Beowulf · J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) Hall translation

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XX. THE MOTHER OF GRENDEL.

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Some authorities follow Grein’s lexicon in treating ‘heard ecg’ as an adj. limiting ‘sweord’: H.-So. renders it as a subst. (So v. 1491.) The sense of the translation would be the same.

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Then the hard-edgèd weapon was heaved in the building,3

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XX. THE MOTHER OF GRENDEL.