They marched in step, hurrying on till the timbered hall rose before them, radiant with gold. Nobody on earth knew of another building like it majesty lodge there it's light shone over any Lands which future of the Old English poetry did this modern and translation maintain

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon poem that was written down in about 1000 CE ... Heorot, Hrothgar's hall, is under attack by a monster named Grendel ... supports the inference that the thanes are loyal and obedient to their leader? ... poem does not sound much like modern English, likely because Old English is ... building like it.