BēowulfXXII

1384 Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:

1385 “Ne sorga, snotor guma! sēlre bið ǣghwǣm,

1386 “þæt hē his frēond wrece, þonne hē fela murne;

1387 “ūre ǣghwylc sceal ende gebīdan

1388 “worolde līfes; wyrce sē þe mōte

1389 “dōmes ǣr dēaðe! þæt bið driht-guman

1390 “unlifgendum æfter sēlest.

1391 “Ārīs, rīces weard; uton hraðe fēran,

1392 “Grendles māgan gang scēawigan!

1393 “Ic hit þē gehāte: nō hē on helm losað,

1394 “nē on foldan fæðm, nē on fyrgen-holt,

1395 “nē on gyfenes grund, gā þǣr hē wille.

1396 “Þȳs dōgor þū geþyld hafa

1397 “wēana gehwylces, swā ic þē wēne tō!”

1398 Āhlēop þā se gomela, gode þancode,

1399 mihtigan drihtne, þæs se man gespræc.

1400 Þā wæs Hrōðgāre hors gebǣted,

1401 wicg wunden-feax. Wīsa fengel

1402 geatolīc gengde; gum-fēða stōp

1403 lind-hæbbendra. Lāstas wǣron

1404 æfter wald-swaðum wīde gesȳne,

1405 gang ofer grundas; gegnum fōr þā

1406 ofer myrcan mōr, mago-þegna bær

1407 þone sēlestan sāwol-lēasne,

1408 þāra þe mid Hrōðgāre hām eahtode.

1409 Ofer-ēode þā æðelinga bearn

1410 stēap stān-hliðo, stīge nearwe,

1411 enge ān-paðas, un-cūð gelād,

1412 neowle næssas, nicor-hūsa fela;

1413 hē fēara sum beforan gengde

1414 wīsra monna, wong scēawian,

1415 oð þæt hē fǣringa fyrgen-bēamas

1416 ofer hārne stān hleonian funde,

1417 wyn-lēasne wudu; wæter under stōd

1418 drēorig and gedrēfed. Denum eallum wæs,

1419 winum Scyldinga, weorce on mōde,

1420 tō geþolianne þegne monegum,

1421 oncȳð eorla gehwǣm, syððan Æsc-heres

1422 on þām holm-clife hafelan mētton.

1423 Flōd blōde wēol (folc tō sǣgon)

1424 hātan heolfre. Horn stundum song

1425 fūslīc fyrd-lēoð. Fēða eal gesæt;

1426 gesāwon þā æfter wætere wyrm-cynnes fela,

1427 sellīce sǣ-dracan sund cunnian,

1428 swylce on næs-hleoðum nicras licgean,

1429 þā on undern-mǣl oft bewitigað

1430 sorh-fulne sīð on segl-rāde,

1431 wyrmas and wil-dēor; hīe on weg hruron

1432 bitere and gebolgne, bearhtm ongeāton,

1433 gūð-horn galan. Sumne Gēata lēod

1434 of flān-bogan fēores getwǣfde,

1435 ȳð-gewinnes, þæt him on aldre stōd

1436 here-strǣl hearda; hē on holme wæs

1437 sundes þē sǣnra, þē hyne swylt fornam.

1438 Hræðe wearð on ȳðum mid eofer-sprēotum

1439 heoro-hōcyhtum hearde genearwod,

1440 nīða genǣged and on næs togen

1441 wundorlīc wǣg-bora; weras scēawedon

1442 gryrelīcne gist. Gyrede hine Bēowulf

1443 eorl-gewǣdum, nalles for ealdre mearn:

1444 scolde here-byrne hondum gebrōden,

1445 sīd and searo-fāh, sund cunnian,

1446 sēo þe bān-cofan beorgan cūðe,

1447 þæt him hilde-grāp hreðre ne mihte,

1448 eorres inwit-feng, aldre gesceððan;

1449 ac se hwīta helm hafelan werede,

1450 sē þe mere-grundas mengan scolde,

1451 sēcan sund-gebland since geweorðad,

1452 befongen frēa-wrāsnum, swā hine fyrn-dagum

1453 worhte wǣpna smið, wundrum tēode,

1454 besette swīn-līcum, þæt hine syððan nō

1455 brond nē beado-mēcas bītan ne meahton.

1456 Næs þæt þonne mǣtost mægen-fultuma,

1457 þæt him on þearfe lāh þyle Hrōðgāres;

1458 wæs þǣm hæft-mēce Hrunting nama,

1459 þæt wæs ān foran eald-gestrēona;

1460 ecg wæs īren āter-tēarum fāh,

1461 āhyrded heaðo-swāte; nǣfre hit æt hilde ne swāc

1462 manna ǣngum þāra þe hit mid mundum bewand,

1463 sē þe gryre-sīðas gegān dorste,

1464 folc-stede fāra; næs þæt forma sīð,

1465 þæt hit ellen-weorc æfnan scolde.

1466 Hūru ne gemunde mago Ecglāfes

1467 eafoðes cræftig, þæt hē ǣr gespræc

1468 wīne druncen, þā hē þæs wǣpnes onlāh

1469 sēlran sweord-frecan: selfa ne dorste

1470 under ȳða gewin aldre genēðan,

1471 driht-scype drēogan; þǣr hē dōme forlēas,

1472 ellen-mǣrðum. Ne wæs þǣm ōðrum swā,

1473 syððan hē hine tō gūðe gegyred hæfde.