Pro Epic Of Beowulf
Beowulf http://www.heorot.dk/beowulf-rede-text.html Prologue Listen! We --of the Spear-Danes in the days of yore, of those clan-kings-- heard of their glory. how those nobles performed courageous deeds. Often Scyld, Scef's son, from enemy hosts
5 from many peoples seized mead-benches; and terrorised the fearsome Heruli after first he was found helpless and destitute, he then knew recompense for that:- he waxed under the clouds, throve in honours, until to him each of the bordering tribes
10 beyond the whale-road had to submit, and yield tribute:- that was a good king! To him an heir was born then young in the yards, God sent him to comfort …show more content…
Then was to Hrothgar success in warcraft given,
65 honour in war, so that his retainers eagerly served him until the young war-band grew into a mighty battalion; it came into his mind that a hall-house, he wished to command, a grand mead-hall, be built by men
70 which the sons of men should hear of forever, and there within share out all to young and old, such as God gave him, except the common land and the lives of men; Then, I heard, widely was the work commissioned
75 from many peoples throughout this middle-earth, to furnish this hall of the folk. For him in time it came to pass, early, through the men, that it was fully finished, the best of royal halls; he named it Heorot, he whose words weight had everywhere;
80 he did not lie when he boasted; rings he dealt out, riches at his feasts. The hall …show more content…
Part One: Beowulf versus Grendel
[Attack on Heorot] Then the bold spirit, impatiently endured dreary time, he who dwelt in darkness, he that every day heard noise of revelry loud in the hall; there was the harmony of the harp,
90 the sweet song of the poet; he spoke who knew how the origin of men to narrate from afar; said he that the almighty one wrought the earth, (that) fair, sublime field bounded by water; set up triumphant the sun and moon,
95 luminaries as lamps for the land-dwellers and adorned the corners of the earth with limbs and leaves; life too He formed for each of the species which lives and moves. So the lord's men lived in joys,
100 happily, until one began to execute atrocities, a fiend in hell; this ghastly demon was named Grendel, infamous stalker in the marches, he who held the moors, fen and desolate strong-hold; the land of
5 from many peoples seized mead-benches; and terrorised the fearsome Heruli after first he was found helpless and destitute, he then knew recompense for that:- he waxed under the clouds, throve in honours, until to him each of the bordering tribes
10 beyond the whale-road had to submit, and yield tribute:- that was a good king! To him an heir was born then young in the yards, God sent him to comfort …show more content…
Then was to Hrothgar success in warcraft given,
65 honour in war, so that his retainers eagerly served him until the young war-band grew into a mighty battalion; it came into his mind that a hall-house, he wished to command, a grand mead-hall, be built by men
70 which the sons of men should hear of forever, and there within share out all to young and old, such as God gave him, except the common land and the lives of men; Then, I heard, widely was the work commissioned
75 from many peoples throughout this middle-earth, to furnish this hall of the folk. For him in time it came to pass, early, through the men, that it was fully finished, the best of royal halls; he named it Heorot, he whose words weight had everywhere;
80 he did not lie when he boasted; rings he dealt out, riches at his feasts. The hall …show more content…
Part One: Beowulf versus Grendel
[Attack on Heorot] Then the bold spirit, impatiently endured dreary time, he who dwelt in darkness, he that every day heard noise of revelry loud in the hall; there was the harmony of the harp,
90 the sweet song of the poet; he spoke who knew how the origin of men to narrate from afar; said he that the almighty one wrought the earth, (that) fair, sublime field bounded by water; set up triumphant the sun and moon,
95 luminaries as lamps for the land-dwellers and adorned the corners of the earth with limbs and leaves; life too He formed for each of the species which lives and moves. So the lord's men lived in joys,
100 happily, until one began to execute atrocities, a fiend in hell; this ghastly demon was named Grendel, infamous stalker in the marches, he who held the moors, fen and desolate strong-hold; the land of