I: The Life and Death of Scyld

II: Scyld’s Successors—Hrothgar’s Great Mead-Hall

III: Grendel the Murderer

IV: Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar’s Assistance

V: The Geats Reach Heorot

VI: Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace

VII: Hrothgar and Beowulf

VIII: Hrothgar and Beowulf—Continued

IX: Unferth Taunts Beowulf

X: Beowulf Silences Unferth—Glee Is High

XI: All Sleep Save One

XII: Grendel and Beowulf

XIII: Grendel Is Vanquished

XIV: Rejoicing of the Danes

XV: Hrothgar’s Gratitude

XVI: Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts Upon His Deliverer

XVII: Banquet (Continued)—The Scop’s Song of Finn and Hnaef

XVIII: The Finn Episode (Continued)—The Banquet Continues

XIX: Beowulf Receives Further Honor

XX: The Mother of Grendel

XXI: Hrothgar’s Account of the Monsters

XXII: Beowulf Seeks Grendel’s Mother

XXIII: Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother

XXIV: Beowulf Is Double-Conqueror

XXV: Beowulf Brings His Trophies—Hrothgar’s Gratitude

XXVI: Hrothgar Moralizes—Rest After Labor

XXVII: Sorrow at Parting

XXVIII: The Homeward Journey—The Two Queens

XXIX: Beowulf and Higelac

XXX: Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac

XXXI: Gift-Giving Is Mutual

XXXII: The Hoard and the Dragon

XXXIII: Brave Though Aged—Reminiscences

XXXIV: Beowulf Seeks the Dragon—Beowulf’s Reminiscences

XXXV: Reminiscences (Continued)—Beowulf’s Last Battle

XXXVI: Wiglaf the Trusty—Beowulf Is Deserted by Friends and by Sword

XXXVII: The Fatal Struggle—Beowulf’s Last Moments

XXXVIII: Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon’s Den—Beowulf’s Death

XXXIX: The Dead Foes—Wiglaf’s Bitter Taunts

XL: The Messenger of Death

XLI: The Messenger’s Retrospect

XLII: Wiglaf’s Sad Story—The Hoard Carried Off

XLIII: The Burning of Beowulf