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Title: The Tale of Beowulf
Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: January 23, 2007 [eBook #20431]

Language: English

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THE TALE OF BEOWULF
Sometime King of the
Folk of the Weder Geats

Translated by

WILLIAM MORRIS and A. J. WYATT

Longmans, Green, and Co.
39 Paternoster Row, London
New York and Bombay
MCMIV

Bibliographical Note

First printed at the Kelmscott Press, January 1895
Ordinary Edition . . . . . . . . . . . August 1898
Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 1904

CONTENTS
(table added by transcriber)

Argument

Chapter I. And First of the Kindred of Hrothgar.

II. Concerning Hrothgar, and How He Built the House Called
Hart. Also Grendel Is Told of.

III. How Grendel Fell Upon Hart and Wasted It.

IV. Now Comes Beowulf Ecgtheow's Son to the Land of the
Danes, and the Wall-Warden Speaketh With Him.

V. Here Beowulf Makes Answer to the Land-Warden, Who
Showeth Him the Way to the King's Abode.

VI. Beowulf and the Geats Come Into Hart.

VII. Beowulf Speaketh With Hrothgar, and Telleth How He Will
Meet Grendel.

VIII. Hrothgar Answereth Beowulf and Biddeth Him Sit to the
Feast.

IX. Unferth Contendeth in Words With Beowulf.

X. Beowul