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Table of Contents

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

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