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HWÆT:
WE
GAR-DENA
IN
GEARDAGUM
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þeodcyninga
þrym
gefrunon.
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Hu
ða
æþelingas
ellen
fremedon!
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Oft
Scyld
Scefing
sceaþena
þreatum
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5
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monegum
mægþum
meodosetla
ofteah,
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egsode
eorl,
syððan
ærest
wearð
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feasceaft
funden.
He
þæs
frofre
gebad
,
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weox
under
wolcnum,
weorðmyndum
þah,
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oð
þæt
him
æghwylc
þara
ymbsittendra
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10
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ofer
hronrade
hyran
scolde,
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gomban
gyldan.
Þæt
wæs
god
cyning.
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Ðæm
eafera
wæs
æfter
cenned,
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geong
in
geardum,
þone
God
sende
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folce
to
frofre.
Fyrenðearfe
ongeat.
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15
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Þæt
hie
ær
drugon
aldorlease
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lange
hwile.
Him
þæs
Liffrea,
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wuldres
wealdend,
woroldare
forgeaf.
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Beowulf
wæs
breme,
blæd
wide
sprang,
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Scyldes
eafera
Scedelandum
in.
|
20
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Swa
sceal
geong
guma
gode
gewyrcean,
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Folio 129v |
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fromum
feohgiftum
on
fæder
| bearme,
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þæt
hine
on
ylde
eft
gewunigen
|
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wilgesiþas
,
þonne
wig
cume,
|
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leode
gelæsten.
Lofdædum
sceal
|
25
|
in
mægþa
gehwære
man
geþeon.
|
|
Him
ða
Scyld
gewat
to
gescæphwile
|
|
felahror
feran
on
Frean
wære.
|
|
Hi
hyne
þa
ætbæron
to
brimes
faroðe,
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swæse
gesiþas.
Swa
he
selfa
bæd
|
30
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þenden
wordum
weold
wine
Scyldinga.
|
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Leof
landfruma
lange
ahte.
|
|
Þær
æt
hyðe
stod
hringedstefna,
|
|
isig
7
utfus,
æþelinges
fær.
|
|
Aledon
þa
leofne
þeoden,
|
35
|
beaga
bryttan
on
bearm
scipes,
|
|
mærne
be
mæste.
Þær
wæs
madma
fela
|
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of
feorwegum
frætwa
gelæded.
|
|
Ne
hyrde
ic
cymlicor
ceol
gegyrwan
|
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hildewæpnum
7
heaðowædum,
|
40
|
billum
7
byrnum.
Him
on
bearme
læg
|
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madma
mænigo;
þa
him
mid
scoldon
|
|
on
flodes
æht
feor
gewitan.
|
|
Nalæs
hi
hine
læssan
lacum
teodan,
|
|
þeodgestreonum,
þonne
þa
dydon,
|
45
|
þe
hine
æt
frumsceafte
forð
onsendon
|
|
Folio 130r |
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ænne
ofer
yðe
umborwe|sende.
|
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Þa
gyt
hie
him
asetton
segen
gyldenne
|
|
heah
ofer
heafod,
leton
holm
beran
|
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geafon
on
garsecg.
Him
wæs
geomor
sefa,
|
50
|
murnende
mod.
Men
ne
cunnon
|
|
secgan
to
soðe
selerædenne,
|
|
hæleð
under
heofenum,
hwa
þæm
hlæste
onfeng.
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.I. |
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ÐA
wæs
on
burgum
Beowulf
Scyldinga
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leof
leodcyning
longe
þrage,
|
55
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folcum
gefræge.
Fæder
ellor
hwearf,
|
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aldor
of
earde.
Oþ
þæt
him
eft
onwoc
|
|
heah
Healfdene,
heold
þenden
lifde,
|
|
gamol
7
guðreouw,
glæde
Scyldingas.
|
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Ðæm
feower
bearn
forðgerimed
|
60
|
in
worold
wocun:
weoroda
ræswa,
|
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Heorogar,
7
Hroðgar,
7
Halga
til.
|
|
Hyrde
ic
þæt
ides
wæs
æþelan
cwen,
|
|
Heaðo-Scilfingas
healsgebedda.
|
|
Þa
wæs
Hroðgare
heresped
gyfen,
|
65
|
wiges
weorðmynd,
þæt
him
his
winemagas
|
|
georne
hyrdon,
oðð
þæt
seo
geogoð
geweox
|
|
magodriht
micel.
Him
on
mod
bearn
|
|
þæt
healreced
hatan
wolde,
|
|
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medoærn
micel
men
gewyrcean
,
|
70
|
þone
yldo
bearn
æfre
gefrunon,
|
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7
þær
on
innan
eall
gedælan
|
|
geongum
7
ealdum,
swylc
him
God
sealde,
|
|
buton
folcscare
7
feorum
gumena.
|
|
Ða
ic
wide
gefrægn
weorc
gebannan
|
75
|
manigre
mægþe
geond
þisne
middangeard,
|
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folcstede
frætwan.
Him
on
fyrste
gelomp,
|
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ædre
mid
yldum,
þæt
hit
wearð
ealgearo,
|
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healærna
mæst.
Scop
him
Heort
naman,
|
|
se
þe
his
wordes
geweald
wide
hæfde.
|
80
|
He
beot
ne
aleh,
beagas
dælde,
|
|
sinc
æt
symle.
Sele
hlifade,
|
|
heah
7
horngeap.
Heaðowylma
bad,
|
|
laðan
liges.
Ne
wæs
hit
lenge
þa
gen
|
|
þæt
se
secghete
aþum
swerian,
|
85
|
æfter
wælniðe
wæcnan
scolde.
|
|
Ða
se
ellengæst
earfoðlice
|
|
þrage
geþolode,
se
þe
in
þystrum
bad,
|
|
þæt
he
dogora
gehwam
dream
gehyrde
|
|
hludne
in
healle.
Þær
wæs
hearpan
sweg,
|
90
|
swutol
sang
scopes.
Sægde,
se
þe
cuþe,
|
|
frumsceaft
fira
feorran
reccan,
|
|
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cwæð
þæt
se
Ælmihtiga
eorðan
worhte,
|
|
wlitebeorhtne
wang,
swa
wæter
bebugeð,
|
|
gesette
sigehreþig
sunnan
7
monan,
|
95
|
leoman
to
leohte
landbuendum.
|
|
7
gefrætwade
foldan
sceatas,
|
|
leomum
7
leafum,
lif
eac
gesceop
|
|
cynna
gehwylcum
þara
ðe
cwice
hwyrfaþ.
|
|
Swa
ða
drihtguman
dreamum
lifdon
|
100
|
eadiglice,
oð
ðæt
an
ongan
|
|
fyrene
fremman,
feond
on
helle.
|
|
Wæs
se
grimma
gæst
Grendel
haten,
|
|
mære
mearcstapa,
se
þe
moras
heold,
|
|
fen
7
fæsten.
Fifelcynnes
eard
|
105
|
wonsæli
wer
weardode
hwile,
|
|
siþðan
him
Scyppend
forscrifen
hæfde
|
|
in
Caines
cynne.
Þone
cwealm
gewræc,
|
|
ece
Drihten,
þæs
þe
he
Abel
slog.
|
|
Ne
gefeah
he
þære
fæhðe,
ac
He
hine
feor
forwræc,
|
110
|
Metod
for
þy
mane
mancynne
fram.
|
|
Þanon
untydras
ealle
onwocon,
|
|
eotenas
7
ylfe
7
orcneas,
|
|
Folio 132v |
|
swylce
gi|
gantas
,
þa
wið
Gode
wunnon
|
|
lange
þrage
.
He
him
ðæs
lean
forgeald!
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|
.II. |
115
|
Gewat
ða
neosian,
syþðan
niht
becom,
|
|
hean
huses,
hu
hit
Hring-Dene
|
|
æfter
beorþege
gebun
hæfdon.
|
|
Fand
þa
ðær
inne
æþelinga
gedriht
|
|
swefan
æfter
symble
.
Sorge
ne
cuðon,
|
120
|
wonsceaft
wera.
Wiht
unhælo,
|
|
grim
7
grædig,
gearo
sona
wæs,
|
|
reoc
7
reþe,
7
on
ræste
genam
|
|
þritig
þegna.
Þanon
eft
gewat
|
|
huðe
hremig
to
ham
faran,
|
125
|
mid
þære
wælfylle
wica
neosan.
|
|
Ða
wæs
on
uhtan
mid
ærdæge
|
|
Grendles
guðcræft
gumum
undyrne.
|
|
Þa
wæs
æfter
wiste
wop
up
ahafen,
|
|
micel
morgensweg.
Mære
þeoden
|
130
|
æþeling
ærgod,
unbliðe
sæt,
|
|
þolode
ðryðswyð,
þegnsorge
dreah,
|
|
syðþan
hie
þæs
laðan
last
sceawedon,
|
|
wergan
gastes.
Wæs
þæt
gewin
to
strang,
|
|
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|
lað
7
longsum.
Næs
hit
lengra |
fyrst,
|
135
|
ac
ymb
ane
niht
eft
gefremede
|
|
morðbeala
mare,
7
no
mearn
fore
|
|
fæhðe
7
fyrene.
Wæs
to
fæst
on
þam.
|
|
Þa
wæs
eaðfynde
þe
him
elles
hwær
|
|
gerumlicor
ræste
sohte,
|
140
|
bed
æfter
burum,
ða
him
gebeacnod
wæs,
|
|
gesægd
soðlice
sweotolan
tacne
|
|
healðegnes
hete.
Heold
hyne
syðþan
|
|
fyr
7
fæstor,
se
þæm
feonde
ætwand.
|
|
Swa
rixode
7
wið
rihte
wan,
|
145
|
ana
wið
eallum,
oð
þæt
idel
stod
|
|
husa
selest.
Wæs
seo
hwil
micel,
|
|
twelf
wintra
tid,
torn
geþolode,
|
|
wine,
scyldenda,
weana
gehwelcne,
|
|
sidra
sorga.
Forðam
sona
wearð
|
150
|
ylda
bearnum
undyrne,
cuð,
|
|
gyddum
geomore,
þætte
Grendel
wan
|
|
hwile
wið
Hroþgar,
heteniðas
wæg,
|
|
fyrene
7
fæhðe
fela
missera,
|
|
singale
sæce.
Sibbe
ne
wolde
|
155
|
wið
manna
hwone
mægenes
Deniga
|
|
feorhbealo
feorran,
fea
þingian.
|
|
Ne
þær
nænig
witena
wenan
þorfte
|
|
beorhtre
bote
to
banan
folmum.
|
|
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|
|
Atol
æglæca
ehtende
wæs,
|
160
|
deorc
deaþscua,
duguþe
7
geogoþe,
|
|
seomade
7
syrede,
sinnihte
heold
|
|
mistige
moras.
Men
ne
cunnon
|
|
hwyder
helrunan
hwyrftum
scriþað.
|
|
Swa
fela
fyrena
feond
mancynnes,
|
165
|
atol
angengea,
oft
gefremede,
|
|
heardra
hynða.
Heorot
eardode,
|
|
sincfage
sel
sweartum
nihtum.
|
|
No
he
þone
gifstol
gretan
moste
|
|
maþðum
for
Metode,
ne
his
myne
wisse.
|
170
|
Þæt
wæs
wræc
micel
wine
Scyldinga,
|
|
modes
brecða.
Monig
oft
gesæt
|
|
rice
to
rune;
ræd
eahtedon,
|
|
hwæt
swiðferhðum
selest
wære
|
|
wið
færgryrum
to
gefremmanne.
|
175
|
Hwilum
hie
geheton
æt
hrærgtrafum
|
|
wigweorþunga,
wordum
bædon
|
|
þæt
him
gastbona
geoce
gefremede
|
|
wið
þeodþreaum.
Swylc
wæs
þeaw
hyra,
|
|
hæþenra
hyht.
Helle
gemundon
|
180
|
in
modsefan,
Metod
hie
ne
cuþon,
|
|
dæda
Demend,
ne
wiston
hie
Drihten
God.
|
|
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|
|
Ne
hie
huru
heofena
Helm
herian
ne
cuþon,
|
|
wuldres
Waldend.
Wa
bið
þæm
ðe
sceal
|
|
þurh
sliðne
nið
sawle
bescufan
|
185
|
in
fyres
fæþm,
frofre
ne
wenan,
|
|
wihte
gewendan.
Wel
bið
þæm
þe
mot
|
|
æfter
deaðdæge
Drihten
secean
|
|
7
to
fæder
fæþmum
freoðo
wilnian.
|
|
.III. |
|
Swa
ða
mælceare
maga
Healfdenes
|
190
|
singala
seað.
Ne
mihte
snotor
hæleð
|
|
wean
onwendan.
Wæs
þæt
gewin
to
swyð,
|
|
laþ
7
longsum,
þe
on
ða
leode
becom,
|
|
nydwracu
niþgrim,
nihtbealwa
mæst.
|
|
Þæt
fram
ham
gefrægn
Higelaces
þegn,
|
195
|
god
mid
Geatum,
Grendles
dæda.
|
|
Se
wæs
moncynnes
mægenes
strengest
|
|
on
þæm
dæge
þysses
lifes,
|
|
æþele
7
eacen.
Het
him
yðlidan
|
|
godne
gegyrwan.
Cwæð,
he
guðcyning
|
200
|
ofer
swanrade
secean
wolde,
|
|
mærne
þeoden,
þa
him
wæs
manna
þearf.
|
|
Ðone
siðfæt
him
snotere
ceorlas
|
|
Folio 134v |
|
lythwon
logon.
|
Þeah
he
him
leof
wære,
|
|
hwetton
higerofne.
Hæl
sceawedon.
|
205
|
Hæfde,
se
goda
Geata
leoda,
|
|
cempan
gecorone,
þara
þe
he
cenoste
|
|
findan
mihte.
Fiftyna
sum
|
|
sundwudu
sohte,
secg
wisade,
|
|
lagucræftig
mon
landgemyrcu.
|
210
|
Fyrst
forð
gewat.
Flota
wæs
on
yðum,
|
|
bat
under
beorge.
Beornas
gearwe
|
|
on
stefn
stigon.
Streamas
wundon,
|
|
sund
wið
sande.
Secgas
bæron
|
|
on
bearm
nacan
beorhte
frætwe,
|
215
|
guðsearo
geatolic.
Guman
ut
scufon,
|
|
weras
on
wilsið
wudu
bundenne.
|
|
Gewat
þa
ofer
wægholm,
winde
gefysed,
|
|
flota
famiheals
fugle
gelicost,
|
|
oð
þæt
ymb
antid
oþres
dogores
|
220
|
wundenstefna
gewaden
hæfde,
|
|
þæt
ða
liðende
land
gesawon,
|
|
brimclifu
blican,
beorgas
steape,
|
|
side
sænæssas.
Þa
wæs
sund
liden,
|
|
eoletes
æt
ende.
Þanon
up
hraðe
|
225
|
Wedera
leode
on
wang
stigon,
|
|
sæwudu
sældon.
Syrcan
hrysedon,
|
|
guðgewædo.
Gode
þancedon
|
|
þæs
þe
him
yþlade
eaðe
wurdon.
|
|
Folio 135r |
|
|
Þa
of
wealle
geseah
weard
Scildinga,
|
230
|
se
þe
holm
clifu
healdan
scolde,
|
|
beran
ofer
bolcan
beorhte
randas,
|
|
fyrdsearu
fuslicu.
Hine
fyrwyt
bræc
|
|
modgehygdum
hwæt
þa
men
wæron.
|
|
Gewat
him
þa
to
waroðe
wicge
ridan,
|
235
|
þegn
Hroðgares,
þrymmum
cwehte
|
|
mægenwudu
mundum,
meþelwordum
frægn.
|
|
"Hwæt
syndon
ge
searohæbbendra,
|
|
byrnum
werede,
þe
þus
brontne
ceol
|
|
ofer
lagustræte
lædan
cwomon,
|
240
|
hider
ofer
holmas?"
He
on
handscole
wæs
|
|
endesæta,
ægwearde
heold;
|
|
þe
on
land
Dena
laðra
nænig
|
|
mid
scipherge
sceðþan
ne
meahte.
|
|
"No
her
cuðlicor
cuman
ongunnon
|
245
|
lindhæbbende,
ne
ge
leafnesword
|
|
guðfremmendra
gearwe
ne
wisson,
|
|
maga
gemedu.
Næfre
ic
maran
geseah
|
|
eorla
ofer
eorþan
ðonne
is
eower
sum,
|
|
secg
on
searwum.
Nis
þæt
seldguma,
|
250
|
wæpnum
geweorðad.
Næfre
him
his
wlite
leoge,
|
|
ænlic
ansyn.
Nu
ic
eower
sceal
|
|
Folio 135v |
|
frumcyn
witan,
ær
ge
fyr |
heonan
|
|
leassceaweras
on
land
Dena
|
|
furþur
feran.
Nu
ge
feorbuend,
|
255
|
mereliðende
mine
gehyrað
|
|
anfealdne
geþoht:
ofost
is
selest
|
|
to
gecyðanne.
Hwanan
eowre
cyme
syndon?"
|
|
.IIII. |
|
Him
se
yldesta
andswarode,
|
|
werodes
wisa,
wordhord
onleac:
|
260
|
"We
synt
gumcynnes
Geata
leode
|
|
7
Higelaces
heorðgeneatas.
|
|
Wæs
min
fæder
folcum
gecyþed,
|
|
æþele
ordfruma,
Ecgþeow
haten.
|
|
Gebad
wintra
worn,
ær
he
on
weg
hwurfe,
|
265
|
gamol
of
geardum.
Hine
gearwe
geman,
|
|
witena
welhwylc,
wide
geond
eorþan.
|
|
We
þurh
holdne
hige
hlaford
þinne,
|
|
sunu
Healfdenes,
secean
cwomon,
|
|
leodgebyrgean.
Wes
þu
us
larena
god.
|
270
|
Habbað
we
to
þæm
mæran
micel
ærende,
|
|
Deniga
frean.
Ne
sceal
þær
dyrne
sum
|
|
wesan
þæs,
ic
wene.
Þu
wast,
gif
hit
is
|
|
Folio 136r |
|
swa
we
soþlice
|
secgan
hyrdon,
|
|
þæt
mid
Scyldingum
sceaðona
ic
nat
hwylc,
|
275
|
deogol
dædhata,
deorcum
nihtum,
|
|
eaweð
þurh
egsan
uncuðne
nið,
|
|
hynðu
7
hrafyl.
Ic
þæs
Hroðgar
mæg,
|
|
þurh
rumne
sefan,
ræd
gelæran,
|
|
hu
he,
frod
7
god,
feond
oferswyðeþ -
|
280
|
gyf
him
edwendan
æfre
scolde,
|
|
bealuwa
bisigu,
bot
eft
cuman.
|
|
7
þa
cearwylmas
colran
wurðaþ,
|
|
oððe
a
syþðan
earfoðþrage,
|
|
þreanyd
þolað,
þenden
þær
wunað
|
285
|
on
heahstede
husa
selest."
|
|
Weard
maþelode,
ðær
on
wicge
sæt,
|
|
ombeht
unforht:
"Æghwæþres
sceal
|
|
scearp
scyldwiga
gescad
witan
|
|
worda
7
worca,
se
þe
wel
þenceð.
|
290
|
Ic
þæt
gehyre,
þæt
þis
is
hold
weorod
|
|
frean
Scyldinga.
Gewitaþ
forð
beran
|
|
wæpen
7
gewædu.
Ic
eow
wisige.
|
|
Swylce
ic
maguþegnas
mine
hate
|
|
wið
feonda
gehwone
flotan
eowerne,
|
295
|
niwtyrwydne
nacan
on
sande,
|
|
arum
healdan,
oþ
ðæt
eft
byreð
|
|
Folio 136v |
|
ofer
agustrea|mas
leofne
mannan,
|
|
wudu
wundenhals
to
Wedermearce.
|
|
Godfremmendra
swylcum
gifeþe
bið
|
300
|
þæt
þone
hilderæs
hal
gedigeð."
|
|
Gewiton
him
þa
feran.
Flota
stille
bad,
|
|
seomode
on
sole,
sidfæþmed
scip,
|
|
on
ancre
fæst.
Eoforlic
scionon
|
|
ofer
hleorberan,
gehroden
golde;
|
305
|
fah
7
fyrheard
ferhwearde
heold.
|
|
Guþmod
grummon,
guman
onetton,
|
|
sigon
ætsomne,
oþ
þæt
hy
æltimbred,
|
|
geatolic
7
goldfah,
ongyton
mihton.
|
|
Þæt
wæs
foremærost
foldbuendum
|
310
|
receda
under
roderum.
On
þæm
se
rica
bad.
|
|
Lixte
se
leoma
ofer
landa
fela.
|
|
Him
þa
hildedeor
of
modigra
|
|
torht
getæhte,
þæt
hie
him
to
mihton
|
|
gegnum
gangan.
Guðbeorna
sum
|
315
|
wicg
gewende,
word
æfter
cwæð.
|
|
"Mæl
is
me
to
feran.
Fæder
alwalda
|
|
mid
arstafum
eowic
gehealde,
|
|
siða
gesunde.
Ic
to
sæ
wille,
|
|
Folio 137r |
|
wið |
wrað
werod
wearde
healdan."
|
|
.V. |
320
|
Stræt
wæs
stanfah,
stig
wisode
|
|
gumum
ætgædere.
Guðbyrne
scan
|
|
heard,
hondlocen,
hringiren
scir
|
|
song
in
searwum,
þa
hie
to
sele
furðum
|
|
in
hyra
gryregeatwum
gangan
cwomon.
|
325
|
Setton
sæmeþe
side
scyldas,
|
|
rondas
regnhearde
wið
þæs
recedes
weal,
|
|
bugon
þa
to
bence.
Byrnan
hringdon,
|
|
guðsearo
gumena.
Garas
stodon
|
|
sæmanna
searo,
samod
ætgædere,
|
330
|
æscholt
ufan
græg.
Wæs
se
irenþreat
|
|
wæpnum
gewurþad.
Þa
ðær
wlonc
hæleð
|
|
oretmecgas
æfter
hæleþum
frægn:
|
|
"Hwanon
ferigeað
ge
fætte
scyldas
|
|
græge
syrcan
7
grimhelmas,
|
335
|
heresceafta
heap?
Ic
eom
Hroðgares
|
|
ar
7
ombiht.
Ne
seah
ic
elþeodige
|
|
þus
manige
men
modiglicran.
|
|
Wen'
ic
þæt
ge
for
wlenco,
nalles
for
wræcsiðum,
|
|
Folio 137v |
|
ac
for
hige|
þrymmum
Hroðgar
sohton."
|
340
|
Him
þa
ellenrof
andswarode,
|
|
wlanc
Wedera
leod,
word
æfter
spræc,
|
|
heard
under
helme.
"We
synt
Higelaces
|
|
beodgeneatas.
Beowulf
is
min
nama.
|
|
Wille
ic
asecgan
sunu
Healfdenes,
|
345
|
mærum
þeodne,
min
ærende,
|
|
aldre
þinum,
gif
he
us
geunnan
wile
|
|
þæt
we
hine
swa
godne
gretan
moton."
|
|
Wulfgar
maþelode.
Þæt
wæs
Wendla
leod,
|
|
wæs
his
modsefa
manegum
gecyðed,
|
350
|
wig
7
wisdom:
"Ic
þæs
wine
Deniga,
|
|
frean
Scildinga,
frinan
wille,
|
|
beaga
bryttan,
swa
þu
bena
eart,
|
|
þeoden
mærne
ymb
þinne
sið,
|
|
7
þe
þa
andsware
ædre
gecyðan
|
355
|
ðe
me
se
goda
agifan
þenceð."
|
|
Hwearf
þa
hrædlice
þær
Hroðgar
sæt,
|
|
eald
7
unhar,
mid
his
eorla
gedriht.
|
|
Eode
ellenrof
þæt
he
for
eaxlum
gestod
|
|
Deniga
frean.
Cuþe
he
duguðe
þeaw.
|
|
Folio 138r |
|
Wulfgar
maðelode
|
to
his
winedrihtne:
|
|
"Her
syndon
geferede,
feorran
cumene,
|
|
ofer
geofenes
begang
Geata
leode.
|
|
Þone
yldestan
oretmecgas
|
|
Beowulf
nemnað.
Hy
benan
synt,
|
365
|
þæt
hie,
þeoden
min,
wið
þe
moton
|
|
wordum
wrixlan.
No
ðu
him
wearne
geteoh
|
|
ðinra
gegncwida,
glædman
Hroðgar.
|
|
Hy
on
wiggetawum
wyrðe
þinceað
|
|
eorla
geæhtlan.
Huru
se
aldor
deah,
|
370
|
se
þæm
heaðorincum
hider
wisade."
|
|
.VI. |
|
Hroðgar
maþelode,
helm
Scyldinga:
|
|
"Ic
hine
cuðe
cnihtwesende.
|
|
Wæs
his
ealdfæder
Ecgþeo
haten.
|
|
Ðæm
to
ham
forgeaf
Hreþel
Geata,
|
375
|
angan
dohtor.
Is
his
eaforan
nu
|
|
heard
her
cumen,
sohte
holdne
wine.
|
|
Ðonne
sægdon
þæt,
sæliþende,
|
|
þa
ðe
gifsceattas
Geata
fyredon
|
|
Folio 138v |
|
þyder
to
þance,
þæt
he
þri|tiges
|
380
|
manna
mægencræft
on
his
mundgripe
|
|
heaþorof
hæbbe.
Hine
halig
God
|
|
for
arstafum
us
onsende,
|
|
to
West-Denum,
þæs
ic
wen
hæbbe,
|
|
wið
Grendles
gryre.
Ic
þæm
godan
sceal
|
385
|
for
his
modþræce
madmas
beodan.
|
|
Beo
ðu
on
ofeste,
hat
in
gan
|
|
seon
sibbegedriht
samod
ætgædere.
|
|
Gesaga
him
eac
wordum
þæt
hie
sint
wilcuman
|
|
Deniga
leodum."
Word
inne
abead:
|
390
|
"Eow
het
secgan,
sigedrihten
min,
|
|
aldor
East-Dena,
þæt
he
eower
æþelu
can,
|
|
7
ge
him
syndon
ofer
sæwylmas
|
|
heardhicgende
hider
wilcuman.
|
|
Nu
ge
moton
gangan
in
eowrum
guðgeatawum,
|
395
|
under
heregriman,
Hroðgar
geseon.
|
|
Lætað
hildebord
her
onbidan,
|
|
wuduwælsceaftas,
worda
geþinges."
|
|
Aras
þa
se
rica,
ymb
hine
rinc
manig,
|
|
þryðlic
þegna
heap.
Sume
þær
bidon,
|
|
Folio 139r |
|
heaðoreaf
heoldon,
swa
him
se |
hearda
bebead.
|
|
Snyredon
ætsomne,
þa
secg
wisode
|
|
under
Heorotes
hrof,
|
|
heard
under
helme,
þæt
he
on
heoðe
gestod.
|
|
Beowulf
maðelode.
On
him
byrne
scan,
|
405
|
searonet
seowed
smiþes
orþancum:
|
|
"Wæs
þu,
Hroðgar,
hal.
Ic
eom
Higelaces
|
|
mæg
7
magoðegn.
Hæbbe
ic
mærða
fela
|
|
ongunnen
on
geogoþe.
Me
wearð
Grendles
þing
|
|
on
minre
eþeltyrf
undyrne
cuð.
|
410
|
Secgað
sæliðend
þæt
þæs
sele
stande,
|
|
reced
selesta
rinca
gehwylcum,
|
|
idel
7
unnyt,
siððan
æfenleoht
|
|
under
heofenes
hador
beholen
weorþeð.
|
|
Þa
me
þæt
gelærdon,
leode
mine,
|
415
|
þa
selestan,
snotere
ceorlas,
|
|
þeoden
Hroðgar,
þæt
ic
þe
sohte,
|
|
for
þan
hie
mægenes
cræft
mine
cuþon;
|
|
selfe
ofersawon,
ða
ic
of
searwum
cwom,
|
|
fah
from
feondum,
þær
ic
fife
geband,
|
420
|
yðde
eotena
cyn,
7
on
yðum
slog
|
|
niceras
nihtes,
nearoþearfe
dreah,
|
|
Folio 139v |
|
wræc |
Wedera
nið.
Wean
ahsodon,
|
|
forgrand
gramum.
7
nu
wið
Grendel
sceal,
|
|
wið
þam
aglæcan
ana
gehegan
|
425
|
ðing
wið
þyrse.
Ic
þe
nu
ða,
|
|
brego
Beorht-Dena
biddan
wille,
|
|
eodor
Scyldinga,
anre
bene,
|
|
þæt
ðu
me
ne
forwyrne,
wigendra
hleo,
|
|
freowine
folca,
nu
ic
þus
feorran
com:
|
430
|
þæt
ic
mote
ana,
na
minra
eorla
gedryht
|
|
7
þes
hearda
heap,
Heorot
fælsian.
|
|
Hæbbe
ic
eac
geahsod
þæt
se
æglæca
|
|
for
his
wonhydum
wæpna
ne
recceð.
|
|
Ic
þæt
þonne
forhicge,
swa
me
Higelac
sie,
|
435
|
min
mondrihten,
modes
bliðe,
|
|
þæt
ic
sweord
bere
oþðe
sidne
scyld,
|
|
geolorand
to
guþe.
Ac
ic
mid
grape
sceal
|
|
fon
wið
feonde
7
ymb
feorh
sacan,
|
|
lað
wið
laþum.
Ðær
gelyfan
sceal
|
440
|
Dryhtnes
dome,
se
þe
hine
deað
nimeð.
|
|
Wen'
ic
þæt
he
wille,
gif
he
wealdan
mot
|
|
in
þæm
guðsele,
Geotena
leode
|
|
Folio 140r |
|
etan
unforhte,
swa
he |
oft
dyde
|
|
mægenhreð
manna.
Na
þu
minne
þearft
|
445
|
hafalan
hydan,
ac
he
me
habban
wile
|
|
deore
fahne,
gif
mec
deað
nimeð.
|
|
Byreð
blodig
wæl,
byrgean
þenceð,
|
|
eteð
angenga
unmurnlice,
|
|
mearcað
morhopu.
No
ðu
ymb
mines
ne
þearft
|
450
|
lices
feorme
leng
sorgian.
|
|
Onsend
Higelace,
gif
mec
hild
nime,
|
|
beaduscruda
betst
þæt
mine
breost
wereð,
|
|
hrægla
selest.
Þæt
is
Hrædlan
laf
|
|
Welandes
geweorc.
Gæð
a
wyrd
swa
hio
scel.
|
|
.VII. |
455
|
Hroðgar
maþelode,
helm
Scyldinga:
|
|
"Fere
fyhtum,
þu,
wine
min
Beowulf,
|
|
7
for
arstafum,
usic
sohtest.
|
|
Gesloh
þin
fæder
fæhðe
mæste.
|
|
Wearþ
he
Heaþolafe
to
handbonan
|
460
|
mid
Wilfingum.
Ða
hine
wigara
cyn
|
|
for
herebrogan
habban
ne
mihte.
|
|
Þanon
he
gesohte
Suð-Dena
folc
|
|
Folio 140v |
|
ofer
yða
gewealc
Ar-|Scyldinga.
|
|
Ða
ic
furþum
weold
folce
Deninga
|
465
|
7
on
geogoðe
heold
gimmerice,
|
|
hordburh
hæleþa.
Ða
wæs
Heregar
dead,
|
|
min
yldra
mæg
unlifigende,
|
|
bearn
Healfdenes.
Se
wæs
betera
ðonne
ic.
|
|
Siððan
þa
fæhðe
feo
þingode.
|
470
|
Sende
ic
Wylfingum
ofer
wæteres
hrycg
|
|
ealde
madmas.
He
me
aþas
swor.
|
|
Sorh
is
me
to
secganne
on
sefan
minum,
|
|
gumena
ængum,
hwæt
me
Grendel
hafað
|
|
hynðo
on
Heorote
mid
his
heteþancum,
|
475
|
færniða
gefremed.
Is
min
fletwerod,
|
|
wigheap
gewanod.
Hie
wyrd
forsweop
|
|
on
Grendles
gryre.
God
eaþe
mæg
|
|
þone
dolsceaðan
dæda
getwæfan.
|
|
Ful
oft
gebeotedon,
beore
druncne,
|
480
|
ofer
ealowæge
oretmecgas,
|
|
þæt
hie
in
beorsele
bidan
woldon
|
|
Grendles
guþe
mid
gryrum
ecga.
|
|
Ðonne
wæs
þeos
medoheal
on
morgentid
|
|
drihtsele
dreorfah,
þonne
dæg
lixte,
|
|
Folio 141r |
|
eal |
bencþelu
blode
bestymed,
|
|
heall
heorudreore.
Ahte
ic
holdra
þy
læs,
|
|
deorre
duguðe,
þe
þa
deað
fornam.
|
|
Site
nu
to
symle
7
onsæl
meoto,
|
|
sigehreð
secgum,
swa
þin
sefa
hwette."
|
490
|
Þa
wæs
Geatmæcgum
geador
ætsomne
|
|
on
beorsele
benc
gerymed.
|
|
Þær
swiðferhþe
sittan
eodon,
|
|
þryðum
dealle.
Þegn
nytte
beheold,
|
|
se
þe
on
handa
bær
hroden
ealowæge,
|
495
|
scencte
scir
wered.
Scop
hwilum
sang
|
|
hador
on
Heorote.
Þær
wæs
hæleða
dream,
|
|
duguð
unlytel
Dena
7
Wedera.
|
|
.VIII. |
|
HVNferð
maþelode,
Ecglafes
bearn,
|
|
þe
æt
fotum
sæt
frean
Scyldinga.
|
500
|
Onband
beadurune.
Wæs
him
Beowulfes
sið,
|
|
modges
merefaran,
micel
æfþunca,
|
|
forþon
þe
he
ne
uþe
þæt
ænig
oðer
man
|
|
Folio 141v |
|
æfre |
mærða
þon
ma
middangeardes
|
|
gehedde
under
heofenum
þonne
he
sylfa:
|
505
|
"Eart
þu
se
Beowulf,
se
þe
wið
Brecan
wunne
|
|
on
sidne
sæ,
ymb
sund
flite,
|
|
ðær
git
for
wlence
wada
cunnedon
|
|
7
for
dolgilpe
on
deop
wæter
|
|
aldrum
neþdon?
Ne
inc
ænig
mon,
|
510
|
ne
leof
ne
lað,
belean
mihte
|
|
sorhfullne
sið,
þa
git
on
sund
reon.
|
|
Þær
git
eagorstream
earmum
þehton,
|
|
mæton
merestræta,
mundum
brugdon,
|
|
glidon
ofer
garsecg.
Geofon
yþum
weol
|
515
|
in
wintrys
wylm.
Git
on
wæteres
æht
|
|
seofon
niht
swuncon.
He
þe
æt
sunde
oferflat,
|
|
hæfde
mare
mægen.
Þa
hine
on
morgentid
|
|
on
Heaþo-Ræmes.
holm
up
ætbær,
|
|
Ðonon
he
gesohte
swæsne
.eðel.,
|
520
|
leof
his
leodum,
lond
Brondinga,
|
|
freoðoburh
fægere,
þær
he
folc
ahte,
|
|
Folio 142r |
|
burh
7
beagas.
|
Beot
eal
wið
þe
|
|
sunu
Beanstanes
soðe
gelæste.
|
|
Ðonne
wene
ic
to
þe
wyrsan
geþingea,
|
525
|
ðeah
þu
heaðoræsa
gehwær
dohte,
|
|
grimre
guðe,
gif
þu
Grendles
dearst
|
|
nihtlongne
fyrst
nean
bidan."
|
|
Beowulf
maþelode,
bearn
Ecgþeowes:
|
|
"Hwæt,
þu
worn
fela,
wine
min
Hunferð,
|
530
|
beore
druncen,
ymb
Brecan
spræce,
|
|
sægdest
from
his
siðe.
Soð
ic
talige
|
|
þæt
ic
merestrengo
maran
ahte,
|
|
earfeþo
on
yþum,
ðonne
ænig
oþer
man.
|
|
Wit
þæt
gecwædon,
cnihtwesende
|
535
|
7
gebeotedon,
wæron
begen
þa
git
|
|
on
geogoðfeore,
þæt
wit
on
garsecg
ut
|
|
aldrum
neðdon,
7
þæt
geæfndon
swa.
|
|
Hæfdon
swurd
nacod,
þa
wit
on
sund
reon,
|
|
heard
on
handa.
Wit
unc
wið
hronfixas
|
540
|
werian
þohton.
No
he
wiht
fram
me
|
|
flodyþum
feor
fleotan
meahte,
|
|
hraþor
on
holme,
no
ic
fram
him
wolde.
|
|
Folio 142v |
|
Ða
wit
æt|somne
on
sæ
wæron
|
|
fif
nihta
fyrst,
oþ
þæt
unc
flod
todraf,
|
545
|
wado
weallende,
wedera
cealdost,
|
|
nipende
niht,
7
norþanwind,
|
|
heaðogrim
ondhwearf.
Hreo
wæron
yþa!
|
|
Wæs
merefixa
mod
onhrered:
|
|
þær
me
wið
laðum
licsyrce
min
|
550
|
heard
hondlocen,
helpe
gefremede,
|
|
beadohrægl
broden
on
breostum
læg,
|
|
golde
gegyrwed.
Me
to
grunde
teah,
|
|
fah
feondscaða,
fæste
hæfde,
|
|
grim
on
grape.
Hwæþre
me
gyfeþe
wearð
|
555
|
þæt
ic
aglæcan
orde
geræhte,
|
|
hildebille.
Heaþoræs
fornam
|
|
mihtig
meredeor
þurh
mine
hand."
|
|
.IVIII. |
|
"Swa
mec
gelome
laðgeteonan
|
|
þreatedon
þearle.
Ic
him
þenode
|
560
|
deoran
sweorde,
swa
hit
gedefe
wæs.
|
|
Næs
hie
ðære
fylle
gefean
hæfdon,
|
|
manfordædlan,
þæt
hie
me
þegon,
|
|
symbel
ymbsæton
sægrunde
neah.
|
143r
|
Ac
on
mergenne,
mecum |
wunde,
|
565
|
be
yðlafe
uppe
lægon,
|
|
sweordum
aswefede,
þæt
syðþan
na
|
|
ymb
brontne
ford
brimliðende
|
|
lade
ne
letton.
Leoht
eastan
com,
|
|
beorht
beacen
Godes,
brimu
swaþredon,
|
570
|
þæt
ic
sænæssas
geseon
mihte,
|
|
windige
weallas.
Wyrd
oft
nereð
|
|
unfægne
eorl,
þonne
his
ellen
deah.
|
|
Hwæþere
me
gesælde
þæt
ic
mid
sweorde
ofsloh
|
|
niceras
nigene.
No
ic
on
niht
gefrægn
|
575
|
under
heofones
hwealf
heardran
feohtan,
|
|
ne
on
egstreamum
earmran
mannon.
|
|
Hwaþere
ic
fara
feng
feore
gedigde,
|
|
siþes
werig.
Ða
mec
sæ
oþbær,
|
|
flod
æfter
faroðe,
on
Finna
land,
|
580
|
wadu
weallendu.
No
ic
wiht
fram
þe
|
|
swylcra
searoniða
secgan
hyrde,
|
|
billa
brogan.
Breca
næfre
git
|
|
æt
heaðolace,
ne
gehwæþer
incer,
|
|
swa
deorlice
dæd
gefremede
|
585
|
fagum
sweordum.
No
ic
þæs
gylpe,
|
|
þeah
ðu
þinum
broðrum
to
banan
wurde,
|
|
Folio 143v |
|
heafodmægum.
Þæs
þu
in |
helle
scealt
|
|
werhðo
dreogan,
þeah
þin
wit
duge.
|
|
Secge
ic
þe
to
soðe,
sunu
Ecglafes,
|
590
|
þæt
næfre
Gredel
swa
fela
gryra
gefremede,
|
|
atol
æglæca
ealdre
þinum,
|
|
hynðo
on
Heorote,
gif
þin
hige
wære,
|
|
sefa
swa
searogrim
swa
þu
self
talast.
|
|
Ac
he
hafað
onfunden
þæt
he
þa
fæhðe
ne
þearf,
|
595
|
atole
ecgþræce
eower
leode
|
|
swiðe
onsittan
Sige-Scyldinga.
|
|
Nymeð
nydbade,
nænegum
arað
|
|
leode
Deniga,
ac
he
lust
wigeð,
|
|
swefeð
ond
sendeþ,
secce
ne
weneþ
|
600
|
to
Gar-Denum.
Ac
ic
him
Geata
sceal
|
|
eafoð
7
ellen
ungeara
nu
|
|
guþe
gebeodan.
Gæþ
eft,
se
þe
mot,
|
|
to
medo
modig,
siþþan
morgenleoht
|
|
ofer
ylda
bearn
oþres
dogores,
|
605
|
sunne
sweglwered
suþan
scineð."
|
|
Þa
wæs
on
salum
sinces
brytta,
|
|
gamolfeax
7
guðrof.
Geoce
gelyfde,
|
144r
|
|
brego
Beorht-Dena,
gehyrde
on
Beowulfe,
|
|
folces
hyrde,
fæstrædne
geþoht.
|
610
|
Ðær
wæs
hæleþa
hleahtor,
hlyn
swynsode,
|
|
word
wæron
wynsume.
Eode
Wealhþeow
forð,
|
|
cwen
Hroðgares,
cynna
gemyndig,
|
|
grette
goldhroden
guman
on
healle.
|
|
7
þa
freolic
wif
ful
gesealde
|
615
|
ærest
East-Dena
eþelwearde,
|
|
bæd
hine
bliðne
æt
þære
beorþege,
|
|
leodum
leofne.
He
on
lust
geþeah
|
|
symbel
7
seleful,
sigerof
kyning.
|
|
Ymbeode
þa,
ides
Helminga,
|
620
|
duguþe
7
geogoþe
dæl
æghwylcne,
|
|
sincfato
sealde,
oþ
þæt
sæl
alamp
|
|
þæt
hio
Beowulfe,
beaghroden
cwen,
|
|
mode
geþungen,
medoful
ætbær.
|
|
Grette
Geata
leod,
Gode
þancode
|
625
|
wisfæst
wordum,
þæs
ðe
hire
se
willa
gelamp,
|
|
þæt
heo
on
ænigne
eorl
gelyfde
|
|
fyrena
frofre.
He
þæt
ful
geþeah,
|
|
Folio 144v |
|
wælreow
wiga
|
æt
Wealhþeon
|
|
7
þa
gyddode,
guþe
gefysed.
|
630
|
Beowulf
maþelode,
bearn
Ecgþeowes:
|
|
"Ic
þæt
hogode,
þa
ic
on
holm
gestah,
|
|
sæbat
gesæt
mid
minra
secga
gedriht,
|
|
þæt
ic
anunga
eowra
leoda
|
|
willan
geworhte,
oþðe
on
wæl
crunge,
|
635
|
feondgrapum
fæst.
Ic
gefremman
sceal
|
|
eorlic
ellen,
oþðe
endedæg
|
|
on
þisse
meoduhealle
minne
gebidan."
|
|
Ðam
wife
þa
word
wel
licodon,
|
|
gilpcwide
Geates.
Eode
goldhroden,
|
640
|
freolicu
folccwen,
to
hire
frean
sittan.
|
|
Þa
wæs
eft,
swa
ær
inne
on
healle,
|
|
þryðword
sprecen,
ðeod
on
sælum,
|
|
sigefolca
sweg,
oþ
þæt
semninga
|
|
sunu
Healfdenes
secean
wolde
|
645
|
æfenræste.
Wiste
þæm
ahlæcan
|
|
to
þæm
heahsele
hilde
geþinged,
|
|
siððan
hie
sunnan
leoht
geseon
meahton,
|
|
oþ
ðe
nipende
niht
ofer
ealle,
|
|
scaduhelma
gesceapu
scriðan
cwoman,
|
650
|
wan
under
wolcnum.
Werod
eall
aras.
|
|
Grette
þa
guma
guman
oþerne,
|
|
Hroðgar
Beowulf,
7
him
hæl
abead,
|
|
Folio 145r |
|
winærnes |
geweald,
7
þæt
word
acwæð:
|
|
"Næfre
ic
ænegum
men
ær
alyfde,
|
655
|
siþðan
ic
hond
7
rond
hebban
mihte,
|
|
ðryþærn
Dena,
buton
þe
nu
ða.
|
|
Hafa
nu
7
geheald
husa
selest,
|
|
gemyne
mærþo,
mægenellen
cyð,
|
|
waca
wið
wraþum.
Ne
bið
þe
wilna
gad
|
660
|
gif
þu
þæt
ellenweorc
aldre
gedigest."
|
|
.X. |
|
ÐA
him
Hroþgar
gewat
mid
his
hæleþa
gedryht,
|
|
eodur
Scyldinga
ut
of
healle.
|
|
Wolde
wigfruma
Wealhþeo
secan,
|
|
cwen
to
gebeddan.
Hæfde
Kyningwuldor
|
665
|
Grendle
togeanes,
swa
guman
gefrungon,
|
|
seleweard
aseted.
Sundornytte
beheold
|
|
ymb
aldor
Dena,
eotonweard
abead.
|
|
Huru
Geata
leod
georne
truwode
|
|
modgan
mægnes,
Metodes
hyldo.
|
670
|
Ða
he
him
of
dyde
isernbyrnan,
|
|
helm
of
hafelan,
sealde
his
hyrsted
sweord,
|
|
irena
cyst,
ombihtþegne,
|
|
7
gehealdan
het
hildegeatwe.
|
|
Gespræc
þa
se
goda
gylpworda
sum,
|
145v
|
Beowulf |
Geata,
ær
he
on
bed
stige:
|
|
"No
ic
me
an
herewæsmun
hnagran
talige,
|
|
guþgeweorca,
þonne
Grendel
hine.
|
|
Forþan
ic
hine
sweorde
swebban
nelle,
|
|
aldre
beneotan,
þeah
ic
eal
mæge.
|
680
|
Nat
he
þara
goda,
þæt
he
me
ongean
slea,
|
|
rand
geheawe,
þeah
ðe
he
rof
sie
|
|
niþgeweorca.
Ac
wit
on
niht
sculon
|
|
secge
ofersittan,
gif
he
gesecean
dear
|
|
wig
ofer
wæpen.
7
siþðan
witig
God,
|
685
|
on
swa
hwæþere
hond,
halig
Dryhten,
|
|
mærðo
deme,
swa
him
gemet
þince."
|
|
Hylde
hine
þa,
heaþodeor,
hleorbolster
onfeng
|
|
eorles
andwlitan,
7
hine
ymb
monig
|
|
snellic
særinc
selereste
gebeah.
|
690
|
Nænig
heora
þohte,
þæt
he
þanon
scolde
|
|
eft
eardlufan
æfre
gesecean,
|
|
folc
oþðe
freoburh,
þær
he
afeded
wæs.
|
|
Ac
hie
hæfdon
gefrunen
þæt
hie
ær,
to
fela
micles,
|
|
in
þæm
winsele
wældeað
fornam
|
695
|
Denigea
leode.
Ac
him
Dryhten
forgeaf
|
146r
|
wigspeda
gewiofu
|
Wedera
leodum,
|
|
frofor
7
fult
um
,
þæt
hie
feond
heora
|
|
ðurh
anes
cræft
ealle
ofercomon,
|
|
selfes
mihtum.
Soð
is
gecyþed,
|
700
|
þæt
mihtig
God
manna
cynnes
|
|
weold
w
ide
ferhð
.
Com
on
wanre
niht
|
|
scriðan
sceadugenga.
Sceotend
swæfon,
|
|
þa
þæt
hornreced
healdan
scoldon,
|
|
ealle
buton
anum.
Þæt
wæs
yldum
cuþ,
|
705
|
þæt
hie
ne
moste,
þa
Metod
nolde,
|
|
se
synscaþa
under
sceadu
bregdan.
|
|
Ac
he
wæccende
wraþum
on
andan
|
|
bad
bolgenmod
beadwa
geþinges.
|
|
.XI. |
|
Ða
com
of
more
under
misthleoþum
|
710
|
Grendel
gongan,
Godes
yrre
bær.
|
|
Mynte,
se
manscaða
manna
cynnes,
|
|
sumne
besyrwan
in
sele
þam
hean.
|
|
Wod
under
wolcnum
to
þæs
þe
he
winreced,
|
|
goldsele
gumena
gearwost
wisse,
|
715
|
fættum
fahne.
Ne
wæs
þæt
forma
sið
|
|
þæt
he
Hroþgares
ham
gesohte.
|
|
Folio 146v |
|
Næfre
he
on
aldordagum,
ær |
ne
siþðan,
|
|
heardran
hæle
healðegnas
fand.
|
|
Com
þa
to
recede,
rinc
siðian,
|
720
|
dreamum
bedæled.
Duru
sona
onarn,
|
|
fyrbendum
fæst,
syþðan
he
hire
folmum
æthran.
|
|
Onbræd
þa,
bealohydig,
ða
he
gebolgen
wæs,
|
|
recedes
muþan.
Raþe
æfter
þon
|
|
on
fagne
flor
feond
treddode,
|
725
|
eode
yrremod.
Him
of
eagum
stod
|
|
ligge
gelicost
leoht
unfæger.
|
|
Geseah
he
in
recede
rinca
manige,
|
|
swefan
sibbegedriht
samod
ætgædere
|
|
magorinca
heap.
Þa
his
mod
ahlog,
|
730
|
mynte
þæt
he
gedælde,
ær
þon
dæg
cwome,
|
|
atol
aglæca
anra
gehwylces
|
|
lif
wið
lic.
Þa
him
alumpen
wæs
|
|
wistfylle
wen.
Ne
wæs
þæt
wyrd
þa
gen
|
|
þæt
he
ma
moste
manna
cynnes
|
735
|
ðicgean
ofer
þa
niht.
Þryðswyð
beheold,
|
|
mæg
Higelaces,
hu
se
manscaða
|
|
under
færgripum
gefaran
wolde.
|
|
Ne
þæt
se
aglæca
yldan
þohte,
|
147A (131)r
|
ac
he
ge|feng
hraðe
forman
siðe
|
740
|
slæpendn
e
rinc,
slat
unwearnum,
|
|
bat
banlocan,
blod
edrum
dranc,
|
|
synsnædum
swealh.
Sona
hæfde
|
|
unlyfigendes
eal
gefeormod
|
|
fet
7
folma.
Forð
near
ætstop,
|
745
|
nam
þa
mid
handa
higeþihtigne
|
|
rinc
on
ræste,
ræhte
ongean,
|
|
feond
mid
folme.
He
onfeng
hraþe
|
|
inwitþancum
7
wið
earm
gesæt.
|
|
Sona
þæt
onfunde,
fyrena
hyrde,
|
750
|
þæt
he
ne
mette
middangeardes,
|
|
eorþan
sceatta,
on
elran
men
|
|
mundgripe
maran.
He
on
mode
wearð
|
|
forht
on
ferhðe.
No
þy
ær
fram
meahte.
|
|
Hyge
wæs
him
hinfus,
wolde
on
heolster
fleon,
|
755
|
secan
deofla
gedræg.
Ne
wæs
his
drohtoð
þær
|
|
swylce
he
on
ealderdagum
ær
gemette.
|
|
Gemunde
þa,
se
goda
mæg
Higelaces,
|
|
æfenspræce.
Uplang
astod
|
|
7
him
fæste
wiðfeng.
Fingras
burston.
|
760
|
Eoten
wæs
utweard,
eorl
furþur
stop.
|
|
Folio 147A (131)v |
|
Mynte
se
mæra,
|
hwær
he
meahte
swa,
|
|
widre
gewindan,
7
on
weg
þanon
|
|
fleon
on
fenhopu.
Wiste
his
fingra
geweald
|
|
on
grames
grapum,
þæt
he
wæs
geocor
sið
|
765
|
þæt
se
hearmscaþa
to
Heorute
ateah.
|
|
Dryhtsele
dynede.
Denum
eallum
wearð,
|
|
ceasterbuendum,
cenra
gehwylcum,
|
|
eorlum
ealuscerwen.
Yrre
wæron
begen,
|
|
reþe
renweardas.
Reced
hlynsode.
|
770
|
Þa
wæs
wundor
micel
þæt
se
winsele
|
|
wiðhæfde
heaþodeorum,
þæt
he
on
hrusan
ne
feol,
|
|
fæger
foldbold.
Ac
he
þæs
fæste
wæs,
|
|
innan
7
utan
irenbendum,
|
|
searoþoncum
besmiþod.
Þær
fram
sylle
abeag
|
775
|
medubenc
monig,
mine
gefræge,
|
|
golde
geregnad,
þær
þa
graman
wunnon.
|
|
Þæs
ne
wendon
ær,
witan
Scyldinga,
|
|
þæt
hit
a
mid
gemete
manna
ænig,
|
|
betlic
7
banfag
tobrecan
meahte,
|
780
|
listum
tolucan,
nymþe
liges
fæþm
|
|
Folio 147r |
|
swulge
on
swaþule.
Sweg |
up
astag,
|
|
niwe
geneahhe:
Norð-Denum
stod
|
|
atelic
egesa,
anra
gehwylcum
|
|
þara
þe
of
wealle
wop
gehyrdon,
|
785
|
gryreleoð
galan
Godes
andsacan,
|
|
sigeleasne
sang,
sar
wanigean,
|
|
helle
hæfton.
Heold
hine
fæste,
|
|
se
þe
manna
wæs
mægene
strengest
|
|
on
þæm
dæge
þysses
lifes.
|
|
.XII. |
790
|
Nolde,
eorla
hleo,
ænige
þinga
|
|
þone
cwealmcuman
cwicne
forlætan,
|
|
ne
his
lifdagas
leoda
ænigum
|
|
nytte
tealde.
Þær
genehost
brægd
|
|
eorl
Beowulfes,
ealde
lafe,
|
795
|
wolde
freadrihtnes
feorh
ealgian,
|
|
mæres
þeodnes,
ðær
hie
meahton
swa.
|
|
Hie
þæt
ne
wiston,
þa
hie
gewin
drugon,
|
|
heardhicgende
hildemecgas,
|
|
7
on
healfa
gehwone
heawan
þohton,
|
800
|
sawle
secan:
þone
synscaðan
|
|
ænig
ofer
eorþan,
irenna
cyst,
|
|
guðbilla
nan
gretan
nolde.
|
|
Folio 147v |
|
Ac
he
sigewæpnum
|
forsworen
hæfde,
|
|
ecga
gehwylcre.
Scolde
his
aldorgedal,
|
805
|
on
ðæm
dæge
þysses
lifes,
|
|
earmlic
wurðan,
7
se
ellorgast
|
|
on
feonda
geweald
feor
siðian.
|
|
Ða
þæt
onfunde
se
þe
fela
æror
|
|
modes
myrðe
manna
cynne,
|
810
|
fyrene
gefremede,
he
fag
wið
God,
|
|
þæt
him
se
lichoma
læstan
nolde;
|
|
ac
hine
se
modega
mæg
Hygelaces
|
|
hæfde
be
honda.
Wæs
gehwæþer
oðrum
|
|
lifigende
lað.
Licsar
gebad,
|
815
|
atol
æglæca.
Him
on
eaxle
wearð
|
|
syndolh
sweotol,
seonowe
onsprungon,
|
|
burston
banlocan.
Beowulfe
wearð
|
|
guðhreð
gyfeþe.
Scolde
Grendel
þonan
|
|
feorhseoc
fleon
under
fenhleoðu,
|
820
|
secean
wynleas
wic.
Wiste
þe
geornor
|
|
þæt
his
aldres
wæs
ende
gegongen,
|
|
dogera
dægrim.
Denum
eallum
wearð
|
|
æfter
þam
wælræse
willa
gelumpen.
|
|
Hæfde
þa
gefælsod,
se
þe
ær
feorran
com,
|
825
|
snotor
7
swyðferhð,
sele
Hroðgares,
|
148r
|
genered
wið |
niðe.
Nihtweorce
gefeh,
|
|
ellenmærþum.
Hæfde
East-Denum,
|
|
Geatmecga
leod,
gilp
gelæsted.
|
|
Swylce
oncyþðe
ealle
gebette,
|
830
|
inwidsorge,
þe
hie
ær
drugon,
|
|
7
for
þreanydum
þolian
scoldon
|
|
torn
unlytel.
Þæt
wæs
tacen
sweotol,
|
|
syþðan
hildedeor
hond
alegde,
|
|
earm
7
eaxle.
Þær
wæs
eal
geador
|
835
|
Grendles
grape
under
geapne
hrof.
|
|
.XIII. |
|
ÐA
wæs
on
morgen
mine
gefræge
|
|
ymb
þa
gifhealle
guðrinc
monig.
|
|
Ferdon
folctogan
feorran
7
nean
|
|
geond
widwegas
wundor
sceawian,
|
840
|
laþes
lastas.
No
his
lifgedal
|
|
sarlic
þuhte
secga
ænegum
|
|
þara
þe
tirleases
trode
sceawode,
|
|
hu
he
werigmod
on
weg
þanon,
|
|
niða
ofercumen,
on
nicera
mere,
|
845
|
fæge
7
geflymed,
feorhlastas
bær.
|
|
Ðær
wæs
on
blode
brim
weallende,
|
|
atol
yða
geswing
eal
gemenged
|
|
Folio 148v |
|
haton
heolfre;
|
heorodreore
weol,
|
|
deaðfæge
deog.
Siððan,
dreama
leas,
|
850
|
in
fenfreoðo
feorh
alegde,
|
|
hæþene
sawle.
Þær
him
hel
onfeng.
|
|
Þanon
eft
gewiton
ealdgesiðas,
|
|
swylce
geong
manig,
of
gomenwaþe
|
|
fram
mere,
modge
mearum
ridan,
|
855
|
beornas
on
blancum.
Ðær
wæs
Beowulfes
|
|
mærðo
mæned.
Monig
oft
gecwæð
|
|
þætte
suð
ne
norð
be
sæm
tweonum,
|
|
ofer
eormengrund,
oþer
nænig
|
|
under
swegles
begong
selra
nære
|
860
|
rondhæbbendra,
rices
wyrðra.
|
|
Ne
hie
huru
winedrihten
wiht
ne
logon,
|
|
glædne
Hroðgar,
ac
þæt
wæs
god
cyning.
|
|
Hwilum
heaþorofe
hleapan
leton,
|
|
on
geflit
faran
fealwe
mearas,
|
865
|
ðær
him
foldwegas
fægere
þuhton,
|
|
cystum
cuðe.
Hwilum
cyninges
þegn
|
|
guma
gilphlæden,
gidda
gemyndig,
|
|
se
ðe
ealfela
ealdgesegena
|
|
worn
gemunde;
word
oþer
fand
|
870
|
soðe
gebunden.
Secg
eft
ongan
|
149r
|
sið
Beowulfes
snyttrum |
styrian,
|
|
7
on
sped
wrecan
spel
gerade,
|
|
wordum
wrixlan.
Welhwylc
gecwæð
|
|
þæt
he
fram
Sigemunde
secgan
hyrde,
|
875
|
ellendædum,
uncuþes
fela
|
|
Wælsinges
gewin,
wide
siðas,
|
|
þara
þe
gumena
bearn
gearwe
ne
wiston,
|
|
fæhðe
7
fyrena,
buton
Fitela
mid
hine,
|
|
þonne
he
swulces
hwæt
secgan
wolde,
|
880
|
eam
his
nefan,
swa
hie
a
wæron
|
|
æt
niða
gehwam
nydgesteallan.
|
|
Hæfdon
ealfela
eotena
cynnes
|
|
sweordum
gesæged.
Sigemunde
gesprong
|
|
æfter
deaðdæge
dom
unlytel.
|
885
|
Syþðan
wiges
heard
wyrm
acwealde,
|
|
hordes
hyrde,
he
under
harne
stan
|
|
æþelinges
bearn
ana
geneðde
|
|
frecne
dæde,
ne
wæs
him
Fitela
mid.
|
|
Hwæþre
him
gesælde
ðæt
þæt
swurd
þurhwod
|
890
|
wrætlicne
wyrm,
þæt
hit
on
wealle
ætstod,
|
|
dryhtlic
iren.
Draca
morðre
swealt.
|
|
Hæfde
aglæca
elne
gegongen,
|
|
þæt
he
beahhordes
brucan
moste
|
149v
|
selfes
dome.
|
Sæbat
gehleod,
|
895
|
bær
on
bearm
scipes
beorhte
frætwa,
|
|
Wælses
eafera.
Wyrm
hat
gemealt.
|
|
Se
wæs
wreccena
wide
mærost
|
|
ofer
werþeode,
wigendra
hleo,
|
|
ellendædum.
He
þæs
ær
onðah.
|
900
|
Siððan
Heremodes
hild
sweðrode,
|
|
earfoð'
7
ellen.
He
mid
eotenum
wearð
|
|
on
feonda
geweald
forð
forlacen,
|
|
snude
forsended.
Hine
sorhwylmas
|
|
lemede
to
lange.
He
his
leodum
wearð,
|
905
|
eallum
æþellingum,
to
aldorceare.
|
|
Swylce
oft
bemearn
ærran
mælum
|
|
swiðferhþes
sið,
snotor
ceorl
monig,
|
|
se
þe
him
bealwa
to
bote
gelyfde,
|
|
þæt
þæt
ðeodnes
bearn
geþeon
scolde,
|
910
|
fæderæþelum
onfon,
folc
gehealdan,
|
|
hord
7
hleoburh,
hæleþa
rice,
|
|
.eðel.
Scyldinga.
He
þær
eallum
wearð,
|
|
mæg
Higelaces,
manna
cynne,
|
|
freondum
gefægra.
Hine
fyren
onwod.
|
915
|
Hwilum
flitende
fealwe
stræte
|
|
mearum
mæton.
Ða
wæs
morgenleoht
|
|
Folio 150r |
|
scofen
7
scynded.
|
Eode
scealc
monig
|
|
swiðhicgende
to
sele
þam
hean
|
|
searowundor
seon.
Swylce
self
cyning
|
920
|
of
brydbure,
beahhorda
weard,
|
|
tryddode
tirfæst
getrume
micle,
|
|
cystum
gecyþed;
7
his
cwen
mid
him
|
|
medostigge
mæt
mægþa
hose.
|
|
.XIIII. |
|
Hroðgar
maþelode.
He
to
healle
geong,
|
925
|
stod
on
stapole,
geseah
steapne
hrof
|
|
golde
fahne
7
Grendles
hond.
|
|
"Ðisse
ansyne
Alwealdan
þanc
|
|
lungre
gelimpe.
Fela
ic
laþes
gebad,
|
|
grynna
æt
Grendle.
A
mæg
God
wyrcan
|
930
|
wunder
æfter
wundre,
wuldres
Hyrde.
|
|
Ðæt
wæs
ungeara
þæt
ic
ænigra
me
|
|
weana
ne
wende
to
widan
feore,
|
|
bote
gebidan,
þonne
blode
fah
|
|
husa
selest
heorodreorig
stod,
|
935
|
wea
widscofen;
witena
gehwylcne
|
|
ðara
þe
ne
wendon
þæt
hie
wideferhð
|
|
leoda
landgeweorc
laþum
beweredon,
|
|
Folio 150v |
|
|
scuccum
7
scinnum.
Nu
scealc
hafað
|
|
þurh
Drihtnes
miht
dæd
gefremede,
|
940
|
ðe
we
ealle
ær
ne
meahton
|
|
snyttrum
besyrwan.
Hwæt!
þæt
secgan
mæg,
|
|
efne
swa
hwylc
mægþa
swa
ðone
magan
cende,
|
|
æfter
gumcynnum,
gyf
heo
gyt
lyfað,
|
|
þæt
hyre
Ealdmetod
este
wære
|
945
|
bearngebyrdo.
Nu
ic
Beowulf,
þec,
|
|
secg
betsta,
me
for
sunu
wylle
|
|
freogan
on
ferhþe.
Heald
forð
tela
|
|
niwe
sibbe.
Ne
bið
þe
ænigre
gad
|
|
worolde
wilna,
þe
ic
geweald
hæbbe.
|
950
|
Ful
oft
ic
for
læssan
lean
teohhode,
|
|
hordweorþunge
hnahran
rince,
|
|
sæmran
æt
sæcce.
Þu
þe
self
hafast
|
|
dædum
gefremed,
þæt
þin
dæd
lyfað
|
|
awa
to
aldre.
Alwalda
þec
|
955
|
gode
forgylde,
swa
he
nu
gyt
dyde."
|
|
Beowulf
maþelode,
bearn
Ecþeowes:
|
|
"We
þæt
ellenweorc
estum
miclum,
|
|
feohtan
fremedon,
frecne
geneðdon
|
|
eafoð
uncuþes.
Uþe
ic
swiþor
|
960
|
þæt
ðu
hine
selfne
geseon
moste,
|
|
feond
on
frætewum
fylwerigne.
|
|
Folio 151r |
|
Ic
him
hrædlice
|
heardan
clammum
|
|
on
wælbedde
wriþan
þohte,
|
|
þæt
he
for
handgripe
minum
scolde
|
965
|
licgean
lifbysig,
butan
his
lic
swice.
|
|
Ic
hine
ne
mihte,
þa
Metod
nolde,
|
|
ganges
getwæman:
no
ic
him
þæs
georne
ætfealh,
|
|
feorhgeniðlan.
Wæs
to
foremihtig,
|
|
feond
on
feþe.
Hwæþere,
he
his
folme
forlet
|
970
|
to
lifwraþe
last
weardian,
|
|
earm
7
eaxle.
No
þær
ænige
swa
þeah
|
|
feasceaft
guma,
frofre
gebohte.
|
|
No
þy
leng
leofað
laðgeteona
|
|
synnum
geswenced,
ac
hyne
sar
hafað
|
975
|
in
niðgripe,
nearwe
befongen
|
|
balwon
bendum.
Ðær
abidan
sceal,
|
|
maga
mane
fah,
miclan
domes,
|
|
hu
him
scir
Metod
scrifan
wille."
|
|
Ða
wæs
swigra
secg,
sunu
Eclafes,
|
980
|
on
gylpspræce
guðgeweorca,
|
|
siþðan
æþelingas
eorles
cræfte
|
|
ofer
heanne
hrof
hand
sceawedon,
|
|
feondes
fingras.
Foran
æghwylc
wæs
|
|
steda
nægla
gehwylc,
style
gelicost,
|
|
Folio 151v |
|
hæþenes
handsporu,
hilde|rinces
|
|
egl
unheoru.
Æghwylc
gecwæð
|
|
þæt
him
heardra
nan
hrinan
wolde,
|
|
iren
ærgod,
þæt
ðæs
ahlæcan
|
|
blodge
beadufolme
onberan
wolde.
|
|
.XV. |
990
|
ÐA
wæs
haten
hreþe
Heort
innanweard
|
|
folmum
gefrætwod.
Fela
þæra
wæs
|
|
wera
7
wifa,
þe
þæt
winreced,
|
|
gestsele
gyredon.
Goldfag
scinon,
|
|
web
æfter
wagum,
wundorsiona
fela
|
995
|
secga
gehwylcum,
þara
þe
on
swylc
starað.
|
|
Wæs
þæt
beorhte
bold
tobrocen
swiðe
|
|
eal
inneweard
irenbendum
fæst,
|
|
heorras
tohlidene.
Hrof
ana
genæs
|
|
ealles
ansund,
þe
se
aglæca
|
1000
|
fyrendædum
fag
on
fleam
gewand,
|
|
aldres
orwena.
No
þæt
yðe
byð
|
|
to
befleonne,
fremme
se
þe
wille;
|
|
ac
gesacan
sceal,
sawlberendra,
|
|
nyde
genydde,
niþða
bearna,
|
1005
|
grundbuendra
gearwe
stowe,
|
|
þær
his
lichoma,
legerbedde
fæst,
|
|
swefeþ
æfter
symle.
Þa
wæs
sæl
7
mæl
|
152r
|
þæt
to
healle |
gang
Healfdenes
sunu.
|
|
Wolde
self
cyning
symbel
þicgan.
|
1010
|
Ne
gefrægen
ic
þa
mægþe
maran
weorode
|
|
ymb
hyra
sincgyfan
sel
gebæran.
|
|
Bugon
þa
to
bence
blædagande,
|
|
fylle
gefægon.
Fægere
geþægon
|
|
medoful
manig,
magas
þara
|
1015
|
swiðhicgende
on
sele
þam
hean,
|
|
Hroðgar
7
Hroþulf.
Heorot
innan
wæs
|
|
freondum
afylled.
Nalles
facenstafas
|
|
Þeod-Scyldingas
þenden
fremedon.
|
|
Forgeaf
þa
Beowulfe
brand
Healfdenes;
|
1020
|
segen
gyldenne
sigores
to
leane,
|
|
hroden
hiltecumbor,
helm,
7
byrnan.
|
|
Mære
maðþumsweord
manige
gesawon
|
|
beforan
beorn
beran.
Beowulf
geþah
|
|
ful
on
flette.
No
he
þære
feohgyfte
|
1025
|
for
scotenum
scami
gan
ðorfte.
|
|
Ne
gefrægn
ic
freondlicor
feow
er
madmas
|
|
golde
gegyrede
gummanna
fela
|
|
in
ealobence
oðrum
gesellan.
|
|
Ym
b
þæs
helmes
hrof,
heafodbeorge,
|
1030
|
wirum
bewunden,
walan
utan
heold,
|
152v
|
þæt
him
fela |
la
f
frecne
ne
meahton,
|
|
scurheard,
sceþ
ða
n
,
þonne
scyldfreca
|
|
ongean
gramum
g
angan
scolde.
|
|
Heht
ða
eorla
hleo
eah
ta
mearas,
|
1035
|
fætedhleore,
on
flet
teon
|
|
in
u
nder
eoderas.
Þara
anum
stod
|
|
sadol
searwum
fah,
since
gewurþad.
|
|
Þæt
wæs
hildesetl
heahcyninges,
|
|
ðonne
sweorda
gelac
sunu
Healfdenes
|
1040
|
efnan
wolde.
Næfre
on
ore
læg
|
|
widcuþes
wig,
ðonne
walu
feollon.
|
|
7
ða
Beowulfe
bega
gehwæþres
|
|
eodor
Ingwina
onweald
geteah,
|
|
wicga
7
wæpna.
Het
hine
wel
brucan.
|
1045
|
Swa
manlice
mære
þeoden
|
|
hordweard
hæleþa,
heaþoræsas
geald
|
|
mearum
7
madmum.
Swa
hy
næfre
man
lyhð,
|
|
se
þe
secgan
wile
soð
æfter
rihte.
|
|
.XVI.
|
|
ÐA
gyt
æghwylcum
eorla
drihten
|
1050
|
þara
þe
mid
Beowulfe
brimleade
teah,
|
|
on
þære
medubence
maþðum
gesealde,
|
153r
|
yr|felafe,
7
þone
ænne
heht
|
|
golde
forgy
l
dan
,
þone
ðe
Grendel
ær
|
|
mane
acwealde.
Swa
he
hyra
ma
wolde,
|
1055
|
nefne
him
witi
g
God
wyrd
forstode,
|
|
7
ðæs
mannes
mod.
Me
tod
eallum
weold
|
|
gumena
cynnes,
swa
h
e
nu
git
deð.
|
|
Forþan
bið
andgit
æghwær
selest,
|
|
ferhðes
foreþanc.
Fela
sceal
g
e
bidan
|
1060
|
leofes
7
laþes
se
þe
longe
her
|
|
on
ðyssum
windagum
worolde
bruceð.
|
|
Þær
wæs
sang
7
sweg
samod
ætgædere
|
|
fore
Healfdenes
hildewisan;
|
|
gomenwudu
greted,
gid
oft
wrecen.
|
1065
|
Ðonne
healgamen
Hroþgares
scop
|
|
æfter
medobence
mænan
scolde,
|
|
Finnes
eaferum,
ða
hie
se
fær
begeat:
|
|
Hæleð
Healfdena,
Hnæf
Scyldinga,
|
|
in
Freswæle
feallan
scolde.
|
1070
|
Ne
huru
Hildeburh
herian
þorfte
|
|
eotena
treowe.
Unsynnum
wearð
|
|
beloren
leofum
æt
þam
hildplegan,
|
|
bearnum
7
broðrum.
Hie
on
gebyrd
hruron,
|
153v
|
gare |
w
unde
.
Þæt
wæs
geomuru
ides.
|
1075
|
Nalles
holinga
H
oces
dohtor
|
|
meotodsceaft
bemearn,
sy
þðan
morgen
com.
|
|
Ða
heo
under
swegle
ge
seon
meahte
|
|
morþorbealo
maga.
Þ
ær
he
ær
mæste
heold
|
|
worolde
wynne,
wig
ealle
fornam
|
1080
|
Finnes
þegnas,
nemne
feaum
anum,
|
|
þæt
he
ne
mehte
on
þæm
meðelstede
|
|
wig
Hengeste
wiht
gefeohtan,
|
|
ne
þa
wealafe
wige
forþringan
|
|
þeodnes
ðegne.
Ac
hig
him
geþingo
budon,
|
1085
|
þæt
hie
him
oðer
flet
eal
gerymdon,
|
|
healle
7
heahsetl,
þæt
hie
healfre
geweald
|
|
wið
eotena
bearn
agan
moston.
|
|
7
æt
feohgyftum
Folcwaldan
sunu
|
|
dogra
gehwylce
Dene
weorþode,
|
1090
|
Hengestes
heap
hringum
wenede,
|
|
efne
swa
swiðe
sincgestreonum
|
|
fættan
goldes
swa
he
Fresena
cyn
|
|
on
beorsele
byldan
wolde.
|
|
Ða
hie
getruwedon
on
twa
healfa
|
1095
|
fæste
frioðuwære.
Fin
Hengeste
|
154r
|
elne
unflitme
aðum |
benemde
|
|
þæt
he
þa
wealafe
weotena
dome
|
|
arum
heolde,
þæt
ðær
ænig
mon
|
|
wordum
ne
worcum
wære
ne
bræce,
|
1100
|
ne
þurh
inwitsearo
æfre
gemænden,
|
|
ðeah
hie
hira
beaggyfan
banan
folgedon,
|
|
ðeodenlease,
þa
him
swa
geþearfod
wæs.
|
|
Gyf
þonne
Frysna
hwylc
frecnen
spræ
ce
|
|
ðæs
morþorhetes
myndgiend
wære,
|
1105
|
þonne
hit
sweordes
ecg
syððan
scolde.
|
|
Að
wæs
geæfned,
7
icge,
gold,
|
|
ahæfen
of
horde.
Here-Scyldinga
|
|
betst
beadorinca
wæs
on
bæl
gearu.
|
|
Æt
þæm
ade
wæs
eþgesyne
|
1110
|
swatfah
syrce,
swyn
ealgylden,
|
|
eofer
irenheard,
æþeling
manig
|
|
wundum
awyrded.
Sume
on
wæle
crungon.
|
|
Het
ða
Hildeburh
æt
Hnæfes
ade
|
|
hire
selfre
sunu
sweoloðe
befæstan,
|
1115
|
banfatu
bærnan,
7
on
bæl
don.
|
|
Earme
on
eaxle,
ides
gnornode,
|
|
geomrode
giddum.
Guðrinc
astah,
|
154v
|
wand |
to
wolcnum.
Wælfyra
mæst
|
|
hlynode
fo
r
hlawe.
Hafelan
multon,
|
1120
|
bengeato
bu
rston
,
ðonne
blod
ætspranc,
|
|
laðbite
lices.
Lig
ealle
forswealg,
|
|
gæsta
g
ifrost
,
þara
ðe
þær
guð
fornam
|
|
bega
folces.
Wæs
hira
blæd
scacen.
|
|
.XVII.
|
|
G
Ewiton
him
ða
wigend
wica
neosian,
|
1125
|
freondum
befeallen,
Frysland
geseon,
|
|
hamas
7
heaburh.
Hengest
ða
gyt
|
|
wælfagne
winter
wunode
mid
Finne
|
|
ea
l
unhlitine.
Eard
gemunde,
|
|
þeah
þe
he
meahte
on
mere
drifan
|
1130
|
hringedstefnan.
Holm
storme
weol,
|
|
won
wið
winde;
winter
yþe
beleac
|
|
isgebinde,
oþ
ðæt
oþer
com,
|
|
gear
in
geardas,
swa
nu
gyt
deð,
|
|
þa
ðe
syngales
sele
bewitiað,
|
1135
|
wuldortorhtan
weder.
Ða
wæs
winter
scacen,
|
|
fæger
foldan
bearm.
Fundode
wrecca,
|
|
gist
of
geardum.
He
to
gyrnwræce
|
155r
|
swiðor |
þohte
þonne
to
sælade,
|
|
gif
he
tor
nge
mot
þurhteon
mihte,
|
1140
|
þæt
he
eote
na
bearn
inne
gemunde.
|
|
Swa
he
ne
fo
r
wyrnde
woroldrædenne,
|
|
þonne
him
Hunlafing,
hildeleoman,
|
|
billa
sele
st
on
bearm
dyde.
|
|
Þæs
wæron
mid
eoten
um
ecge
cuðe.
|
1145
|
Swylce
ferhðfrecan
Fin
eft
begeat
|
|
sweordbealo
sliðen
æt
hi
s
selfes
ham.
|
|
Siþðan
grimne
gripe
Guðlaf
ond
Oslaf,
|
|
æfter
sæsiðe,
sorge
mændon,
|
|
ætwiton
weana
dæl.
Ne
meahte
wæfre
mod
|
1150
|
forhabban
in
hreþre.
Ða
wæs
heal
hroden
|
|
feonda
feorum,
swilce
Fin
slægen,
|
|
cyning
on
corþre,
7
seo
cwen
numen.
|
|
Sceotend
Scyldinga
to
scypon
feredon
|
|
eal
ingesteald
eorðcyninges,
|
1155
|
swylce
hie
æt
Finnes
ham
findan
meahton
|
|
sigla
searogimma.
Hie
on
sælade
|
|
drihtlice
wif
to
Denum
feredon,
|
155v
|
læddon |
to
l
eodum
.
Leoð
wæs
asungen,
|
|
gleoman
nes
gyd.
Gamen
eft
astah,
|
1160
|
beorhtode
b
encsweg
;
byrelas
sealdon
|
|
win
of
w
underfatum
.
Þa
cwom
Wealhþeo
forð,
|
1162
a
b
|
g
an
under
gyldnum
beage
þær
þa
godan,
|
1163
a
b
|
twegen
sæton,
suhtergefæde
r
an
.
|
1164
a
b
|
Þa
gyt
wæs
hiera
sib
ætgædere
,
æghwylc
|
1165
a
b
|
oðrum
trywe
.
Swylce
þær
Hunferþ
þyle
|
1166
a
b
|
æt
fotum
sæt
frean
Scyldinga
.
|
1167
a
b
|
Gehwylc
hiora
his
ferhþe
treowde
,
|
1168
a
b
|
þæt
he
hæfde
mod
micel
,
þeah
þe
he
his
magum
|
1169
a
b
|
nære
arfæst
æt
ecga
gelacum
.
|
1170
a
|
Spræc
ða
ides
Scyldinga
:
|
|
"Onfoh
þissum
fulle,
freodrihten
min,
|
|
sinces
brytta.
Þu
on
sælum
wes,
|
|
goldwine
gumena,
7
to
Geatum
spræc
|
|
mildum
wordum,
swa
sceal
man
don.
|
1175
|
Beo
wið
Geatas
glæd,
geofena
gemyndig;
|
|
nean
7
feorran
þu
nu
hafast.
|
156r
|
Me
man
sægde
þæt |
þ
u
ð
e
for
sunu
wolde
|
|
hereric
an
hab
ban
.
Heorot
is
gefælsod,
|
|
beahsele
beor
hta
.
Bruc,
þenden
þu
mote,
|
1180
|
manigra
me
do
,
7
þinum
magum
læf
|
|
folc
7
rice,
þonne
ðu
forð
scyle
|
|
metodsceaft
seon.
Ic
minne
can
|
|
glædne
Hroþulf,
þæt
he
þa
g
eo
goðe
wile
|
|
arum
healdan,
gyf
þu
ær
þonne
he,
|
1185
|
wine
Scildinga,
worold
oflætest.
|
|
Wene
ic
þæt
he
mid
gode
gyldan
wille
|
|
uncran
eaferan,
gif
he
þæt
eal
gemon,
|
|
hwæt
wit
to
willan
7
to
worðmyndum
|
|
umborwesendum
ær
arna
gefremedon."
|
1190
|
Hwearf
þa
bi
bence,
þær
hyre
byre
wæron,
|
|
Hreðric
7
Hroðmund,
7
hæleþa
bearn
|
|
giogoð
ætgædere.
Þær
se
goda
sæt
|
|
Beowulf
Geata
be
þæm
gebroðrum
twæm
.
|
|
.XVIII.
|
|
HIm
wæs
ful
boren,
7
freondlaþu
|
1195
|
wordum
bewægned
7
wundengold
|
|
estum
geeawed,
earmreade
twa,
|
156v
|
hrægl
7
hrin|
ga
s
,
healsbeaga
mæst
|
|
þara
þe
ic
on
fol
dan
ge
frægen
hæbbe.
|
|
Nænigne
ic
under
sweg
l
e
selran
hyrde
|
1200
|
hordmadmum
hæleþa,
syþðan
Hama
ætwæg
|
|
to
herebyrhtan
byri
g
Brosinga
mene,
|
|
sigle
7
sincfæt.
Se
aroniðas
fealh
|
|
Eormenrices,
geceas
ecne
ræd.
|
|
Þone
hring
hæfde,
Higelac
Geata,
|
1205
|
nefa
Swertinges,
nyhstan
siðe,
|
|
siðþan
he
under
segne
sinc
ealgode,
|
|
wælreaf
werede.
Hyne
wyrd
fornam,
|
|
syþðan
he
for
wlenco
wean
ahsode,
|
|
fæhðe
to
Frysum.
He
þa
frætwe
wæg,
|
1210
|
eorclanstanas
ofer
yða
ful,
|
|
rice
þeoden.
He
under
rande
gecranc.
|
|
Gehwearf
þa
in
Francna
fæþm
feorh
cyninges
|
|
breostgewædu
7
se
beah
somod.
|
|
Wyrsan
wigfrecan
wæl
reafeden
|
1215
|
æfter
guðsceare.
Geata
leode
|
|
hreawic
heoldon.
Heal
swege
onfeng.
|
|
Wealhðeo
maþelode.
Heo
fore
þæm
werede
spræc:
|
|
"Bruc
ðisses
beages,
Beowulf
leofa,
|
157r
|
hyse
mid
hæle,
|
7
þ
isses
hrægles
neot;
|
1220
|
þeo
gestreona,
7
geþeoh
tela,
|
|
cen
þec
mid
cræfte,
7
þyssum
cnyht
um
wes
|
|
lara
liðe.
Ic
þe
þæs
lean
geman.
|
|
Ha
fast
þu
gefered
þæt
ðe
feor
7
neah
|
|
ealne
widefe
rhþ
weras
ehtigað,
|
1225
|
efne
swa
side
swa
sæ
beb
ugeð
|
|
windgeard,
weallas.
Wes
þenden
þu
lifige,
|
|
æþ
eling
,
eadig.
Ic
þe
an
tela
|
|
sincgestreona.
Beo
þu
suna
minum
|
|
dædum
gedefe,
dreamhealde
n
de
!
|
1230
|
Her
is
æghwylc
eorl
oþrum
getrywe,
|
|
modes
milde,
mandrihtne
h
leo
;
|
|
þegnas
sy
n
don
geþwære,
þeod
ealgearo,
|
|
druncne
dry
ht
guman
.
Doð
swa
ic
bidde."
|
|
Eode
þa
to
setle.
Þær
wæs
symbla
cyst,
|
1235
|
druncon
win
weras.
Wyrd
ne
cuþon,
|
|
geosceaft
grimne,
swa
hit
agangen
wearð
|
|
eorla
manegum,
syþðan
æfen
cwom.
|
|
7
him
Hroþgar
gewat
to
hofe
sinum,
|
|
rice
to
ræste.
Reced
weardode
|
1240
|
unrim
eorla,
swa
hie
oft
ær
dydon.
|
|
Bencþelu
beredon.
Hit
geondbræded
wearð
|
|
beddum
7
bolstrum.
Beorscealca
sum
|
157v
|
fus
7
fæge
fletræste
ge|
beag
.
|
|
Setton
him
to
heafdon
hilderandas,
|
1245
|
b
ordwudu
beorhtan.
Þær
on
bence
wæs
|
|
ofer
æþelinge
yþgesene
|
|
heaþosteapa
helm,
hringed
byrne,
|
|
þrecwudu
þrymlic.
Wæs
þ
eaw
hyra
|
|
þæt
hie
oft
wæron
an
wig
gearwe
|
1250
|
ge
æt
ham
ge
on
herge,
ge
gehwæþer
þara,
|
|
efne
swylce
mæla
swylce
hira
mandryhtne
|
|
þearf
gesælde.
Wæs
seo
þeod
tilu.
|
|
.XVIIII.
|
|
Sigon
þa
to
slæpe.
Sum
sare
angeald
|
|
æfenræste,
swa
him
ful
oft
gelamp,
|
1255
|
siþðan
goldsele
Grendel
w
arode
,
|
|
unriht
æfnde
oþ
þæt
ende
becwom,
|
|
swylt
æfter
synnum.
Þæt
gesyne
wearþ,
|
|
widcuþ
werum,
þætte
wrecend
þa
gyt
|
|
lifde
æfter
laþum
lange
þrage
|
1260
|
æfter
guðceare.
Grendles
modor,
|
|
ides
aglæcwif
yrmþe
gemunde,
|
|
se
þe
wæteregesan
wunian
scolde,
|
|
cealde
streamas,
siþðan
camp
wearð
|
|
to
ecgbanan
angan
breþer,
|
1265
|
fæderenmæge.
He
þa
fag
gewat,
|
158r
|
morþre
gemearcod,
|
ma
n
d
ream
fleon,
|
|
westen
warode.
Þ
anon
woc
fela
|
|
geosceaftgasta.
Wæs
þæra
Grend
el
sum,
|
|
heorowearh
hetelic,
se
æt
Heorote
fand
|
1270
|
wæccendne
wer
wiges
bidan.
|
|
Þær
him
aglæca
ætgræpe
wearð.
|
|
Hwæþre
he
gemunde
mægenes
strenge,
|
|
gimfæste
gife,
ðe
him
God
sealde,
|
|
7
him
to
Anwaldan
are
gelyfde,
|
1275
|
frofre
7
fultum.
Ðy
he
þone
feon
d
ofercwom,
|
|
gehnægde
helle
gast.
Þa
he
hean
gewat,
|
|
dreame
bedæled,
deaþwic
seon,
|
|
mancynnes
feond.
7
his
modor
þa
gyt,
|
|
gifre
7
galgmod
gegan
wolde
|
1280
|
sorhfulne
sið
sunu
þeod
wrecan.
|
|
Com
þa
to
Heorote,
ðær
Hring-Dene
|
|
geond
þæt
sæld
swæfun.
Þa
ðær
sona
wearð
|
|
edhwyrft
eorlum,
siþðan
inne
fealh
|
|
Grendles
modor.
Wæs
se
gryre
læssa
|
1285
|
efne
swa
micle,
swa
bið
mægþa
cræft
|
|
wiggryre
wifes,
bewæpned
men,
|
|
þonne
heoru
bunden,
hamere
geþuren,
|
|
sweord
swate
fah
swin
ofer
helme
|
158v
|
ecgum |
dyhttig
andweard
scireð.
|
1290
|
Þa
wæs
on
hea
lle
he
ardecg
togen
|
|
sweord
ofer
setlum,
sidrand
manig
|
|
hafen
handa
fæst.
Helm
ne
gemunde,
|
|
byrnan
side,
þa
hine
se
br
oga
angeat.
|
|
Heo
wæs
on
ofste,
wolde
ut
þanon,
|
1295
|
feore
beorgan,
þa
heo
onfunden
wæs.
|
|
Hraðe
heo
æþelinga
anne
hæfde
|
|
fæste
befangen,
þa
heo
to
fenne
gang.
|
|
Se
wæs
Hroþgare
hæleþa
l
eofost
|
|
on
gesiðes
had
be
sæm
tweonum,
|
1300
|
rice
randwiga,
þone
ðe
heo
on
ræste
abreat,
|
|
blædfæstne
beorn.
Næs
Beowulf
ðær,
|
|
ac
wæs
oþer
in
ær
geteohhod
|
|
æfter
maþðumgife
mærum
Geate.
|
|
Hream
wearð
in
Heorote.
Heo
under
heolfre
genam
|
1305
|
cuþe
folme.
Cearu
wæs
geniwod,
|
|
geworden
in
wicun.
Ne
wæs
þæt
gewrixle
til
|
|
þæt
hie
on
ba
healfa
bicgan
scoldon
|
|
freonda
feorum.
Þa
wæs
frod
cyning,
|
159r
|
har
hilderinc,
on
hreon |
mo
de
,
|
1310
|
syðþan
he
aldorþegn
unly
figendne
,
|
|
þone
deorestan,
deadne
wisse.
|
|
Hra
þe
wæs
to
bure
Beowulf
fetod
|
|
sigoreadig
secg.
Samod
ærdæge
|
|
eode
eorla
sum,
æþele
cempa
|
1315
|
self
mid
gesiðum
þær
se
snot
e
ra
bad.
|
|
Hwæþre
him
A
l
walda
æf
re
wille
|
|
æfter
weaspelle
wyrpe
gefremman.
|
|
Gang
ða
æfter
flore
fyrdwyrðe
man
|
|
mid
his
handscale,
healwudu
dynede,
|
1320
|
þæt
he
þone
wisan
wordum
hnæg
de
|
|
frean
Ingwina;
frægn
gif
him
wære
|
|
æfter
neodlaðu
niht
getæse.
|
|
.XX.
|
|
Hroðgar
maþelode,
helm
Scyldinga:
|
|
"Ne
frin
þu
æfter
sælum.
Sorh
is
geniwod
|
1325
|
Denigea
leodum.
Dead
is
Æschere,
|
|
Yrmenlafes
yldra
broþor,
|
|
min
runwita
7
min
rædbora,
|
|
eaxlgestealla,
ðonne
we
on
orlege
|
|
hafelan
weredon,
þonne
hniton
feþan,
|
159v
|
eoferas
cnysedan.
|
S
wy
lc
eorl
s
colde
|
|
wesan
ærgod,
swylc
Æsc
here
wæs
!
|
|
Wearð
him
on
Heorote
to
handbanan
|
|
wælgæst
wæfre.
Ic
ne
wat
hwæþer
|
|
atol
æse
wlanc
eftsiðas
teah,
|
1335
|
fylle
gefrægnod.
Heo
þa
fæhðe
wræc
|
|
þe
þu
gystran
niht
Gren
d
el
cwealdest
|
|
þurh
hæstne
had
heardum
clammum,
|
|
forþan
he
to
lange
leode
mine
|
|
wanode
7
wyrde.
He
æt
wige
gecrang,
|
1340
|
ealdres
scyldig.
7
nu
oþer
cwom,
|
|
mihtig
manscaða,
wolde
hyre
mæg
wrecan,
|
|
ge
feor
hafað
fæhðe
gestæled,
|
|
þæs
þe
þincean
mæg
þegne
monegum,
|
|
se
þe
æfter
sincgyfan
on
sefan
greoteþ.
|
1345
|
Hreþerbealo
hearde!
Nu
seo
hand
ligeð,
|
|
se
þe
eow
welhwylcra
wilna
dohte.
|
|
Ic
þæt
londbuend,
leode
mine,
|
|
selerædende
secgan
hyrde
|
|
þæt
hie
gesawon
swylce
twegen
|
1350
|
micle
mearcstapan
moras
healdan,
|
|
ellorgæstas.
Ðæra
oðer
wæs,
|
|
þæs
þe
hie
gewislicost
gewitan
meahton,
|
|
idese
onlicnæs.
Oðer
earmsceapen
|
160r
|
on
weres
wæstmum
wræclastas |
træd,
|
1355
|
næfne
he
wæs
mara
þonne
ænig
m
an
oðer.
|
|
Þone
on
geardagum
Grendel
nem
do
n
.
|
|
Foldbuende
no
hie
fæder
cunnon,
|
|
hwæ
þer
him
ænig
wæs
ær
acenned
|
|
dyrnra
gasta.
Hie
dygel
lond
|
1360
|
warigeað,
wulfhleoþu,
windi
ge
næssas,
|
|
frecne
fengelad,
ðær
fyrgenstream
|
|
under
næssa
genipu
niþer
gewiteð,
|
|
flod
under
foldan.
Nis
þæt
feor
heonon
|
|
milgemearces,
þæt
se
mere
stan
d
eð
.
|
1365
|
Ofer
þæm
hongiað
hrinde
bearwas,
|
|
wudu
wyrtum
fæst
wæter
oferhelmað.
|
|
Þær
mæg
nihta
gehwæm
niðwundor
seon,
|
|
fyr
on
flode.
No
þæs
frod
leofað
|
|
gumena
bearna,
þæt
þone
grund
wite.
|
1370
|
Ðeah
þe
hæðstapa
hundum
geswenced,
|
|
heorot
hornum
trum,
holtwudu
sece,
|
|
feorran
geflymed,
ær
he
feorh
seleð,
|
|
aldor
on
ofre,
ær
he
in
wille
|
|
hafelan
hafenian
.
Nis
þæt
heoru
stow.
|
1375
|
Þonon
yðgeblond
up
astigeð,
|
|
won
to
wolcnum,
þonne
wind
styreþ
|
|
lað
gewidru,
oð
þæt
lyft
drysmaþ,
|
|
roderas
reotað.
Nu
is
se
ræd
gelang
|
160v
|
eft
æt |
þ
e
anum.
Eard
git
ne
const,
|
1380
|
frecne
stowe
ðær
þu
findan
miht
|
|
felasinnigne
secg.
S
ec
gif
þu
dyrre.
|
|
Ic
þe
þa
fæhðe
feo
leanige,
|
|
ealdgestreonum,
swa
ic
ær
dyde
|
|
wund
un
golde
,
gyf
þu
on
weg
cymest."
|
|
.XXI.
|
1385
|
B
EOWVLF
maþelode,
bearn
Ecgþeo
w
es
.
|
|
"Ne
sorga,
snotor
guma.
Selre
bið
æghwæm
|
|
þæt
he
his
freond
wrece
þonne
he
fela
murne.
|
|
Ure
æghwylc
sceal
ende
gebidan
|
|
worolde
lifes.
Wyrce
se
þe
mote
|
1390
|
domes
ær
deaþe.
Þæt
bið
drihtguman,
|
|
unlifgendum,
æfter
selest.
|
|
Aris,
rices
weard,
uton
hraþe
feran,
|
|
Grendles
magan
gang
sceawigan.
|
|
Ic
hit
þe
gehate:
no
he
on
helm
losaþ,
|
1395
|
ne
on
foldan
fæþm,
ne
on
fyrgenholt,
|
|
ne
on
gyfenes
grund,
ga
þær
he
wille.
|
|
Ðys
dogor
þu
geþyld
hafa
|
|
weana
gehwylces,
swa
ic
þe
wene
to."
|
|
Ahleop
ða,
se
gomela,
Gode
þancode,
|
161r
|
mihtigan
Drihtne,
þæs
se
man
ge|
spræc
.
|
|
Þa
wæs
Hroðgare
hors
ge
bæted
,
|
|
wicg
wundenfeax.
Wisa
fengel
|
|
geato
lic
gende.
Gumfeþa
stop
|
|
lindhæbbendra.
L
astas
wæron
|
1405
|
æfter
waldswaþum
wide
gesyne.
|
|
Gang
ofer
grundas,
gegnum
for
|
|
ofer
myr
can
mor,
magoþegna
bær
|
|
þone
selestan
sawolleasne
|
|
þara
þe
mid
Hroðgare
ham
eahtode.
|
1410
|
Ofereode
þa,
æþelinga
bearn,
|
|
steap
stanhliðo,
stige
nearwe,
|
|
enge
anpaðas,
uncuð
gelad,
|
|
neowle
næssas,
nicorhusa
fela.
|
|
He
feara
sum
beforan
gengde
|
1415
|
wisra
monna
wong
sceawian,
|
|
oþ
þæt
he
færinga
fyrgenbeamas
|
|
ofer
harne
stan
hleonian
funde,
|
|
wynleasne
wudu.
Wæter
under
stod,
|
|
dreorig
7
gedrefed.
Denum
eallum
wæs,
|
1420
|
winum
Scyldinga,
weorce
on
mode
|
|
to
geþolianne,
ðegne
monegum,
|
|
oncyð
eorla
gehwæm,
syðþan
Æscheres
|
|
on
þam
holmclife
hafelan
metton.
|
|
Flod
blode
weol
- folc
to
sægon -
|
161v
|
|
hatan
heolfre.
Horn
stundum
song
|
|
fu
slic
f
orð
leoð
.
Feþa
eal
gesæt.
|
|
Gesawon
ða
æfter
wæt
ere
wyrmcynnes
fela,
|
|
sellice
sædracan
sun
d
cunnian,
|
|
swylce
on
næshleoðum
nicras
li
cgean
.
|
1430
|
Ða
on
undernmæl
oft
bewitigað
|
|
sorhfulne
sið
on
seglrade,
|
|
wyrmas
7
wildeor.
Hie
on
weg
hruron
|
|
bitere
7
gebolgne.
Bearhtm
ongeaton,
|
|
guðhorn
galan.
Sumne
Geata
leod
|
1435
|
of
flanbogan
feores
getwæfde,
|
|
yðgewinnes.
Þæt
him
on
aldre
stod,
|
|
herestræl
hearda.
He
on
holme
wæs
|
|
sundes
þe
sænra,
ðe
hyne
swylt
fornam.
|
|
Hræþe
wearð
on
yðum
mid
eoferspreotum,
|
1440
|
heorohocyhtum
hearde
genearwod,
|
|
niða
genæged,
7
on
næs
togen,
|
|
wundorlic
wægbora.
Weras
sceawedon
|
|
gryrelicne
gist.
Gyrede
hine
Beowulf
|
|
eorlgewædum,
nalles
for
ealdre
mearn;
|
1445
|
scolde
herebyrne
hondum
gebroden
|
|
sid
7
searofah
sund
cunnian,
|
|
seo
ðe
bancofan
beorgan
cuþe,
|
|
þæt
him
hildegrap
hreþre
ne
mihte
|
|
eorres
inwitfeng
aldre
gesceþðan.
|
162r
|
Ac
se
hwita
helm
|
h
afelan
werede,
|
|
se
þe
meregrundas
men
gan
scolde,
|
|
secan
sundgebland
since
geweo
rðad
,
|
|
befongen
freawrasnum
swa
hine
fyrndagum
|
|
worhte
wæpna
smið,
wundrum
teode,
|
1455
|
besette
swinlicum,
þæt
hine
syðþan
no
|
|
brond
ne
beadomecas
bitan
ne
meahton.
|
|
Næs
þæt
þonne
mætost
mægenfultuma
|
|
þæt
him
on
ðearfe
lah
ðyle
Hroðgares.
|
|
Wæs
þæm
hæftmece
Hrunting
nama.
|
1460
|
Þæt
wæs
an
foran
ealdgestreona.
|
|
Ecg
wæs
iren,
atertanum
fah,
|
|
ahyrded
heaþoswate.
Næfre
hit
æt
hilde
ne
swac
|
|
manna
ængum,
þara
þe
hit
mid
mundum
bewand,
|
|
se
ðe
gryresiðas
gegan
dorste,
|
1465
|
folcstede
fara.
Næs
þæt
forma
sið
|
|
þæt
hit
ellenweorc
æfnan
scolde.
|
|
Huru
ne
gemunde
mago
Ecglafes,
|
|
eafoþes
cræftig,
þæt
he
ær
gespræc,
|
|
wine
druncen,
þa
he
þæs
wæpnes
onlah
|
1470
|
selran
sweordfrecan.
Selfa
ne
dorste
|
|
under
yða
gewin
aldre
geneþan,
|
|
drihtscype
dreogan.
Þær
he
dome
forleas,
|
162v
|
ellen|
mæ
rðum
.
Ne
wæs
þæm
oðrum
swa,
|
|
syðþan
he
hine
to
guðe
gegyred
hæfde.
|
|
.XXII.
|
1475
|
BEOWVLF
maðelode,
bearn
Ecgþeowes:
|
|
"Geþenc
nu,
se
mæra
maga
Healfdenes,
|
|
snottra
fengel,
nu
ic
eom
siðes
fus,
|
|
goldwine
gumena,
hwæt
wit
geo
spræcon:
|
|
gif
ic
æt
þearfe
þinre
scolde
|
1480
|
aldre
linnan,
þæt
ðu
me
a
wære,
|
|
forðgewitenum,
on
fæder
stæle.
|
|
Wes
þu
mundbora
minum
magoþegnum,
|
|
hondgesellum,
gif
mec
hild
nime.
|
|
Swylce
þu
ða
madmas,
þe
þu
me
sealdest,
|
1485
|
Hroðgar
leofa,
Higelace
onsend.
|
|
Mæg
þonne
on
þæm
golde
ongitan
Geata
dryhten,
|
|
geseon
sunu
Hrædles,
þonne
he
on
þæt
sinc
starað,
|
|
þæt
ic
gumcystum
godne
funde
|
|
beaga
bryttan,
breac
þonne
moste.
|
1490
|
7
þu
Hunferð
læt
ealde
lafe,
|
|
wrætlic
wægsweord;
widcuðne
man
|
|
heardecg
habban.
Ic
me
mid
Hruntinge
|
163r
|
dom
gewyrce
|
oþðe
mec
deað
nimeð."
|
|
Æfter
þæ
m
wordum
Weder-Geata
leod
|
1495
|
efste
mid
elne.
Na
las
7
sware
|
|
bidan
wolde.
Brimwylm
onfen
g
|
|
hil
derince
.
Ða
wæs
hwil
dæges
|
|
ær
he
þone
grundwong
ongytan
mehte.
|
|
Sona
þæt
on
funde
,
se
ðe
floda
begong,
|
1500
|
heorogifre,
beheold
hund
missera,
|
|
grim
7
grædig,
þæt
þ
ær
gumena
sum
|
|
ælwihta
eard
ufan
cunno
de
.
|
|
Grap
þa
togeanes,
guðrinc
gefeng
|
|
at
olan
clommum.
No
þy
ær
in
gescod
|
1505
|
halan
lice.
Hring
utan
ymbbearh,
|
|
þæt
heo
þone
fyrdhom
ðurhfon
ne
mihte,
|
|
locene
leoð
o
syrcan
,
laþan
fingrum.
|
|
Bær
þa
seo
brimwyl
f
,
þa
heo
to
botme
com,
|
|
hringa
þengel
to
hofe
sinum,
|
1510
|
swa
he
ne
mihte
- no
he
þæm
modig
wæs! -
|
|
wæpna
gewealdan,
ac
hine
wundra
þæs
fela
|
|
swecte
on
sunde,
sædeor
monig
|
|
hildetuxum
heresyrcan
bræc,
|
|
ehton
aglæcan.
Ða
se
eorl
ongeat
|
1515
|
þæt
he
niðsele
nathwylcum
wæs,
|
|
þær
him
nænig
wæter
wihte
ne
sceþede,
|
|
ne
him
for
hrofsele
hrinan
ne
mehte,
|
163v
|
færgripe
flodes.
|
Fyrleoh
t
geseah,
|
|
blacne
leoman
beorht
e
scinan
.
|
1520
|
Ongeat
þa
se
goda
grundwyrgenne,
|
|
mer
ewif
mihtig.
Mægenræs
forgeaf
|
|
hildebille,
ho
n
dswenge
,
ne
ofteah,
|
|
þæt
hire
on
ha
fe
lan
hringmæl
agol
|
|
grædig
guðleoð.
Ð
a
se
gist
onfand
|
1525
|
þæt
se
beadoleoma
bitan
no
lde
,
|
|
aldre
sceþðan.
Ac
seo
ecg
geswac
|
|
ð
eodne
æt
þearfe.
Ðolode
ær
fela
|
|
hond
ge
mota
,
helm
oft
gescær,
|
|
fæges
fyrd
hr
ægl
.
Ða
wæs
forma
sið
|
1530
|
deorum
madme
þæt
his
dom
alæg.
|
|
Eft
wæs
anræd,
nalas
elnes
l
æt
,
|
|
mærða
gemyndig
mæg
Hylaces:
|
|
wearp
ða
wundelmæl,
wrættum
gebunden,
|
|
yrre
oretta,
þæt
hit
on
eorðan
læg,
|
1535
|
stið
7
stylecg.
Strenge
getruwode,
|
|
mundgripe
mægenes.
Swa
sceal
man
don,
|
|
þonne
he
æt
guðe
gegan
þenceð
|
|
longsumne
lof.
Na
ymb
his
lif
cearað.
|
|
Gefeng
þa
be
eaxle,
nalas
for
fæhðe
mearn,
|
1540
|
Guð-Geata
leod,
Grendles
modor.
|
|
Brægd
þa
beadwe
heard,
þa
he
gebolgen
wæs,
|
|
feorhgeniðlan,
þæt
heo
on
flet
gebeah.
|
|
Heo
him
eft
hraþe
handlean
forgeald
|
164r
|
grim|man
grapum
7
him
togeanes
feng.
|
1545
|
Oferwear
p
þa
werigmod,
wigena
strengest,
|
|
feþecempa,
þæt
he
on
fylle
wearð.
|
|
Ofsæt
þa
þone
selegy
st
,
7
hyre
sea
x
geteah,
|
|
brad,
brunecg.
Wolde
hire
bearn
wrecan,
|
|
angan
eaferan.
Him
on
eaxle
læg
|
1550
|
breostnet
broden;
þæt
gebearh
feore,
|
|
wið
ord
7
wið
ecge
ingang
forstod.
|
|
Hæfde
ða
forsiðod
sunu
Ecgþeowes,
|
|
und
er
gynne
grund,
Geata
cempa,
|
|
nemne
him
heaðobyrne
helpe
gefremede,
|
1555
|
herenet
hearde.
7
halig
God
|
|
geweold
wigsigor.
Witig
Drihten,
|
|
rodera
Rædend,
hit
on
ryht
gesced
|
|
yðelice.
Syþðan
he
eft
asto
d
.
|
|
.XXIII.
|
|
GEseah
ða
on
searwum
sigeeadig
bil,
|
1560
|
ealdsweord
eotenisc
ecgum
þyhtig,
|
|
wigena
weorðmynd,
þæt
wæpna
cyst,
|
|
buton
hit
wæs
mare
ðonne
ænig
mon
oðer
|
|
to
beadulace
ætberan
meahte,
|
|
god
7
geatolic,
giganta
geweorc.
|
1565
|
He
gefeng
þa
fetelhilt,
freca
Scyldinga
|
|
hreoh
7
heorogrim,
hringmæl
gebrægd
|
164v
|
aldres
orwena,
yrringa |
s
loh
,
|
|
þæt
hire
wið
halse
heard
grapode,
|
|
banhringas
bræc.
Bil
eal
ðurhwod
|
1570
|
fægne
flæschoman.
Heo
on
flet
gecrong.
|
|
Sweord
wæs
swatig,
secg
weorce
gefeh.
|
|
Lixte
se
leoma,
leoht
inne
stod,
|
|
efne
swa
of
hefene
hadre
scineð
|
|
rodores
candel.
He
æfter
recede
wlat.
|
1575
|
Hwearf
þa
be
wealle,
wæpen
hafena
de
|
|
heard
be
hiltum,
Higelaces
ðegn,
|
|
yrre
7
a
nræd
.
Næs
seo
ecg
fracod
|
|
hilderince,
ac
he
hraþe
wolde
|
|
Grendle
forgyldan
guðræsa
f
ela
|
1580
|
ðara
þe
he
geworhte
to
West-Denum
|
|
o
ftor
micle
ðonne
on
ænne
sið,
|
|
þonne
he
H
roðgares
heorðgeneatas
|
|
sloh
on
sweofote,
slæpende
fræt,
|
|
folces
Denigea
fyftyne
men,
|
1585
|
7
oðer
swylc
ut
offerede
|
|
laðlicu
lac.
He
him
þæs
lean
forgeald,
|
|
reþe
cempa,
to
ðæs
þe
he
on
ræste
geseah
|
|
guðwerigne
Grendel
licgan,
|
|
aldorleasne,
swa
him
ær
gescod
|
1590
|
hild
æt
Heorote.
Hra
wide
sprong,
|
|
syþðan
he
æfter
deaðe
drepe
þrowade,
|
|
heorosweng
heardne,
7
hine
þa
heafde
becearf.
|
165r
|
Sona
þæt
gesawon,
snottre |
ceorlas,
|
|
þa
ðe
mid
Hroðgare
on
holm
wliton
,
|
1595
|
þæt
wæs
yðgeblond
eal
gemenged
|
|
brim
b
lode
fah.
Blondenfeaxe,
|
|
gomele
ymb
godne,
ongeador
spræcon
|
|
þæt
hig
þæs
æðelinges
eft
ne
wendon,
|
|
þæt
he
sigehreðig
secean
come
|
1600
|
mærne
þeoden.
Þa
ðæs
monige
gewearð
|
|
þæt
hine
seo
brimwylf
abreoten
hæ
f
de
.
|
|
Ða
com
non
dæges.
Næs
ofgeafon
|
|
hw
ate
Scyldingas.
Gewat
him
ham
þonon,
|
|
gold
wine
gumena.
Gistas
secan
|
1605
|
modes
seoce,
7
o
n
mere
staredon;
|
|
wiston,
7
ne
wendon,
þæt
hie
heora
winedrihten
|
|
selfne
gesawon.
Þa
þæt
sweord
ongan
|
|
æfter
heaþoswate
hildegicelum,
|
|
wigbil
wanian.
Þæt
wæs
wundra
sum,
|
1610
|
þæt
hit
eal
gemealt,
ise
gelicost,
|
|
ðonne
forstes
bend
Fæder
onlæteð,
|
|
onwindeð
wæ
l
rapas
,
se
geweald
hafað
|
|
sæla
7
mæla.
Þæt
is
soð
Metod.
|
|
Ne
nom
he
in
þæm
wicum,
Weder-Geata
leod,
|
1615
|
maðmæhta
ma,
þeh
he
þær
monige
geseah,
|
|
buton
þone
hafelan
7
þa
hilt
somod
|
|
since
fage.
Sweord
ær
gemealt,
|
165v
|
forbarn
brodenmæl.
Wæs
þæt
blod |
to
þæ
s
hat,
|
|
ættren
ellorgæst
se
þær
in
ne
swealt.
|
1620
|
Sona
wæs
on
sunde,
se
þe
æ
r
æt
sæcce
gebad,
|
|
wighryre
wraðra.
Wæter
up
þurhdeaf,
|
|
wæron
yðgebland
eal
gefælsod,
|
|
eacne
eardas,
þa
se
ellorgast
|
|
oflet
lifdagas
7
þas
lænan
gesceaft.
|
1625
|
Com
þa
to
lande,
lidmanna
helm,
|
|
swiðmod
swymman.
Sælace
gefeah,
|
|
mægen
by
rþenne
,
þara
þe
he
him
mid
hæfde.
|
|
E
odon
him
þa
togeanes,
Gode
þancodon,
|
|
ðryðlic
þegna
heap
þeodnes
gefegon,
|
1630
|
þæs
þe
hi
hyne
gesundne
geseon
moston.
|
|
Ða
wæs
of
þæm
hroran
helm
7
byrne
|
|
lungre
alysed.
Lagu
drusade,
|
|
wæter
under
wolcnum,
wældreore
fag.
|
|
Ferdon
forð
þonon
feþelastum
|
1635
|
ferhþum
fægne
foldweg
mæton,
|
|
cuþe
stræte.
Cyningbalde
men
|
|
from
þæm
holmclife
hafelan
bæron
|
|
earfoðlice
heora
æghwæþrum
|
|
felamodigra.
Feower
scoldon
|
1640
|
on
þæm
wælstenge
weorcum
geferian
|
|
to
þæm
goldsele
Grendles
heafod.
|
166r
|
Oþ
ðæt |
semninga
to
sele
comon,
|
|
frome
fyrdhwate
feowertyne
|
|
Geata
gongan,
gu
m
dryhten
mid,
|
1645
|
modig
on
gemonge,
meod
o
wongas
træd.
|
|
Ða
com
in
gan
ealdor
ðegna,
|
|
dædcene
mon
dome
gewurþ
ad
,
|
|
hæle
hildedeor,
Hroðgar
gretan.
|
|
Þ
a
wæs
be
feaxe
on
flet
boren
|
1650
|
Grendles
heafod,
þær
guman
druncon,
|
|
egeslic
f
or
eorlum,
7
þære
idese
mid,
|
|
wliteseon
wr
æt
lic
.
Weras
onsawon.
|
|
.XXV.
|
|
BEOwulf
maþelode,
bearn
Ecgþeowe
s
:
|
|
"Hwæt,
we
þe
þas
sælac,
sunu
Healfdene
s
,
|
1655
|
leod
Scyldinga,
lustum
brohton
|
|
tires
to
tacne,
þe
þu
her
to
locast.
|
|
Ic
þæt
unsofte
ealdre
gedigde,
|
|
wigge
under
wætere,
weorc
geneþde
|
|
earfoðlice.
Ætrihte
wæs
|
1660
|
guð
getwæfed,
nymðe
mec
God
scylde.
|
|
Ne
meahte
ic
æt
hilde
mid
Hruntinge
|
|
wiht
gewyrcan,
þeah
þæt
wæpen
duge.
|
|
Ac
me
geuðe
ylda
Waldend
|
166v
|
þæt
ic
on
wage
geseah
wlitig |
ha
ngian
|
1665
|
ealdsweord
eacen.
Oftost
wisode
|
|
wi
nigea
leasum;
þæt
ic
ðy
wæpne
gebræd,
|
|
of
sloh
ða
æt
þære
sæcce,
þa
me
sæl
a
geald
,
|
|
huses
hyrdas.
Þa
þæt
hildebil
|
|
for
ba
rn
,
brogdenmæl,
swa
þæt
blod
gesprang,
|
1670
|
ha
tost
heaþoswata.
Ic
þæt
hilt
þanan
|
|
feon
d
um
ætferede,
fyrendæda
wræc,
|
|
deað
c
wealm
Denigea,
swa
hit
gedefe
wæs.
|
|
Ic
h
it
þe
þonne
gehate,
þæt
þu
on
Heorote
most
|
|
so
rhleas
swefan
mid
þinra
secga
gedryht,
|
1675
|
7
þegna
gehwylc
þinra
leoda,
|
|
duguðe
7
iogoþe,
þæt
þu
him
ondrædan
ne
þearft,
|
|
þeoden
Scyldinga,
on
þa
healfe,
|
|
aldorbealu
eorlum,
swa
þu
ær
dydest."
|
|
Ða
wæs
gyldenhilt
gamelum
rince,
|
1680
|
harum
hildfruman,
on
hand
gyfen
|
|
enta
ærgeweorc.
Hit
on
æht
gehwearf
|
|
æfter
deofla
hryre
Denigea
frean,
|
|
wundorsmiþa
geweorc.
7
þa
þas
worold
ofgeaf,
|
|
gromheort
guma,
Godes
andsaca
|
1685
|
morðres
scyldig,
7
his
modor
eac.
|
|
On
geweald
gehwearf
woroldcyninga
|
167r
|
ðæm
selestan
be |
sæm
tweonum,
|
|
ðara
þe
on
Scedenigge
sceat
tas
dælde.
|
|
Hroðgar
maðelode.
Hylt
sceawode,
|
1690
|
ealde
lafe;
on
ðæm
wæs
or
wri
ten
|
|
fyrngewinnes,
syðþan
flod
ofs
loh
,
|
|
gifen
geotende,
giganta
cyn.
|
|
Frecne
ge
ferdon
;
þæt
wæs
fremde
þeod
|
|
ecean
Dryh
tne
.
Him
þæs
endelean
|
1695
|
þurh
wæteres
wylm
Waldend
sealde.
|
|
Swa
wæs
on
ðæm
scen
num
sciran
goldes,
|
|
þurh
runstafas
rihte
ge
mearcod
,
|
|
geseted
7
gesæd,
hwam
þæt
sweo
rd
geworht,
|
|
irena
cyst
ærest
wære,
|
1700
|
w
reo
þenhilt
7
wyrmfah.
Ða
se
wisa
spræc,
|
|
s
u
nu
Healfdenes.
Swigedon
ealle:
|
|
"Þæt,
la,
mæg
secgan,
se
þe
soð
7
riht
|
|
fremeð
on
folce,
feor
eal
gemon,
|
|
eald
eðelwea
rd
,
þæt
ðes
eorl
wære
|
1705
|
geboren
betera.
Blæd
is
aræred
|
|
geond
widwegas,
wine
min
Beo
wulf
,
|
1707
a
b
|
ðin
ofer
þeoda
gehwylce
.
Eal
þu
hit
geþyldum
|
1708
a
b
|
healdest
,
mægen
mid
modes
snyttrum
.
|
1709
a
b
|
Ic
þe
sceal
mine
gelæstan
freoðe,
|
1710
a
b
|
swa
wit
furðum
spræcon
.
Ðu
scealt
to
frofre
weorþan
|
|
eal
langtwidig
leodum
þinum,
|
167v
|
|
hæl
eðum
to
helpe.
Ne
wearð
Heremod
swa
|
|
eaforum
Ecgwelan,
Ar-Scyldingum.
|
|
Ne
geweox
he
him
to
willan,
ac
to
wælfeal
le
|
1715
|
7
to
deaðcwalum
Deniga
leodum.
|
|
Breat
bo
lgenmod
beodgeneatas,
|
|
eaxlge
ste
allan
,
oþ
þæt
he
ana
hwearf,
|
|
mære
þeo
d
en
,
mondreamum
from
|
|
ðeah
þe
hine
mi
htig
God
mægenes
wynnum
|
1720
|
eafeþum
ste
pte
ofer
ealle
men,
|
|
forð
gefreme
d
e
.
Hwæþere
him
on
ferhþe
greow
|
|
breost
h
ord
blodreow.
Nallas
beagas
geaf
|
|
Denum
æfter
dome.
Dreamleas
gebad,
|
|
þæt
he
þæs
gewinnes
weorc
þrowade,
|
1725
|
leodbea
l
o
longsum.
Ðu
þe
lær
be
þon,
|
|
gumcyste
ongit.
Ic
þis
gid
be
þe
|
|
awræc
wintrum
frod.
Wundor
is
to
secganne
|
|
hu
mihtig
God
manna
cynne
|
|
þurh
sidne
sefan
snyttru
bryttað,
|
1730
|
eard
7
eorlscipe.
He
ah
ealra
geweald.
|
|
Hwilum
he
on
lufan
læteð
hworfan
|
|
monnes
modgeþonc
mæran
cynnes,
|
|
seleð
him
on
eþle
eorþan
wynne
|
|
to
healdanne
hleoburh
wera,
|
168r
|
|
gedeð
him
swa
gewealdene
worolde
dæ
las
,
|
|
side
rice,
þæt
he
his
selfa
ne
m
æg
|
|
for
his
unsnyttrum
ende
geþencean.
|
|
W
unað
he
on
wiste.
No
hine
wiht
dweleð,
|
|
ad
l
ne
yldo,
ne
him
inwitsorh
|
1740
|
on
sefa
n
sweorceð,
ne
gesacu
ohwær
|
|
ecghe
te
eoweð,
ac
him
eal
worold
|
|
wendeð
on
w
il
lan
.
He
þæt
wyrse
ne
con."
|
|
.XXVI.
|
|
"Oð
þæt
him
on
innan
oferhygda
dæl
|
|
wea
xe
ð
7
wridað.
Þonne
se
weard
swefeð,
|
1745
|
sawele
hy
rde
.
Bið
se
slæp
to
fæst,
|
|
bisgum
gebunde
n
,
bona
swiðe
neah,
|
|
se
þe
of
flanbogan
fyrenum
sceoteð.
|
|
Þonne
bið
on
hreþre
under
helm
drepen
|
|
biteran
stræle,
him
bebeorgan
ne
con,
|
1750
|
wom
wundorbebodum
wergan
gastes.
|
|
Þinceð
him
to
lytel
þæt
he
to
lange
heold;
|
|
gytsað
gromhydig,
nallas
on
gylp
seleð
|
|
fædde
beagas,
7
he
þa
forðgesceaft
|
|
forgyteð
7
forgymeð,
þæs
þe
him
ær
God
sealde,
|
168v
|
wuldres |
Wal
dend
,
weorðmynda
dæl.
|
|
Hit
on
endestæf
eft
gelimpeð
|
|
þæt
se
lichoma
læn
e
gedreoseð,
|
|
fæge
gefealleð.
Fehð
oþer
to
,
|
|
se
þe
unmurnlice
madmas
dæleþ,
|
1760
|
eor
les
ærgestreon,
egesan
ne
gymeð.
|
|
Be
beorh
þe
ðone
bealonið,
Beowulf
leofa,
|
|
s
ecg
betsta,
7
þe
þæt
selre
geceos,
|
|
ece
rædas.
Of
erhyda
ne
gym,
|
|
mære
cempa.
Nu
is
þines
m
ægnes
blæd
|
1765
|
ane
hwile.
Eft
sona
bið
|
|
þæt
þe
c
adl
oððe
ecg
eafoþes
getwæfeð,
|
|
oððe
fy
res
feng,
oððe
flodes
wylm,
|
|
oððe
gripe
m
eces
,
oððe
gares
fliht,
|
|
oððe
atol
yldo.
O
ððe
eagena
bearhtm
|
1770
|
forsiteð
7
forswor
c
eð
.
Semninga
bið
|
|
þæt
ðec,
dryhtguma,
deað
o
ferswyðeð
.
|
|
Swa
ic
Hring-Dena
hund
missera
|
|
weold
under
wolcnum
7
hig
wigge
beleac,
|
|
manigum
mægþa
geond
þysne
middangeard,
|
1775
|
æscum
7
ecgum,
þæt
ic
me
ænigne
|
|
under
swegles
begong
gesacan
ne
tealde.
|
|
Hwæt,
me
þæs
on
eþle
edwendan
cwom,
|
|
gyrn
æfter
gomene,
seoþðan
Grendel
wearð
|
|
ealdgewinna,
ingenga
min.
|
169r
|
|
Ic
þære
socne
singales
wæg
|
|
modcear
e
micle.
Þæs
sig
Metode
þanc,
|
|
ecean
Dryht
ne
,
þæs
ðe
ic
on
aldre
gebad,
|
|
þæt
ic
on
þo
ne
hafelan
heorodreorigne
|
|
ofer
eal
d
ge
win
eagum
starige.
|
1785
|
Ga
nu
to
setle,
sym
belwynne
dreoh
|
|
wiggeweorþad.
Unc
sceal
worn
fela
|
|
maþma
gemænra
siþðan
mor
gen
bið."
|
|
Geat
wæs
glædmod,
geong
son
a
to
|
|
setles
neosan,
swa
se
snottra
heht.
|
1790
|
Þ
a
wæs
eft
swa
ær
ellenrofum,
|
|
fletsittendum
fægere
gereorded
|
|
niowan
stefne.
Ni
ht
helm
geswearc,
|
|
deorc
ofer
dryhtgu
mum
.
Duguð
eal
aras.
|
|
Wolde
blondenfeax
beddes
neosan,
|
1795
|
gamela
Scylding.
Geat
unigmetes
wel,
|
|
rofne
randwigan,
restan
lys
te
.
|
|
Sona
him
seleþegn,
siðes
wergum
|
|
feorrancundum
forð
wisade;
|
|
se
for
andrysnum
ealle
beweote
d
e
|
1800
|
þegnes
þearfe,
swylce
þy
dogore
|
|
heaþoliðende
habban
scoldon.
|
|
Reste
hine
þa
rumheort.
Reced
hliuade,
|
|
geap
7
goldfah.
Gæst
inne
swæf,
|
|
oþ
þæt
hrefn
blaca,
heofones
wynne
|
169v
|
bliðheort
bodode.
|
Ða
c
om
beorht
scacan;
|
|
scaþan
onetton.
|
|
Wæro
n
æþelingas
eft
to
leodum
|
|
fuse
to
f
ar
en
n
e
.
Wolde
feor
þanon,
|
|
cuma
col
l
enf
erhð
,
ceoles
neosan.
|
1810
|
Heht
þa,
se
hear
da
,
H
runting
beran
|
|
sunu
Ecglafes,
heht
his
s
weord
niman,
|
|
leoflic
iren.
Sægde
him
þæ
s
leanes
þanc,
|
|
cwæð,
he
þone
guðwine
go
dne
tealde.
|
|
wigcræftigne.
Nales
wor
dum
log
|
1815
|
meces
ecge.
Þæt
wæs
modig
secg.
|
|
7
þ
a
,
siðfrome,
searwum
gearwe,
|
|
wigend
wæron.
Eo
de
weorð
Denum,
|
|
æþeling
to
yppan,
þæ
r
se
oþer
wæs.
|
|
Helle
hildedeor
Hroð
g
ar
grette.
|
|
.XXVII.
|
1820
|
Be
owulf
maþelode,
bearn
Ecgþeowes:
|
|
"Nu
w
e
sæliðend
secgan
wyllað
|
|
feorran
cumene,
þæt
we
fundiaþ
|
|
Higelac
secan.
Wæron
her
tela
|
|
willum
bewenede.
Þu
us
wel
dohtest.
|
1825
|
Gif
ic
þonne
on
eorþan
owihte
mæg
|
|
þinre
modlufan
maran
tilian,
|
|
gumena
dryhten,
ðonne
ic
gyt
dyde
|
|
guðgeweorca,
ic
beo
gearo
sona.
|
170r
|
Gif
ic
þæt
ge|fricge
ofer
floda
begang,
|
1830
|
þæt
þec
ymbsittend
egesan
þywað,
|
|
swa
þec
hete
nde
hwilum
dydon,
|
|
ic
ðe
þusenda
þegna
br
in
ge
,
|
|
hæleþa
to
helpe.
Ic
on
Higelace
wat
|
|
Geata
dryhten,
þeah
ðe
he
geong
sy
|
1835
|
folces
hyrde,
þæt
he
mec
fremman
wile
|
|
weordum
7
worcum,
þæt
ic
þe
wel
heri
ge
|
|
7
þe
to
geoce
garholt
bere,
|
|
mægenes
fultum,
þær
ðe
bið
manna
þearf.
|
|
G
if
him
þonne
Hreþric
to
hofum
Geata
|
1840
|
geþinge
ð
þeodnes
bearn,
he
mæg
þær
fela
|
|
freonda
findan.
Feorcyþðe
beoð
|
|
selran
gesohte
þæm
þe
him
selfa
dea
h.
"
|
|
Hroðgar
maþelode
him
on
andsware:
|
|
"Þe
þa
wordcwydas
wigtig
Drihten
|
1845
|
on
sefan
sende.
Ne
hyrde
ic
snotorlicor
|
|
on
swa
geongum
feore
guman
þingian.
|
|
Þu
eart
mægenes
strang
7
on
mode
frod,
|
|
wis
wordcwida.
Wen
ic
talige:
|
|
gif
þæt
gegangeð
þæt
ðe
gar
nymeð,
|
1850
|
hild
heorugrimme
Hreþles
eaferan,
|
|
adl
oþðe
iren
ealdor
ðinne,
|
|
folces
hyrde,
7
þu
þin
feorh
hafast,
|
170v
|
þæt
þe |
S
æ-Geatas
selran
næbban
|
|
to
geceosen
ne
cyning
ænigne
|
1855
|
hordweard
hæleþa,
g
yf
þu
healdan
wylt
|
|
maga
rice.
Me
þin
m
odsefa
|
|
licað
leng
swa
wel,
leofa
Beo
w
ulf
.
|
|
Hafast
þu
gefered
þæt
þam
folcum
s
ceal
,
|
|
Geata
leodum
7
Gar-Denum,
|
1860
|
sib
g
emænum
,
7
sacu
restan,
|
|
inwitniþas,
þe
hie
ær
drugon;
|
|
wesan,
þenden
ic
weal
d
e
widan
rices,
|
|
maþmas
gemæne,
ma
n
ig
oþerne
|
|
godum
gegrettan
ofer
ganotes
bæð.
|
1865
|
Sceal
hringnaca
ofer
h
eaþu
bringan
|
|
lac
7
luftacen.
Ic
þa
l
eode
wat
|
|
ge
wið
feond
ge
wið
freond
fæste
geworhte,
|
|
æghwæs
untæle
ealde
wisan."
|
|
Ða
git
him
eorla
hleo
inne
gesealde,
|
1870
|
mago
Healfdenes,
maþmas
twelfe.
|
|
Het
inne
mid
þæm
lacum
leode
swæse
|
|
secean
on
gesyntum,
snude
eft
cuman.
|
|
Gecyste
þa,
cyning
æþelum
god,
|
|
þeoden
Scyldinga,
ðegn
betstan
|
1875
|
7
be
healse
genam.
Hruron
him
tearas
|
|
blondenfeaxum.
Him
wæs
bega
wen,
|
171r
|
ealdum
in|frodum
oþres
swiðor,
|
|
þæt
h
i
e
seoðða
n
na
geseon
moston,
|
|
modige
on
meþle.
Wæs
him
se
man
to
þon
leof
|
1880
|
þæt
he
þone
breost
wylm
forberan
ne
mehte.
|
|
Ac
him
on
hreþre
hygebendum
fæst
|
|
æfter
d
eo
rum
men
dyrne
langað
|
|
beorn
wið
bl
o
de
.
Him
Beowulf
þanan,
|
|
guðrinc
goldwlanc,
græsmoldan
træd,
|
1885
|
since
h
re
mig
.
Sægenga
bad
|
|
agedfrean,
se
þe
on
ancre
rad.
|
|
Þa
wæs
on
gange
gi
fu
Hroðgares
|
|
oft
geæhted.
Þæt
wæs
an
cyning,
|
|
æghwæs
orleahtre,
oþ
þæt
hin
e
yldo
benam
|
1890
|
mægenes
wynnum,
se
þe
oft
manegum
scod.
|
|
.XXVIII.
|
|
CWOM
þa
to
flode
fela
modigra
|
|
hægstealdra.
Hringnet
bæron
|
|
locene
leoðosyrcan.
Landweard
onfand
|
|
eftsið
eorla,
swa
he
ær
dyde.
|
1895
|
No
he
mid
hearme
of
hliðes
nosan
|
171v
|
|
g
ie
s
tas
grette,
ac
him
togeanes
rad,
|
|
cwæ
ð
þæt
wilcuman
Wedera
leodum
|
|
sca
þan
scirhame
to
scipe
foron.
|
|
Þa
wæs
on
sande
sægeap
naca
|
1900
|
hladen
here
wæ
dum
,
hringedstefna,
|
|
mearum
7
mað
m
um
.
Mæst
hlifade
|
|
ofer
Hroðgares
h
ordgestreonum
.
|
|
He
þæm
batwearde
bun
den
golde
|
|
swurd
gesealde,
þæt
he
syð
þan
wæs
|
1905
|
on
meodubence
maþma
þy
weo
rþ
re
,
|
|
yrfelafe.
Gewat
him
on
nacan
|
|
d
refan
deop
wæter.
Dena
land
ofgeaf.
|
|
Þa
wæs
be
mæste
merehrægla
sum,
|
|
segl
sale
fæst.
Sundwudu
þunede.
|
1910
|
No
þær
wegflotan
wind
ofer
yðum
|
|
siðes
getwæfde.
Sægenga
for,
|
|
fleat
famigheals
forð
ofer
yðe,
|
|
bundenstefna
ofer
brimstreamas,
|
|
þæt
hie
Geata
clifu
ongitan
meahton,
|
1915
|
cuþe
næssas.
Ceol
up
geþrang
|
|
lyftgeswenced.
On
lande
stod.
|
172r
|
Hraþe
wæs
æt |
holme
hyðweard
geara,
|
|
se
þe
ær
lange
tid
leofra
manna
|
|
fus
æt
faroðe
feor
wlatode.
|
1920
|
Sælde
to
sande
sidfæþme
sci
p
|
|
oncearbendum
fæst,
þy
læs
hym
yþ
a
ðrym
|
|
wudu
wynsuman
forwrecan
meah
te
.
|
|
Het
þa
up
beran
æþelinga
gestr
eon
,
|
|
frætwe
7
fætgold.
Næs
him
feor
þan
on
|
1925
|
to
gesecanne
sinces
bryttan,
|
|
Higelac
Hreþling,
þær
æt
ham
wunað
|
|
s
elfa
mid
gesiðum
sæwealle
neah.
|
|
Bold
w
æs
betlic,
bregorof
cyning,
|
|
heahealle
in.
Hygd
swiðe
geong,
|
1930
|
wis
welþungen,
þeah
ðe
wintra
lyt
|
|
under
burhlocan
gebide
n
hæbbe,
|
|
Hæreþes
dohtor.
Næs
hio
hnah
swa
þeah,
|
|
ne
to
gneað
gifa
Geata
leodum,
|
|
maþmgestreona.
Mod
Þryðo
wæg,
|
1935
|
fremu
folces
cwen,
firen
ondrysne.
|
|
Nænig
þæt
dorste
deor
geneþan,
|
|
swæsra
gesiða,
nefne
sinfrea,
|
|
þæt
hire
an
dæges
eagum
starede.
|
172v
|
Ac
him
wælbende
|
w
eotode
tealde
|
1940
|
handgewriþene;
hraþe
seo
þðan
wæs,
|
|
æfter
mundgripe
mece
g
eþinged
,
|
|
þæt
hit
sceadenmæl
scyran
m
oste
,
|
|
cwealmbealu
cyðan.
Ne
bið
swylc
cwen
lic
þeaw
|
|
idese
to
efnanne,
þeah
ðe
h
io
ænlicu
sy,
|
1945
|
þætte
freoðuwebbe
feores
on
sæce
|
|
æfter
ligetorne
leofne
mannan.
|
|
H
uru
þæt
on
hoh
snod
Hemninges
mæg.
|
|
Eal
odrincende
oðer
sædan,
|
|
þæt
hio
leod
b
ealewa
læs
gefremede,
|
1950
|
inwitniða,
s
yððan
ærest
wearð
|
|
gyfen
goldhro
d
en
geongum
cempan,
|
|
æðelum
diore,
syððan
hio
Offan
flet
|
|
ofer
fealone
flod
be
fæder
lare
|
|
siðe
gesohte.
Ðær
hio
syððan
well
|
1955
|
in
gumstole,
gode
mære,
|
|
lifgesceafta
lifigende
breac,
|
|
hiold
heahlufan
wið
hæleþa
brego,
|
|
ealles
moncynnes
mine
gefræge
|
|
þæs
selestan
bi
sæm
tweonum,
|
173r
|
eormencynnes.
Forðam
Offa |
wæs
|
|
geofum
7
guðum,
garcene
man,
|
|
wid
e
ge
weorðod
.
Wisdome
heold
|
|
eðel
sinne.
Þonon
geomor
woc
|
|
hæleðum
to
helpe,
Heminges
mæg,
|
1965
|
nefa
Garmundes,
niða
cræftig.
|
|
.XXVIIII.
|
|
GEwat
him
ða
se
hearda
mid
his
hondscole
|
|
sylf
æfter
sande
sæwong
tredan,
|
|
wide
waroðas.
Woruldcandel
scan,
|
|
sigel
suðan
fus.
Hi
sið
drugon,
|
1970
|
elne
geeodon,
to
ðæ
s
ðe
eorla
hleo,
|
|
bonan
Ongenþeoes
burg
um
in
innan,
|
|
geongne
guðcyning
godne
gefrunon
|
|
hringas
dælan.
Higelace
wæs
|
|
sið
Beowulfes
snude
gecyðed,
|
1975
|
þæt
ðær
on
worðig
wigendra
hleo,
|
|
lindgestealla,
lifigende
cwom,
|
|
heaðolaces
hal
to
hofe
gongan.
|
|
Hraðe
wæs
gerymed,
swa
se
rica
bebead,
|
|
feðegestum
flet
innanweard.
|
1980
|
Gesæt
þa
wið
sylfne,
se
ða
sæcce
genæs,
|
173v
|
mæg
wið
mæge,
|
s
yððan
mandryhten
|
|
þurh
hleoðorcwyde
holdne
gegrette,
|
|
meaglum
wordum.
Meoduscencum
hwearf
|
|
geond
þæt
here
reced
Hæreðes
dohtor,
|
1985
|
lufode
ða
leode,
liðwæge
bær
|
|
hænum
to
handa.
Higelac
ongan
|
|
sinne
geseldan
in
sele
þam
hean
|
|
fægre
fricgcean,
hyne
fyrwet
bræc,
|
|
hwylce
Sæ-Geata
siðas
wæron.
|
1990
|
"
Hu
lomp
eow
on
lade,
leofa
Biowulf,
|
|
þa
ðu
færinga
feorr
gehogodest
|
|
sæcce
secean
ofer
sealt
wæter,
|
|
hilde
to
Hiorote?
Ac
ðu
Hroðgare
|
|
wi
d
cuðne
wean
wihte
gebettest,
|
1995
|
mærum
ðeodne?
Ic
ðæs
modceare
|
|
sorhwylmum
seað,
siðe
ne
truwode
|
|
leofes
mannes.
Ic
ðe
lange
bæd,
|
|
þæt
ðu
þone
wælgæst
wihte
ne
grette,
|
|
lete
Suð-Dene
sylfe
geweorðan
|
2000
|
guðe
wið
Grendel.
Gode
ic
þanc
secge,
|
|
þæs
ðe
ic
ðe
gesundne
geseon
moste.
|
|
Biowulf
maðelode,
bearn
Ecgðioes:
|
174r
|
|
"Þæt
is
undyrne,
dryhten
Hige
lac
,
|
|
micel
gemeting
monegum
fira,
|
2005
|
hwy
lc
e
arfoð
hwil
uncer
Grendles
|
|
wearð
on
ðam
wange
þær
he
worna
fela
|
|
Sige-
Scyl
dingum
sorge
gefremede,
|
|
yrmð
e
to
aldre.
Ic
ðæt
eall
gewræc,
|
|
swa
læs
gylpan
þearf
Grendeles
maga
|
2010
|
yfel
ofer
eorðan
uhthlem
þone,
|
|
se
ðe
lengest
leofað
laðan
cynnes,
|
|
f
y
r
ene
bifongen.
Ic
ðær
furðum
cwom
|
|
to
ðam
hringsele
Hroðgar
gretan.
|
|
Sona
me
se
mæra
mago
Healfd
e
nes
,
|
2015
|
syððan
he
modsefan
minne
cuðe,
|
|
wið
his
sylfes
sunu
setl
getæht
e.
|
|
Weorod
wæs
on
wynne.
Ne
seah
ic
widan
feorh
|
|
under
heofones
hwealf
healsittendra
|
|
medudream
mar
an
.
Hwilum
mæru
cwen,
|
2020
|
friðusibb
folca,
flet
eall
geondhwearf,
|
|
bædde
byre
geonge.
Oft
hio
beahwriðan
|
174v
|
secge |
sealde
,
ær
hie
to
setle
geong.
|
|
Hwilum
fo
r
d
ugu
ðe
dohtor
Hroðgares
|
|
eorlum
on
ende
ealuwæge
bær.
|
2025
|
Þa
ic
Freaware
flet
sittende
|
|
nemnan
hyrde,
þær
hio
næ
g
led
sinc
|
|
hæleðum
sealde.
Sio
gehaten
is
,
|
|
geong
goldhroden,
gladum
suna
Frodan.
|
|
H
a
fað
þæs
geworden
wine
Scyldinga,
|
2030
|
ri
ce
s
hyrde,
7
þæt
ræd
talað,
|
|
þæt
he
mid
ðy
wi
fe
wælfæhða
dæl
|
|
sæcca
gesette.
Oft
s
eldan
hwær
|
|
æfter
leodhryre
lytle
hw
ile
|
|
bongar
bugeð,
þeah
seo
bryd
duge.
|
2035
|
M
æg
þæs
þonne
ofþyncan
ðeod
ne
Heaðo-
B
eardna
|
|
7
þegna
gehwam
þara
leoda,
|
|
þ
onne
he
mid
fæmnan
on
flett
gæð:
|
|
dryhtbearn
Dena
duguða,
biwenede,
|
|
on
him
gladiað
gomelra
lafe,
|
2040
|
heard
7
hringmæl
Heaða-Bearna
gestreon,
|
|
þenden
hie
ðam
wæpnum
wealdan
moston.
|
|
[.XXX.]
|
|
Oð
ðæt
hie
forlæddan
to
ðam
lindplegan
|
|
swæse
gesiðas
ond
hyra
sylfra
feorh.
|
175r
|
Þonne
cwið
æt
beore,
se
ðe
beah |
gesyhð,
|
2045
|
eald
æscwiga,
se
ðe
eall
g
e
man
|
|
garcwealm
gumena.
Him
bið
gri
m
se
fa
,
|
|
onginneð
geomormod
geon
g
an
cempan
|
|
þurh
hreðra
gehygd
higes
cunnian,
|
|
wigbealu
weccean,
7
þæt
wo
rd
acwyð:
|
2050
|
"
Meaht
ðu,
min
wine,
mec
e
gecnawan,
|
|
þone
þin
fæder
to
gef
eohte
bær,
|
|
under
heregriman
hinde
man
siðe,
|
|
dyre
iren.
Þær
hyne
Dene
slogon,
|
|
weoldon
wælstowe,
syððan
wiðergyld
læg,
|
2055
|
æfter
hæleþa
hry
re
,
hwate
Scyldungas.
|
|
Nu
her
þara
b
a
nena
byre
nathwylces,
|
|
frætwum
hremig,
on
flet
gæð,
|
|
morðres
gyl
peð
,
7
þone
maðþum
byreð
|
|
þone
þe
ðu
m
id
rihte
rædan
sceoldest."
|
2060
|
Manað
sw
a
7
myndgað
mæla
gehwylce
|
|
sarum
wordum,
oð
ðæt
sæl
cymeð
|
|
þæt
se
fæmnan
þegn
fore
fæder
dædum
|
|
æfter
billes
bite
blodfag
swefeð,
|
|
ealdres
scyldig.
Him
se
oðer
þonan
|
175v
|
losað
|
li
figen
de
,
con
him
land
geare.
|
|
Þon
ne
bio
ð
b
rocene
on
ba
healfe
|
|
aðsweord
eorla.
Syð
ðan
Ingelde
|
|
weallað
wælniðas
7
him
wif
lufan
|
|
æfter
cearwælmum
colran
we
orðað
.
|
2070
|
Þy
ic
Heaðo-Bearna
hyldo
ne
tel
ge
,
|
|
dryhtsibbe
dæl
Denum
unfæcne,
|
|
f
reondscipe
fæstne.
Ic
sceal
forð
sp
recan
|
|
gen
ymbe
Grendel,
þæt
ðu
geare
cun
ne
,
|
|
sinces
brytta,
to
hwan
syððan
w
earð
|
2075
|
hondræs
hæleða.
Syððan
heofones
g
im
|
|
glad
ofer
grundas,
gæst
yrre
cwom,
|
|
ea
tol
æfengrom
user
neosan,
|
|
ðær
we
g
esunde
sæl
weardodon.
|
|
Þær
wæs
Hond
s
cio
hilde
onsæge
|
2080
|
feorhbealu
fægum.
H
e
fyrmest
læg,
|
|
gyrded
cempa.
Him
Grendel
wearð,
|
|
mærum
mag
u
þegne
,
to
muðbonan;
|
|
leofes
mannes
lic
eall
forswealg.
|
|
No
ðy
ær
ut
ða
gen
idelhende
|
2085
|
bona
blodigtoð,
bealewa
gemyndig,
|
|
of
ðam
goldsele
gongan
wolde.
|
|
Ac
he
mægnes
rof
min
costode,
|
176r
|
|
grapode
geareofolm.
Glof
hangode
|
|
sid
7
syllic,
searobendum
fæst.
|
2090
|
Sio
wæs
orðoncum
eall
gegyrwed
|
|
de
ofles
cræftum
7
dracan
fellum.
|
|
He
mec
þær
on
innan
unsynnigne,
|
|
dior
dæ
d
fruma
gedon
wolde
|
|
manigra
sumne.
Hyt
ne
miht
e
swa,
|
2095
|
syððan
ic
on
yrre
upprih
te
astod.
|
|
To
lang
ys
to
reccenne
hu
i
c
ð
am
leodsceaðan
|
|
yfla
gehwylces
hon
dlean
forgeald.
|
|
Þær
ic,
þeoden
min,
þine
leode
|
|
weorðode
weorcum.
He
on
weg
losade
|
2100
|
lytle
hwile,
lifwynna
br
ea
c
.
|
|
Hwæþre
him
sio
swiðre
swaðe
w
ear
dade
|
|
hand
on
Hiorte,
7
he
hea
n
ðonan,
|
|
modes
geomor,
mereg
rund
gefeoll.
|
|
Me
þone
wælræs
wine
Scildunga
|
2105
|
fættan
golde
fela
lea
no
de
,
|
|
manegum
maðmum,
syððan
me
r
gen
com,
|
|
7
we
to
symble
geseten
hæfdon.
|
176v
|
Þær
wæs
gidd
7
gleo.
Gome
la
|
Scilding
|
|
felafricgende,
feorran
reh
te
.
|
2110
|
Hwilum
hildedeor
hearpan
wynne
|
|
go
mel
wudu
grette;
hwilum
gyd
awræc,
|
|
soð
7
sa
rlic
;
hwilum
syllic
spell.
|
|
Rehte
æfter
r
ihte
rumheort
cyning.
|
|
Hwilum
eft
onga
n
,
eldo
gebunden,
|
2115
|
gomel
guðwiga,
gio
guðe
cwiðan,
|
|
hildestrengo.
Hreðer
inn
e
weoll,
|
|
þonne
he,
wintrum
frod,
worn
gem
unde
.
|
|
Swa
we
þær
inne
andlangne
dæg
|
|
niode
naman,
oð
ðæt
niht
becwom,
|
2120
|
oð
er
to
yldum.
Þa
wæs
eft
hraðe
|
|
gearo
gyr
nwræce
Grendeles
modor.
|
|
Siðode
sor
hfull
;
sunu
deað
fornam,
|
|
wighete
Wed
ra
.
Wif
unhyre
|
|
hyre
bearn
gewræc,
beo
rn
acwealde
|
2125
|
ellenlice.
Þær
wæs
Æsc
he
re
,
|
|
frodan
fyrnwitan
feorh
uð
ge
nge
.
|
|
Noðer
hy
hine
ne
moston,
syððan
m
ergen
cwom,
|
|
deaðwerigne
Denia
le
ode
|
|
bronde
forbærnan,
n
e
on
bel
hladan
|
177r
|
leofne
mannan.
|
H
io
þæt
lic
ætbær
|
|
feondes
fæð
me
un
der
firgenstream.
|
|
þæt
wæs
Hroðg
ar
e
hreowa
tornost
|
|
þara
þe
leodfruman
lange
begeate.
|
|
Þa
se
ðeoden
mec
ðine
life
|
2135
|
healsode
hreohmod,
þæt
ic
on
holma
geþring
|
|
eorlscipe
efnd
e
,
ealdre
geneðde,
|
|
mærðo
fremed
e
.
He
me
mede
gehet.
|
|
Ic
ða
ðæs
wælm
es
,
þe
is
wide
cuð,
|
|
grimme
gryrelic
ne
grundhyrde
fond.
|
2140
|
Þær
unc
hwil
e
wæs
hand
gemæne.
|
|
Holm
heolfre
weoll,
7
ic
heafde
becearf
|
|
in
ðam
grund
s
ele
Grendeles
modor
|
|
eacnum
ecgu
m
.
Unsofte
þonan
|
|
feorh
oðferede.
Næs
ic
fæge
þa
gyt.
|
2145
|
Ac
me
eorla
hl
eo
eft
gesealde
|
|
maðma
menigeo,
mag
a
Healfdenes."
|
|
XXXI
|
|
"Swa
se
ðeodkyning
þeawum
lyfde.
|
|
Nealles
ic
ðam
leanum
forloren
hæfde,
|
177v
|
mægnes
mede,
ac
he
me
|
maðma
s
geaf,
|
2150
|
sunu
Healfdenes,
on
min
ne
sylfes
dom.
|
|
Ða
ic
ðe,
beorn
c
yning
,
bringan
wylle,
|
|
estum
ge
yw
an
.
Gen
is
eall
æt
ðe
|
|
lissa
gelong.
Ic
lyt
hafo
|
|
heafodmaga
nefne,
Hy
gelac
,
ðec."
|
2155
|
Het
ða
in
beran
eafor
hea
fodsegn
,
|
|
heaðosteapne
helm,
ha
re
byrnan,
|
|
guðsweord
geatolic.
Gy
d
æfter
wræc.
|
|
"Me
ðis
hildesceorp
H
roðgar
sealde,
|
|
snotra
fengel.
Sume
w
orde
het,
|
2160
|
þæt
ic
his
ærest
ðe
est
gesægde;
|
|
c
wæð
þæt
hyt
hæfde
Hiorogar
cyning,
|
|
l
eod
Scyldunga
lange
hwile.
|
|
No
ðy
æ
r
suna
sinum
syllan
wolde,
|
|
hwatum
H
eorowearde
,
þeah
he
him
hold
wære,
|
2165
|
breostgewædu.
Bruc
ealles
well."
|
|
Hyrde
ic
þæt
þam
frætwum
feower
mearas
|
|
lungre
gelice
last
weardode,
|
|
æppelfealuwe.
He
him
est
geteah
|
178r
|
meara
7
maðma.
Swa
sceal |
mæg
don,
|
2170
|
nealles
inwitnet
oðr
um
bregdon,
|
|
dyrnum
cræfte
deað
re
n
ian
|
|
hondgesteallan.
Hygelace
wæs
|
|
niða
heardum
nefa
swyðe
hold,
|
|
7
geh
wæðer
oðrum
hroþra
gemyndig.
|
2175
|
Hyrd
e
ic
þæt
he
ðone
healsbeah
Hygde
ge
sealde
,
|
|
wrætlicne
wundur
maððum
,
ðone
þe
him
Wealhðeo
geaf,
|
|
ðeo
d
nes
dohtor,
þrio
wicg
somod
|
|
swanco
r
7
sadolbeorht.
Hyre
syððan
wæs
|
|
æfter
beahðege
brost
geweorðod.
|
2180
|
Swa
b
eal
dode
,
bearn
Ecgðeowes,
|
|
guma
gu
ðum
cuð,
godum
dædum.
|
|
Dreah
æfter
dom
e
,
nealles
druncne
slog
|
|
heorðgen
ea
tas
.
Næs
him
hreoh
sefa,
|
|
ac
he
ma
n
cynnes
,
mæste
cræfte,
|
2185
|
ginfæsta
n
gife,
þe
him
God
sealde,
|
|
heold
hildedeor.
Hean
wæs
lange
|
|
swa
hyne
Geat
a
bearn
godne
ne
tealdon,
|
|
ne
hyne
on
medobence
micles
wyrðne
|
178v
|
|
dri
hten
wereda
gedon
wolde.
|
2190
|
Swyðe
sæg
don
,
þæt
he
sleac
wære,
|
|
æðeling
un
fro
m
.
Edwenden
cwom
|
|
tireadigum
me
nn
torna
gehwylces.
|
|
Het
ða
eorla
hl
eo
in
gefetian,
|
|
heaðorof
cyning,
Hr
eðles
lafe,
|
2195
|
golde
gegyrede.
Næs
mid
Geatum
ða
|
|
sincmaðþum
selra
o
n
sweordes
had.
|
|
Þæt
he
on
Biowulfes
be
arm
alegde,
|
|
7
him
gesealde
seofan
þ
usendo
,
|
|
bold
7
bregostol.
Him
wæs
b
a
m
samod
|
2200
|
on
ðam
leodscipe
lo
nd
gecynde,
|
|
eard
eðelriht,
oðrum
s
wiðor
|
|
side
rice,
þam
ðær
selra
wæs.
|
|
E
ft
þæt
geiode
ufaran
dogrum
|
|
hilde
h
læmmum
,
syððan
Hygelac
læg,
|
2205
|
7
Hearede
hildemeceas
|
|
under
bordhreoðan
to
bonan
wurdon,
|
|
ða
hyne
gesohtan
on
sigeþeode,
|
|
hearde
hildefrecan,
Heaðo-Scilfingas,
|
|
niða
genægdan
nefan
Hererices,
|
179r
|
þæt
syððan |
Beowulfe
brade
rice
|
|
on
hand
ge
hwearf
.
He
geheold
tela
|
|
fiftig
wintra,
wæs
ða
frod
cyning,
|
|
eald
eþelweard,
oð
ð
æt
on
ongan
|
|
deorcum
nihtum
draca
rics
i
an
,
|
2215
|
se
ðe
on
hea
ðoh
l
æw
e
hord
beweot
ode
,
|
|
stanbeorh
stear
c
ne
.
Stig
under
l
æg
|
|
eldum
uncuð.
Þær
on
innan
giong
|
|
nið
a
nathwyl
c
,
nydd
æl
gefeng
|
|
hæðnum
ho
rde
,
hond
gewriþen
dæl
,
|
2220
|
since
fahne.
He
þæt
syððan
beget
|
|
þ
eah
ð
e
he
slæpende
be
syre
d
hæf
de
|
|
þeo
f
es
cræfte,
þæt
si
e
ðiod
onfand
,
|
|
b
u
folc
beorn
es
,
þæt
he
gebolge
n
wæs.
|
|
XXXII
|
|
Nealles
wæs
geweoldum
wyrmhorda
cræft,
|
2225
|
sylfes
willum,
se
ðe
him
sare
ge
sceod
,
|
|
ac
for
þreanedlan
þeo
f
nathwylces
|
|
hæleða
bearna
hetesweng
eas
fleoh;
|
|
ðær
wæs
þea
rfa
,
7
ðær
inne
weal
l
,
|
|
secg
syn
by
sig
,
sona
o
nwa
c
ede
,
|
2230
|
þæt
gean
ðam
gyst
e
gry
rebr
o
g
a
stod.
|
179v
|
Hwæðre
fyren
sceapen
|
...
se
fær
begeat.
|
|
Sincfæt
sohte
þær
wæs
swylcra
fela
|
|
in
ðam
eorð
se
le
ærgestreona,
|
|
swa
hy
on
gearda
gum
gumena
nathwylc,
|
2235
|
eormenlafe
æþ
elan
cynnes,
|
|
þanchycgende
þær
ge
hy
dde
,
|
|
deore
maðmas.
Ealle
hie
deað
fo
rnam
|
|
ærran
mælum,
7
si
an
ða
gen
|
|
leo
da
duguðe,
se
ðær
lengest
hwearf,
|
2240
|
we
ard
winegeomor,
w
ende
þæs
yldan,
|
|
þæt
h
e
lytel
fæc
longgestreona
|
|
brucan
m
oste
.
Beorh
eallgearo
|
|
wunode
on
wonge
wæ
teryðum
neah,
|
|
niwe
be
næsse,
nearo
c
ræftum
fæst.
|
2245
|
Þær
on
innan
bær
eorl
g
estreona
|
|
hringa
hyrde
ha
n
dwyrðne
d
æl
,
|
|
fættan
goldes.
Fea
worda
cwæð:
|
|
"Heald
þu
nu,
hruse,
nu
hæleð
ne
mostan,
|
|
eorla
æhta.
Hwæt,
hyt
ær
on
ðe
|
2250
|
gode
begeaton.
Guðdeað
fornam,
|
|
f
eorhbeal
e
frecne,
fyrena
gehwylcne,
|
|
leoda
minra,
þa
me
ðe
þis
ofgeaf.
|
180r
|
Gesawon
seledream
as
.
|
Nah,
hwa
sweord
wege
|
|
oððe
f
o
r
ð
sele
fæted
wæge,
|
2255
|
dryncfæt
deore.
Dug
uð
ellor
seoc.
|
|
Sceal
se
hearda
helm
hyr
stedgolde
|
|
fætum
befeallen.
Feormy
nd
swefað,
|
|
þa
ðe
beadogriman
bywan
sceoldon.
|
|
Ge
swylce
seo
herepad,
s
io
æt
hilde
gebad
|
2260
|
ofer
borda
gebræc
bite
irena,
|
|
brosnað
æfter
beorne.
Ne
mæg
byrnan
hring
|
|
æfter
wig
fru
man
wide
feran,
|
|
hæleðum
be
healfe.
Næs
hearpan
wyn,
|
|
gomen
gleobeames,
ne
god
hafoc
|
2265
|
geond
sæl
swingeð,
ne
se
swifta
mearh
|
|
burhstede
beateð.
Bea
lo
cwealm
hafað
|
|
fela
feorhcynna
fo
rð
onsended."
|
|
Swa
giomormod
giohðo
mænde
|
|
an
æfter
eallum,
unbliðe
hwe
arf
|
2270
|
dæges
7
nihtes,
oð
ðæt
deaðes
wylm
|
|
hr
an
æt
heortan.
Hordwynne
fond,
|
|
eald
uh
t
sceaða
,
opene
standan,
|
|
se
ðe,
byrnend
e
,
biorgas
seceð.
|
|
Nacod
niðdraca
niht
es
fleogeð,
|
2275
|
fyre
befangen.
Hyne
foldbuen
d
,
|
180v
|
|
swiðe
dræ
dað
.
He
gesecean
sceall
|
|
h
ear
m
on
h
rusan,
þær
he
hæðen
gold
|
|
warað
win
trum
frod.
Ne
byð
him
wihte
ðy
sel.
|
|
Sw
a
se
ðeodsceaða
þreo
hund
wintra
|
2280
|
h
eold
on
hrusa
n
hordærna
sum,
|
|
eacen
cr
æftig
,
oð
ðæt
hyne
an
abealch,
|
|
mon
on
mode.
Mandryhtne
bær
|
|
fæted
wæge,
frioðowære
bæd
|
|
hlaford
sinne.
Ða
w
æs
hord
rasod,
|
2285
|
onboren
beaga
h
ord
.
Bene
getiðad
|
|
feasceaftum
men.
Frea
sceawode
|
|
fira
fyrngeweorc
f
orman
siðe.
|
|
Þa
se
wyrm
onwoc,
wroht
wæs
geniwad.
|
|
Stonc
ða
æfter
stane,
stearcheort
onfand
|
2290
|
feondes
fot
l
ast
.
He
to
forð
gestop
|
|
dyrnan
cræfte
dracan
heafde
neah.
|
|
Swa
mæg
unfæge
eaðe
gedigan
|
|
wean
7
wræcsið
se
ðe
Waldendes
|
|
hyldo
gehealdeþ.
Hordweard
sohte
|
2295
|
georne
æfter
grunde,
wolde
guman
findan,
|
|
þone
þe
him
on
sweofote
sare
geteode.
|
181r
|
Hat
7
hreohmod,
|
hl
æ
w
oft
ymbehwearf
|
|
ealn
e
utan
weardne
.
Ne
ðær
ænig
mon
|
|
on
þ
am
westenne,
hwæðre
hilde
gefeh,
|
2300
|
bea
du
weorces
.
Hwilum
on
beorh
æthwe
arf
,
|
|
sincfæt
sohte.
He
þæt
sona
onf
and
,
|
|
ðæt
hæfde
gumena
sum
goldes
gefandod,
|
|
heahgestreona.
Hordwea
rd
onbad
|
|
earfoðlice,
oð
ðæt
æfen
c
wom
.
|
2305
|
Wæs
ða
gebolgen
beorges
hyrde,
|
|
wolde
s
e
laða
lige
forgyldan
|
|
drin
c
fæt
dyre.
Þa
wæs
dæg
sceacen
|
|
w
yr
me
on
willan.
No
on
wealle
læg,
|
|
bi
dan
wolde,
ac
mid
bæle
for,
|
2310
|
fyre
gefysed.
Wæs
se
fruma
egeslic
|
|
leodum
on
lande,
swa
hyt
lungre
wearð
|
|
on
hyra
sincgifan
sare
geendod.
|
|
XXXIII
|
|
ÐA
se
gæst
ongan
gledum
spiwan,
|
|
beorht
hofu
bærnan.
Bry
ne
leoma
stod
|
2315
|
eldum
on
andan.
No
ðæ
r
aht
cwices
|
181v
|
lað
lyftfloga
læfan |
wolde
.
|
|
Wæs
þæs
wyrmes
wig
wide
gesy
ne
,
|
|
ne
arofages
nið
nean
7
feorran,
|
|
hu
s
e
guðsceaða
Geata
leode
|
2320
|
hatode
7
hyn
de
.
Hord
eft
gesceat,
|
|
dryhtsele
dyrn
ne
ær
dæges
hwile.
|
|
Hæfde
landwara
li
ge
befangen,
|
|
bæle
7
bronde.
Beorges
getruwode,
|
|
wiges
7
wealles.
Him
seo
wen
g
eleah
.
|
2325
|
Þa
wæs
Biowulfe
broga
gecy
ð
ed
|
|
snude
to
soðe,
þæt
his
sylfes
h
a
m
,
|
|
bolda
selest,
brynewylmum
mealt,
|
|
g
ifstol
Geata.
Þæt
ðam
godan
wæs
|
|
hreow
o
n
hreðre,
hygesorga
mæst.
|
2330
|
Wende
s
e
wisa
þæt
he
Wealdende
|
|
ofer
ealde
riht
ecean
Dryhtne
|
|
bitre
gebulge.
B
reost
innan
weoll
|
|
þeostrum
geþoncum,
swa
him
geþywe
ne
wæs.
|
|
Hæfde
ligdraca
leoda
fæsten,
|
2335
|
ealond
utan,
eorðweard
ðone
|
|
gledum
forgrunden.
Him
ðæs
guðkyning,
|
|
Wedera
þioden,
wræce
leornode.
|
|
Heht
him
þa
gewyrcean,
wigendra
hleo,
|
|
eallirenne,
eorla
dryhten,
|
182r
|
wigbord
wrætlic.
|
Wisse
he
gearwe
|
|
þæt
him
holtwudu
he
lpan
ne
meahte,
|
|
lind
wið
lige.
Sceolde
li
þenddaga
,
|
|
æþeling
ærgod,
ende
g
e
bidan
|
|
worulde
lifes,
7
se
wyrm
somod,
|
2345
|
þeah
ðe
hordwelan
heolde
lan
ge
.
|
|
Oferhogode
ða
hringa
fengel
|
|
þæt
he
þone
widflogan
weorode
gesohte
|
|
sidan
herge.
No
he
him
þam
sæcce
ondred,
|
|
ne
him
þæs
wyrmes
wig
for
wiht
dyde,
|
2350
|
eafoð
7
ellen,
forðon
he
ær
fela
|
|
nearo
neðende
niða
gedig
de
,
|
|
hildehlemma,
syððan
he
Hroðga
res
|
|
sigoreadig
secg,
sele
fælsode,
|
|
7
æt
g
uðe
forgrap
Grendeles
mægum,
|
2355
|
laðan
cynnes.
No
þæt
læsest
wæs
|
|
hondge
mot
a
,
þær
mon
Hygelac
sloh,
|
|
syððan
Geata
cyning,
guðe
ræsum,
|
|
freawine
folc
a
,
Freslondum
on,
|
|
Hreðles
eafora,
hiorodryncum
swealt,
|
2360
|
bille
gebeate
n
.
Þonan
Biowulf
com
|
|
sylfes
cræfte,
sundnytte
dreah.
|
182v
|
Hæfde
him
on
earm
e
|
ealra
þritig
|
|
hildegeatwa,
þa
he
to
holm
e
gion
g
.
|
|
Nealles
Hetware
hremge
þorf
t
on
|
2365
|
feðewiges,
þe
him
foran
ongean
|
|
linde
bæron.
Lyt
eft
becwom
|
|
fram
þam
hildfrecan
hames
niosan.
|
|
Ofer
s
wam
ða
sioleða
bigong
sunu
Ecgðeowes,
|
|
ea
rm
anhaga
eft
to
leodum.
|
2370
|
Þær
him
Hygd
gebead
hord
7
rice,
|
|
beagas
7
brego
s
tol
.
Bearne
ne
truwode,
|
|
þæt
he
wið
ælfylcum
eþelstolas
|
|
healdan
cuðe.
Ða
wæs
Hygelac
dead.
|
|
No
ðy
ær
feasceafte
f
indan
meahton
|
2375
|
æt
ðam
æðelinge
æ
nige
ðinga,
|
|
þæt
he
Heardrede
hlaford
w
ære
,
|
|
oððe
þone
cynedom
ciosan
wol
d
e
.
|
|
Hwæðre
he
him
on
folce
freondlarum
heold,
|
|
estum
mid
are,
oð
ðæt
he
yldra
wearð,
|
2380
|
Weder-Geatum
weold.
Hyne
wræcmæcgas
|
|
ofer
sæ
sohtan,
suna
Ohteres.
|
|
Hæfdon
hy
forhealden
helm
Scylfinga,
|
|
þone
selestan
sæcyninga
|
|
þara
ðe
ðe
in
Swiorice
sinc
brytnade,
|
183r
|
mærne |
þ
eoden
.
Him
þæt
to
mearce
wearð.
|
|
He
þær
orfeorme
feorhwunde
hleat,
|
|
sw
eor
des
swengum,
sunu
Hygelaces.
|
|
7
him
eft
gewat
Ongenðioes
bearn
|
|
ha
mes
niosan,
syððan
Heardred
læg.
|
2390
|
Let
ðone
bregostol
Biowulf
healdan,
|
|
Geatum
wealdan.
Þæt
wæs
god
cyning.
|
|
XXXIIII.
|
|
SE
ðæs
leodhryres
lean
gemunde.
|
|
Uferan
dogrum
Eadgilse
wearð
|
|
feasceaftum
freond.
Folce
gestepte
|
2395
|
ofe
r
sæ
side
sunu
Ohteres,
|
|
wigum
7
wæpnum.
Þæt
he
gewræc
syððan
|
|
cealdum
cearsiðum,
cyning
ealdre
bineat.
|
|
Swa
he
niða
gehwane
genesen
hæfde,
|
|
sliðra
geslyht
a
,
sunu
Ecgðiowes,
|
2400
|
ellenweorca,
oð
ðone
anne
dæg,
|
|
þe
he
wið
þam
wyrme
gewegan
sceolde.
|
|
Gewat
þa,
twelfa
sum,
torne
gebolgen,
|
|
dryhten
Geata,
dracan
sceawia
n
.
|
|
Hæfde
þa
gefrunen
hwanan
sio
fæhð
aras,
|
183v
|
bealonið
biorna.
Him
to
bearme |
cwom
|
|
ma
ð
þumfæt
mære,
þurh
ðæs
me
l
da
n
hond.
|
|
Se
wæs
on
ðam
ðreate
þreotteo
ða
secg,
|
|
se
ðæs
orleges
or
onstealde,
|
|
hæft
hy
gegiomor
.
Sceolde
hean
ðonon
|
2410
|
wong
w
isian
.
He
ofer
willan
giong
|
|
to
ðæs
ðe
he
eorðsele
anne
wisse,
|
|
hlæw
under
hr
usan
holmwylme
neh,
|
|
yðgewinne.
Se
wæs
innan
full
|
|
wrætta
7
wira.
Weard
unhiore,
|
2415
|
gearo
guðfreca
goldmaðmas
heold,
|
|
eald
under
eorðan.
Næs
þæt
yðe
ceap,
|
|
to
gegangenne
gumena
ænigum.
|
|
Gesæt
ða
on
næsse
niðheard
cyning,
|
|
þenden
hælo
abead
heorðgeneatum,
|
2420
|
gold
w
ine
Geata.
Him
wæs
geomor
sefa,
|
|
wæfre
7
wælfus.
Wyrd
ungemete
neah
|
|
se
ðone
gomelan
gretan
sceolde,
|
|
secean
sawle
hord,
sundur
gedælan
|
|
lif
wið
lice.
No
þon
lange
wæs
|
2425
|
feorh
æþelinges
flæsce
bewunden.
|
|
Biowulf
maþelade,
bearn
Ecgðeowes:
|
|
"Fela
ic
on
gioguðe
guðræsa
genæs,
|
|
orleghwila.
Ic
þæt
eall
gemon.
|
184r
|
|
Ic
wæs
syfanwintre
þa
mec
sin
ca
bal
dor
,
|
2430
|
freawine
folca,
æt
minum
fæ
der
genam.
|
|
Heold
mec
7
hæfde
Hreðel
cyn
ing
,
|
|
geaf
me
sinc
7
symbel,
sibbe
gemund
e
;
|
|
næs
ic
him
to
life
laðra
owihte
|
|
beorn
in
burgum,
þonne
his
bearna
hwylc,
|
2435
|
Herebe
ald
7
Hæðcyn
oððe
Hygelac
min.
|
|
Wæs
þam
yldestan
ungedefelice
|
|
mæges
dædum
morþorbed
stred,
|
|
syððan
hyne
Hæðcyn
of
hornbogan,
|
|
his
freawine
flane
geswencte,
|
2440
|
miste
mercelses
7
his
mæg
o
f
scet
,
|
|
broðor
oðerne
blodigan
gare.
|
|
Þæt
w
æs
feohleas
gefeoht,
fyrenum
gesyngad,
|
|
hreð
re
hygemeðe.
Sceolde
hwæðre
swa
þeah
|
|
æð
e
ling
unwrecen
ealdres
linnan.
|
2445
|
Swa
bið
geomorlic
gomelum
ceorle
|
|
to
gebidanne
þæt
his
byre
ride
|
|
giong
on
galgan.
Þonne
h
e
gyd
wrece,
|
|
sarigne
sang,
þonne
his
sunu
hangað
|
|
hrefne
to
hroðre,
7
he
him
helpa
n
ne
mæg,
|
2450
|
eald
7
infrod
ænige
gefremma
n
.
|
|
Symble
bið
gemyndgad
morna
gehwylce,
|
184v
|
|
eafo
ran
ellorsið.
Oðres
ne
gymeð
|
|
t
o
gebidanne
burgum
in
innan
|
|
yrfeweardas,
þonne
se
an
hafað
|
2455
|
þurh
deaðes
nyd
dæda
gefondad.
|
|
Gesyhð
sorhcearig
on
his
suna
bure
|
|
winsele
westne,
windge
reste
|
|
reote
berofene.
Ridend
swefað,
|
|
hæleð
in
hoðman.
Nis
þær
hearpan
sweg,
|
2460
|
gomen
in
geardum,
swylce
ðær
iu
wæron."
|
|
XXXV
|
|
"GEwiteð
þonne
on
sealman,
sorhleoð
gæleð,
|
|
an
æfter
anum.
Þuhte
him
eall
to
rum,
|
|
wongas
7
wicstede.
Swa
Wedra
helm
|
|
æfter
Herebealde
heortan
sorge,
|
2465
|
weallinde,
wæg.
Wihte
ne
meahte
|
|
on
ðam
feorhbonan
fæghðe
gebetan.
|
|
No
ðy
ær
he
þone
heaðorinc
hatian
ne
meahte
|
|
laðum
dædum,
þeah
him
leof
ne
wæs.
|
|
He
ða
mid
þære
sorhge,
þe
him
sio
sar
belamp,
|
2470
|
gumdream
ofgeaf,
Godes
leoht
geceas.
|
|
Eaferum
læfde,
swa
deð
eadig
mon,
|
|
lond
7
leodbyrig,
þa
he
of
life
gewat.
|
185r
|
Þa |
wæs
synn
7
sacu
Sweona
7
Geata
|
|
of
er
w
id
wæter
wroht
gemæne,
|
2475
|
herenið
hea
rda
,
syððan
Hreðel
swealt,
|
|
oððe
him
Ongenðeowes
eaferan
wæran
|
|
frome
fyrdhwate.
Freode
ne
woldon
|
|
ofer
heafo
healdan,
ac
ymb
Hreosna-Beorh
|
|
eat
olne
inwitscear
oft
ge
fremedon
.
|
2480
|
Þæt
m
æg
wine
mine
gewræcan,
|
|
fæhðe
7
fyrene,
swa
hyt
gefræge
wæs,
|
|
þeah
ðe
oðer
his
ealdre
gebohte
|
|
heardan
ceape.
Hæðcynne
wearð,
|
|
Geata
dryhtne
guð
onsæg
e
.
|
2485
|
Þa
ic
on
morgne
gefrægn
mæg
oðerne
|
|
billes
ecgum
on
bonan
stælan,
|
|
þær
Onge
n
þeow
Eofores
niosað.
|
|
Guðhelm
toglad,
gomela
Scylfing
|
|
hreas
heaþo
blac
.
Hond
gemunde
|
2490
|
fæhðo
genoge,
feorhsweng
ne
ofteah.
|
|
Ic
him
þa
maðmas,
þe
he
me
sealde,
|
|
geald
æt
guðe,
swa
me
gifeðe
wæs,
|
|
leohtan
sweorde.
He
me
lond
forgeaf,
|
|
eard,
eðelwy
n
.
Næs
him
ænig
þearf,
|
2495
|
þæt
he
to
Gifðum
oððe
to
Gar-Denum
|
|
oððe
in
Swiorice
secean
þurfe
|
185v
|
|
wyrs
an
wigfrecan,
weorðe
gecypa
n
.
|
|
Symle
ic
him
on
feðan
beforan
wolde,
|
|
ana
on
orde,
7
swa
to
aldre
sceall
|
2500
|
sæcce
fremman,
þenden
þis
sweord
þolað.
|
|
Þæt
mec
ær
7
sið
oft
gelæste,
|
|
syððan
ic
for
dugeðum
D
æghrefne
wearð
|
|
to
handbonan,
Huga
ce
mpan
.
|
|
Nalles
he
ða
frætwe
Frescyning
e
,
|
2505
|
breostweorðunge
bringan
moste,
|
|
ac
in
cempan
gecrong
cumbles
hyrde,
|
|
æþeling
on
elne.
Ne
wæs
ecg
bona,
|
|
ac
him
hildegrap
heortan
wylmas,
|
|
banhus
gebræc.
Nu
sceall
billes
ecg,
|
2510
|
hond
7
heard
sweord
ymb
hord
wigan."
|
|
Beowulf
maðelode,
beotwordum
spræc
|
|
niehstan
siðe:
"
I
c
geneðde
fela
|
|
guða
on
geogoðe;
gyt
ic
wylle,
|
|
frod
folces
weard
fæhðe
secan,
|
2515
|
mærðum
fremman,
gif
mec
se
mansceaða
|
|
of
eorðsele
ut
geseceð."
|
|
Gegrette
ða
gumena
gehwylcne,
|
|
hwate
helmberend
hindeman
siðe,
|
|
swæse
gesiðas:
"Nolde
ic
sweord
beran,
|
186r
|
wæpen
to
wyrme,
|
gif
ic
wiste
hu
|
|
wið
ðam
aglæcean
elle
s
meahte
|
|
gylpe
wiðgripan,
swa
ic
gio
wi
ð
Grendle
dyde.
|
|
Ac
ic
ðær
heaðufyres
hate
s
wene,
|
|
reðes
7
hattres;
forðon
ic
me
on
hafu
|
2525
|
bord
7
byrnan.
Nelle
ic
beorges
weard
|
|
oferfleon
fotes
trem,
ac
unc
sce
al
|
|
weorðan
æt
wealle
swa
unc
wyrd
geteoð,
|
|
Metod
manna
gehwæs.
Ic
eom
on
mode
from
|
|
þæt
ic
wið
þone
guðflogan
gylp
ofe
r
sitte
.
|
2530
|
Gebide
ge
on
beorge
byrnum
werede,
|
|
secgas
on
searwum,
hwæðer
sel
mæge
|
|
æfter
wælræse
wunde
gedygan
|
|
uncer
twega.
Nis
þæt
eower
sið,
|
|
ne
gemet
mannes,
ne
fn
e
min
anes."
|
2535
|
Wat
he
wið
aglæcean
eofoðo
dæle,
|
|
eorlscype
efne.
"Ic
mid
elne
sceall
|
|
gold
gegangan,
oððe
guð
nimeð,
|
|
feorhbealu
frecne
frean
eowerne."
|
|
Aras
ða
bi
ronde,
rof
oretta,
|
2540
|
heard
under
helm
e
,
hiorosercean
bær
|
|
under
stancleofu,
strengo
getruwode
|
|
anes
mannes.
Ne
bið
swylc
earges
sið!
|
186v
|
Geseah
ða
be
wealle,
|
se
ð
e
worna
fela,
|
|
gumcystum
god,
guða
ge
d
igde
,
|
2545
|
hildehlemma,
þonne
hnitan
feðan
|
|
stodan
stanbogan,
stream
ut
þonan
|
|
brecan
of
beorge.
Wæs
þære
burnan
wælm
|
|
heaðofyrum
hat,
ne
meahte
horde
neah,
|
|
unbyrnende,
ænige
hwile
|
2550
|
deop
gedygan,
for
dracan
lege.
|
|
Let
ða
of
breostum,
ða
he
gebolgen
wæs,
|
|
Weder-Geata
leod
word
ut
faran;
|
|
stearcheort
styrmde.
Stefn
in
becom,
|
|
heaðotorht
hlynnan
under
harne
stan.
|
2555
|
Hete
wæs
onhrered,
hordweard
oncniow
|
|
mannes
reorde.
Næs
ðær
mara
fyrst
|
|
freode
to
friclan.
From
ærest
cwom
|
|
oruð
aglæcean
ut
of
stane,
|
|
hat
hildeswat.
Hruse
dynede.
|
2560
|
Biorn
under
beorge
bordrand
onswaf
|
|
wið
ðam
gryregieste
Geata
dryhten.
|
|
Ða
wæs
hringbogan
heorte
gefysed
|
|
sæcce
to
seceanne.
Sweord
ær
gebræd
|
|
god
guðcyning,
gomele
lafe,
|
2565
|
ecgum
ungleaw.
Æghwæðrum
wæs
|
187r
|
bealohycgendra
|
bro
ga
fram
oðrum.
|
|
Stiðmod
gestod
wi
ð
steapne
rond,
|
|
winia
bealdor,
ða
se
wyr
m
gebeah
|
|
snude
tosomne.
He
on
searwum
bad.
|
2570
|
Gewat
ða
byrnende
gebogen
scriða
n
|
|
to
gescipe
scyndan.
Scyld
wel
gebearg
|
|
life
7
lice
læssan
hwile
|
|
mærum
þeodne
þon
ne
his
myne
sohte,
|
|
ðær
he
þy
fyrste
fo
r
man
dogore
|
2575
|
wealdan
moste,
swa
him
wyrd
ne
gescraf
|
|
hreð
æt
hilde.
Hond
u
p
abræd
|
|
Geata
dryhten,
gryrefahne
slo
h
|
|
Incgelafe,
þæt
sio
ecg
gewac,
|
|
brun
on
bane,
bat
unswiðor
|
2580
|
þonne
his
ðiodcyning
þe
arfe
hæfde,
|
|
bysigum
gebæded.
Þa
wæs
beorges
weard
|
|
æfter
heaðuswenge
on
hreou
m
mode.
|
|
Wearp
wælfyre;
wide
sprungon
|
|
hildeleoman.
Hreðsigora
ne
gealp
|
2585
|
goldwine
Geata.
Guðbill
geswac,
|
|
nacod
æt
niðe,
swa
hyt
no
sceolde,
|
|
iren
ærgod.
Ne
wæs
þæt
eðe
sið,
|
|
þæt
se
mæra
maga
Ecgðeowes
|
|
grundwong
þone
ofgyfan
wolde.
|
2590
|
Sceolde
willan
wic
eardian
|
187v
|
elles
hwergen,
swa |
sceal
æghwylc
mon
|
|
alætan
lændag
as
.
Næs
ða
long
to
ðon,
|
|
þæt
ða
aglæcean
hy
eft
gemetton.
|
|
Hyrte
hyne
hordweard,
hreðer
æðme
weoll,
|
2595
|
niwan
stefne.
Nearo
ðr
owode
,
|
|
fyre
befongen,
se
ðe
ær
folce
weold.
|
|
Nealles
him
on
heape
h
a
ndgesteallan
,
|
|
æ
ðelinga
bearn,
ymbe
gestodon
|
|
hildecystum,
ac
hy
on
holt
bugon,
|
2600
|
ealdre
burgan.
Hiora
in
anum
weoll
|
|
sefa
wið
sorgum.
Sibb
æfre
ne
mæg
|
|
wiht
onwendan,
þam
ðe
wel
þenceð.
|
|
XXXVI
|
|
W
IGlaf
wæs
haten,
Weoxstanes
sunu,
|
|
leof
l
ic
lindwiga,
leod
Scylfinga,
|
2605
|
mæg
Ælfheres.
Geseah
his
mondryhten
|
|
under
heregriman
hat
þrowian.
|
|
Gemunde
ða
ða
are
þe
he
him
ær
forgeaf,
|
|
wicstede
weligne
Wægmundinga,
|
|
folcrihta
gehwylc,
swa
his
fæder
ahte.
|
2610
|
Ne
mihte
ða
forhabban,
hond
rond
gefeng,
|
|
geolwe
linde,
gomelswyrd
geteah.
|
|
Þæt
wæs
mid
eldum
Eanmundes
laf.
|
188r
|
|
Su
na
Ohtere
þam
æt
sæcce
wearð
|
|
w
ræcca
wineleasum,
Weohstan
se
bana,
|
2615
|
meces
ecg
um
,
7
his
magum
ætbær
|
|
brunfagne
helm,
hringde
byrnan,
|
|
ealdsweord
etonisc.
Þæt
him
Onela
forgeaf,
|
|
his
gædelinges
guðgewædu,
|
|
fyrdsearo
fuslic.
No
ymbe
ða
fæhðe
spræc,
|
2620
|
þeah
ðe
he
his
broðor
bearn
abredwade.
|
|
He
frætwe
geheold
fela
missera,
|
|
bill
7
byrnan,
oð
ðæt
his
byre
mihte
|
|
eorlscipe
efnan
swa
his
ærfæder.
|
|
Geaf
him
ða
mid
Geatum
guðgewæda,
|
2625
|
æghwæs
unrim,
þa
he
of
ealdre
gewat,
|
|
frod
on
forðweg.
Þa
wæs
forma
sið
|
|
geongan
cempan,
þ
æt
he
guðe
ræs
|
|
mid
his
freodryhtne
fremman
sceolde.
|
|
Ne
gemealt
him,
se
modsefa,
ne
his
mægenes
laf
|
2630
|
gewac
æt
wige.
Þa
se
wyrm
onfand,
|
|
syððan
hie
togædre
gegan
hæfdon.
|
|
Wiglaf
maðelode,
wordrihta
fela
|
|
sægde
gesiðum.
Him
wæs
sefa
geomor.
|
188v
|
"Ic
ðæt |
mæl
geman,
þær
we
medu
þegun,
|
2635
|
þon
ne
we
geheton
ussum
hlaforde
|
|
in
biorsele,
ð
e
us
ðas
beagas
geaf,
|
|
þæt
we
him
ða
guðgetawa
gyldan
woldon,
|
|
gif
him
þyslicu
þearf
gelumpe,
|
|
helmas
7
heard
sweord.
Ðe
he
usic
on
herge
geceas
|
2640
|
to
ðyssum
siðfate
sylfes
willum.
|
|
Onmunde
usic
mærða,
7
me
þas
maðmas
geaf,
|
|
þe
he
usic
garwigend
gode
tealde,
|
|
hwate
helmberend,
þeah
ðe
hlaford
us
|
|
þis
ellenweorc
ana
aðohte
|
2645
|
to
gefremmanne,
folces
hyrde,
|
|
forðan
he
manna
mæst
mærða
gefremede,
|
|
dæda
dollicra.
Nu
is
se
dæg
cumen
|
|
þæt
ure
mandryhten
mægenes
behofað
|
|
godra
guðrinca.
Wutun
gongan
to
|
2650
|
helpan
hildfruman,
þenden
hyt
sy,
|
|
gledegesa
grim.
God
wat
on
mec
|
|
þæt
me
is
micle
leofre,
þæt
minne
lichaman
|
|
mid
minne
goldgyfan
gled
fæðmie.
|
|
Ne
þynceð
me
gerysne,
þæt
we
rondas
beren
|
2655
|
eft
to
earde,
nemne
we
æror
mægen
|
189A (197)r
|
fane
gefyllan,
|
f
eorh
ealgian
|
|
Wedra
ðeodnes.
Ic
wat
gear
e
,
|
|
þæt
næron
ealdgewyrht,
þæt
he
ana
scyle
|
|
G
eata
duguðe
gnorn
þrowian,
|
2660
|
gesigan
æt
sæcce.
Urum
sceal
sweord
7
helm,
|
|
byrne
7
byrduscrud
bam
gemæne."
|
|
Wod
þa
þurh
þone
wælrec,
wig
hea
folan
bær
|
|
frean
on
fultum.
Fea
worda
cwæð
:
|
|
"Leofa
Biowulf,
læst
eall
tela,
|
2665
|
swa
ðu
on
g
eo
guðfeore
geara
gecwæde,
|
|
þæt
ðu
ne
alæte
be
ðe
lifigendum
|
|
dom
gedreosan.
Scealt
nu
dædum
rof,
|
|
æðeling
anhydig,
ealle
mægene,
|
|
feorh
ealgian.
Ic
ðe
fullæstu."
|
2670
|
Æfter
ðam
wordum
wyrm
yrre
cwom,
|
|
atol
inwitg
æst
oðre
siðe,
|
|
fyrwylmum
fah
fionda
nio
s
i
an
|
|
laðra
manna.
Ligyðum
for,
|
|
born
bord
wið
rond.
Byrne
ne
meahte
|
2675
|
geongum
garwigan
geoce
gefremman,
|
|
ac
se
maga
geonga
und
er
his
mæges
scyld
|
|
elne
geeode,
þa
his
agen
wæs
|
|
gledum
forgrunden.
Þa
gen
guðcyning
|
|
m
iht
gemunde,
mægenstrengo
sloh
|
2680
|
hildebille,
þæt
hyt
on
heafolan
stod
|
|
niþe
genyded.
Nægl
in
g
forbærst,
|
|
geswac
æt
sæcce
sweord
Biowulfes
|
189A (197)v
|
|
gomol
7
grægmæl.
Him
þæt
gifeðe
ne
wæs,
|
|
þæt
him
irenna
ecge
mihton
|
2685
|
helpan
æt
hilde.
Wæs
sio
hond
to
strong,
|
|
se
ðe
meca
gehwane
m
ine
gefræge
|
|
swenge
ofersohte.
Þonne
he
to
s
æcce
bær
|
|
wæpen
wundum
heard;
næs
him
w
ihte
ðe
sel.
|
|
Þa
wæs
þeodsceaða
þriddan
siðe,
|
2690
|
frecne
fyrdraca
fæhða
gemyndig,
|
|
ræsde
on
ðone
rofan,
þa
him
rum
ageald,
|
|
hat
7
heaðogrim,
heals
ealne
ymbefeng
|
|
biteran
banum.
He
geblodegod
wearð
|
|
sawuldriore.
Swat
yðum
weoll.
|
|
XXXVII
|
2695
|
ÐA
ic
æt
þearfe
gefrægn
þeodcyninges
|
|
andlongne
eorl
ellen
cyðan,
|
|
cræft
7
cenðu,
swa
him
gecynde
wæs.
|
|
Ne
hedde
he
þæs
heafolan,
ac
sio
hand
gebarn
|
|
modiges
mannes,
þær
he
his
mægenes
healp,
|
2700
|
þæt
he
þone
niðgæst
nioðor
hwene
sloh,
|
|
secg
on
searwum,
þæt
ðæt
sweord
gedeaf,
|
|
fah
7
fæted;
þæt
ðæt
fyr
ongon
|
|
sweðrian
syððan.
Þa
gen
sylf
cyning
|
|
geweold
his
gewitte,
wællseaxe
gebræd
|
2705
|
biter
7
beaduscearp,
þæt
he
on
byrnan
wæg.
|
189r
|
Forwrat
Wedra |
helm
wyrm
on
middan.
|
|
Feond
gefyldan,
ferh
ellen
wræc,
|
|
7
hi
hyne
þa
begen
abroten
hæfdon,
|
|
sibæðelingas.
Swylc
sceolde
secg
wesan,
|
2710
|
þegn
æt
ðearfe.
Þæt
ðam
þeodne
wæs
|
|
siðas
sigehwile
sylfes
dædum
|
|
wo
rlde
geweorces.
Ða
sio
wund
ongon,
|
|
þe
him
se
e
orð
draca
ær
geworhte,
|
|
swelan
7
swella
n
.
He
þæt
sona
onfand
|
2715
|
þæt
him
on
breostum
beal
onið
weoll,
|
|
attor
on
innan.
Ða
se
æðeling
gion
g
,
|
|
þæt
he
bi
wealle
wishycgende
|
|
gesæt
on
sesse.
Seah
on
enta
geweorc
|
|
hu
ða
stanbogan
stapulum
fæste
|
2720
|
ece
eorðreced
innan
heald
e
n
.
|
|
Hyne
þa
mid
handa
heorodreorigne,
|
|
þeo
den
mærne,
þegn
ungemete
till
|
|
winedry
hten
his
wætere
gelafede,
|
|
hilde
sædne,
7
his
he
l
m
onspeon.
|
2725
|
Biowulf
maþelode.
He
ofer
be
nne
spræc,
|
|
wunde
wælbleate.
Wisse
he
gearwe
|
|
þæt
he
dæghwila
gedrogen
hæfde,
|
|
eorðan
wyn
ne
.
Ða
wæs
eall
sceacen
|
|
dogorgerimes,
deað
ungemete
neah:
|
2730
|
"Nu
ic
suna
minum
syllan
wolde
|
|
guðgewædu,
þær
me
gifeðe
swa
|
189v
|
ænig
yrfe|weard
æfter
wurde
|
|
lice
gelenge.
Ic
ðas
leo
de
heold
|
|
fiftig
wintra.
Næs
se
folccyning
|
2735
|
ymbesittendra
ænig
ðara
|
|
þe
mec
guðwinum
gr
etan
dorste,
|
|
egesan
ðeon.
Ic
on
earde
bad
|
|
m
ælgesceafta
,
heold
min
tela,
|
|
ne
sohte
s
earoniðas
,
ne
me
swor
fela
|
2740
|
aða
on
un
ri
ht
.
Ic
ðæs
ealles
mæg
|
|
feorhbennum
seoc,
ge
fea
n
habban,
|
|
forðam
me
witan
ne
ðearf
Waldend
fira
|
|
morðorbealo
maga,
þonne
min
sceaceð
|
|
lif
of
lice.
Nu
ðu
lungre
geong
|
2745
|
hord
sceawian
under
harne
stan,
|
|
Wiglaf
leofa.
Nu
se
wyrm
ligeð,
|
|
swefeð
sare
wund,
si
nce
bereafod.
|
|
Bio
nu
on
ofoste,
þæt
ic
ærwelan,
|
|
goldæht
ongite,
gearo
sceawige
|
2750
|
swegle
searogimmas,
þæt
ic
ðy
seft
mæge
|
|
æfter
maððumwelan
mi
n
alætan
|
|
lif
7
leodscipe,
þone
ic
longe
heold."
|
|
XXXVIII
|
|
ÐA
ic
snude
gefrægn
sunu
Wihstanes,
|
|
æfter
wordcwydum
wundum
dryhtne,
|
2755
|
hyran
heaðosiocum,
hringnet
beran,
|
|
brogdne
beadusercean,
u
n
der
beorges
hrof.
|
|
Geseah
ða
sigehreðig,
þa
he
bi
sesse
geong,
|
190r
|
magoþegn |
modig,
maððumsigla
fealo,
|
|
gold
glitinian
grunde
getenge,
|
2760
|
wundur
on
wealle,
7
þæs
wyrmes
denn,
|
|
ealdes
uhtflogan,
orcas
stondan,
|
|
fyrnmanna
fatu
feormendlease,
|
|
hyrstum
behrorene.
Þær
wæs
helm
monig
|
|
eald
7
omig,
earmbeaga
fela
|
2765
|
searwum
gesæled.
Sinc
eaðe
mæg,
|
|
gold
on
gr
und
e
,
gumcynnes
gehwone
|
|
oferhigian,
hyde
se
ðe
wylle.
|
|
Swylce
he
siomian
geseah
segn
eallgylden,
|
|
heah
ofer
horde,
hondwundra
mæst,
|
2770
|
gelocen
leoðocræftum.
Of
ðam
leoman
stod,
|
|
þæt
he
þone
grundwong
ongitan
mea
hte
,
|
|
wræce
giondwlitan:
næs
ðæs
wyrmes
þ
ær
|
|
onsyn
ænig,
ac
hyne
ecg
fornam.
|
|
Ða
ic
on
hlæwe
gefrægn
hord
reafian,
|
2775
|
eald
ent
a
geweorc
anne
mannan.
|
|
Him
on
bearm
hlo
don
bunan
7
discas.
|
|
Sylfes
dome
segn
eac
geno
m
,
|
|
beacna
beorhtost.
Bill
ær
gescod -
|
|
ecg
wæs
iren
ealdhlafordes -
|
2780
|
þam
ðara
maðma
mundbora
wæs
|
|
longe
hwile.
Ligegesan
wæg
|
|
hatne
for
horde,
hioroweallende
|
190v
|
middelnihtum,
|
oð
þæt
he
morðre
swealt.
|
|
Ar
wæs
on
ofoste,
eftsiðes
georn,
|
2785
|
frætwum
gefyrðred.
Hyne
fyrwet
bræc,
|
|
hwæðer
collenferð
cwicne
gemette
|
|
in
ðam
wongstede,
Wedra
þeoden
|
|
ellensiocne,
þær
he
hine
ær
forlet.
|
|
He
ða
mid
þam
maðmum
mærne
þioden,
|
2790
|
dryhten
sinne,
driorigne
fand,
|
|
ealdres
æt
ende.
He
hine
eft
ongon
|
|
wæteres
weorpan,
oð
þæt
wordes
ord
|
|
breosthord
þurhbræc.
|
|
Gomel
on
giogoðe
gold
sceawode.
|
2795
|
"Ic
ðara
frætwa
Frean
ealles
ðanc,
|
|
Wuldurcyninge
wordum
sec
ge
,
|
|
ecum
Dryhtne,
þe
ic
her
on
starie,
|
|
þæs
ðe
ic
moste
minum
leodum
|
|
ær
swyltdæge
swylc
ge
str
ynan
.
|
2800
|
Nu
ic
on
maðma
hord
minne
be
bo
hte
|
|
frode
feorhlege.
Fremmað
gena
|
|
l
eoda
þearfe.
Ne
mæg
ic
her
leng
wesan.
|
|
Hatað
h
eaðomære
hlæw
gewyrcean
|
|
beorhtne
æfter
bæle,
æt
brimes
nosan.
|
2805
|
Se
scel
to
gemyndum
minum
leodum
|
|
heah
hlifian
on
hrones
næsse,
|
|
þæt
hit
sæliðend
syððan
hatan
|
|
Biowulfes
Biorh,
ða
ðe
brentingas
|
191r
|
ofer |
floda
genipu
feorran
drifað."
|
2810
|
Dyde
him
of
healse
hring
gyldenne,
|
|
þioden
þristhydig,
þegne
gesealde,
|
|
geongum
garwigan,
goldfahne
helm,
|
|
beah
7
byrnan,
het
hyne
brucan
well:
|
|
"Þu
eart
endelaf
usses
cynnes,
|
2815
|
Wægmundinga.
Ealle
wyrd
forspeof
t
|
|
mine
magas
to
metodsceafte,
|
|
eorlas
on
elne.
Ic
him
æfter
sceal."
|
|
Þæt
wæs
þam
gomelan
gingæste
word
|
|
breostgehygdum,
ær
he
bæl
cure,
|
2820
|
hate
heaðowylmas.
Him
of
hwæðre
gewat
|
|
sawol
secean
soðfæstra
dom.
|
|
[XXXVIIII]
|
|
Ða
wæs
gegongen
gum
an
unfrodum
|
|
earfoðlice,
þæt
he
on
eorðan
geseah
|
|
þone
leofestan
lifes
æt
ende
|
2825
|
bleate
gebæran.
Bona
swylce
læg,
|
|
egeslic
eorðdraca
ealdr
e
bereafod,
|
|
bealwe
gebæded.
Beahhordum
leng
|
|
wyrm
wohbogen
wealdan
ne
moste,
|
|
ac
him
irenna
ecga
fornamon,
|
2830
|
hearde
heaðoscearde
homera
lafe,
|
|
þæt
se
widfloga,
wundum
stille,
|
|
hreas
on
hrusan
hordærne
neah.
|
191v
|
Nalles |
æfter
lyfte
lacende
hwearf
|
|
middelnih
tum
,
maðmæhta
wlonc,
|
2835
|
ansyn
ywde,
ac
he
eorðan
gefeoll
|
|
for
ðæs
hildfruman
hondgeweorce.
|
|
Huru
þæt
on
lande
lyt
manna
ðah
|
|
mægenagendra,
mine
gefræge,
|
|
þeah
ðe
he
dæda
gehwæs
dyrstig
wære,
|
2840
|
þæt
he
wið
attorsceaðan
oreðe
geræsde,
|
|
oððe
hringsele
hondum
styrede,
|
|
gif
he
wæccende
weard
onfunde
|
|
buon
on
beorge.
Biowulfe
wearð
|
|
dryhtmaðma
dæl,
deaðe
forgolden.
|
2845
|
Hæfde
æghwæðre
ende
gefered
|
|
lænan
lifes.
Næs
ða
lang
to
ðon,
|
|
þæt
ða
hildlatan
holt
ofgefan,
|
|
tydre
treowlogan,
tyne
ætsomne,
|
|
ða
ne
dorston
ær
dareðum
lacan
|
2850
|
on
hyra
mandryhtnes
miclan
þearfe.
|
|
Ac
hy
scamiende
scyldas
bæran,
|
|
guðgewædu,
þær
se
gomela
læg.
|
|
Wlitan
on
Wilaf.
He
gewergad
sæt,
|
|
feðecempa
frean
eaxlum
neah.
|
2855
|
Wehte
hyne
wætre -
him
wiht
ne
speo
w
.
|
|
Ne
meahte
he
on
eorðan,
ðeah
he
uðe
wel,
|
|
on
ðam
frumgare
feorh
gehealdan,
|
|
ne
ðæs
Wealdendes
wiht
oncirran.
|
192r
|
Wolde
dom |
Go
des
dædum
rædan
|
2860
|
gumena
gehwylcum,
sw
a
he
nu
gen
deð.
|
|
Þa
wæs
æt
ðam
geongum
grim
andswar
u
|
|
eðbegete,
þam
ðe
ær
his
elne
forleas.
|
|
Wiglaf
maðelode,
Weohstanes
sunu,
|
|
sec
sarigferð.
Seah
on
unleofe:
|
2865
|
"Þæt,
la,
mæg
secgan
se
ðe
wyle
soð
specan,
|
|
þæt
se
mondryhten,
se
eow
ða
maðmas
geaf,
|
|
eoredgeatwe,
þe
ge
þær
on
standað,
|
|
þonne
he
on
ealubence
oft
gesealde
|
|
healsittendum,
helm
7
byrnan,
|
2870
|
þeoden
his
þegnum
swylce
he
þrydlicost
|
|
ower
feor
oððe
neah
findan
meahte,
|
|
þæt
he
genunga
guðgewædu
|
|
wraðe
forwurpe,
ða
hyne
wig
beget.
|
|
Nealles
folccyning
fyrdgeste
allum
|
2875
|
gylpan
þorfte;
hwæðre
him
God
uðe,
|
|
sigor
a
Waldend,
þæt
he
hyne
sylfne
gewræc,
|
|
ana
mid
ecge,
þa
him
wæs
elnes
þearf.
|
|
Ic
him
lifwraðe
lytle
meahte
|
|
ætgifan
æt
guðe,
7
ongan
swa
þeah
|
2880
|
ofer
min
gemet
mæges
helpan.
|
|
Symle
wæs
þy
sæmra
þonne
ic
sweorde
drep,
|
|
ferhðgeniðlan,
fyr
unswiðor
|
|
weoll
of
gewitte.
w
ergendra
to
lyt
|
192v
|
þrong
ymbe
þeoden,
þa
hyne
sio |
þ
rag
becwom.
|
2885
|
Hu
sceal
sincþego
7
swyrd
gifu
,
|
|
eall
eðelwyn
eowrum
cynne,
|
|
lufen
alicgean.
Londrihtes
mot
|
|
þære
mægburge
monna
æghwylc
|
|
idel
hweorfan,
syððan
æðelingas
|
2890
|
feorran
gefricgean
fleam
eowerne,
|
|
domleasan
dæd.
Deað
bið
sella
|
|
eorla
gehwylcum
þonne
edwitlif."
|
|
XL
|
|
Heht
ða
þæt
heaðoweorc
to
hagan
biodan,
|
|
up
ofer
ecgclif,
þær
þæt
eorlweorod
|
2895
|
morgenlongne
dæg
modgiomor
sæt,
|
|
bordhæbbende,
bega
on
wenum,
|
|
endedogores
7
eftcymes
|
|
leofes
monnes.
Lyt
swigode
|
|
niwra
spella,
se
ðe
næs
gerad,
|
2900
|
ac
he
soðlice
sægde
ofer
ealle:
|
|
"Nu
is
wilgeofa
Wedra
leoda,
|
|
dryhten
Geata,
deaðbedde
fæst,
|
|
wunað
wælreste
wyrmes
dædum.
|
|
Him
on
efn
ligeð
ealdorgewinna
|
2905
|
siexbennum
seoc.
Sweorde
ne
meahte
|
|
on
ðam
aglæcean
ænige
þinga
|
|
wunde
gewyrcean.
Wiglaf
siteð
|
|
ofer
Biowulfe,
byre
Wihstanes,
|
|
eorl
ofer
oðrum
unlifigendum,
|
193r
|
healdeð
higemæðum
|
heafod
wearde
|
|
leofes
7
la
ð
es
.
Nu
y
s
leodum
wen
|
|
orleghwile
syððan
under
ne
|
|
Froncu
m
7
Frysum,
fyll
cyninges
|
|
wide
weorðeð.
Wæs
sio
wroht
scepen
|
2915
|
heard
wið
Hugas,
syððan
Higelac
cwom
|
|
faran
flotherge
on
Fresn
a
land.
|
|
Þær
hyne
Hetware
hilde
gehnægdon,
|
|
elne
geeodon
mid
ofermægene,
|
|
þæt
se
byrnwiga
bugan
sceolde.
|
2920
|
Feoll
on
feðan.
Nalles
frætwe
geaf,
|
|
ealdor
dugoðe.
Us
wæs
a
syððan
|
|
Merewioingas
milts
ungyfeðe.
|
|
Ne
ic
te
Swe
o
ðeode
sibbe
oððe
treowe
|
|
wihte
ne
wene,
ac
wæs
wide
cuð
|
2925
|
þætte
Ongenðio
ealdre
besnyðede
|
|
Hæðce
n
Hreþling
wið
Hrefnawudu,
|
|
þa
for
on
med
lan
ærest
gesohton
|
|
Geata
leode
Guð-Sci
l
fingas
.
|
|
Sona
him
se
froda
fæder
Ohthere
s
,
|
2930
|
eald
7
egesfull,
hondslyht
ageaf,
|
|
abreot
brimwisan,
bryd
aheorde,
|
|
gomela
iomeowl
a
n
golde
berofene,
|
|
Onelan
modor
7
Ohtheres.
|
|
7
ða
folgode
feorhgeniðlan,
|
2935
|
oð
ðæt
hi
oðeodo
n
earfoðlice,
|
|
in
Hrefnesholt
hlafordlease.
|
|
Besæt
ða
sinherge
sweorda
lafe,
|
193v
|
wundum
werge.
|
Wean
o
ft
gehet
|
|
earmre
teohhe
ondlonge
niht,
|
2940
|
cwæð,
he
on
mergenne
meces
ecgum
|
|
getan
wolde
sum
on
galgtreowu
m
|
|
feðan
to
gamene.
Frofor
eft
gelamp
|
|
sarigmodum
somod
ærdæge,
|
|
syððan
hie
Hygelaces
horn
7
byman
|
2945
|
gealdor
ongeaton,
þa
se
goda
com
|
|
leoda
dugoðe
on
last
faran.
|
|
XLI.
|
|
Wæs
sio
swatswaðu
Swona
7
Geata,
|
|
wælræs
weora,
wide
gesyne.
|
|
Hu
ða
folc
mid
him
fæhðe
towehton!
|
2950
|
Gewat
him
ða
se
goda
mid
his
gædelingum,
|
|
frod,
felageomor,
fæsten
secean.
|
|
Eorl
Ongenþio
ufor
oncirde,
|
|
hæfde
Higelaces
hilde
gefrunen,
|
|
wlonces
wigcræft.
Wiðres
n
e
truwode,
|
2955
|
þæt
he
sæmannum
onsacan
mihte,
|
|
heaðoliðendum
hord
forstandan,
|
|
bearn
7
bryde.
Beah
eft
þonan
|
|
eald
under
eorðweall.
Þa
wæs
æht
boden
|
|
Sweona
leodum,
segn
Higelace.
|
2960
|
Freoðowong
þone
ford
ofereodon,
|
|
syððan
Hreðlingas
to
hagan
þrungon.
|
|
Þær
wearð
Ongenðiow
ecgum,
sweordum,
|
|
blondenfexa
on
bid
wrecen,
|
|
þæt
se
þeodcyning
ðafian
sceolde
|
194r
|
Eafores |
anne
dom.
Hyne
yrringa
|
|
Wulf
Wonreðing
wæpne
geræhte,
|
|
þæt
him
for
swenge
swat
ædrum
sprong
|
|
forð
under
fexe.
Næs
he
forht
swa
ðeh,
|
|
gomela
Scilfing,
ac
forgeald
hraðe
|
2970
|
wyrsan
wrixle
wælhlem
þone,
|
|
syððan
ðeodcyning
þyder
oncirde.
|
|
Ne
meahte
se
snella
sunu
Wonredes
|
|
ealdum
ceorle
hondslyht
giofan,
|
|
ac
he
him
on
heafde
helm
ær
gescer,
|
2975
|
þæt
he
blode
fah
bugan
sceolde.
|
|
Feoll
on
foldan.
Næs
he
fæge
þa
git,
|
|
ac
he
hyne
gewyrpte,
þeah
ðe
him
wund
hrine.
|
|
Let
se
hearda
Higelaces
þegn
|
|
--
brade
mece
þa
his
broðor
læg --
|
2980
|
ealdsweord
eotonisc
entiscne
helm
|
|
brec
an
ofer
bordweal.
Ða
gebeah
cyning,
|
|
folces
hyrde
wæs
in
feorh
dropen.
|
|
Ða
wæron
monige
þe
his
mæg
wriðon,
|
|
ricone
arærdon,
ða
him
gerymed
wearð,
|
2985
|
þæt
hie
wælstowe
wealdan
moston.
|
|
Þenden
reafode
rinc
oðerne,
|
|
nam
on
Ongenðio
irenbyrnan,
|
|
heard
swyrd
hilted,
7
his
helm
somod.
|
|
Hares
hyrste
Higelace
bær.
|
2990
|
He
ðam
frætwum
feng
7
him
fægre
gehet
|
194v
|
leana
mid
|
leodum,
7
gelæst
e
swa.
|
|
Geald
þone
guðræs,
Geata
dryhten,
|
|
Hreðles
eafora,
þa
he
to
ham
becom,
|
|
Iofore
7
Wulfe
mid
ofermaðmum.
|
2995
|
Sealde
hiora
gehwæðrum
hund
þusenda
|
2996
a
b
|
landes
7
locenra
beaga
,
ne
ðorfte
him
|
2997
a
b
|
ða
lean
oðwitan
mon
on
middangearde
,
|
2998
a
b
|
syðða
n
hie
ða
maran
mærða
geslogon
.
|
|
7
ða
Iofore
forgeaf
angan
dohtor,
|
3000
|
hamweorðunge,
hyldo
to
wedde.
|
|
Þæt
ys
sio
fæhðo
7
se
feondscipe,
|
|
wælnið
wera,
ðæs
ðe
ic
wen
hafo,
|
|
þe
us
seceað
to
Sweona
leoda,
|
|
syððan
hie
gefricgeað
frean
userne
|
3005
|
ealdorleasne,
þone
ðe
ær
geheold
|
|
wið
hettendum
hord
7
rice,
|
|
æfter
hæleða
hryre,
hwate
Scildingas,
|
|
folcred
fremede,
oððe
furður
gen
|
|
eorlscipe
efnde.
Me
is
ofost
betost,
|
3010
|
þæt
we
þeodcyning
þær
sceawian,
|
|
7
þone
gebringan,
þe
us
beagas
geaf,
|
|
on
adfære.
Ne
scel
anes
hwæt
|
|
meltan
mid
þam
modigan,
ac
þær
is
maðma
hord,
|
|
gold
unrime,
grimme
gecea
po
d
,
|
3015
|
7
nu
æt
siðestan
sylfes
feore
|
|
beagas
geboh
te
.
Þa
sceall
brond
fretan,
|
195r
|
æled
þeccean,
|
nalles
eorl
wegan
|
|
maððum
to
gemyndum,
ne
mægð
scyne
|
|
habban
on
healse
hringweorðunge,
|
3020
|
ac
sceal,
geomormod,
golde
bereafod,
|
|
oft,
nalles
æne,
elland
tredan.
|
|
Nu
se
herewisa
hleahtor
alegde
|
|
gamen
7
gleodream.
Forðon
sceall
gar
wesan
|
|
monig
morgenceald,
mundum
bewunden,
|
3025
|
hæfen
on
handa;
nalles
hearpan
sweg
|
|
wigend
weccean,
ac
se
wonna
hrefn,
|
|
fus
ofer
fægum,
fela
reordian,
|
|
earne
secgan
hu
him
æt
æte
speow,
|
|
þenden
he
wið
wulf
wæl
reafode."
|
3030
|
Swa
se
secg
hwata
secggende
wæs
|
|
laðra
spella.
He
ne
leag
fela
|
|
wyrda
ne
worda.
Weorod
eall
aras.
|
|
Eodon
unbliðe
under
earna
næs,
|
|
wollenteare,
wundu
r
sceawian.
|
3035
|
Fundon
ða
on
sande
sawulleasne,
|
|
hlimbed
healdan,
þone
þe
him
hringas
geaf
|
|
ærran
mælum.
Þa
wæs
endedæg
|
|
godum
gegongen,
þæt
se
guðcyning,
|
|
Wedra
þeoden,
wundordeaðe
swealt.
|
3040
|
Ær
hi
þær
gesegan
syllicran
wiht,
|
|
wyrm
on
wonge
wiðerræhtes
þær,
|
|
laðne
licgean.
Wæs
se
legdraca
|
195v
|
grimlic
gry
regist
|
gledum
beswæled.
|
|
Se
wæs
fiftiges
fotgemearces
|
3045
|
lang
on
legere.
Lyftwynne
heold
|
|
nihtes
hwilum,
nyðer
eft
gewat
|
|
dennes
niosian.
Wæs
ða
deaðe
fæst,
|
|
hæfde
eorðscrafa
ende
genyttod.
|
|
Him
big
stodan
bunan
7
orcas,
|
3050
|
discas
lagon
7
dyre
swyrd,
|
|
omige,
þurhetone,
swa
hie
wið
eorðan
fæðm
|
|
þusend
wintra
þær
eardodon.
|
|
Þonne
wæs
þæt
yrfe,
eacencræftig,
|
|
iumonna
gold,
galdre
bewunden,
|
3055
|
þæt
ðam
hringsele
hrinan
ne
moste,
|
|
gumena
ænig,
nefne
God
sylfa,
|
|
sigora
Soðcyning
sealde
þam
ðe
he
wolde
|
|
He
is
manna
gehyld
hord
openian,
|
|
efne
swa
hwylcum
manna
swa
him
gemet
ðuhte.
|
|
XLII.
|
3060
|
Þa
wæs
gesyne
þæt
se
sið
ne
ðah
|
|
þam
ðe
unrihte
inne
gehydde
|
|
wræce
under
wealle.
Weard
ær
ofsloh
|
|
feara
sumne.
Þa
sio
fæhð
gewearð
|
|
gewrecen
wraðlice.
Wundur
hwar
þonne
|
3065
|
eorl
ellenrof
ende
gefere
|
|
lifgesceafta,
þonne
leng
ne
mæg,
|
|
mon
mid
his
mæ
gum
,
meduseld
buan.
|
196r
|
Swa
wæs
Biowulfe,
|
þa
he
biorges
weard
|
|
sohte,
searoniðas.
Seolfa
ne
cuðe
|
3070
|
þurh
hwæt
his
worulde
gedal
weorðan
sceolde.
|
|
Swa
hit
oð
domes
dæg
diope
benemdon
|
|
þeodnas
mære,
þa
ðæt
þær
dydon,
|
|
þæt
se
secg
wære
synnum
scildig,
|
|
hergum
geheaðerod,
hellbendum
fæst,
|
3075
|
wommum
gewitnad,
se
ðone
wong
strude.
|
|
Næs
he
goldhwæte,
gearwor
hæfde
|
|
Agendes
est
ær
gesceawod.
|
|
Wiglaf
maðelode,
Wihstanes
sunu:
|
|
"Oft
sceall
eorl
monig,
anes
willan,
|
3080
|
wræc
adreog
an
,
swa
us
geworden
is.
|
|
Ne
meahton
we
gelæran
leofne
þeoden,
|
|
rices
hyrde,
ræd
ænigne,
|
|
þæt
he
ne
grette
goldweard
þone,
|
|
lete
hyne
licgean
þær
he
longe
wæs,
|
3085
|
wicum
wunian
oð
woruldende.
|
|
Heold
on
heahgesceap.
Hord
ys
gesceawod,
|
|
grimme
gegongen.
Þæt
gifeðe
wæs
|
|
to
swið
þe
ðone
þyder
ontyhte.
|
|
Ic
wæs
þær
inne
7
þæt
eall
geondseh,
|
3090
|
recedes
geatwa,
þa
me
gerymed
wæs,
|
|
nealles
swæslice
sið
alyfed,
|
|
inn
under
eorðweall.
Ic
on
ofoste
gefeng
|
|
micle
mid
mundum,
mægenbyrðenne
|
196v
|
hordgestreona,
hider |
ut
ætbær
|
3095
|
cyninge
minum.
Cwico
wæs
þa
gena,
|
|
wis
7
gewittig.
Worn
eall
gespræc,
|
|
gomol
on
gehðo,
7
eowic
gretan
het,
|
|
bæd
þæt
ge
geworhton
æfter
wines
dædum
|
|
in
bælstede
beorh
þone
hean,
|
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|
micelne
7
mærne,
swa
he
manna
wæs
|
|
wigend
weorðfullost
wide
geond
eorðan,
|
|
þenden
he
burhwelan
brucan
moste.
|
|
Uton
nu
efstan
oðre
siðe
|
|
seon
7
secean
on
searogeþræc
|
3105
|
wundur
under
wealle.
Ic
eow
wisige,
|
|
þæt
ge
genoge
neon
sceawiað
|
|
beagas
7
brad
gold.
Sie
sio
bær
gearo,
|
|
ædre
geæfned,
þonne
we
ut
cymen,
|
|
7
þonne
geferian
frean
userne,
|
3110
|
leofne
mannan,
þær
he
longe
sceal
|
|
on
ðæs
Waldendes
wære
geþolian."
|
|
Het
ða
gebeodan,
byre
Wihstanes,
|
|
hæle
hildedior,
hæleða
monegum
|
|
boldagendra,
þæt
hie
bælwudu
|
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|
feorran
feredon,
folcagende
|
|
godum
togenes:
"Nu
sceal
gled
fretan
|
|
weaxan
wonna
leg
wigena
strengel,
|
|
þone
ðe
oft
gebad
isernscure,
|
|
þonne
stræla
storm,
strengum
gebæded,
|
3120
|
scoc
ofer
scildweall.
Sceft
nytte
heold,
|
|
fæ
ð
ergearwum
fus,
flane
fulleode."
|
|
Huru
se
snotra
sunu
Wihstanes
|
198r
|
acigde
of
corðre
|
cyniges
þegnas,
|
|
s
yf
on
e
tosom
n
e
,
þa
selestan.
|
3125
|
Eode
eahta
sum
under
inwithrof.
|
|
H
ilderinc
sum
on
handa
bær
|
|
æledleoman.
se
ðe
on
orde
geong.
|
|
Næs
ða
on
hlytme,
hwa
þæt
hord
strude,
|
|
syððan
orwearde
ænigne
dæl
|
3130
|
secgas
gesegon
on
sele
wunian,
|
|
læne
licgan.
Lyt
ænig
mearn
|
|
þæt
hi
ofostli
c
e
ut
geferedon
|
|
dyre
maðmas.
Dracan
ec
scufun,
|
|
wyrm
ofer
weallclif,
leton
weg
niman,
|
3135
|
flod
fæðmian
frætwa
hyrde.
|
|
Þæt
wæs
wundengold
on
wæn
hladen,
|
|
æghwæs
unrim,
æþelinge
boren,
|
|
har
u
m
hilde,
to
hrones
næsse.
|
|
XLIII
|
|
Him
ða
gegiredan,
Geata
leode,
|
3140
|
ad
on
eorðan
unwaclicne,
|
|
helm
um
behongen,
hildebordum,
|
|
beorhtum
byrnum,
swa
he
bena
wæs.
|
|
Alegdon
ða
tomiddes
mærne
þeoden,
|
|
hæleð
hiofende,
hlafor
d
leofne.
|
3145
|
Ongunnon
þa
on
beorge
bælfyra
mæst,
|
|
wigend
weccan.
W
ud
u
r
ec
astah,
|
|
sweart
ofer
swi
o
ðole
,
swogende
l
et
,
|
|
wop
e
bewunden.
Windblond
gelæg,
|
|
oð
þæt
he
ða
banhus
gebrocen
hæfd
e
|
3150
|
hat
on
hreðre.
Higum
unrote
|
|
modceare
mændon,
mondryhtnes
cw
e
a
lm
.
|
|
Folio 198v |
|
Swylce
giomorgyd
|
Ge
at
isc
an
meowle
,
|
|
næ
s
bliðheorte
,
b
undenheorde
,
|
|
sang
sorgcearig
sælðe
geneah
he
|
3155
|
þæt
hio
hyre
here
g
æn
gas
hearde
ond
r
ede
,
|
|
wælfylla
worn,
w
erudes
egesan,
|
|
hyðo
7
hæf
t
nyd
.
Heofon
rece
swealg.
|
|
Geworhton
ða
Wedra
leode
|
|
hlæo
on
h
o
e
,
se
wæs
heah
7
brad,
|
3160
|
wæ
gliðendum
wide
gesyne,
|
|
7
beti
m
bredon
on
tyn
dagum,
|
|
beadurofes
becn,
bronda
lafe.
|
|
Wealle
beworhton,
swa
hyt
weorðlicost
|
|
foresnotre
men
findan
mihton.
|
3165
|
Hi
on
beorg
dydon
beg
7
siglu,
|
|
eall
swylce
hyrsta,
swylce
on
horde
ær
|
|
niðhedige
men
genumen
hæfdon.
|
|
Forleton
eorla
gestreon
eorðan
healdan,
|
|
gold
on
greote,
þær
hit
nu
gen
lifað
|
3170
|
eldum
swa
unnyt
swa
hyt
æro
r
wæs.
|
|
Þa
ymbe
hlæw
riodan,
hildedeore
|
|
æþelinga
bearn,
ealra
twelfa,
|
|
woldon
ca
re
cwiðan,
kyning
mænan,
|
|
wordgyd
wrecan,
7
ymb
w
er
sprecan.
|
3175
|
Eahtodan
eorlscipe
7
his
ellenweorc
|
|
duguðum
demdon,
swa
hit
ged
efe
bi
ð
|
|
þæt
mon
his
winedryhten
wordum
herge,
|
|
ferhðum
freog
e
,
þonne
he
forð
scile
|
|
of
l
i
chaman
l
æded
weorðan.
|
3180
|
Swa
begnornodon
Geata
leode
|
|
hlafordes
hryre,
heorðgeneatas.
|
|
Cwædon
þæt
he
wære
wyruldcyning,
|
|
manna
mildust
7
monðwærust
,
|
|
leodum
liðost,
7
lofgeornost.
|