Beowulf's Funeral and Closing Elegy

From Beowulf by Anonymous
The poem closes with Beowulf's pyre, burial in a seaside barrow, and the famous epitaph praising him as the kindest and most eager for fame.
Lines 3137-3182

The funeral pyre, the Geatish woman's lament, and the final lines naming Beowulf 'manna mildust ond monthwaerust, leodum lithost ond lofgeornost' (mildest, gentlest, kindest to his people, most eager for praise).

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