The Messenger of Death (XL.) 97

The Messenger's Retrospect (XLI.) 99

Wiglaf's Sad Story
} (XLII.) 103
The Hoard Carried Off

The Burning of Beowulf (XLIII.) 106

Addenda 109

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PREFACE.


The present work is a modest effort to reproduce approximately, in modern
measures, the venerable epic, Beowulf. _Approximately_, I repeat; for a
very close reproduction of Anglo-Saxon verse would, to a large extent, be
prose to a modern ear.

The Heyne-Socin text and glossary have been closely followed. Occasionally
a deviation has been made, but always for what seemed good and sufficient
reason. The translator does not aim to be an editor. Once in a while,
however, he has added a conjecture of his own to the emendations quoted