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1746 “Þonne bið on hreðre under helm drepen

1747 “biteran strǣle: him bebeorgan ne con

1748 “wom wundor-bebodum wergan gāstes;

1749 “þinceð him tō lȳtel, þæt hē tō lange hēold,

1750 “gȳtsað grom-hȳdig, nallas on gylp seleð

1751 “fǣtte bēagas and hē þā forð-gesceaft

1752 “forgyteð and forgȳmeð, þæs þe him ǣr god sealde

1753 “wuldres waldend, weorð-mynda dǣl.

1754 “Hit on ende-stæf eft gelimpeð,

1755 “þæt se līc-homa lǣne gedrēoseð,

1756 “fǣge gefealleð; fēhð ōðer tō,

1757 “sē þe unmurnlīce mādmas dǣleð,

1758 “eorles ǣr-gestrēon, egesan ne gȳmeð.

1759 “Bebeorh þē þone bealo-nīð, Bēowulf lēofa,

1760 “secg se betsta, and þē þæt sēlre gecēos,

1761 “ēce rǣdas; oferhȳda ne gȳm,

1762 “mǣre cempa! Nū is þīnes mægnes blǣd

1763 “āne hwīle; eft sōna bið,

1764 “þæt þec ādl oððe ecg eafoðes getwǣfeð,

1765 “oððe fȳres feng oððe flōdes wylm,

1766 “oððe gripe mēces oððe gāres fliht,

1767 “oððe atol yldo, oððe ēagena bearhtm

1768 “forsiteð and forsworceð; semninga bið,

1769 “þæt þec, dryht-guma, dēað oferswȳðeð.

1770 “Swā ic Hring-Dena hund missēra

1771 “wēold under wolcnum, and hig wigge belēac

1772 “manigum mǣgða geond þysne middan-geard,

1773 “æscum and ecgum, þæt ic mē ǣnigne

1774 “under swegles begong gesacan ne tealde.

1775 “Hwæt! mē þæs on ēðle edwenden cwōm,

1776 “gyrn æfter gomene, seoððan Grendel wearð,

1777 “eald-gewinna, in-genga mīn:

1778 “ic þǣre sōcne singāles wæg

1779 “mōd-ceare micle. Þæs sig metode þanc,

1780 “ēcean drihtne, þæs þe ic on aldre gebād,

1781 “þæt ic on þone hafelan heoro-drēorigne

1782 “ofer eald gewin ēagum starige!

1783 “Gā nū tō setle, symbel-wynne drēoh

1784 “wīgge weorðad: unc sceal worn fela

1785 “māðma gemǣnra, siððan morgen bið.”

1786 Gēat wæs glæd-mōd, gēong sōna tō,

1787 setles nēosan, swā se snottra heht.

1788 Þā wæs eft swā ǣr ellen-rōfum,

1789 flet-sittendum fægere gereorded

1790 nīowan stefne. Niht-helm geswearc

1791 deorc ofer dryht-gumum. Duguð eal ārās;

1792 wolde blonden-feax beddes nēosan,

1793 gamela Scylding. Gēat ungemetes wēl,

1794 rōfne rand-wigan restan lyste:

1795 sōna him sele-þegn sīðes wērgum,

1796 feorran-cundum forð wīsade,

1797 se for andrysnum ealle beweotede

1798 þegnes þearfe, swylce þȳ dōgore

1799 hēaðo-līðende habban scoldon.

1800 Reste hine þā rūm-heort; reced hlīfade

1801 gēap and gold-fāh, gæst inne swæf,

1802 oð þæt hrefn blaca heofones wynne

1803 blīð-heort bodode. Þā cōm beorht sunne

1804 scacan ofer grundas; scaðan ōnetton,

1805 wǣron æðelingas eft tō lēodum

1806 fūse tō farenne, wolde feor þanon

1807 cuma collen-ferhð cēoles nēosan.

1808 Heht þā se hearda Hrunting beran,

1809 sunu Ecglāfes, heht his sweord niman,

1810 lēoflīc īren; sægde him þæs lēanes þanc,

1811 cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde,

1812 wīg-cræftigne, nales wordum lōg

1813 mēces ecge: þæt wæs mōdig secg.

1814 And þā sīð-frome searwum gearwe

1815 wīgend wǣron, ēode weorð Denum

1816 æðeling tō yppan, þǣr se ōðer wæs

1817 hæle hilde-dēor, Hrōðgār grētte.