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559 “Swā mec gelōme lāð-getēonan

560 “þrēatedon þearle. Ic him þēnode

561 “dēoran sweorde, swā hit gedēfe wæs;

562 “næs hīe þǣre fylle gefēan hæfdon,

563 “mān-fordǣdlan, þæt hīe mē þēgon,

564 “symbel ymb-sǣton sǣ-grunde nēah,

565 “ac on mergenne mēcum wunde

566 “be ȳð-lāfe uppe lǣgon,

567 “sweordum āswefede, þæt syððan nā

568 “ymb brontne ford brim-līðende

569 “lāde ne letton. Lēoht ēastan cōm,

570 “beorht bēacen godes; brimu swaðredon,

571 “þæt ic sǣ-næssas gesēon mihte,

572 “windige weallas. Wyrd oft nereð

573 “unfǣgne eorl, ðonne his ellen dēah!

574 “Hwæðere mē gesǣlde, þæt ic mid sweorde ofslōh

575 “niceras nigene. Nō ic on niht gefrægn

576 “under heofones hwealf heardran feohtan,

577 “nē on ēg-strēamum earmran mannan;

578 “hwæðere ic fāra feng fēore gedīgde,

579 “siðes wērig. Þā mec sǣ oðbær,

580 “flōd æfter faroðe, on Finna land,

581 “wadu weallendu. Nō ic wiht fram þē

582 “swylcra searo-nīða secgan hȳrde,

583 “billa brōgan: Breca nǣfre gīt

584 “æt heaðo-lāce, nē gehwæðer incer

585 “swā dēorlīce dǣd gefremede

586 “fāgum sweordum . . . . . . .

587 “. . . . . . . nō ic þæs gylpe;

588 “þēah þū þīnum brōðrum tō banan wurde,

589 “hēafod-mǣgum; þæs þū in helle scealt

590 “werhðo drēogan, þēah þīn wit duge,

591 “Secge ic þē tō sōðe, sunu Ecglāfes,

592 “þæt nǣfre Grendel swā fela gryra gefremede,

593 “atol ǣglǣca ealdre þīnum,

594 “hȳnðo on Heorote, gif þīn hige wǣre,

595 “sefa swā searo-grim, swā þū self talast.

596 “Ac hē hafað onfunden, þæt hē þā fǣhðe ne þearf,

597 “atole ecg-þræce ēower lēode

598 “swīðe onsittan, Sige-Scyldinga;

599 “nymeð nȳd-bāde, nǣnegum ārað

600 “lēode Deniga, ac hē on lust wīgeð,

601 “swefeð ond sendeð, secce ne wēneð

602 “tō Gār-Denum. Ac him Gēata sceal

603 “eafoð and ellen ungeāra nū

604 “gūðe gebēodan. Gǣð eft sē þe mōt

605 “tō medo mōdig, siððan morgen-lēoht

606 “ofer ylda bearn ōðres dōgores,

607 “sunne swegl-wered sūðan scīneð!”

608 Þā wæs on sālum sinces brytta

609 gamol-feax and gūð-rōf, gēoce gelȳfde

610 brego Beorht-Dena; gehȳrde on Bēowulfe

611 folces hyrde fæst-rǣdne geþōht.

612 Þǣr wæs hæleða hleahtor; hlyn swynsode,

613 word wǣron wynsume. Ēode Wealhþēow forð,

614 cwēn Hrōðgāres, cynna gemyndig,

615 grētte gold-hroden guman on healle,

616 and þā frēolīc wīf ful gesealde

617 ǣrest Ēast-Dena ēðel-wearde,

618 bæd hine blīðne æt þǣre bēor-þege,

619 lēodum lēofne; hē on lust geþeah

620 symbel and sele-ful, sige-rōf kyning.

621 Ymb-ēode þā ides Helminga

622 duguðe and geogoðe dǣl ǣghwylcne;

623 sinc-fato sealde, oð þæt sǣl ālamp,

624 þæt hīo Bēowulfe, bēag-hroden cwēn,

625 mōde geþungen, medo-ful ætbær;

626 grētte Gēata lēod, gode þancode

627 wīs-fæst wordum, þæs þe hire se willa gelamp,

628 þæt hēo on ǣnigne eorl gelȳfde

629 fyrena frōfre. Hē þæt ful geþeah,

630 wæl-rēow wiga æt Wealhþēon,

631 and þā gyddode gūðe gefȳsed,

632 Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:

633 “Ic þæt hogode, þā ic on holm gestāh,

634 “sǣ-bāt gesæt mid mīnra secga gedriht,

635 “þæt ic ānunga ēowra lēoda

636 “willan geworhte, oððe on wæl crunge,

637 “fēond-grāpum fæst. Ic gefremman sceal

638 “eorlīc ellen, oððe ende-dæg

639 “on þisse meodu-healle mīnne gebīdan.”

640 Þām wīfe þā word wēl līcodon,

641 gilp-cwide Gēates; ēode gold-hroden

642 frēolīcu folc-cwēn tō hire frēan sittan.

643 Þā wæs eft swā ǣr inne on healle

644 þrȳð-word sprecen, þēod on sǣlum,

645 sige-folca swēg, oð þæt semninga

646 sunu Healfdenes sēcean wolde

647 ǣfen-ræste; wiste æt þǣm āhlǣcan

648 tō þǣm hēah-sele hilde geþinged,

649 siððan hīe sunnan lēoht gesēon ne meahton,

650 oððe nīpende niht ofer ealle,

651 scadu-helma gesceapu scrīðan cwōman,

652 wan under wolcnum. Werod eall ārās.

653 Grētte þā giddum guma ōðerne,

654 Hrōðgār Bēowulf, and him hǣl ābēad,

655 wīn-ærnes geweald and þæt word ācwæð:

656 “Nǣfre ic ǣnegum men ǣr ālȳfde,

657 “siððan ic hond and rond hebban mihte,

658 “þrȳð-ærn Dena būton þē nū þā.

659 “Hafa nū and geheald hūsa sēlest;

660 “gemyne mǣrðo, mægen-ellen cȳð,

661 “waca wið wrāðum! Ne bið þē wilna gād,

662 “gif þū þæt ellen-weorc aldre gedīgest.”