1. His comrades carried him down to the shore.
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2. There in the harbor was a ring-prowed fighting ship.
3. And there they brought the beloved body of their ring-giving lord and laid him near the
mast
4. Forced to set him adrift, floating as far as the tide might run, they refused to give him
less from their hoards of gold.
5. Then Hrothgar, taking the throne, led the Danes to such glory that comrades and
kinsmen swore by his sword.
_6. It was quickly ready, that most beautiful of dwellings, built as he'd wanted.
7. His boast come true, he commanded a banquet, opened out his treasure-full hands
8. That towering place, gabled and huge, stood waiting for time to pass.
9. Hrothgar's men lived happy in his hall till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend
Grendel.
0. The monster was spawned in that slime.
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