CONTENTS.

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• 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  (VII.)14
• Hrothgar and Beowulf (continued)  (VIII.)17
• Unferth Taunts Beowulf  (IX.)19
• Beowulf Silences Unferth  (X.)21
• Glee is High
• All Sleep save One  (XI.)24
• Grendel and Beowulf  (XII.)26
• Grendel is Vanquished  (XIII.)28
• Rejoicing of the Danes  (XIV.)30
• Hrothgar’s Gratitude  (XV.)33
• Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts upon his Deliverer  (XVI.)35
• Banquet (continued)  (XVII.)37
• The Scop’s Song of Finn and Hnæf
• The Finn Episode (continued)  (XVIII.)39
• The Banquet Continues
• Beowulf Receives Further Honor  (XIX.)41
• The Mother of Grendel  (XX.)44
• Hrothgar’s Account of the Monsters  (XXI.)46
• Beowulf Seeks Grendel’s Mother  (XXII.)48
• Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother  (XXIII.)51
• Beowulf is Double-Conqueror  (XXIV.)53
• Beowulf Brings his Trophies  (XXV.)57
• Hrothgar’s Gratitude
• Hrothgar Moralizes  (XXVI.)60
• Rest after Labor
• Sorrow at Parting  (XXVII.)62
• The Homeward Journey  (XXVIII.)64
• The Two Queens
• Beowulf and Higelac  (XXIX.)67
• Beowulf Narrates his Adventures to Higelac  (XXX.)69
• Gift-Giving is Mutual  (XXXI.)73
• The Hoard and the Dragon  (XXXII.)75
• Brave Though Aged  (XXXIII.)78
• Reminiscences
• Beowulf Seeks the Dragon  (XXXIV.)81
• Beowulf’s Reminiscences
• Reminiscences (continued)  (XXXV.)83
• Beowulf’s Last Battle
• Wiglaf the Trusty  (XXXVI.)88
• Beowulf is Deserted by Friends and by Sword
• The Fatal Struggle  (XXXVII.)91
• Beowulf’s Last Moments