This poem asks how one character could "not lament her fate" when "the light broke on her murdered dears" in one of its "four funerals," the last of which is named after the "Last Survivor." In this work, which appears in the Nowell Codex, another character accuses the protagonist of losing a swimming race against Breca. It begins with a description of the death of king (*) Shield Sheafson. Wiglaf fights a dragon alongside this poem's protagonist, to whom Unferth lends his sword Hrunting before he fights the mother of the antagonist. For ten points, identify this Old E
This poem asks how one character could "not lament her fate" when "the light broke on her murdered dears" in one of its "four funerals," the last of which is named after the "Last Survivor." In this work, which appears in the Nowell Codex, another character accuses the protagonist of losing a swimming race against Breca. It begins with a description of the death of king (*) Shield Sheafson. Wiglaf fights a dragon alongside this poem's protagonist, to whom Unferth lends his sword Hrunting before he fights the mother of the antagonist. For ten points, identify this Old English epic in which the title Geatish protagonist kills Grendel.
This poem asks how one character could "not lament her fate" when "the light broke on her murdered dears" in one of its "four funerals," the last of which is named after the "Last Survivor."
Beowulf