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XXXVII. THE FATAL STRUGGLE.—BEOWULF’S LAST MOMENTS.
B. renders: He (W.) did not regard his (the dragon’s) head (since Beowulf had struck it without effect), but struck the dragon a little lower down.—One crux is to find out whose head is meant; another is to bring out the antithesis between ‘head’ and ‘hand.’
1He his head did not guard, but the high-minded liegeman’s
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