Bēowulf XVI
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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.