Chapter 30 BEOWULF NARRATES HIS ADVENTURES TO HIGELAC.

"It well may discomfit the prince of the Heathobards

And each of the thanemen of earls that attend him,

When he goes to the building escorting the woman,

That a noble-born Daneman the knights should be feasting:

5 There gleam on his person the leavings of elders

Hard and ring-bright, Heathobards' treasure,

While they wielded their