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A Note on Beowulf Line 1757

After the Heremod episode, which narrates the way Heremod was afflicted with pride and so was demoralized and eventually lost his prosperous lordship, Hrothgar begins to talk more generally about the process by which a man’s great prosperity makes him proud. The quoted lines follow a brief passage on the death of the boastful man and depict what happens after his death, roughly saying that a man who is morally superior to his predecessor replaces him. What I shall focus on in this essay is how to interpret the last half-line in the quoted passage. There are two different interpretive traditions. Some translate it as follows: