Bēowulf XI
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663 Þā him Hrōðgār gewāt mid his hæleða gedryht,
664 eodur Scyldinga ūt of healle;
665 wolde wīg-fruma Wealhþēo sēcan,
666 cwēn tō gebeddan Hæfde kyninga wuldor
667 Grendle tō-gēanes, swā guman gefrungon,
668 sele-weard āseted, sundor-nytte behēold
669 ymb aldor Dena, eoton weard ābēad;
670 hūru Gēata lēod georne truwode
671 mōdgan mægnes, metodes hyldo.
672 Þā hē him of dyde īsern-byrnan,
673 helm of hafelan, sealde his hyrsted sweord,
674 īrena cyst ombiht-þegne,
675 and gehealdan hēt hilde-geatwe.
676 Gespræc þā se gōda gylp-worda sum
677 Bēowulf Gēata, ǣr hē on bed stige:
678 “Nō ic mē an here-wǣsmum hnāgran talige
679 “gūð-geweorca, þonne Grendel hine;
680 “forþan ic hine sweorde swebban nelle,
681 “aldre benēotan, þēah ic eal mǣge.
682 “Nāt hē þāra gōda, þæt hē mē on-gēan slēa,
683 “rand gehēawe, þēah þe hē rōf sīe
684 “nīð-geweorca; ac wit on niht sculon
685 “secge ofersittan, gif hē gesēcean dear
686 “wīg ofer wǣpen, and siððan wītig god
687 “on swā hwæðere hond hālig dryhten
688 “mǣrðo dēme, swā him gemet þince.”
689 Hylde hine þā heaðo-dēor, hlēor-bolster onfēng
690 eorles andwlitan; and hine ymb monig
691 snellīc sǣ-rinc sele-reste gebēah.
692 Nǣnig heora þōhte þæt hē þanon scolde
693 eft eard-lufan ǣfre gesēcean,
694 folc oððe frēo-burh, þǣr hē āfēded wæs,
695 ac hīe hæfdon gefrūnen, þæt hīe ǣr tō fela micles
696 in þǣm wīn-sele wæl-dēað fornam,
697 Denigea lēode. Ac him dryhten forgeaf
698 wīg-spēda gewiofu, Wedera lēodum
699 frōfor and fultum, þæt hīe fēond heora
700 þurh ānes cræft ealle ofercōmon,
701 selfes mihtum: sōð is gecȳðed,
702 þæt mihtig god manna cynnes
703 wēold wīde-ferhð. Cōm on wanre niht
704 scrīðan sceadu-genga. Scēotend swǣfon,
705 þā þæt horn-reced healdan scoldon,
706 ealle būton ānum. Þæt wæs yldum cūð,
707 þæt hīe ne mōste, þā metod nolde,
708 se syn-scaða under sceadu bregdan;
709 ac hē wæccende wrāðum on andan
710 bād bolgen-mōd beadwa geþinges.