Heroic did hasten. —Page 51, line 19.
In war ’neath the water the work with great pains I
Performed. —Page 57, line 6.
Gave me willingly to see on the wall a
Heavy old hand-sword. —Page 57, line 11.
The man was so dear that he failed to suppress the
Emotions that moved him. —Page 64, line 59.
There might be an excuse for some of this freedom in blank verse, but in measures imitative of the Old English it is utterly out of place. There is always a pause at the end of a line in Old English; run-on lines are uncommon. There is not an example in Beowulf of an ending so light as ‘the’ or ‘a’ in the verses quoted above.