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BēowulfXIII

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James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp · 1894

The complete poem follows the fourth, revised edition of Harrison and Sharp, a school edition based on Heyne. Project Gutenberg’s transcription supplies the wording and lineation; its notes, glossary, and Finnsburg appendix are not yet included.

Bēowulf XIII

46 lines

792 Nolde eorla hlēo ǣnige þinga

793 þone cwealm-cuman cwicne forlǣtan,

794 nē his līf-dagas lēoda ǣnigum

795 nytte tealde. Þǣr genehost brægd

796 eorl Bēowulfes ealde lāfe,

797 wolde frēa-drihtnes feorh ealgian

798 mǣres þēodnes, þǣr hīe meahton swā;

799 hīe þæt ne wiston, þā hīe gewin drugon,

800 heard-hicgende hilde-mecgas,

801 and on healfa gehwone hēawan þōhton,

802 sāwle sēcan, þæt þone syn-scaðan

803 ǣnig ofer eorðan īrenna cyst,

804 gūð-billa nān grētan nolde;

805 ac hē sige-wǣpnum forsworen hæfde,

806 ecga gehwylcre. Scolde his aldor-gedāl

807 on þǣm dæge þysses līfes

808 earmlīc wurðan and se ellor-gāst

809 on fēonda geweald feor sīðian.

810 Þā þæt onfunde sē þe fela ǣror

811 mōdes myrðe manna cynne

812 fyrene gefremede (hē wæs fāg wið god)

813 þæt him se līc-homa lǣstan nolde,

814 ac hine se mōdega mǣg Hygelāces

815 hæfde be honda; wæs gehwæðer ōðrum

816 lifigende lāð. Līc-sār gebād

817 atol ǣglǣca, him on eaxle wearð

818 syn-dolh sweotol, seonowe onsprungon

819 burston bān-locan. Bēowulfe wearð

820 gūð-hrēð gyfeðe; scolde Grendel þonan

821 feorh-sēoc flēon under fen-hleoðu,

822 sēcean wyn-lēas wīc; wiste þē geornor,

823 þæt his aldres wæs ende gegongen,

824 dōgera dæg-rīm. Denum eallum wearð

825 æfter þām wæl-rǣse willa gelumpen.

826 Hæfde þā gefǣlsod, sē þe ǣr feorran cōm,

827 snotor and swȳð-ferhð sele Hrōðgāres,

828 genered wið nīðe. Niht-weorce gefeh,

829 ellen-mǣrðum; hæfde Ēast-Denum

830 Gēat-mecga lēod gilp gelǣsted,

831 swylce oncȳððe ealle gebētte,

832 inwid-sorge, þē hīe ǣr drugon

833 and for þrēa-nȳdum þolian scoldon,

834 torn unlȳtel. Þæt wæs tācen sweotol,

835 syððan hilde-dēor hond ālegde,

836 earm and eaxle (þǣr wæs eal geador

837 Grendles grāpe) under gēapne hrōf.

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