Beowulf, lines 12-25

THEN SCYLD HAD A LITTLE BABY BOY

A CUB IN THE YARD, A GODSEND

TO MAKE THE PEOPLE HAPPY

HE HAD SEEN WHAT THEY HAD GONE THROUGH

HOW THEY HAD SUFFERED LEADERLESS

UNENDING

FOR THEM THE BIG MAN

UP IN HEAVEN

WHO CONTROLS WHO BECOMES FAMOUS.

MADE BEOWULF FAMOUS

FAMOUS EVERYWHERE.

THIS IS HOW A YOUNG MAN MAKES A NAME FOR HIMSELF

THROUGH HIS DEEDS

FOR EXAMPLE

FINE TREASURE GIFTS WHILE IN HIS FATHER’S HOME

THEN WHEN HIS FATHER IS OLD HE COMES BACK.

GOES HAPPILY INTO WAR WHENEVER ASKED

AND ALL HIS PEOPLE ARE HAPPY

Today's lines:

ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned / geong in geardum þone god sende / folce to frofre fyrenðearfe ongeat / þæt hie ær drugon aldorlease / lange hwile him þæs liffrea / wuldres wealdend  woroldare forgeaf. / beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang / scyldes eafera scedelandum in. / Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean / fromum feohgiftum on fæder bearme / þæt hine on ylde eft gewunigen / wilgesiþas  þonne wig cume. / leode gelæsten  lofdædum sceal / in mægþa gehwære man geþeon