Beowulf

Beowulf, lines 36-42

Beowulf, lines 36-42
Viperine water snake (Natrix maura), Extremadura, Spain. By Charles James Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

MANY EXQUISITE FOREIGN TREASURES WERE PILED ON.

NEVER HAVE I HEARD OF A SHIP DRESSED MORE STUNNINGLY

WITH WAR-WEAPONS AND WAR-WEAR

BLADES AND BREASTPLATES UPON HIM LAY

TREASURE AMASSED TO JOIN HIM WHEN HE HAD TO

GO AWAY OVER THE FAR WATERS OF THE SEA

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Þær wæs madma fela of feorwegum frætwa gelæded. / Ne hyrde ic cymlicor ceol gegyrwan / hildewæpnum 7 heaðowædum / billum 7 byrnum him on bearme læ / madma mænigo þa him mid scoldon / on flodes æht feor gewitan.

Jo Livingstone