"It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning"

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Published in 2000.

"It is always better

to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.

For every one of us, living in this world

means waiting for our end. Let whoever can

win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,

that will be his best and only bulwark."

Seamus Heany