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.