THE TALE OF BEOWULF Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Translated by WILLIAM MORRIS and A. J. WYATT Longmans, Green, and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay MCMIV Bibliographical Note First printed at the Kelmscott Press, January 1895 Ordinary Edition . . . . . . . . . . . August 1898 Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 1904 CONTENTS (table added by transcriber) Argument Chapter I. And First of the Kindred of Hrothgar. II. Concerning Hrothgar, and How He Built the House Called Hart. Also Grendel Is Told of. III. How Grendel Fell Upon Hart and Wasted It. IV. Now Comes Beowulf Ecgtheow's Son to the Land of the Danes, and the Wall-Warden Speaketh With Him. V. Here Beowulf Makes Answer to the Land-Warden, Who Showeth Him the Way to the King's Abode. VI. Beowulf and the Geats Come Into Hart. VII. Beowulf Speaketh With Hrothgar, and Telleth How He Will Meet Grendel.