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by Michael D. C. Drout EOWULF begins with successful inheritances. Arriving in Denmark from across the sea, Scyld Scefing builds up the Danish kingdom and bequeaths it to his son and ``eafera'' (12a) (heir), Beowulf Scyldinga.1 This Beowulf works to build up his father's kingdom, and when Scyld dies the power and wealth of his people are so great that the Scyldings are able to provide their old king with a glorious ship funeral that ends his reign and inaugurates that of his son: Ða wæs on burgum leof leodcyning folcum gefræge aldor of earde heah Healfdene gamol ond guðreouw Ðæm feower bearn in world wocun Beowulf Scyldinga longe þrage fæder ellor hwearf oþ þæt him eft onwoc heold þenden lifde glæde Scyldingas. forðgerime weoroda ræswa[n] 1 All quotations from Beowulf are taken from Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, ed. Fr. Klaeber, 3rd ed. with 1st and 2nd supplements (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1951) and are cited by line numbers in parentheses. I have not reproduced Klaeber's macrons or his punctuation; translations are my own. At this point in the poem (lines 18a and 53b), the manuscript reads unequivocally ``beowulf,'' but many editors emend to ``Beow''
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 18, 2007
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