BēowulfXXVII

1818 Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:

1819 “Nū wē sǣ-līðend secgan wyllað

1820 “feorran cumene, þæt wē fundiað

1821 “Higelāc sēcan. Wǣron hēr tela

1822 “willum bewenede; þū ūs wēl dohtest.

1823 “Gif ic þonne on eorðan ōwihte mæg

1824 “þīnre mōd-lufan māran tilian,

1825 “gumena dryhten, þonne ic gȳt dyde,

1826 “gūð-geweorca ic bēo gearo sōna.

1827 “Gif ic þæt gefricge ofer flōda begang,

1828 “þæt þec ymbe-sittend egesan þȳwað,

1829 “swā þec hetende hwīlum dydon,

1830 “ic þē þūsenda þegna bringe,

1831 “hæleða tō helpe. Ic on Higelāce wāt,

1832 “Gēata dryhten, þēah þe hē geong sȳ,

1833 “folces hyrde, þæt hē mec fremman wile

1834 “wordum and worcum, þæt ic þē wēl herige,

1835 “and þē tō gēoce gār-holt bere

1836 “mægenes fultum, þǣr þē bið manna þearf;

1837 “gif him þonne Hrēðrīc tō hofum Gēata

1838 “geþingeð, þēodnes bearn, hē mæg þǣr fela

1839 “frēonda findan: feor-cȳððe bēoð

1840 “sēlran gesōhte þǣm þe him selfa dēah.”

1841 Hrōðgār maðelode him on andsware:

1842 “Þē þā word-cwydas wittig drihten

1843 “on sefan sende! ne hȳrde ic snotorlīcor

1844 “on swā geongum feore guman þingian:

1845 “þū eart mægenes strang and on mōde frōd,

1846 “wīs word-cwida. Wēn ic talige,

1847 “gif þæt gegangeð, þæt þe gār nymeð,

1848 “hild heoru-grimme Hrēðles eaferan,

1849 “ādl oððe īren ealdor þīnne,

1850 “folces hyrde, and þū þīn feorh hafast,

1851 “þæt þe Sǣ-Gēatas sēlran næbben

1852 “tō gecēosenne cyning ǣnigne,

1853 “hord-weard hæleða, gif þū healdan wylt

1854 “māga rīce. Mē þīn mōd-sefa

1855 “līcað leng swā wēl, lēofa Bēowulf:

1856 “hafast þū gefēred, þæt þām folcum sceal,

1857 “Gēata lēodum and Gār-Denum

1858 “sib gemǣnum and sacu restan,

1859 “inwit-nīðas, þē hīe ǣr drugon;

1860 “wesan, þenden ic wealde wīdan rīces,

1861 “māðmas gemǣne, manig ōðerne

1862 “gōdum gegrētan ofer ganotes bæð;

1863 “sceal hring-naca ofer hēaðu bringan

1864 “lāc and luf-tācen. Ic þā lēode wāt

1865 “gē wið fēond gē wið frēond fæste geworhte

1866 “ǣghwæs untǣle ealde wīsan.”

1867 Þā gīt him eorla hlēo inne gesealde,

1868 mago Healfdenes māðmas twelfe,

1869 hēt hine mid þǣm lācum lēode swǣse

1870 sēcean on gesyntum, snūde eft cuman.

1871 Gecyste þā cyning æðelum gōd,

1872 þēoden Scildinga, þegen betstan

1873 and be healse genam; hruron him tēaras,

1874 blonden-feaxum: him wæs bēga wēn,

1875 ealdum infrōdum, ōðres swīðor,

1876 þæt hī seoððan gesēon mōston

1877 mōdige on meðle. Wæs him se man tō þon lēof,

1878 þæt hē þone brēost-wylm forberan ne mehte,

1879 ac him on hreðre hyge-bendum fæst

1880 æfter dēorum men dyrne langað

1881 beorn wið blōde. Him Bēowulf þanan,

1882 gūð-rinc gold-wlanc græs-moldan træd,

1883 since hrēmig: sǣ-genga bād

1884 āgend-frēan, sē þe on ancre rād.

1885 Þā wæs on gange gifu Hrōðgāres

1886 oft geæhted: þæt wæs ān cyning

1887 ǣghwæs orleahtre, oð þæt hine yldo benam

1888 mægenes wynnum, sē þe oft manegum scōd.