEM
_TRANSLATED FROM THE HEYNE-SOCIN TEXT_
BY
JNO: LESSLIE HALL, Ph. D. (J.H.U.)
Professor of English and History in The College of William and Mary
D.C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, by
JNO: LESSLIE HALL,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO
My Wife
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface vii
Bibliography of Translations xi
Glossary of Proper Names xiii
List of Words and Phrases not in General Use xviii
The Life and Death of Scyld (I.) 1
Scyld's Successors
} (II.) 3
Hrothgar's Great Mead-Hall
Grendel, the Murderer (III.) 5
Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar's Assistance (IV.) 8
The Geats Reach Heorot (V.) 10
Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace (VI.) 12
Hrothgar and Beowulf...