Book meme, and a question

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* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

Hmm. Does the sidebar count? Let's have both.

Hrothgar's                                It is a great wonder
discourse on the          how Almighty God in His magnificance
dangers of power.         favours our race with rank and scope
                          and the gift of wisdom; His sway is large.

The Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf.

On which subject, how does Beowulf breath underwater for hours? Is this a standard ability of epic heroes? (Also swimming in metal armour?)