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__Beowulf Audiobook__: Line 2479-2515 __ Paraphrase: __

these evil events, as everybody knows,//**
 * //My own kith and kin avenged

- My relatives evidently took revenge in these wicked incidents,

with his life. Haethcyn, lord of the Geats, met his fate there and fell in the battle.//**
 * //but the price was high: one of them paid

- but the outcome was dangerous: one had risked his life. Haethcyn, lord of the Geats, was destined to die in the battle.

was raised in the morning against Ongentheow, his brother’s killer.//**
 * //Then, as I have heard, Hygelac’s sword

- Then, Hygelac’s sword was exerted during the fight against Ongentheow who is his brother’s murderer.

the old Swede’s helmet, halved it open, he fell, death-pale: his feud-calloused hand could not stave off the fatal stroke.//**
 * //When Eofor cleft

- When Eofor cracked the old Swede’s helmet in half, Ongentheow lifelessly fell: even his violent career could not prevent the lethal achievement.

I paid for when I fought, as fortune allowed me, with my glittering sword.//**
 * //“The treasures that Hygelac lavished on me

- I fortunately repaid the treasures Hygelac had bestowed on me by fighting with my shining sword.

//**He gave me land and the security land brings, so he had no call to go looking for some lesser champion, some mercenary from among the Gifthas or the Spear-Danes or the men of Sweden**.//

- Hygelac gave me land and security that Heorot offered, thus he had no appeal to find some indistinct supporter, some soldier of fortune from the Gifthas or the Spear-Danes or the men from Sweden.

at the front of the line; and I shall fight like that for as long as I live, as long as this sword shall last,//**
 * //I marched ahead of him, always there

- I was courageous and faithful and until the end of my life, until this sword breaks, I will continue to fight in that spirit,

//**which has stood me in good stead late and soon, ever since I killed Dayraven the Frank in front of the two armies.**//

- Ever since I killed Dayraven the Frank in front of the two armies it influenced me to be determined.

//**He brought back no lotted breastplate to the Frisian king, but fell in battle, their standard-bearer, high-born and brave.**//

- He didn’t bring back any broken breastplate to the Frisian king, but died in battle, their excellent, worthy, and valiant.

//**No sword blade sent him to his death, my bare hands stilled his heartbeats and wrecked the bone-house.**//

- It was not my sword that broke his bone-cage, and the beatings of his heart, but my warlike hand.

//**Now blade and hand, sword and sword-stroke, will assay the hoard.”**//

Now the blade, the hand, the sword and its strokes will appraise the treasure.”

//**Beowulf spoke, made a formal boast for the last time. “I risked my life often when I was young.**//

- Finally, Beowulf self-praised ceremoniously. “I frequently endangered my life in my youth.

//**Now I am old, but as king of the people I shall pursue this fight for the glory of winning, if the evil one will only abandon his earth-fort and face me in the open.”**//

- I am aged at the present, but for my prestige of being a king I shall take this fight for the honor of triumph, if the enemy will only get out of his dwelling and officially challenge me.”