Old English waeteres weorpan in Beowulf, 2791a.(Essays) From: ANQ | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Bammesberger, Alfred | COPYRIGHT 2006 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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)

Kemble translated this passage as...

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