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BēowulfXVI

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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 XVI

59 lines

992 Þā wæs hāten hreðe Heort innan-weard

993 folmum gefrætwod: fela þǣra wæs

994 wera and wīfa, þē þæt wīn-reced,

995 gest-sele gyredon. Gold-fāg scinon

996 web æfter wāgum, wundor-sīona fela

997 secga gehwylcum þāra þe on swylc starað

998 Wæs þæt beorhte bold tōbrocen swīðe

999 eal inne-weard īren-bendum fæst,

1000 heorras tōhlidene; hrōf āna genæs

1001 ealles ansund, þā se āglǣca

1002 fyren-dǣdum fāg on flēam gewand,

1003 aldres or-wēna. Nō þæt ȳðe byð

1004 tō beflēonne (fremme sē þe wille!)

1005 ac gesacan sceal sāwl-berendra

1006 nȳde genȳdde niðða bearna

1007 grund-būendra gearwe stōwe,

1008 þǣr his līc-homa leger-bedde fæst

1009 swefeð æfter symle. Þā wæs sǣl and mǣl,

1010 þæt tō healle gang Healfdenes sunu;

1011 wolde self cyning symbel þicgan.

1012 Ne gefrægen ic þā mǣgðe māran weorode

1013 ymb hyra sinc-gyfan sēl gebǣran.

1014 Bugon þā tō bence blǣd-āgende,

1015 fylle gefǣgon. Fægere geþǣgon

1016 medo-ful manig māgas þāra

1017 swīð-hicgende on sele þām hēan,

1018 Hrōðgār and Hrōðulf. Heorot innan wæs

1019 frēondum āfylled; nalles fācen-stafas

1020 Þēod-Scyldingas þenden fremedon.

1021 Forgeaf þā Bēowulfe bearn Healfdenes

1022 segen gyldenne sigores tō lēane,

1023 hroden hilte-cumbor, helm and byrnan;

1024 mǣre māððum-sweord manige gesāwon

1025 beforan beorn beran. Bēowulf geþah

1026 ful on flette; nō hē þǣre feoh-gyfte

1027 for scēotendum scamigan þorfte,

1028 ne gefrægn ic frēondlīcor fēower mādmas

1029 golde gegyrede gum-manna fela

1030 in ealo-bence ōðrum gesellan.

1031 Ymb þæs helmes hrōf hēafod-beorge

1032 wīrum bewunden walan ūtan hēold,

1033 þæt him fēla lāfe frēcne ne meahton

1034 scūr-heard sceððan, þonne scyld-freca

1035 ongēan gramum gangan scolde.

1036 Heht þā eorla hlēo eahta mēaras,

1037 fǣted-hlēore, on flet tēon

1038 in under eoderas; þāra ānum stōd

1039 sadol searwum fāh since gewurðad,

1040 þæt wæs hilde-setl hēah-cyninges,

1041 þonne sweorda gelāc sunu Healfdenes

1042 efnan wolde; nǣfre on ōre læg

1043 wīd-cūðes wīg, þonne walu fēollon.

1044 And þā Bēowulfe bēga gehwæðres

1045 eodor Ingwina onweald getēah,

1046 wicga and wǣpna; hēt hine wēl brūcan.

1047 Swā manlīce mǣre þēoden,

1048 hord-weard hæleða heaðo-rǣsas geald

1049 mēarum and mādmum, swā hȳ nǣfre man lyhð,

1050 sē þe secgan wile sōð æfter rihte.

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