Anonymous. Extract from Seamus Heaney’s translation
So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings that rules them had courage and greatness. We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns.
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Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield, a cub in the yard, a comfort sent by God to that nation. He knew what they had tholed, the long times and troubles they had come through without a leader; so the Lord of Life, the glorious Almighty, made this man renowned. Shield had fathered a famous son: Beow’s name was known through the north.
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