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Quotation from Beowulf by Anonymous
“Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of, How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle”
Beowulf, I, trans. J. Lesslie Hall (1892)
The poem opens by placing heroic memory before the reader as a public inheritance.
Citation: "Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of, How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle" — Anonymous, Beowulf, I, trans. J. Lesslie Hall (1892). (id beowulf-q1)
Portrait: Beowulf Cotton MS Vitellius A XV f. 132r, anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, Public domain.
