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Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) VI. HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings:- ‘I knew him of yore in his youthful days; his aged father was Ecgtheow named, to whom, at home, gave Hrethel the Geat his...
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) VII. HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings’-helmet:- ‘For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf, to succor and save, thou hast sought us here. Thy father’s combat [1] a feud...
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) VIII. UNFERTH spake, the son of Ecglaf, who sat at the feet of the Scyldings’ lord, unbound the battle-runes. – Beowulf‘s quest, sturdy seafarer’s, sorely galled him;...
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) X. THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train, defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall; fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek, couch of his queen. The King-of-Glory...
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) XI. THEN from the moorland, by misty crags, with God‘s wrath laden, Grendel came. The monster was minded of mankind now sundry to seize in the stately house. Under...
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Charles Baudelaire(1821 – 1867) XII. NOT in any wise would the earls’-defence [1] suffer that slaughterous stranger to live, useless deeming his days and years to men on earth. Now many an earl of...
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Charles Baudelaire(1821 – 1867) XIV. HROTHGAR spake, – to the hall he went, stood by the steps, the steep roof saw, garnished with gold, and Grendel‘s hand:- ‘For the sight I see to the Sovran Ruler be...
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Charles Baudelaire(1821 – 1867) XV. THERE was hurry and hest in Heorot now for hands to bedeck it, and dense was the throng of men and women the wine-hall to cleanse, the guest-room to garnish....
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