Epic poem · 1895

The Tale of Beowulf (Morris & Wyatt)

Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

by Beowulf Poet

Translated by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt (1895)

Morris translates in a deliberately archaic diction, thick with Old English words and inverted syntax, so that the poem reads as if it had been composed in the saga-age English of his imagination.

Contents · 43 parts

• Fitt I: And First of the Kindred of Hrothgar52 lines
• Fitt II: Concerning Hrothgar62 lines
• Fitt III: How Grendel Fell Upon Hart and Wasted It74 lines
• Fitt IV: Now Comes Beowulf Ecgtheow's Son69 lines
• Fitt V: Here Beowulf Makes Answer to the Land-Warden62 lines
• Fitt VI: Beowulf and the Geats Come Into Hart51 lines
• Fitt VII: Beowulf Speaketh with Hrothgar85 lines
• Fitt VIII: Hrothgar Answereth Beowulf43 lines
• Fitt IX: Unferth Contendeth in Words with Beowulf60 lines
• Fitt X: Beowulf Makes an End of His Tale of the Swimmingabout 100 lines
• Fitt XI: Now Is Beowulf Left in the Hall Alone with His Men48 lines
• Fitt XII: Grendel Cometh Into Hart81 lines
• Fitt XIII: Beowulf Hath the Victory46 lines
• Fitt XIV: The Danes Rejoice88 lines
• Fitt XV: King Hrothgar and His Thanes66 lines
• Fitt XVI: Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf59 lines
• Fitt XVII: They Feast in Hart75 lines
• Fitt XVIII: The Ending of the Tale of Finn67 lines
• Fitt XIX: More Gifts Are Given to Beowulf59 lines
• Fitt XX: Grendel's Dam Breaks Into Hart70 lines
• Fitt XXI: Hrothgar Laments the Slaying of Aeschere62 lines
• Fitt XXII: They Follow Grendel's Dam to Her Lair90 lines
• Fitt XXIII: Beowulf Reacheth the Mere-Bottom in a Day's While84 lines
• Fitt XXIV: Beowulf Slayeth Grendel's Dam95 lines
• Fitt XXV: Converse of Hrothgar with Beowulf89 lines
• Fitt XXVI: More Converse of Hrothgar and Beowulf77 lines
• Fitt XXVII: Beowulf Bids Hrothgar Farewell71 lines
• Fitt XXVIII: Beowulf Comes Back to His Land75 lines
• Fitt XXIX: Beowulf Tells Hygelac of Hrothgar69 lines
• Fitt XXX: Beowulf Forebodes Ill from the Wedding of Freawaruabout 110 lines
• Fitt XXXI: Beowulf Gives Hrothgar's Gifts to Hygelac77 lines
• Fitt XXXII: How the Worm Came to the Howe90 lines
• Fitt XXXIII: The Worm Burns Beowulf's House79 lines
• Fitt XXXIV: Beowulf Goes Against the Worm69 lines
• Fitt XXXV: Beowulf Tells of Past Feudsabout 140 lines
• Fitt XXXVI: Wiglaf Son of Weohstan92 lines
• Fitt XXXVII: They Two Slay the Worm58 lines
• Fitt XXXVIII: Beowulf Beholdeth the Treasure and Passeth Away69 lines
• Fitt XXXIX: Wiglaf Casteth Shame on Those Fleers71 lines
• Fitt XL: Wiglaf Sendeth Tiding to the Host: the Words of the Messenger54 lines
• Fitt XLI: More Words of the Messengerabout 110 lines
• Fitt XLII: They Go to Look on the Field of Deed79 lines
• Fitt XLIII: Of the Burial of Beowulf46 lines

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