f Makes An End of His Tale of the Swimming.
Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's Queen, Greets Him; and Hrothgar
Delivers to Him the Warding of the Hall.

XI. Now Is Beowulf Left in the Hall Alone With His Men.

XII. Grendel Cometh Into Hart: of the Strife Betwixt Him and
Beowulf.

XIII. Beowulf Hath the Victory: Grendel Is Hurt Deadly and
Leaveth Hand and Arm in the Hall.

XIV. The Danes Rejoice; They Go to Look on the Slot of
Grendel, and Come Back to Hart, and on the Way Make
Merry With Racing and the Telling of Tales.

XV. King Hrothgar and His Thanes Look on the Arm of Grendel.
Converse Betwixt Hrothgar and Beowulf Concerning the
Battle.

XVI. Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf.

XVII. They Feast in Hart. The Gleeman Sings of Finn and
Hengest.

XVIII. The Ending of the Tale of Finn.

XIX. More Gifts Are Given to Beowulf. The Brising Collar
Told of.

XX. Grendel's Dam Breaks Into Hart and Bears Off Aeschere.

XXI. Hrothgar Laments the Slaying of Aeschere, and Tells of
Grendel's Mother and Her Den.

XXII. They Follow Grendel's Dam to Her Lair.

XXIII. Beowulf Reacheth the Mere-Bottom in A Day's While, and
Contends With Grendel's Dam.

XXIV. Beowulf Slayeth Grendel's Dam, Smiteth Off Grendel's
Head, and Cometh Back With His Thanes to Hart.

XXV. Converse of Hrothgar With Beowulf.

XXVI. More Converse of Hrothgar and Beowulf: the Geats Make
Them Ready For Departure.

XXVII. Beowulf Bids Hrothgar Farewell: the Geats Fare to Ship.

XXVIII. Beowulf Comes Back to His Land. of the Tale of Thrytho.

XXIX. Beowulf Tells Hygelac of Hrothgar: Also of Freawaru His
Daughter.

XXX. Beowulf Forebodes Ill From the Wedding of Freawaru: He
Tells of Grendel and His Dam.

XXXI. Beowulf Gives Hrothgar's Gifts to Hygelac, and By Him
Is Rewarded. of the Death of Hygelac and of Heardred
His Son, and How Beowulf Is King of the Geats: the Worm
Is First Told of.

XXXII. How the Worm Came to the Howe, and How He Was Robbed of
A Cup; and How He Fell on the Folk.

XXXIII. T