Widsith ; Beowulf ; Finnsburgh ; Waldere ; Deor: Done Into Common English After the Old MannerChapman & Hall, 1921 - 127 pages |
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afar alliteration atheling avenge bade bairn battle Beowulf blade boasting bracelets Breca burgh burning byrny Captain Scott Moncrieff champion Danes Danish daughter death deeds Deor doughty dragon Eadgils earl earlship earth Ecgtheow Ecgtheow's boy elder Eormanric epic faring father feud fight Finn Finnsburgh Frisians gave Geatish Geats gold Grendel Grendel's mother grim Guthhere Guthlaf Haethcyn Halfdane Halfdane's hall hand hath heard Heardred Heathobeards heirloom held helm helmet Hengest Heorot Heoroweard Heremod heroes Higelac Hildeburh hilt Hnaef hoard hoary honour Hrethel Hrothgar Hrothulf Hygd killed King kinsmen lines loathly lord loved mighty mind Myrgings never Nithhad Offa Ohthere Old English Onela Ongentheow poem poet Prince quoth rings sate Scylfings seek shewed Song of Roland sorrow soul spake stood story sword thee thegn thence thou treasures twas Unferth Waldere warden warriors Wealhtheow weapons Weders Weland Weohstan whit Widsith Wiglaf wise woes words Worm wounds Wudga wulf Wyrd
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Page 120 - Stat sua cuique dies ; breve et irreparabile tempus " Omnibus est vitae ; sed famam extendere factis, " Hoc virtutis opus. Trojae sub moenibus altis " Tot nati cecidere deûm ; quin occidit una 470 " Sarpedon, mea progenies. Etiam sua Turnum " Fata vocant, metasque dati pervenit ad aevi.
Page 126 - Then they began the battle, which is called Hjathningavig ; and they fought all the day, and in the evening the kings went to' their ships. But Hild went by night to the corpses, and awoke the dead by magic. And the next day the kings went to the battlefield and fought, and so did all those who fell the day before.
Page 105 - ... dawneth from the east, / nor here any dragon flieth, Nor here on this hall / are the horns burning ; But the Boar forth bear they, / birds are singing, Clattereth the grey-sark, / clasheth the war-wood, Shield to shaft answereth. / Now shineth this moon Waxing under the welkin ; / now arise woeful Which battle against this people /will bring to pass. 10 But awaken ye now, / warriors mine, Take hold of your shields, / as heroes shape you, Fight in the fore-front, / be firm in courage." Then arose...
Page 126 - s daughter) went by night to the corpses, and awoke the dead by magic. And the next day the Kings went to the battle-field and fought, and so did all those who fell the day before. In such wise the battle continued day after day ; so that all those who fell, and all the weapons and shields which lay on the battle-field, were turned into stone. And when it dawned, all the dead men stood up and fought, and all the weapons were sound ; and it is told in songs that the Hjathningar shall so abide till...
Page xiii - Within the memory of man, an old person used to perambulate the streets of Edinburgh, singing in a monotonous cadence, the tale of Rosewal and Lilian, which is, in all the forms, a metrical romance of chivalry.
Page 41 - Best man-of-battle / on his bier lay ready ; 1 1 10 On that pyre was / plainly seen A blood-stained sark, / a Swine all-golden, Iron-hard Boar, / and athelings many Struck down by their wounds ; / some in the strife had fallen. Bade she then, Hildeburh, / that on Hnaefes pyre Her own self's sons / to the flames be sent, Their bodies for burning / on the bier to don ; Her hand on his shoulder / sorrowed that lady, With lays lamented. / The lord arose...
Page 5 - ... To whom God giveth / governance of men To have and to hold / while here he liveth." So wandering far / by fate are driven Men's lay-singers / over lands many, Their thrifts say they, / thankful words speak they, Ever, south or north, / with some one meet they Apt in glees, / of gifts unsparing...
Page 10 - Fen and fastness ; / through the fifel-kin's realm The wanchancy wight / long while had wandered, Since him the Shaper / had proscribed. On Caine's kin / He avenged that killing, The Lord Eternal, / for that Abel he slew. No joy found He in that feud, / but far exiled him, no The Maker for the murder, / from out man-kind.
Page 7 - ... hearken to him, Gold must give him. / That was a good King. His offspring was / afterwards known, Young in the yards, / whom God sent The folk to befriend ; / the fierce dearth He knew They had ere then endured, / lacking elders A long while. / To him the Life-Lord, Glory's Wielder, / world-honour gave. Noble was Beowulf / (bloomed wide his name) Shielde's son / in the Scede-lands. 20 So shall a young groom / work his own good, By full fees given / to friends of his father, That with him in his...
Page 7 - Folk-Kings' / force have heard, How the Athelings / excelled in fight. Oft Shield of the Sheaf / from scathing hordes, From many meinies / their mead-stools tore. Affrighted them the Earl, / since erst he was Found, unwealthy ; / then friendship he awaited, Waxed under the welkin, / in worship throve, Until that each one / of those out-dwelling 10 Over the whale-road, / must hearken to him, Gold must give him. / That was a good King. His offspring was / afterwards known, Young in the yards, / whom...