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E-book Title: BEOWULF - PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE
Author: Anonymous
Book Description: LO, praise of the art of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from galore a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
amazing the earls. Since once he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, some
far and near,
who home by the whale-path, detected
his mandate,
gave him gifts: a nice king he!
To him an heir was subsequently born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that once they had lacked an peer
for leader
so long a while; the Lord blessed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
Celebrated was this Beowulf:1 far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.
So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
move warriors willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an peer
have honor in every clan.
Forth he fared at the doomed moment,
sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God.
Then they bore him over to ocean's billow,
admiring clansmen, as late he charged them,
piece wielded words the attractive
Scyld,
the leader beloved who long had ruled....
In the roads rocked a ring-dight vessel,
ice-flecked, outbound, atheling's barge:
there set they down their darling lord
on the breast of the boat, the breaker-of-rings,2
by the mast the mighty one. Galore a treasure
fetched from far was freighted with him.
No ship have I acknowledged so nobly dight
with weapons of war and weeds of battle,
with aegis and blade: on his bosom lay
a heaped-up hoard that therefore should go
far o'er the flood with him floating away.
No less these loaded the lordly gifts,
thanes' immense treasure, than those had done
who in former time forth had sent him
sole on the seas, a suckling child.
High o'er his head they hoist the standard,
a gold-wove banner; let billows take him,
gave him to ocean. Grave were their spirits,
mournful their mood. No man is able
to say in sooth, no son of the halls,
no hero 'neath heaven, -- who harbored that freight!More... | |
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