Beowulf and the Finnesburh FragmentClarence Griffin Child Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 - 93 sivua |
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atheling bade barrow battle battle-sark beneath Beowa Beowulf spake blade bold brave breast Breca burnie comrades Dane-folk Danes deadly dear death deeds demon dragon Eanmund earls earth Ecgtheow Eofor eotens epic evil fame fared fast feast fell feud fierce fight Finn fire flame flood folk-king foray Frisians gave Geat-folk Geatland Geats gifts glory gold goodly Grendel Grendel's mother grip hall hand hast hath Healfdene heard tell Heardred heart helm helmet Hengest Heorot Heremod hero Hildeburh Hnæf hoard Hrethel Hrothgar Hrunting Hygd Hygelac king kinsman land loathly looked lord mead-bench mighty mind monster night Ohthere Old English Onela Ongentheow poem poet prince prowess rings Scyldings Scylfings seek shield slain slew song sorrow soul spoiler story strength strife sword sword's edge terror thane thee thence thou thought took treasure war-gear warden warrior warsmen waves weapons Weders Weohstan Wiglaf wise words wrath wrought Wyrd youth
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Sivu iii - ... and some they sent over sea to " the bookbinders, not in small number, but at " times whole ships full, to the wondering of the
Sivu iv - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings' price : a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten years ; and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come.
Sivu iv - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans had ever such damage of their learned Monuments as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble Antiquities.
Sivu iii - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their Jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots.
Sivu iv - Merchant man (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the Contents of two noble Libraries for forty shillings price ; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied, instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come.
Sivu iii - Bale) had we been offended for the loss of our LIBRARIES, being so many in number, and in so desolate places for the more part, if the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent writers had been preserved.
Sivu 41 - I am ready for my venture, that of which we already have spoken, that, should I for thy need be shorn of life, thou wouldst ever be to me, gone hence away, in the place of a father. Be thou a guardian to my thanes, my close comrades, if the strife take me. Likewise send the treasures thou gavest me, dear Hrothgar, to Hygelac; then may the lord of the Geats, the son of Hrethel, know by the gold and see, when he looketh on the treasure, that I found a giver of rings goodly in manly virtues, had joy...
Sivu 43 - The sword was bloody; the hero gloried in his deed. The fire flamed forth; light stood within there, even as when the candle of the sky shineth brightly from heaven. He looked about the dwelling, turned him then to the wall. The thane of Hygelac, wrathful and steadfast of thought, raised the hard weapon by the hilt. The edge was not useless to the warrior, for he was minded to requite Grendel speedily for the many onslaughts he had made on the West-Danes far oftener than a single time, when he slew...