Article: Old English waeteres weorpan in Beowulf, 2791a.(Essays)

In the course of Beowulf's fight against the dragon, both the Geatish king and the dragon suffer fatal wounds. In Beowulf's final hour, only Wiglaf is with him:

He da mid pam madmum maerne pioden

dryhten sinne driorigne fand

ealdres aet ende, he hine eft ongon

waeteres weorpan od paet wordes ord

breosthord purhbraec.

(Beowulf, 2788-92a, qtd. in Mitchell and Robinson 146)

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