All 10 Uses of
vengeance
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Hall)
- }The kindred of Cain crushed with His vengeance; In the feud He rejoiced not, but far away drove him From kindred and kind, that crime to atone for, Meter of Justice.†
- Then winter was gone, Earth's bosom was lovely; the exile would get him,{He devises schemes of vengeance.†
- }The guest from the palace; on grewsomest vengeance 15 He brooded more eager than on oversea journeys, Whe'r onset-of-anger he were able to 'complish, The bairns of the Jutemen therein to remember.†
- }Eager and gloomy was anxious to go on Her mournful mission, mindful of vengeance For the death of her son.†
- [2] The line 'And …. yielding,' B. renders: And she has performed a deed of blood-vengeance whose effect is far-reaching.†
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- Then she sat on the hall-guest And wielded her war-knife wide-bladed, flashing, For her son would take vengeance, her one only bairn.†
- }15 'Art thou able, my friend, to know when thou seest it The brand which thy father bare to the conflict In his latest adventure, 'neath visor of helmet, The dearly-loved iron, where Danemen did slay him, And brave-mooded Scyldings, on the fall of the heroes, 20 (When vengeance was sleeping) the slaughter-place wielded?†
- }85 Was ready for vengeance, wretched she journeyed; Her son had death ravished, the wrath of the Geatmen.†
- {AEschere falls a prey to her vengeance.†
- }'twas a feeless fight, finished in malice, 50 Sad to his spirit; the folk-prince however Had to part from existence with vengeance untaken.†
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)