All 8 Uses
exile
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Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
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- Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever {1e} mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed.†
- 'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile, for high-hearted valor, Hrothgar ye seek!†
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- Land-dwellers here {20b} and liegemen mine, who house by those parts, I have heard relate that such a pair they have sometimes seen, march-stalkers mighty the moorland haunting, wandering spirits: one of them seemed, so far as my folk could fairly judge, of womankind; and one, accursed, in man's guise trod the misery-track of exile, though huger than human bulk.†
- —So may the undoomed easily flee evils and exile, if only he gain the grace of The Wielder!†
- — Wandering exiles sought him o'er seas, the sons of Ohtere, who had spurned the sway of the Scylfings'—helmet, the bravest and best that broke the rings, in Swedish land, of the sea-kings' line, haughty hero.†
- The linden yellow, his shield, he seized; the old sword he drew: —as heirloom of Eanmund earth-dwellers knew it, who was slain by the sword-edge, son of Ohtere, friendless exile, erst in fray killed by Weohstan, who won for his kin brown-bright helmet, breastplate ringed, old sword of Eotens, Onela's gift, weeds of war of the warrior-thane, battle-gear brave: though a brother's child had been felled, the feud was unfelt by Onela.†
- No maiden fair shall wreathe her neck with noble ring: nay, sad in spirit and shorn of her gold, oft shall she pass o'er paths of exile now our lord all laughter has laid aside, all mirth and revel.†
- {32a} That is, Beowulf supports Eadgils against Onela, who is slain by Eadgils in revenge for the "care-paths" of exile into which Onela forced him.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(exile) to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)