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‘In the Care of the Almighty’

Afterword of A Warrior Be: Conclusion of Beowulf

Lynn Lockhart and James LaFond
May 24
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For the final act of Beowulf, his epitaph, we will depart the hero tale with the guidance of Seamus Heaney, who has done the most beautiful verse translation the [1].

Lines 3110-3119

“Then Weohostan’s son, stalwart to the end,

had orders given to owners of dwellings,

many people of importance in the land,

to fetch wood from far and wide

for the good man’s pyr…

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