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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown ยท 79 words
The gray haired chieftain, the gold fashioned sword hilt, Old work of giants, was thereupon given; Since the fall of the fiends, it fell to the keeping 30 Of the wielder of Danemen, the wonder smiths labor, And the bad mooded being abandoned this world then, Opponent of God, victim of murder, And also his mother; it went to the keeping Of the best of the world kings, where waters encircle, 35 Who the scot divided in Scylding dominion.
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