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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown ยท 72 words

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown

2 The passage 1005 1009 seems to be hopeless. One difficult point is to find a subject for gesacan. Some say he; others supply each, i.e., every soul bearer ... must gain the inevitable place. The genitives in this case are partitive. If he be subj., the genitives are dependent on gearwe prepared. The he itself is disputed, some referring it to Grendel; but B. takes it as involved in the parenthesis.

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