Our selection consists of the first 25 lines. This section of the poem relates the legendary arrival of Scyld as a baby on the Danish coast.

The prologue of Béowulf tells of the rise of the Danes and their royal house, the Scyldings. The allusion of Scyld's lone arrival as an orphan boy in a ...

Scyld founds a dynasty, passing a stable throne to his son. Warlike deeds won him fame, but Scyld was a great king because he died in peace.

Edited by Jack Lynch. A brief passage, lines 1–25, from the opening of Beowulf . I've made no effort to establish a text, depending on a public-domain textus ...

Now! We Spear-Danes, in ages gone,. Days of the clan-kings, knew glory. How those princes did mighty deeds. Shield Sheafson seized mead-benches.

Prologue. Listen! We have gathered the glory in days of yore of the Spear-Danes, kings among men: how these warriors performed deeds of courage. (ll. 1-3).

Prologue. Hwæt, wē Gār-Dena in gēardagum, þēodcyninga þrym gefrūnon, hū ðā æþelingas ellen fremedon ! Oft Scyld Scēfing sceaþena þrēatum,

The story begins with the story of Scyld Scefing, a great king who ruled by virtue of his power being greater than all others, and none would challenge him.

15 нояб. 2023 г. · We of the Spear-Danes in the days of yore, of those clan-kings, heard of their glory, how those nobles performed courageous deeds.

30 июл. 2024 г. · I have crafted Common English Beowulf, a text that rarely strays from the original manuscript and is written in a clear and modern English that anyone could ...