[1] Not the hero of this poem. [↑]
[2] The gables were decorated with horns of stags and other beasts of the chase. [↑]
[3] See [Appendix V]., and chapters [XXVIII], and [XXIX]. [↑]
[4] Wyatt’s translation of ‘Ne his myne wisse.’ [↑]
[6] Geats. The tribe to which Beowulf belonged. They inhabited southern Sweden between the Danes on the south and the Swedes on the north. See [Appendix XI]. [↑]
[7] Literally, ‘Then was the sea traversed at the end of the ocean.’ [↑]
[8] Frequent references are made to the device of the boar on shield and helmet; cp. p. 77, in description of Hnaef’s funeral pyre. [↑]