{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_beo_beo08_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_beo_beo08_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_beo_beo08_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/beo/beo08.htm","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Sagas and Legends\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n \n \n VII\n HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings'-helmet:--\n \"For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf,\n to succor and save, thou hast sought us here. Thy father's combat[1] a feud enkindled\n when Heatholaf with hand he slew\n among the Wylfings; his Weder kin\n for horror of fighting feared to hold him. Fleeing, he sought our South-Dane folk,\n over surge of ocean the Honor-Scyldings,\n when first I was ruling the folk of Danes,\n wielded\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Beowulf: Part VII","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":344}