OF on that is so fayr and bright

and widespread ways. The world’s great candle,sun shone from south. They strode alongwith sturdy steps to the spot they knewwhere the battle-king young, his burg within,slayer of Ongentheow, shared the rings,shelter-of-heroes. To HygelacBeowulf’s coming was quickly told, —that there in the court the clansmen’s refuge,the shield-companion sound and alive,hale from the hero-play homeward strode.With haste…

Hardship endured oft.Bitter breast-cares have I abided,Known on my keel many a care’s hold,And dire sea-surge, and there I oft spentNarrow nightwatch nigh the ship’s headWhile she tossed close to cliffs. Coldly afflicted,My feet were by frost benumbed.Chill its chains are; chafing sighsHew my heart round and hunger begotMere-weary mood. Lest man know notThat he…

And waly, waly yon burn side,Where I and my love wer wont to gae.I leant my back unto an aik,I thought it was a trusty tree;But first it bow’d, and syne it brak,Sae my true love did lichtly me.O waly, waly, gin love be bonny,A little time while it is new;But when its auld, it…

woven war-sarks. The warden marked,trusty as ever, the earl’s return.From the height of the hill no hostile wordsreached the guests as he rode to greet them;but ‘Welcome!’ he called to that Weder clanas the sheen-mailed spoilers to ship marched on.Then on the strand, with steeds and treasureand armor their roomy and ring-dight shipwas heavily laden:…

the Ring-Danes, outrevelled, to rest had gone.Found within it the atheling bandasleep after feasting and fearless of sorrow,of human hardship. Unhallowed wight,grim and greedy, he grasped betimes,wrathful, reckless, from resting-places,thirty of the thanes, and thence he rushedfain of his fell spoil, faring homeward,laden with slaughter, his lair to seek.Then at the dawning, as day was…

When flying Fame.King Leir once ruled in this landWith princely power and peace,And had all things with hearts content,That might his joys increase.Amongst those things that nature gave,Three daughters fair had he,So princely seeming beautiful,As fairer could not be.So on a time it pleas’d the kingA question thus to move,Which of his daughters to his…