The chieftain went on to reward the others: Each man on the bench who had sailed with Beowulf and risked the voyage received a bounty, some treasured possession. And compensation, a price in gold, was settled for the Geat Grendel had cruelly killed earlier.

The chieftain went on to reward the others:
Each man on the bench who had sailed with Beowulf
and risked the voyage received a bounty,
some treasured possession. And compensation,
a price in gold, was settled for the Geat
Grendel had cruelly killed earlier.

– Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.)

Lines 1049-1054: When one of Beowulf’s Geat warriors is killed by Gendel, the other Gears are rewarded.

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