Beowulf: Chorus of Soldiers

Listen to us now, listen

to our cry Beowulf,

we will not fight!

You once sang of peace and

you sang of honour,

but you are now old.

We will not fight the monster

who will lay us down,

we will not fight.

So be it. If none of you will stand with

me I will ride out alone one last time to

face evil. But listen to what I have said

tonight and learn from it. Evil is never

truly banished from the world. We can

only hope for a time to hold it back,

to push it to the margins of our land,

into the wild places, the

mountains and moors,

to the depths of the sea and

its farthest shores.

Oh dear, I'm getting all poetic again

- it's old age. Listen to my warning.

Evil things will return, and then it

will fall to one of you to defend our

people to be the hero for a generation.

To be a Beowulf. And so farewell.