Epic poem · 1892

Beowulf (Hall)

An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

by Beowulf Poet

Translated by John Lesslie Hall (1892)

Hall renders the poem in close alliterative verse that keeps the four-stress line and heaps up compound words in the manner of the Old English original.

Contents · 43 parts

• Fitt I: The Life and Death of Scyld54 lines
• Fitt II: Scyld's Successors; Hrothgar's Great Mead-Hall62 lines
• Fitt III: Grendel the Murderer73 lines
• Fitt IV: Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar's Assistance69 lines
• Fitt V: The Geats Reach Heorot61 lines
• Fitt VI: Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace51 lines
• Fitt VII: Hrothgar and Beowulf83 lines
• Fitt VIII: Hrothgar and Beowulf; Continued42 lines
• Fitt IX: Unferth Taunts Beowulf60 lines
• Fitt X: Beowulf Silences Unferth; Glee Is Highabout 100 lines
• Fitt XI: All Sleep Save One49 lines
• Fitt XII: Grendel and Beowulf81 lines
• Fitt XIII: Grendel Is Vanquished45 lines
• Fitt XIV: Rejoicing of the Danes88 lines
• Fitt XV: Hrothgar's Gratitude65 lines
• Fitt XVI: Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts Upon His Deliverer57 lines
• Fitt XVII: Banquet (continued); the Scop's Song of Finn and Hnæf71 lines
• Fitt XVIII: The Finn Episode (continued); the Banquet Continues67 lines
• Fitt XIX: Beowulf Receives Further Honor58 lines
• Fitt XX: The Mother of Grendel70 lines
• Fitt XXI: Hrothgar's Account of the Monsters61 lines
• Fitt XXII: Beowulf Seeks Grendel's Mother86 lines
• Fitt XXIII: Beowulf's Fight with Grendel's Mother82 lines
• Fitt XXIV: Beowulf Is Double-Conqueror90 lines
• Fitt XXV: Beowulf Brings His Trophies; Hrothgar's Gratitude94 lines
• Fitt XXVI: Hrothgar Moralizes; Rest After Labor70 lines
• Fitt XXVII: Sorrow at Parting70 lines
• Fitt XXVIII: The Homeward Journey; the Two Queens71 lines
• Fitt XXIX: Beowulf and Higelac69 lines
• Fitt XXX: Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelacabout 110 lines
• Fitt XXXI: Gift-Giving Is Mutual69 lines
• Fitt XXXII: The Hoard and the Dragon86 lines
• Fitt XXXIII: Brave Though Aged; Reminiscences76 lines
• Fitt XXXIV: Beowulf Seeks the Dragon; Beowulf's Reminiscences66 lines
• Fitt XXXV: Reminiscences (continued); Beowulf's Last Battleabout 140 lines
• Fitt XXXVI: Wiglaf the Trusty; Beowulf Is Deserted by Friends and by Sword88 lines
• Fitt XXXVII: The Fatal Struggle; Beowulf's Last Moments56 lines
• Fitt XXXVIII: Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon's Den; Beowulf's Death67 lines
• Fitt XXXIX: The Dead Foes; Wiglaf's Bitter Taunts67 lines
• Fitt XL: The Messenger of Death50 lines
• Fitt XLI: The Messenger's Retrospectabout 110 lines
• Fitt XLII: Wiglaf's Sad Story; the Hoard Carried Off76 lines
• Fitt XLIII: The Burning of Beowulf39 lines

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