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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown ยท 70 words
Then was crime and hostility twixt Swedes and Geatmen, Oer wide stretching water warring was mutual, 15 Burdensome hatred, when Hrethel had perished, And Ongentheows offspring were active and valiant, Wished not to hold to peace oversea, but Round Hreosna beorh often accomplished Cruelest massacre. This my kinsman avengd, 20 The feud and fury, as tis found on inquiry, Though one of them paid it with forfeit of life joys,
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