E-text prepared by Louise Hope, R. Cedron, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) Transcriber's note: In the printed book, line numbering was determined by the physical length of a line. Sometimes the numbered line was one or even two lines above or below the nearest multiple of 10. Where a stanza ended on a multiple of 10, the first line of the following stanza was numbered instead. Line numbers have been regularized for this e-text. 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. Beowulf Makes An End of His Tale of the Swimming. Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's Queen, Greets Him; and Hrothgar Delivers to Him the Warding of the Hall. XI. Now Is Beowulf Left in the Hall Alone With His Men. XII. Grendel Cometh Into Hart: of the Strife Betwixt Him and Beowulf. XIII. Beowulf Hath the Victory: Grendel Is Hurt Deadly and Leaveth Hand and Arm in the Hall. XIV. The Danes Rejoice; They Go to Look on the Slot of Grendel, and Come Back to Hart, and on the Way Make Merry With Racing and the Telling of Tales. XV. King Hrothgar and His Thanes Look on the Arm of Grendel. Converse Betwixt Hrothgar and Beowulf Concerning the Battle. XVI. Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf. XVII. They Feast in Hart. The Gleeman Sings of Finn and Hengest. XVIII. The Ending of the Tale of Finn. XIX. More Gifts Are Given to Beowulf. The Brising Collar Told of. XX. Grendel's Dam Breaks Into Hart and Bears Off Aeschere. XXI. Hrothgar Laments the Slaying of Aeschere, and Tells of Grendel's Mother and Her Den.