Top 10 Alliteration Moments in Beowulf

1.) “He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it” (975-976).


2.) “They had seen me boltered in the blood of enemies when I battled and bound five beasts”( 419-420).


3.) “The ship rode the water, broad-beamed, bound by it hawser and anchored fast”(301-303).


4.) “Otherwise, he must endure woes and live with grief for as long as his hall stands at the horizon, on its high ground”(283-285).


5.) “They collected their spears in a seafarers’ stook, a stand of greyish tapering ash”(328-330).


6.) “Wulfgar replied, a Wendel chief renowned as a warrior, well known for his wisdom”(348-349).


7.) “Then in the hall, hard-honed swords were grabbed from the bench, many a broad shield lifted and braced”(1288-1290).


8.) “On its bank, the heather-stepper halts: the hart in flight from pursuing hounds”(1368-1369).


9.) “So the Shieldings’ hero, hard-pressed and enraged, took a firm hold on the hilt, toppling the doomed house of her flesh”(1563-1568).

10.) “He saw the monster in his resting place, war-weary and wrecked”(1585-1586).