[839 ff] This excursion to Grendel's mere has been declared an unwarranted duplication of the trip preceding Bēowulf's second adventure, 1399 ff.; see Panzer 276 ff. It might as well be called a legitimate expansion of the story. folctogan a high-sounding term like selerǣdende 51, 1346.
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
Beowulf. Fr. Klaeber. Boston. D.C. Heath and Company. 1922.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.