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| [Argument] |
| [Chapter I.] | And First of the Kindred of Hrothgar. |
| [II.] | Concerning Hrothgar, and How He Built the House Called Hart.
Also Grendel Is Told of. |
| [III.] | How Grendel Fell Upon Hart and Wasted It. |
| [IV.] | Now Comes Beowulf Ecgtheow's Son to the Land of the Danes,
and the Wall-Warden Speaketh With Him. |
| [V.] | Here Beowulf Makes Answer to the Land-Warden,
Who Showeth Him the Way to the King's Abode. |
| [VI.] | Beowulf and the Geats Come Into Hart. |
| [VII.] | Beowulf Speaketh With Hrothgar, and Telleth How He Will Meet Grendel. |
| [VIII.] | Hrothgar Answereth Beowulf and Biddeth Him Sit to the Feast. |
| [IX.] | Unferth Contendeth in Words With Beowulf. |
| [X.] | Beowulf Makes An End of His Tale of the Swimming.
Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's Queen, Greets Him;
and Hrothgar Delivers to Him the Warding of the Hall. |
| [XI.] | Now Is Beowulf Left in the Hall Alone With His Men. |
| [XII.] | Grendel Cometh Into Hart: of the Strife Betwixt Him and Beowulf. |
| [XIII.] | Beowulf Hath the Victory:
Grendel Is Hurt Deadly and Leaveth Hand and Arm in the Hall. |
| [XIV.] | The Danes Rejoice; They Go to Look on the Slot of Grendel,
and Come Back to Hart, and on the Way Make Merry With Racing
and the Telling of Tales. |
| [XV.] | King Hrothgar and His Thanes Look on the Arm of Grendel.
Converse Betwixt Hrothgar and Beowulf Concerning the Battle. |
| [XVI.] | Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf. |
| [XVII.] | They Feast in Hart. The Gleeman Sings of Finn and Hengest. |
| [XVIII.] | The Ending of the Tale of Finn. |
| [XIX.] | More Gifts Are Given to Beowulf. The Brising Collar Told of. |
| [XX.] | Grendel's Dam Breaks Into Hart and Bears Off Aeschere. |
| [XXI.] | Hrothgar Laments the Slaying of Aeschere,
and Tells of Grendel's Mother and Her Den. |
| [XXII.] | They Follow Grendel's Dam to Her Lair. |
| [XXIII.] | Beowulf Reacheth the Mere-Bottom in A Day's While,
and Contends With Grendel's Dam. |
| [XXIV.] | Beowulf Slayeth Grendel's Dam, Smiteth Off Grendel's Head,
and Cometh Back With His Thanes to Hart. |
| [XXV.] | Converse of Hrothgar With Beowulf. |
| [XXVI.] | More Converse of Hrothgar and Beowulf:
the Geats Make Them Ready For Departure. |
| [XXVII.] | Beowulf Bids Hrothgar Farewell: the Geats Fare to Ship. |
| [XXVIII.] | Beowulf Comes Back to His Land. of the Tale of Thrytho. |
| [XXIX.] | Beowulf Tells Hygelac of Hrothgar:
Also of Freawaru His Daughter. |
| [XXX.] | Beowulf Forebodes Ill From the Wedding of Freawaru:
He Tells of Grendel and His Dam. |
| [XXXI.] | Beowulf Gives Hrothgar's Gifts to Hygelac, and By Him Is Rewarded.
of the Death of Hygelac and of Heardred His Son, and How Beowulf Is King
of the Geats: the Worm Is First Told of. |
| [XXXII.] | How the Worm Came to the Howe, and How He Was Robbed of A Cup;
and How He Fell on the Folk. |
| [XXXIII.] | The Worm Burns Beowulf's House,
and Beowulf Gets Ready to Go Against Him.
Beowulf's Early Deeds in Battle With the Hetware Told of. |
| [XXXIV.] | Beowulf Goes Against the Worm. He Tells of Herebeald and Hæthcyn. |
| [XXXV.] | Beowulf Tells of Past Feuds, and Bids Farewell to His Fellows:
He Falls on the Worm, and the Battle of Them Begins. |
| [XXXVI.] | Wiglaf Son of Weohstan Goes to the Help of Beowulf:
Nægling, Beowulf's Sword, Is Broken on the Worm. |
| [XXXVII.] | They Two Slay the Worm. Beowulf Is Wounded Deadly:
He Biddeth Wiglaf Bear Out the Treasure. |
| [XXXVIII.] | Beowulf Beholdeth the Treasure and Passeth Away. |
| [XXXIX.] | Wiglaf Casteth Shame on Those Fleers. |
| [XL.] | Wiglaf Sendeth Tiding to the Host: the Words of the Messenger. |
| [XLI.] | More Words of the Messenger.
How He Fears the Swedes When They Wot of Beowulf Dead. |
| [XLII.] | They Go to Look on the Field of Deed. |
| [XLIII.] | Of the Burial of Beowulf. |
| [Persons and Places] |
| [The Meaning of Some Words] |