Beowulf's Dragon Arc... Yay.

"His heart was grieving,/restless, ripe for death -- the doom was immeasurably near/that was coming to meet that old man,/seek his soul's treasure, split asunder/his life and his body; not for long was/the spirit of that noble king enclosed in its flesh" (2419-2424)

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