Book is xi + 756 pp. An anthology of English literature through the 19th century. "Beowulf" gives a large portion of Thorpe's 1855 translation in revised form: a footnote describing its revision explains that Thorpe's text has been "relieved of some of its harsher inversions and obscurities and made more consistently rhythmical, also occasionally altered to conform to a more probable interpretation" (1). The excerpt covers the beginning and Grendel episodes, and much of the Grendel's mother episode, though omitting a few passages within that latter portion (such as the scop's recounting of the Finnsburh events). It is given numbered and titled sections that do not derive from Thorpe.

The translation begins:

I. The Passing of Scyld

Lo, we have heard of the fame in old time
of the great kings of the Spear-Danes,
how these princes valor displayed.
Oft Scyld, Scef's son, from robber-bands,
from many tribes, their mead-seats took,
filled earls with fear, since first he was
found all forlorn. Howe'er, he won comfort,
waxed great 'neath the welkin, in dignities throve,
until every one of those dwelling near
over the whale-road, was bound to obey him
and pay him tribute: that was a good king. (1)

And ends:

XXVII. The Parting

Then to him gave the warrior's protector,
the son of Healfdene, treasures twelve;
with those gifts bade him his own dear people
in safety to seek, and quickly return.
The king, in birth noble, then kissed the prince,
the lord of the Scyldings the best of thanes;—
and round the neck clasped him; tears he shed,
the hoary headed; chances two
there were to the aged, the second stronger,
whether (or not) they should see each other
again in conference. So dear was the man
that his breast 's heaving he could not restrain,
but in his bosom, in heart-bands fast,
for the man beloved his secret longing
burned in his blood. Beowulf thence,
a gold-proud warrior, trod the greensward,
in treasure exulting. The sea-ganger awaited,
at anchor riding, its owner and lord. (17-18; space in "breast 's" sic)

Not in GR.

BAM.