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2033 “Mæg þæs þonne ofþyncan þēoden Heaðobeardna

2034 “and þegna gehwām þāra lēoda,

2035 “þonne hē mid fǣmnan on flett gǣð,

2036 “dryht-bearn Dena duguða biwenede:

2037 “on him gladiað gomelra lāfe

2038 “heard and hring-mǣl, Heaðobeardna gestrēon,

2039 “þenden hīe þām wǣpnum wealdan mōston,

2040 “oð þæt hīe forlǣddan tō þām lind-plegan

2041 “swǣse gesīðas ond hyra sylfra feorh.

2042 “Þonne cwið æt bēore, sē þe bēah gesyhð,

2043 “eald æsc-wiga, sē þe eall geman

2044 “gār-cwealm gumena (him bið grim sefa),

2045 “onginneð geōmor-mōd geongne cempan

2046 “þurh hreðra gehygd higes cunnian,

2047 “wīg-bealu weccean and þæt word ācwyð:

2048 “’Meaht þū, mīn wine, mēce gecnāwan,

2049 “’þone þin fæder tō gefeohte bær

2050 “’under here-grīman hindeman sīðe,

2051 “’dȳre īren, þǣr hyne Dene slōgon,

2052 “’wēoldon wæl-stōwe, syððan wiðer-gyld læg,

2053 “’æfter hæleða hryre, hwate Scyldungas?

2054 “’Nu hēr þāra banena byre nāt-hwylces,

2055 “’frætwum hrēmig on flet gǣð,

2056 “’morðres gylpeð and þone māððum byreð,

2057 “’þone þe þū mid rihte rǣdan sceoldest!’”

2058 “Manað swā and myndgað mǣla gehwylce

2059 “sārum wordum, oð þæt sǣl cymeð,

2060 “þæt se fǣmnan þegn fore fæder dǣdum

2061 “æfter billes bite blōd-fāg swefeð,

2062 “ealdres scyldig; him se ōðer þonan

2063 “losað lifigende, con him land geare.

2064 “Þonne bīoð brocene on bā healfe

2065 “āð-sweord eorla; syððan Ingelde

2066 “weallað wæl-nīðas and him wīf-lufan

2067 “æfter cear-wælmum cōlran weorðað.

2068 “Þȳ ic Heaðobeardna hyldo ne telge,

2069 “dryht-sibbe dǣl Denum unfǣcne,

2070 “frēond-scipe fæstne. Ic sceal forð sprecan

2071 “gēn ymbe Grendel, þæt þū geare cunne,

2072 “sinces brytta, tō hwan syððan wearð

2073 “hond-rǣs hæleða. Syððan heofones gim

2074 “glād ofer grundas, gæst yrre cwōm,

2075 “eatol ǣfen-grom, ūser nēosan,

2076 “þǣr wē gesunde sæl weardodon;

2077 “þǣr wæs Hondscīo hild onsǣge,

2078 “feorh-bealu fǣgum, hē fyrmest læg,

2079 “gyrded cempa; him Grendel wearð,

2080 “mǣrum magu-þegne tō mūð-bonan,

2081 “lēofes mannes līc eall forswealg.

2082 “Nō þȳ ǣr ūt þā gēn īdel-hende

2083 “bona blōdig-tōð bealewa gemyndig,

2084 “of þām gold-sele gongan wolde,

2085 “ac hē mægnes rōf mīn costode,

2086 “grāpode gearo-folm. Glōf hangode

2087 “sīd and syllīc searo-bendum fæst,

2088 “sīo wæs orþoncum eall gegyrwed

2089 “dēofles cræftum and dracan fellum:

2090 “hē mec þǣr on innan unsynnigne,

2091 “dīor dǣd-fruma, gedōn wolde,

2092 “manigra sumne: hyt ne mihte swā,

2093 “syððan ic on yrre upp-riht āstōd.

2094 “Tō lang ys tō reccenne, hū ic þām lēod-sceaðan

2095 “yfla gehwylces ond-lēan forgeald;

2096 “þǣr ic, þēoden mīn, þīne lēode

2097 “weorðode weorcum. Hē on weg losade,

2098 “lȳtle hwīle līf-wynna brēac;

2099 “hwæðre him sīo swīðre swaðe weardade

2100 “hand on Hiorte and hē hēan þonan,

2101 “mōdes geōmor mere-grund gefēoll.

2102 “Mē þone wæl-rǣs wine Scildunga

2103 “fǣttan golde fela lēanode,

2104 “manegum māðmum, syððan mergen cōm

2105 “and wē tō symble geseten hæfdon.

2106 “Þǣr wæs gidd and glēo; gomela Scilding

2107 “fela fricgende feorran rehte;

2108 “hwīlum hilde-dēor hearpan wynne,

2109 “gomen-wudu grētte; hwīlum gyd āwræc

2110 “sōð and sārlīc; hwīlum syllīc spell

2111 “rehte æfter rihte rūm-heort cyning.

2112 “Hwīlum eft ongan eldo gebunden,

2113 “gomel gūð-wiga gioguðe cwīðan

2114 “hilde-strengo; hreðer inne wēoll,

2115 “þonne hē wintrum frōd worn gemunde.

2116 “Swā wē þǣr inne andlangne dæg

2117 “nīode nāman, oð þæt niht becwōm

2118 “ōðer tō yldum. Þā wæs eft hraðe

2119 “gearo gyrn-wræce Grendeles mōdor,

2120 “sīðode sorh-full; sunu dēað fornam,

2121 “wīg-hete Wedra. Wīf unhȳre

2122 “hyre bearn gewræc, beorn ācwealde

2123 “ellenlīce; þǣr wæs Æsc-here,

2124 “frōdan fyrn-witan, feorh ūðgenge;

2125 “nōðer hȳ hine ne mōston, syððan mergen cwōm,

2126 “dēað-wērigne Denia lēode

2127 “bronde forbærnan, nē on bǣl hladan

2128 “lēofne mannan: hīo þæt līc ætbær

2129 “fēondes fæðmum under firgen-strēam.

2130 “Þæt wæs Hrōðgāre hrēowa tornost

2131 “þāra þe lēod-fruman lange begeāte;

2132 “þā se þēoden mec þīne līfe

2133 “healsode hrēoh-mōd, þæt ic on holma geþring

2134 “eorl-scipe efnde, ealdre genēðde,

2135 “mǣrðo fremede: hē mē mēde gehēt.

2136 “Ic þā þæs wælmes, þē is wīde cūð,

2137 “grimne gryrelīcne grund-hyrde fond.

2138 “Þǣr unc hwīle wæs hand gemǣne;

2139 “holm heolfre wēoll and ic hēafde becearf

2140 “in þām grund-sele Grendeles mōdor

2141 “ēacnum ecgum, unsōfte þonan

2142 “feorh oðferede; næs ic fǣge þā gȳt,

2143 “ac mē eorla hlēo eft gesealde

2144 “māðma menigeo, maga Healfdenes.