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 * Weeks 1 & 2:**


 * 1) PART I: DENMARK (lines 1-1887)
 * 2) Introduction (1-85)
 * 3) Founding of the Scylding Dynasty (4-67a)
 * 4) Building of Heorot (67b-85)
 * 5) Grendel
 * 6) Introduction: Outer Darkness vs. Creation of Light (86-114)
 * 7) His Ravages (115-93)
 * 8) Beowulf
 * 9) Introduction (194-209)
 * 10) His Coming to Denmark (210-319)
 * 11) Arrival at Heorot--Ceremony, Feasting, Boasts (320-702a)
 * 12) The Fight with Grendel (720b-836)
 * 13) After the Fight--Praise, Feasting, Gifts (837-1250)
 * 14) The Story of Sigemund (875-97)
 * 15) The Story of Heremod (898-915)
 * 16) The Story of Finnsburh (1063-1160a)
 * 17) The Story of the Brosinga mene : Past and Projections (1195-1214a)
 * 18) Vengeance--Grendel's Mother (1251-1396)
 * 19) The Fight with Grendel's Mother (1397-1622)
 * 20) After the Fight--Praise, Moralizing, Feasting, Gifts (1623-1887)


 * Weeks 3 & 4:**

"Hrothgar's Sermon" (1699-1784): >> Part 1 (1700-22): Exemplum--Heremod >> Part 2 (1723-57): Application, Amplification, Generalization--"The Ruined Noble" >> Part 3 (1758-82): Application, Specification--Beowulf, Hrothgar
 * 1) TRANSITIONAL: Beowulf's Return to Geatland (1888-2199)
 * 2) Prognosis for Hrothgar's Diplomacy (2020-69a)
 * 3) Monster-Fights (2069b-2140a)
 * 4) PART II: GEATLAND (2200-3182)
 * 5) Fifty Years Later--Old King Beowulf; Introduction of the Dragon (2200-2323)
 * 6) History of the Hoard; "Lay of the Last Survivor" (2233-70a)
 * 7) Dragon & Beowulf--How Beowulf Became King & His Determination to Kill the Dragon (2324-2424)
 * 8) Beowulf's Credentials Reiterated (2345-68)
 * 9) Beowulf's Speech--Nostalgia & Beot (2425-2537)
 * 10) Hrethel's Dilemma; "Elegy of the Old Father" (2435-71)
 * 11) Swedes, Frisians; Slaying Dæghrefn (2472-2508a)
 * 12) The Fight with the Dragon (2538-2709a)
 * 13) First Encounter (2556b ff.)
 * 14) Second Encounter (2669 ff.)
 * 15) Third Encounter (2688 ff.)
 * 16) Beowulf's Last Speeches & Death (2709b-2845)
 * 17) After Beowulf's Death--Grief, Doom Foreseen, the Pyre & Barrow of the King (2846-3182)
 * 18) Messenger/"Prophet" (2900-3027)
 * 19) Franks, Frisians, Swedes
 * 20) History of the Swedish Feud; the Battle of Ravenswood (2923b-88)
 * 21) Pyre & Barrow: Last Rites (3110-80)