Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose

Kirtlan, Ernest J. B. (Ernest John Brigham), 1868-1937 [Translator]; Lawrence, Frederic William, 1882-1948 [Illustrator]· 2 chapters· 4,478 words

and offered sacrifices,' et seq., are quite inconsistent with the Christian sentiment attributed to Hrothgar later in the poem. 'It is generally thought,' says the writer in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 'that several originally separate lays have been combined...

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1. Chapter II., 'And sometimes they went vowing at their heathen shrines

and offered sacrifices,' et seq., are quite inconsistent with the Christian sentiment attributed to Hrothgar later in the poem. 'It is generally thought,' says the writer in The...

2. Canto III. 2.

[51] Thrytho is referred to as a foil to Hygd. Thrytho was as bad a woman as Hygd was good. She was a woman of a wild and passionate disposition. She became the Queen of King Of...