Bēowulf VI
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320 Strǣt wæs stān-fāh, stīg wīsode
321 gumum ætgædere. Gūð-byrne scān
322 heard hond-locen, hring-īren scīr
323 song in searwum, þā hīe tō sele furðum
324 in hyra gryre-geatwum gangan cwōmon.
325 Setton sǣ-mēðe sīde scyldas,
326 rondas regn-hearde wið þæs recedes weal,
327 bugon þā tō bence; byrnan hringdon,
328 gūð-searo gumena; gāras stōdon,
329 sǣ-manna searo, samod ætgædere,
330 æsc-holt ufan grǣg: wæs se īren-þrēat
331 wǣpnum gewurðad. Þā þǣr wlonc hæleð
332 ōret-mecgas æfter æðelum frægn:
333 “Hwanon ferigeað gē fǣtte scyldas,
334 “grǣge syrcan and grīm-helmas,
335 “here-sceafta hēap?— Ic eom Hrōðgāres
336 “ār and ombiht. Ne seah ic el-þēodige
337 “þus manige men mōdiglīcran.
338 “Wēn’ ic þæt gē for wlenco, nalles for wræc-sīðum,
339 “ac for hige-þrymmum Hrōðgār sōhton.”
340 Him þā ellen-rōf andswarode,
341 wlanc Wedera lēod word æfter spræc,
342 heard under helme: “Wē synt Higelāces
343 “bēod-genēatas; Bēowulf is mīn nama.
344 “Wille ic āsecgan suna Healfdenes,
345 “mǣrum þēodne mīn ǣrende,
346 “aldre þīnum, gif hē ūs geunnan wile,
347 “þæt wē hine swā gōdne grētan mōton.”
348 Wulfgār maðelode (þæt wæs Wendla lēod,
349 wæs his mōd-sefa manegum gecȳðed,
350 wīg and wīs-dōm): “ic þæs wine Deniga,
351 “frēan Scildinga frīnan wille,
352 “bēaga bryttan, swā þū bēna eart,
353 “þēoden mǣrne ymb þīnne sīð ;
354 “and þē þā andsware ǣdre gecȳðan,
355 “þē mē se gōda āgifan þenceð.”
356 Hwearf þā hrædlīce, þǣr Hrōðgār sæt,
357 eald and unhār mid his eorla gedriht;
358 ēode ellen-rōf, þæt hē for eaxlum gestōd
359 Deniga frēan, cūðe hē duguðe þēaw.
360 Wulfgār maðelode tō his wine-drihtne:
361 “Hēr syndon geferede feorran cumene
362 “ofer geofenes begang Gēata lēode:
363 “þone yldestan ōret-mecgas
364 “Bēowulf nemnað. Hȳ bēnan synt,
365 “þæt hīe, þēoden mīn, wið þē mōton
366 “wordum wrixlan; nō þū him wearne getēoh,
367 “þīnra gegn-cwida glædnian, Hrōðgār!
368 “Hȳ on wīg-geatwum wyrðe þinceað
369 “eorla geæhtlan; hūru se aldor dēah,
370 “sē þǣm heaðo-rincum hider wīsade.”