Below are four lines from sections I – IV. (There is one line from each section.) Arrange them in order, first to last, based on when they occurred in the story of Beowulf.

"How ceaselessly Grendel / harassed Hrothgar . . ."

"'Who are ye, then, ye arméd men, / mailéd folk . . .'"

"It came in his mind / to bid his henchmen a hall uprear"

"'To Hrothgar I / in greatness of soul would succor bring'"

Question

Below are four lines from sections I – IV. (There is one line from each section.) Arrange them in order, first to last, based on when they occurred in the story of Beowulf.


 		
"How ceaselessly Grendel / harassed Hrothgar . . ."
 		
"'Who are ye, then, ye arméd men, / mailéd folk . . .'"
 		
"It came in his mind / to bid his henchmen a hall uprear"
 	 	
"'To Hrothgar I / in greatness of soul would succor bring'"

anonymous · Answer

She was doomed to dwell in the dreary waters, / cold sea-courses, since Cain cut down" 
"To his bower was Beowulf brought in haste, / dauntless victor. . . ." 
"I will reward thee, for waging this fight, / with ancient treasure, as erst I did, / with winding gold, if thou winnest back" 
"'Hrunting' they named the hilted sword, / of old-time heirlooms easily first" 
"The livelong time / after that grim fight, Grendel's mother, / monster of women, mourned her woe" (XIX, 8 - 9)
"Too soon came back / old ills of the earls, when in she burst, / the mother of Grendel. . . ." (XIX, 30 - 32)
"Hero famed / should be every earl as Aeschere was! / But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him" (XX, 8 - 10)
"Then girt him Beowulf / in martial mail, nor mourned for his life" (XXI, 60 - 61)

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"It came in his mind / to bid his henchmen a hall uprear" 
"How ceaselessly Grendel / harassed Hrothgar . . ." 
"'Who are ye, then, ye arméd men, / mailéd folk . . .'" 
"'To Hrothgar I / in greatness of soul would succor bring'"

anonymous · Answer

Thank you