ring-danes

Updated: May 20, 2025

So the Ring-Danes these half-years a hundred I ruled, wielded 'neath welkin, and warded them bravely from mighty-ones many o'er middle-earth, from spear and sword, till it seemed for me no foe could be found under fold of the sky. Lo, sudden the shift!

- Beowulf

So lived the clansmen in cheer and revel a winsome life, till one began to fashion evils, that field of hell. On kin of Cain was the killing avenged by sovran God for slaughtered Abel. WENT he forth to find at fall of night that haughty house, and heed wherever the Ring-Danes, outrevelled, to rest had gone.

- Beowulf