Beowulf

by Unknown

Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Heorot was the name he had settled on it, whose utterance was law.

how the Almighty had made the earth a gleaming plain girdled with waters;

He allows the mind of a man of distinguished birth to follow its bent, 1730 grants him fulfilment and felicity on earth and forts to command in his own country.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.”

Now I am old, but as king of the people I shall pursue this fight

for the glory of winning,

I want to examine that ancient gold, gaze my fill on those garnered jewels; my going will be easier 2750 for having seen the treasure, a less troubled letting-go of the life and lordship I have long maintained.”