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Beowulf

Anonymous, translated by John Lesslie Hall

Poetryabout 3 h 15 min of listening

A hero is hired to kill a monster that has been plaguing the land.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Preface
  3. The Story
  4. I: The Life and Death of Scyld
  5. II: Scyld’s Successors—Hrothgar’s Great Mead-Hall
  6. III: Grendel the Murderer
  7. IV: Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar’s Assistance
  8. V: The Geats Reach Heorot
  9. VI: Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace
  10. VII: Hrothgar and Beowulf
  11. VIII: Hrothgar and Beowulf—Continued
  12. IX: Unferth Taunts Beowulf
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  1. X: Beowulf Silences Unferth—Glee Is High
  2. XI: All Sleep Save One
  3. XII: Grendel and Beowulf
  4. XIII: Grendel Is Vanquished
  5. XIV: Rejoicing of the Danes
  6. XV: Hrothgar’s Gratitude
  7. XVI: Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts Upon His Deliverer
  8. XVII: Banquet (Continued)—The Scop’s Song of Finn and Hnaef
  9. XVIII: The Finn Episode (Continued)—The Banquet Continues
  10. XIX: Beowulf Receives Further Honor
  11. XX: The Mother of Grendel
  12. XXI: Hrothgar’s Account of the Monsters
  13. XXII: Beowulf Seeks Grendel’s Mother
  14. XXIII: Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother
  15. XXIV: Beowulf Is Double-Conqueror
  16. XXV: Beowulf Brings His Trophies—Hrothgar’s Gratitude
  17. XXVI: Hrothgar Moralizes—Rest After Labor
  18. XXVII: Sorrow at Parting
  19. XXVIII: The Homeward Journey—The Two Queens
  20. XXIX: Beowulf and Higelac
  21. XXX: Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac
  22. XXXI: Gift-Giving Is Mutual
  23. XXXII: The Hoard and the Dragon
  24. XXXIII: Brave Though Aged—Reminiscences
  25. XXXIV: Beowulf Seeks the Dragon—Beowulf’s Reminiscences
  26. XXXV: Reminiscences (Continued)—Beowulf’s Last Battle
  27. XXXVI: Wiglaf the Trusty—Beowulf Is Deserted by Friends and by Sword
  28. XXXVII: The Fatal Struggle—Beowulf’s Last Moments
  29. XXXVIII: Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon’s Den—Beowulf’s Death
  30. XXXIX: The Dead Foes—Wiglaf’s Bitter Taunts
  31. XL: The Messenger of Death
  32. XLI: The Messenger’s Retrospect
  33. XLII: Wiglaf’s Sad Story—The Hoard Carried Off
  34. XLIII: The Burning of Beowulf
  35. Endnotes
  36. Colophon
  37. Uncopyright

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