Chapter 37 THE FATAL STRUGGLE.-BEOWULF'S LAST MOMENTS.

Wiglaf defends Beowulf.

Then I heard that at need of the king of the people

The upstanding earlman exhibited prowess,

Vigor and courage, as suited his nature;

1He his head did not guard, but the high-minded liegeman's

5 Hand was consumed, when he succored his kinsman,

So he struck the strife-bringing strange-comer lower,

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