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Title: Siegfried, the hero of the North, and Beowulf, the hero of the Anglo-Saxons
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 Tobin, George T. (George Timothy), 1864-1956, ill
Subjects: Siegfried (Legendary character) Beowulf
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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himself that I had 267 268 Beowulf found a bountiful friend. And let Unferthkeep my own heirloom, my curiouslydamaskeened sword, Hardedge. WithHrunting I will either achieve renown orfind my death. He said, and, waiting for no answer,leaped from the bluff—the eddying floodengulfed him. So deep was the mere,that it took some time before, sinking, hereached the bottom. Soon the grim creature that for a hund-red seasons had kept house in the wateryrealm perceived that one of the childrenof men was coming from above, exploringthe goblins home. She made a grab athim and clutched him in her grisly talons,but could not pierce the well-knit ringmail which fenced him around. But shebore him to her mansion at the bottom ofthe lake, so swiftly that, although hisheart did not fail, he was powerless to usehis weapons, the more that countlesswater-beasts harassed him in swimming,battering at him with tusk and claw. At length the earl felt the grip loosenedon him, and as he hurriedly cast his eye
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