Famous last words from Beowulf

by chuckofish

When Beowulf is dying he has time for a few pithy words, including:

“I took what came,
cared for and stood by things in my keeping,
never fomented quarrels, never swore to a lie.”

If, when the time comes, I could sum up my life the same way, I’d be satisfied, wouldn’t you? I just love Anglo-Saxon poetry. The translation is, of course, Seamus Heaney’s.