Beowulf · J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) Hall translation

Note 2
XIX. BEOWULF RECEIVES FURTHER HONOR.

For ‘feorh’ S. suggests ‘feoh’: ‘corpse’ in the translation would then be changed to ‘possessions,’ ‘belongings.’ This is a better reading than one joining, in such intimate syntactical relations, things so unlike as ‘corpse’ and ‘jewels.’

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The2 corpse of the king then came into charge of

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