What is the chronological order of the story Beowulf?

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"She was doomed to dwell in the dreary waters, / cold sea-courses, since Cain cut down"

"To his bower was Beowulf brought in haste, / dauntless victor. . . ."

"I will reward thee, for waging this fight, / with ancient treasure, as erst I did, / with winding gold, if thou winnest back"

"'Hrunting' they named the hilted sWord, / of old-time heirlooms easily first"

  • "The livelong time / after that grim fight, Grendel's mother, / monster of women, mourned her woe" (XIX, 8 - 9)
  • "Too soon came back / old ills of the earls, when in she burst, / the mother of Grendel. . . ." (XIX, 30 - 32)
  • "Hero famed / should be every earl as Aeschere was! / But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him" (XX, 8 - 10)
  • "Then girt him Beowulf / in martial mail, nor mourned for his life" (XXI, 60 - 61)

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"It came in his mind / to bid his henchmen a hall uprear"

"How ceaselessly Grendel / harassed Hrothgar . . ."

"'Who are ye, then, ye arméd men, / mailéd folk . . .'"

"'To Hrothgar I / in greatness of soul would succor bring'"

"The livelong time / after that grim fight, Grendel's mother, / monster of women, mourned her woe"

"Too soon came back / old ills of the earls, when in she burst, / the mother of Grendel. . . ."

"Hero famed / should be every earl as Aeschere was! / But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him"

"Then girt him Beowulf / in martial mail, nor mourned for his life"

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