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weapons. Then a

hampions quest

rs bear ye your bat

ming, your gray

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m far-lands fo

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y of mien mor

om valor, nowi

of soul ye sought

lf re

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anions, and bear an importa

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k-leader, I fr

commission, if

y greet him so gr

then (he was prin

f spirit was k

udence): "The prin

he will go and ask Hrothgar wh

Danemen, I will a

ings, as thou

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s went till he sto

the Danemen, of

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the waters are

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tition: with thee

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struck with Beow

ngs weeded wo

honored; sure the

e heroes hith

nd to take 'hring-íren' as meaning 'ring-mail' and as parallel with 'gúe-byrne.' The passage would

ranslate 'unhár' by