Beowulf

Beowulf

• Publisher: Caelwick Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9791044603111
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Beowulf by Beowulf is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of, How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle. Oft Scyld the Scefing from scathers in numbers From many a people their mead-benches tore. Since first he found him friendless and wretched, The This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• The Life and Death of Scyld
• Scyld’s Successors—Hrothgar’s Great Mead-Hall
• Grendel the Murderer
• Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar’s Assistance
• The Geats Reach Heorot
• Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace
• Hrothgar and Beowulf
• Hrothgar and Beowulf—Continued
• Unferth Taunts Beowulf
• Beowulf Silences Unferth—Glee Is High
• All Sleep Save One
• Grendel and Beowulf
• Grendel Is Vanquished
• Rejoicing of the Danes
• Hrothgar’s Gratitude
• Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts Upon His Deliverer
• Banquet (Continued)—The Scop’s Song of Finn and Hnaef
• The Finn Episode (Continued)—The Banquet Continues
• Beowulf Receives Further Honor
• The Mother of Grendel
• Hrothgar’s Account of the Monsters
• Beowulf Seeks Grendel’s Mother
• Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother
• Beowulf Is Double-Conqueror
• Beowulf Brings His Trophies—Hrothgar’s Gratitude
• Hrothgar Moralizes—Rest After Labor
• Sorrow at Parting
• The Homeward Journey—The Two Queens
• Beowulf and Higelac
• Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac
• Gift-Giving Is Mutual
• The Hoard and the Dragon
• Brave Though Aged—Reminiscences
• Beowulf Seeks the Dragon—Beowulf’s Reminiscences
• Reminiscences (Continued)—Beowulf’s Last Battle
• Wiglaf the Trusty—Beowulf Is Deserted by Friends and by Sword
• The Fatal Struggle—Beowulf’s Last Moments
• Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon’s Den—Beowulf’s Death
• The Dead Foes—Wiglaf’s Bitter Taunts
• The Messenger of Death
• The Messenger’s Retrospect
• Wiglaf’s Sad Story—The Hoard Carried Off
• The Burning of Beowulf