Beowulf

Audio selections from Beowulf

1. Beowulf Departs for Denmark - line 205

2. Beowulf's Speech to King Hrothgar - line 405

3. Beowulf's Last Speech and Death - line 2801

4. The Building of the Barrow and the Final Eulogies - line 3156

5. Beowulf 194-209 (Seamus Heaney)

Lines 205-09

Hæfde se goda         Geata leoda

cempan gecorone         þara þe he cenoste

findan mihte;         fif-tynana sum

sund-wudu sohte;         secg wisade,

lagu-cræftig mon,         land-gemyrcu.

Caedmon's Hymn (c. 700)

Chaucer - Canterbury Tales Prologue, ll. 1-18

Version 1

Version 2

The Cuckoo's Song (c. 1225)

The Cuckoo's Song set to music (Summer is icumen in)

Fowls in the Frith