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
ARGUMENT
Hrothgar, king of the Danes, lives happily and peacefully, and bethinks him to build a glorious hall called Hart. But a little after, one Grendel, of the kindred of the evil wights that are come of Cain, hears the merry noise of Hart and cannot abide it; so he enters thereinto by night, and slays and carries off and devours thirty of Hrothgar's thanes. Thereby he makes Hart waste for twelve years, and the tidings of this mishap are borne wide about lands. Then comes to the helping of Hrothgar Beowulf, the son of Ecgtheow, a thane of King Hygelac of the Geats, with fourteen fellows. They are met on the shore by the land-warder, and by him shown to Hart and the stead of Hrothgar, who receives them gladly, and to whom Beowulf tells his errand, that he will help him against Grendel. They feast in the hall, and one Unferth, son of Ecglaf, taunts Beowulf through jealousy that he was outdone by Breca in swimming. Beowulf tells the true tale thereof. And a little after, at nightfall, Hrothgar and his folk leave the hall Hart, and it is given in charge to Beowulf, who with his Geats abides there the coming of Grendel...
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