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Beowulf

By Anonymous (translated by Francis Barton Gummere)

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Cover: Beowulf fighting the dragon, from Stories of Beowulf (1908), colour illustration by J. R. Skelton (1865-1927) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (published 1908; artist died 1927)

The Geatish hero Beowulf crosses the sea to free King Hrothgar's hall from the man-eating Grendel, then kills Grendel's mother in her lair beneath a mere. Fifty years on, as king of the Geats, he faces a dragon that guards a barrow hoard, and the fight is his last.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Prelude of the Founder of the Danish House
  2. 2: I
  3. 3: II
  4. 4: III
  5. 5: IV
  6. 6: V
  7. 7: VI
  8. 8: VII
  9. 9: VIII
  10. 10: IX
  11. 11: X
  12. 12: XI
  13. 13: XII
  14. 14: XIII
  15. 15: XIV
  16. 16: XV
  17. 17: XVI
  18. 18: XVII
  19. 19: XVIII
  20. 20: XIX
  21. 21: XX
  22. 22: XXI
  23. 23: XXII
  24. 24: XXIII
  25. 25: XXIV
  26. 26: XXV
  27. 27: XXVI
  28. 28: XXVII
  29. 29: XXVIII
  30. 30: XXIX
  31. 31: XXX
  32. 32: XXXI
  33. 33: XXXII
  34. 34: XXXIII
  35. 35: XXXIV
  36. 36: XXXV
  37. 37: XXXVI
  38. 38: XXXVII
  39. 39: XXXVIII
  40. 40: XXXIX
  41. 41: XL
  42. 42: XLI