| | Argument |
| Chapter I. | And First of the Kindred of Hrothgar. |
| II. | Concerning Hrothgar, and How He Built the House Called Hart. Also Grendel Is Told of. |
| III. | How Grendel Fell Upon Hart and Wasted It. |
| IV. | Now Comes Beowulf Ecgtheow's Son to the Land of the Danes, and the Wall-Warden Speaketh With Him. |
| V. | Here Beowulf Makes Answer to the Land-Warden, Who Showeth Him the Way to the King's Abode. |
| VI. | Beowulf and the Geats Come Into Hart. |
| VII. | Beowulf Speaketh With Hrothgar, and Telleth How He Will Meet Grendel. |
| VIII. | Hrothgar Answereth Beowulf and Biddeth Him Sit to the Feast. |
| IX. | Unferth Contendeth in Words With Beowulf. |
| X. | Beowulf Makes An End of His Tale of the Swimming. Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's Queen, Greets Him; and Hrothgar Delivers to Him the Warding of the Hall. |
| XI. | Now Is Beowulf Left in the Hall Alone With His Men. |
| XII. | Grendel Cometh Into Hart: of the Strife Betwixt Him and Beowulf. |
| XIII. | Beowulf Hath the Victory: Grendel Is Hurt Deadly and Leaveth Hand and Arm in the Hall. |
| XIV. | The Danes Rejoice; They Go to Look on the Slot of Grendel, and Come Back to Hart, and on the Way Make Merry With Racing and the Telling of Tales. |
| XV. | King Hrothgar and His Thanes Look on the Arm of Grendel. Converse Betwixt Hrothgar and Beowulf Concerning the Battle. |
| XVI. | Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf. |
| XVII. | They Feast in Hart. The Gleeman Sings of Finn and Hengest. |
| XVIII. | The Ending of the Tale of Finn. |
| XIX. | More Gifts Are Given to Beowulf. The Brising Collar Told of. |
| XX. | Grendel's Dam Breaks Into Hart and Bears Off Aeschere. |
| XXI. | Hrothgar Laments the Slaying of Aeschere, and Tells of Grendel's Mother and Her Den. |
| XXII. | They Follow Grendel's Dam to Her Lair. |
| XXIII. | Beowulf Reacheth the Mere-Bottom in A Day's While, and Contends With Grendel's Dam. |
| XXIV. | Beowulf Slayeth Grendel's Dam, Smiteth Off Grendel's Head, and Cometh Back With His Thanes to Hart. |
| XXV. | Converse of Hrothgar With Beowulf. |
| XXVI. | More Converse of Hrothgar and Beowulf: the Geats Make Them Ready For Departure. |
| XXVII. | Beowulf Bids Hrothgar Farewell: the Geats Fare to Ship. |
| XXVIII. | Beowulf Comes Back to His Land. of the Tale of Thrytho. |
| XXIX. | Beowulf Tells Hygelac of Hrothgar: Also of Freawaru His Daughter. |
| XXX. | Beowulf Forebodes Ill From the Wedding of Freawaru: He Tells of Grendel and His Dam. |
| XXXI. | Beowulf Gives Hrothgar's Gifts to Hygelac, and By Him Is Rewarded. of the Death of Hygelac and of Heardred His Son, and How Beowulf Is King of the Geats: the Worm Is First Told of. |
| XXXII. | How the Worm Came to the Howe, and How He Was Robbed of A Cup; and How He Fell on the Folk. |
| XXXIII. | The Worm Burns Beowulf's House, and Beowulf Gets Ready to Go Against Him. Beowulf's Early Deeds in Battle With the Hetware Told of. |
| XXXIV. | Beowulf Goes Against the Worm. He Tells of Herebeald and Hæthcyn. |
| XXXV. | Beowulf Tells of Past Feuds, and Bids Farewell to His Fellows: He Falls on the Worm, and the Battle of Them Begins. |
| XXXVI. | Wiglaf Son of Weohstan Goes to the Help of Beowulf: Nægling, Beowulf's Sword, Is Broken on the Worm. |
| XXXVII. | They Two Slay the Worm. Beowulf Is Wounded Deadly: He Biddeth Wiglaf Bear Out the Treasure. |
| XXXVIII. | Beowulf Beholdeth the Treasure and Passeth Away. |
| XXXIX. | Wiglaf Casteth Shame on Those Fleers. |
| XL. | Wiglaf Sendeth Tiding to the Host: the Words of the Messenger. |
| XLI. | More Words of the Messenger. How He Fears the Swedes When They Wot of Beowulf Dead. |
| XLII. | They Go to Look on the Field of Deed. |
| XLIII. | Of the Burial of Beowulf. |
| | Persons and Places |
| | The Meaning of Some Words |
