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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown ยท 70 words
Broke through her bone joints, the bill fully pierced her Fate cursd body, she fell to the ground then. The hand sword was bloody, the hero exulted. The brand was brilliant, brightly it glimmered, 15 Just as from heaven gemlike shineth The torch of the firmament. He glanced long the building, And turned by the wall then, Higelacs vassal Raging and wrathful raised his battle sword Strong by the handle.
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