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BēowulfXV

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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 XV

66 lines

926 Hrōðgār maðelode (hē tō healle gēong,

927 stōd on stapole, geseah stēapne hrōf

928 golde fāhne and Grendles hond):

929 “þisse ansȳne al-wealdan þanc

930 “lungre gelimpe! Fela ic lāðes gebād,

931 “grynna æt Grendle: ā mæg god wyrcan

932 “wunder æfter wundre, wuldres hyrde!

933 “Þæt wæs ungeāra, þæt ic ǣnigra mē

934 “wēana ne wēnde tō wīdan feore

935 “bōte gebīdan þonne blōde fāh

936 “hūsa sēlest heoro-drēorig stōd;

937 “wēa wīd-scofen witena gehwylcne

938 “þāra þe ne wēndon, þæt hīe wīde-ferhð

939 “lēoda land-geweorc lāðum beweredon

940 “scuccum and scinnum. Nū scealc hafað

941 “þurh drihtnes miht dǣd gefremede,

942 “þē wē ealle ǣr ne meahton

943 “snyttrum besyrwan. Hwæt! þæt secgan mæg

944 “efne swā hwylc mægða, swā þone magan cende

945 “æfter gum-cynnum, gyf hēo gȳt lyfað,

946 “þæt hyre eald-metod ēste wǣre

947 “bearn-gebyrdo. Nū ic Bēowulf

948 “þec, secg betsta, mē for sunu wylle

949 “frēogan on ferhðe; heald forð tela

950 “nīwe sibbe. Ne bið þē nǣnigra gād

951 “worolde wilna, þē ic geweald hæbbe.

952 “Ful-oft ic for lǣssan lēan teohhode

953 “hord-weorðunge hnāhran rince,

954 “sǣmran æt sæcce. Þū þē self hafast

955 “dǣdum gefremed, þæt þīn dōm lyfað

956 “āwa tō aldre. Alwalda þec

957 “gōde forgylde, swā hē nū gȳt dyde!”

958 Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:

959 “Wē þæt ellen-weorc ēstum miclum,

960 “feohtan fremedon, frēcne genēðdon

961 “eafoð uncūðes; ūðe ic swīðor,

962 “þæt þū hinc selfne gesēon mōste,

963 “fēond on frætewum fyl-wērigne!

964 “Ic hine hrædlīce heardan clammum

965 “on wæl-bedde wrīðan þōhte,

966 “þæt hē for mund-gripe mīnum scolde

967 “licgean līf-bysig, būtan his līc swice;

968 “ic hine ne mihte, þā metod nolde,

969 “ganges getwǣman, nō ic him þæs georne ætfealh,

970 “feorh-genīðlan; wæs tō fore-mihtig

971 “fēond on fēðe. Hwæðere hē his folme forlēt

972 “tō līf-wraðe lāst weardian,

973 “earm and eaxle; nō þǣr ǣnige swā þēah

974 “fēa-sceaft guma frōfre gebohte:

975 “nō þȳ leng leofað lāð-getēona

976 “synnum geswenced, ac hyne sār hafað

977 “in nȳd-gripe nearwe befongen,

978 “balwon bendum: þǣr ābīdan sceal

979 “maga māne fāh miclan dōmes,

980 “hū him scīr metod scrīfan wille.”

981 Þā wæs swīgra secg, sunu Ecglāfes,

982 on gylp-sprǣce gūð-geweorca,

983 siððan æðelingas eorles cræfte

984 ofer hēahne hrōf hand scēawedon,

985 fēondes fingras, foran ǣghwylc;

986 wæs stēde nægla gehwylc, stȳle gelīcost,

987 hǣðenes hand-sporu hilde-rinces

988 egle unhēoru; ǣg-hwylc gecwæð,

989 þæt him heardra nān hrīnan wolde

990 īren ǣr-gōd, þæt þæs āhlǣcan

991 blōdge beadu-folme onberan wolde.

Anonymous Bēowulf

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