Pt. 1. Modes of imagining and the workings of words. Wunder aefter wundre : modes of imagining -- Word other fand : the inwardness of kennings -- THrythword sprecen : the language of myth and metaphor -- Ealdgesegena worn gemunde : memory and identity -- pt. 2. Structure and meaning. Fyr on flode : war against the creation -- Swa sceal man don : Germanic tales and Christian myths -- Heold on heahgesceap : the structure of the poem, the heroic theme, and the shape of the hero's life -- Nu is wilgeofa ... deathbedde faest : tragedy and the limits of heroism.