This sentence comes from Beowulf.
Let me show you the context.
(line 2506-2509)
No sword blade sent him to death:
my bare hands stilled his heartbeats
and wreck the bone-house. now blade and hands,
sword and sword-stroke, will assay the hoard.
I can t understand last sentece
now blade~ the hoard
What does this sentence mean?
2015-03-17 5:24 pm
回答 (2)
2015-03-17 5:58 pm
✔ 最佳答案
Beowulf is boasting how he killed Dayraven the Frank? with his bare hands. Bonehouse is an allusion to the human body as a structure in whihc the heart is housed - he talks about how a body is consumed in a funeral pyre using the same metaphor elsewhere in the text. Assay is assail (attack) the army (hoard) whch he will do with his sword - or bare hands again.
2015-03-17 5:28 pm
find line 2506 it should help
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