Beowulf, together with Widsith, and The fight at Finnesburg
by Benjamin Thorpe
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- 1962
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- Beowulf; Beowulf's Dragon; Grendel; Grendel's mother; Hrothgar; Wiglaf (show all 7); Widsith
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- Heorot, Denmark; Finnesburg
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Benjamin Thorpe was one of the outstanding pioneer editors and translators of Beowulf; many of the now widely accepted readings of the manuscript were first proposed by him.
BEOWULF
Hwæt we Gār-Dena, Ay, we the Gar-Danes'
in gear-dagum, in days of yore,
Þeód-cyninga, the great kings',
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