Beowulf · J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) Hall translation

Note 2
X. BEOWULF SILENCES UNFERTH.—GLEE IS HIGH.

Kl. suggests a period after ‘determined.’ This would give the passage as follows: Since they no longer could see the light of the sun, and lowering darkness was down over all, dire under the heavens shadowy beings came going around them.

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A fight was determined,2 since the light of the sun they

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