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Task two: Render the text in EmodE into Modern English (an
advanced level: the predicates are not underlined).
Text. HOW HROTGAR & BEOWULF WENT TO THE MERE IN
WHICH THE MONSTER DWELT
1385. Beowulf spake, the son of Ecgtheow, "Sorrow not, man of wise
mind! It is better one should avenge his friend than mourn for him long.
Each of us must abide life's end in this world. Let him that may, win fame
over death that shall be best thereafter for a warrior, when life is no more".
1390. "Arise, warden of the realm, let us go quickly to look upon the
track of Grendel fellow. I promise thee, he shall not flee to shelter, not in
earth's bosom or mountain forest, or ocean's bed, where he will".
1395. For this day have patience in thine every woe, as "I ween thou
wilt". Then the old man sprang up and gave thanks to god, the mighty
lord, for that the hero had spoken. A horse then, a steed with plaited mane,
was bridled for Hrothgar.
1400. The wise king went in state, with him fared forth a foot-band of
shield-bearers. The tracks were plain to see far along the forest- ways, the
path she hath taken across the levels, straight went she over the murky
moor.
1405. Bare away, with his soul gone from him, the best of Hrothgar's
kindred that for him governed the homestead. Then over the steep stone-
fells and narrow tracks,
1410 in close by paths an unknown way by beetling cliffs and many a
nicker's lair, went the son of Athelings. With a few wise-minded men, he
went before to see the place, till he found suddenly the mountain trees, the
joyless wood leaning over the hoar rock.
1415. The water stood beneath, blood-stained and troubled. It was for all
the Danes, for the friends of the Scyldings, a sorrow of soul to bear, grief
to many a thane and every earl, when they came upon the head of
Abschere on the sea-cliff.
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