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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown ยท 63 words
Ever before. They guard the wolf coverts, Lands inaccessible, wind beaten nesses, Fearfullest fen deeps, where a flood from the mountains Neath mists of the nesses netherward rattles, 40 The stream under earth. not far is it henceward Measured by mile lengths that the mere water standeth, Which forests hang over, with frost whiting covered,4 48 A firm rooted forest, the floods overshadow.
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