ABSTRACT

It is simple enough. Apart from the introduction 1-193, which deals with the Danish royal dynasty, Hroðgar’s building of the hall Heorot and his misfortune, the poem falls into four parts or sections,

I 194-836 Beowulf’s fight with Grendel; II 837-1628 Beowulf’s fight with Grendel’s mother; III 1629-2199 Beowulf’s return home; IV 2200-3183 Beowulf’s fight with the dragon and death.