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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beowulf (The Prelude)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE </div><div style="margin:10px 0">LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings <br>of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, <br>we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! <br>Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, <br>from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, <br>awing the earls. Since erst he lay <br>friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: <br>for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, <br>till before him the folk, both far and near, <br>who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate, <br>gave him gifts: a good king he! <br>To him an heir was afterward born, <br>a son in his halls, whom heaven sent <br>to favor the folk, feeling their woe <br>that erst they had lacked an earl for leader <br>so long a while; the Lord endowed him, <br>the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown. <br>Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him, <br>son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands. <br>So becomes it a youth to quit him well <br>with his father's friends, by fee and gift, <br>that to aid him, aged, in after days, <br>come warriors willing, should war draw nigh, <br>liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds <br>shall an earl have honor in every clan. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forth he fared at the fated moment, <br>sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God. <br>Then they bore him over to ocean's billow, <br>loving clansmen, as late he charged them, <br>while wielded words the winsome Scyld, <br>the leader beloved who long had ruled.... <br>In the roadstead rocked a ring-dight vessel, <br>ice-flecked, outbound, atheling's barge: <br>there laid they down their darling lord <br>on the breast of the boat, the breaker-of-rings, <br>by the mast the mighty one. Many a treasure <br>fetched from far was freighted with him. <br>No ship have I known so nobly dight <br>with weapons of war and weeds of battle, <br>with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay <br>a heaped hoard that hence should go <br>far o'er the flood with him floating away. <br>No less these loaded the lordly gifts, <br>thanes' huge treasure, than those had done <br>who in former time forth had sent him <br>sole on the seas, a suckling child. <br>High o'er his head they hoist the standard, <br>a gold-wove banner; let billows take him, <br>gave him to ocean. Grave were their spirits, <br>mournful their mood. No man is able <br>to say in sooth, no son of the halls, <br>no hero 'neath heaven, -- who harbored that freight!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings 
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, 
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! 
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, 
from many a tribe, the..."></div>
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