Beowulf · J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) Hall translation

Note 2
XX. THE MOTHER OF GRENDEL.

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For ‘sóna’ (1281), t.B. suggests ‘sára,’ limiting ‘edhwyrft.’ Read then: Return of sorrows to the nobles, etc. This emendation supplies the syntactical gap after ‘edhwyrft.’

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Return2 to the nobles, when the mother of Grendel

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Note 2XX. THE MOTHER OF GRENDEL.

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XX. THE MOTHER OF GRENDEL.