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| / HWÆT WE GARDE na in geardagum. | 129r | |
| þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon | ||
| hu ða æþelingas elle(n) fremedon. | ||
| Oft scyld scefing sceaþen[a] þreatum | ||
| monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah | 5 | |
| egsode eorl{e} syððan ærest wear(ð) | ||
| feasceaft funden he þæs frofre geba(d) | ||
| weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah. | ||
| oð
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| ofer hronrade hyran scolde | 10 | |
| gomban
gyldan |
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| ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned | ||
| geong in geardum þone god sende | ||
| folce to frofre fyrenðearfe ongeat | ||
| 15 | ||
| lange hwile him þæs liffrea | ||
| wuldres wealdend woroldare forgeaf. | ||
| beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang | ||
| scyldes eafera scedelandum in. | ||
| Swa sceal ge<ong> guma gode gewyrcean | 20 | |
| fromum feohgiftum on fæder /<bea>rme | 129v | |
| wi(l)gesiþas þonne wig cume. | ||
| leode gelæsten lofdædum sceal | ||
| in mægþa gehwære man geþeon. | 25 | |
| him ða scyld gewat to gescæphwile | ||
| felahror feran on frean wære | ||
| hi hyne þa ætbæron to brimes faroðe | ||
| swæse gesiþas Swa he selfa bæd | ||
| þenden wordum weold wine scyldinga | 30 | |
| leof landfruma lange ahte | ||
| þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna | ||
| isig 7 útfus æþelinges fær. | ||
| aledon þa leofne þeoden | ||
| beaga bryttan on bearm scipes | 35 | |
| mærne be mæste. þær wæs madma fela | ||
| of feorwegum frætwa gelæded. | ||
| Ne hyrde ic cymlicor ceol gegyrwan | ||
| hildewæpnum 7 heaðowædum | ||
| billum 7 byrnum him on bearme læg | 40 | |
| madma mænigo þa him mid scoldon | ||
| on flodes æht feor gewitan. | ||
| Nalæs hi hine læssan lacum teodan | ||
| þeodgestreonum þon{ne} (þ)a d(y)don | ||
| þe hine æt frumsceafte forð onsendon | 45 | |
| ænne ofer yðe umborwe / sende | 130r | |
| Þa gyt hie him asetton segen g<yl>denne | ||
| heah ofer heafod leton holm ber(an) | ||
| geafon on garsecg him wæs geomor sefa | ||
| murnende mod men ne cunnon | 50 | |
| secgan t(o) soðe selerædenne | ||
| hæleð under heofenum hwa þæm hlæste onfeng. | ||
| I | ||
| ÐA wæs on burgum beowulf scyldinga | ||
| leo(f) leodcyning longe þrage | ||
| folcum gefræge fæder ellor hwearf | 55 | |
| aldor of
earde oþ |
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| heah healfdene heold þenden lifde | ||
| gamol 7 guðreouw glæde scyldingas | ||
| Ðæm feower bearn forðgerimed | ||
| in worold wocun weoroda ræswa{n} | 60 | |
| heorogar. 7 hroðgar 7 halga til | ||
| hyrde ic
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| heaðo-Scilfingas healsgebedda | ||
| þa wæs hroðgare heresped gyfen | ||
| wiges
weorðmynd. |
65 | |
| georne
hyrdon oðð |
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| magodriht micel him on mod bearn | ||
| / [medo]ærn micel men gewyrcean | 130v | |
| þone yldo (b)earn æfre gefrunon. | 70 | |
| 7 þær on innan eall (g)edælan | ||
| geongum 7 ealdum swylc him god sealde | ||
| buton folcscare 7 feorum gumena. | ||
| (Ð)a ic wide gefrægn weorc gebannan | ||
| manigre mægþe geond þisne middangeard | 75 | |
| folcstede frætwan him on fyrste gelomp | ||
| ædre mid
yldum. |
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| healærna mæst; scop him heort naman | ||
| se þe his wordes geweald wide hæfde. | ||
| He beot ne aleh beagas dælde | 80 | |
| sinc æt symle sele hlifade. | ||
| heah 7 horngeap heaðowylma bad | ||
| laðan liges ne wæs hit lenge þa gen | ||
| æfter wælniðe wæcnan scolde. | 85 | |
| ða se ellengæst earfoðlice | ||
| þrage geþolode se þe in þystrum bad | ||
| hludne in healle þær wæs hearpan sweg | ||
| swutol sang scopes sægde se þe cuþe | 90 | |
| frumsceaft fira feorran reccan.., | ||
| / cwæ(ð) |
132r | |
| wlitebeorhtne wang swa wæter b(e)bugeð | ||
| gesette sigehreþig sunn(an) 7 monan | ||
| leoman to leohte landb(uen)dum | 95 | |
| ond gefrætwade foldan sceatas | ||
| leomum 7 leafum lif eac gesceop | ||
| cy(n)na gehwylcum þara ðe cwice hwyrfa(þ.) | ||
| Swa ða drihtguman dreamum lifd(on) | ||
| eadiglice oð ðæt an ongan | 100 | |
| fyrene fre<m>man feond on helle | ||
| wæs se grimma gæst grendel haten | ||
| mære mearcstapa se þe moras heold | ||
| fen 7 fæsten fifelcynnes eard | ||
| wonsæli wer weardode hwile | 105 | |
| siþðan him scyppend forscrifen hæfde | ||
| in ca{in}es cynne þone cwealm gewræc | ||
| ece drihten þæs þe he abel slog. | ||
| Ne gefeah he þære fæhðe ac he hine feor forwræc | ||
| metod for þy mane mancynne fram | 110 | |
| þanon untydras ealle onwocon | ||
| eotenas 7 ylfe 7 orcneas | ||
| swylce gi/ [ga](ntas) þa wið gode wunnon | 132v | |
| lange þrag(e) (He) him ðæs lean forgeald. | ||
| II | ||
| (Ge)wat ða neosian syþðan niht becom | 115 | |
| hean huses hu hit hring-dene | ||
| æfter (b)eorþege gebún hæfdon. | ||
| Fand þa ðær inne æþelinga gedriht | ||
| swefan æfter (sy)mble sorge ne cuðon | ||
| wonsceaft wera wiht unhælo | 120 | |
| grim 7 grædig gearo sona wæs | ||
| reoc 7 reþe 7 on ræste genam | ||
| þritig þegna; þanon eft gewát | ||
| huðe hremig to ham faran | ||
| mid þære wælfylle wica neosan. | 125 | |
| ða wæs on uhtan mid ærdæge | ||
| grendles guðcræft gumum undyrne | ||
| þa wæs æfter wiste wóp up ahafen | ||
| micel morgensweg mære þeoden | ||
| æþeling ærgod unbliðe sæt | 130 | |
| þolode ðryðswyð þegnsorge dreah | ||
| syðþan hie þæs laðan last sceawedon | ||
| wergan
gastes wæs |
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| lað 7 longsum næs hit lengra / (fyrs)t | 133r | |
| ac ym(b) ane niht ef(t gefremede) | 135 | |
| morðbeala mare 7 no mearn fore | ||
| fæhðe 7 fyrene wæs to fæst on þam | ||
| þ(a) wæs eaðfynde þe him elles hwær | ||
| geru(m)licor ræste <sohte> | ||
| bed æfter burum ða hi(m) gebeacnod wæs | 140 | |
| gesægd soðlice sweo(to)lan tacne | ||
| healðegnes hete heold h(y)ne syðþan | ||
| fyr 7 fæstor se þæm feond(e) ætwand. | ||
| Swa rixode ond wið rihte wan | ||
| ana wið
eallum oð |
145 | |
| husa selest wæs seo hwil micel | ||
| .xii. wintra tid torn geþolode | ||
| wine scyldenda weana gehwelcne | ||
| sidra sorga forðam <secgum> wearð | ||
| ylda bearnum undyrne cuð | 150 | |
| gyddum geomore þætte grendel wan | ||
| hwile wið hroþgar heteniðas wæg | ||
| fyrene 7 fæhðe fela missera | ||
| singale sæce sibbe ne wolde | ||
| wið manna hwone mægenes deniga | 155 | |
| feorhbealo feorran fea þingian | ||
| ne þær nænig witena wenan þorfte | ||
| beorhtre bote to ban{an} folmum. | ||
| / <ac> <se> (æglæca) (eh)tende wæs | 133v | |
| deorc deaþsc(ua) (d)uguþe 7 geogoþe | 160 | |
| seomade 7 syrede (s)innihte heold | ||
| mistige moras men ne (c)unnon | ||
| hwyder helrunan hwyrftum scriþað | ||
| swa fela fyrena feond mancyn(n)es | ||
| atol angengea oft gefremede. | 165 | |
| (h)eardra hynða heorot eardode | ||
| sinc(fa)ge sel sweartum nihtum | ||
| no he þone gifstol gretan moste | ||
| maþðum for metode ne his myne wisse | ||
| 170 | ||
| modes brecða monig oft gesæt | ||
| rice to rune ræd eahtedon | ||
| hwæt swiðferhðum selest wære | ||
| wið færgryrum to gefremmanne. | ||
| Hwilum hie geheton æt h{æ}rgtrafum | 175 | |
| wigweorþunga wordum bædon | ||
| wið þeodþreaum swylc wæs þeaw hyra. | ||
| hæþenra hyht helle gemundon | ||
| in modsefan metod hie ne cuþon | 180 | |
| dæda demend ne wiston hie drihten god. | ||
| / (ne hie) huru heofena helm herian (ne) cuþon | 134r | |
| wuldres waldend wa bið þæm ðe sceal | ||
| þurh sliðne nið sawle bescufa(n) | ||
| in fyres fæþm frofre ne wenan | 185 | |
| wihte (ge)wendan wel bið þæm þe mot | ||
| æfter deaðdæge drihten secean. | ||
| 7 to fæder fæþmum freoðo wilnian. | ||
| III | ||
| Swa ða mælceare maga healfdenes | ||
| singala seað ne mihte snotor hæleð | 190 | |
| wean
onwendan wæs |
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| laþ 7 longsum þe on ða leode becom | ||
| nydwracu niþgrim nihtbealwa mæst | ||
| god mid geatum grendles dæda | 195 | |
| se wæs moncynnes mægenes strengest | ||
| on þæm dæge þysses lifes | ||
| æþele 7 eacen het him yðlidan | ||
| godne gegyrwan cwæð he guðcyning | ||
| ofer swanrade secean wolde | 200 | |
| mærne þeoden þa him wæs manna þearf | ||
| ðone siðfæt him snotere ceorlas | ||
| lyt hwon logon. / (Þeah) he him (l)eof wære | 134v | |
| hwetton hige(rofne) (hæ)l sceawedon | ||
| hæfde se goda geata leoda | 205 | |
| (c)empan gecorone þara þe he cenoste | ||
| findan mihte .xv.na sum | ||
| sundwudu sohte secg wisade | ||
| lagucræftig mon landgemyrcu | ||
| fyrst forð gewat flota wæs on yðum. | 210 | |
| bát under beorge beornas gearwe | ||
| on stefn stigon streamas wundon | ||
| sund wið sande secgas bæron | ||
| on bearm nacan beorhte frætwe | ||
| guðsearo geatolic; guman ut scufon | 215 | |
| weras on wilsið wudu bundenne. | ||
| gewat þa ofer wægholm winde gefysed | ||
| flota famiheals fugle gelicost | ||
| oð
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| wundenstefna gewaden hæfde | 220 | |
| brimclifu blican beorgas steape. | ||
| side sænæssas þa wæs sund liden | ||
| eoletes æt ende þanon up hraðe | ||
| Wedera leode on wang stigon. | 225 | |
| sæwudu sældon syrcan hrysedon. | ||
| guðgewædo gode þancedon | ||
| þæs þe him yþlade eaðe wurdon. | ||
| / (Þa) of wealle geseah weard scildinga | 135r | |
| se þe (holm)clifu healdan scolde | 230 | |
| beran ofer bolcan beorhte randas | ||
| fyrdsearu fuslicu hine fyrwyt bræc | ||
| modgehygdum hwæt þa men wæron. | ||
| Gewat him þa to waroðe wicge rid(an) | ||
| þegn hroðgares þrymmum cwehte | 235 | |
| mægenwudu mundum meþelwordum frægn. | ||
| hwæt syndon ge searohæbbendra | ||
| byrnum wer(e)de þe þus brontne ceol | ||
| ofer lagustræte lædan cwomon | ||
| hider ofer holmas <...> | 240 | |
| {h}e wæs endesæta ægwearde heold | ||
| þe on land dena laðra nænig | ||
| mid scipherge sceðþan ne meahte | ||
| no her cuðlicor cuman ongunnon. | ||
| lindhæbbende ne ge leafnesword | 245 | |
| guðfremmendra gearwe ne wisson | ||
| maga gemedu næfre ic maran geseah | ||
| eorla ofer eorþan ðonne is eower sum | ||
| secg on
searwum nis |
| wæpnum geweorðad næf{n}e him his wlite leoge | 250 | |
| ænlic ansyn nu ic eower sceal | ||
| frumcyn witan ær ge fyr / (heon)an | 135v | |
| leassceaweras on land den(a) | ||
| furþur feran nu ge feorbuend | ||
| mereliðende mi{n}ne gehyrað | 255 | |
| anfealdne geþoht ofost is selest | ||
| to gecyðanne (h)wanan eowre cyme syndon. | ||
| IIII | ||
| Him se yldesta andswarode | ||
| werodes wisa wordhord onleac | ||
| we synt gumcynnes geata leode | 260 | |
| ond higelaces heorðgeneatas. | ||
| wæs min fæder folcum gecyþed | ||
| æþele ordfruma ecgþeow haten. | ||
| gebád wintra worn ær he on weg hwurfe. | ||
| gamol of geardum hine gearwe geman | 265 | |
| witena welhwylc wide geond eorþan. | ||
| we þurh holdne hige hlaford þinne | ||
| sunu healfdenes secean cwomon | ||
| leodgebyrgean wes þu us larena god. | ||
| habbað we to þæm mæran micel ærende | 270 | |
| deniga frean. ne sceal þær dyrne sum | ||
| wesan þæs ic wene þu wast gif hit is | ||
| swa we.soþlice / (s)ecgan hyrdon | 136r | |
| deogol dædhata deorcu(m) nihtum | 275 | |
| eaweð þurh egsan uncuðne ni(ð) | ||
| hynðu 7 hrafyl ic þæs hroðgar mæg | ||
| þur(h) rumne sefan ræd gelæran | ||
| hu he fro(d 7) god feond oferswyðeþ | ||
| gyf him edwend(an) æfre scolde. | 280 | |
| bealuwa bisigu bot eft cuman | ||
| 7 þa cearwylmas colran wurðaþ | ||
| oððe a syþðan earfoðþrage | ||
| þreanyd þolað þenden þær wunað | ||
| on heahstede husa selest. | 285 | |
| weard maþelode ðær on wicge sæt | ||
| ombeht unforht æghwæþres sceal | ||
| scearp scyldwiga gescad witan | ||
| worda 7 worca se þe wel þenceð | ||
| ic |
290 | |
| frean scyldinga gewitaþ forð beran | ||
| wæpen 7 gewædu ic eow wisige | ||
| swylce ic maguþegnas mine hate | ||
| wið feonda gehwone flotan eowerne | ||
| niwtyrwydne nacan on sande | 295 | |
| arum healdan oþ ðæt eft byreð | ||
| ofer lagustrea/ (mas) leofne mannan | 136v | |
| wudu wundenha(ls) (t)o wedermearce | ||
| godfremmendra swylcum gifeþe bið | ||
| 300 | ||
| gewiton him þa feran flota (s)tille bád | ||
| seomode on sole sidfæþmed (sc)ip | ||
| on ancre fæst eoforlic scionon | ||
| (o)fer hleorberan gehroden golde | ||
| fah 7 fyrheard ferhwearde heold | 305 | |
| guþmod grummon guman onetton | ||
| sigon
ætsomne oþ |
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| geatolic 7 goldfah ongyton mihton. | ||
| receda under roderum on þæm se rica bad. | 310 | |
| lixte se leoma ofer landa fela. | ||
| him þa hildedeor {h}of modigra | ||
| torht getæhte þæt hie him to mihton | ||
| gegnum gangan guðbeorna sum | ||
| wicg gewende word æfter cwæð. | 315 | |
| mæl is me to feran fæder alwalda | ||
| mid arstafum eowic gehealde. | ||
| siða gesunde ic to sæ wille | ||
| wið / (w)ra(ð) werod wearde healdan. | 137r | |
| V | ||
| Stræt wæs stanfah stig. wisode | 320 | |
| gumum ætgædere guðbyrne scan | ||
| heard hondlocen hringiren scir | ||
| song in searwum þa hie to sele furðum | ||
| in hyra gryregeatwum gangan cwomon | ||
| setton sæmeþe side scyldas | 325 | |
| rondas regnhearde wið þæs recedes weal. | ||
| bugon þa to bence byrnan hringdon | ||
| guðsearo gumena garas stodon | ||
| sæmanna searo samod ætgædere | ||
| æscholt ufan græg wæs se irenþreat | 330 | |
| wæpnum gewurþad þa ðær wlonc hæleð | ||
| oretmecgas æfter hæleþum frægn. | ||
| hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas | ||
| græge syrcan 7 grimhelmas | ||
| heresceafta heap ic eom hroðgares | 335 | |
| ár 7 ombiht. ne seah ic elþeodige | ||
| þus manige men modiglicran. | ||
| wen ic
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| ac for hige/ (þry)mmum hroðgar sohton. | 137v | |
| him þa elle(n)rof andswarode | 340 | |
| wlanc wedera leod. word æfter spræc | ||
| heard under helme we synt higelaces | ||
| beodgeneatas beowulf is min nama | ||
| wille ic asecgan sunu healfdenes | ||
| mærum þeodne min ærende. | 345 | |
| aldre þinum gif he us geunnan wile | ||
| wulfgar
maþelode |
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| wæs his modsefa manegum gecyðed. | ||
| wig 7 wisdom ic þæs wine deniga | 350 | |
| frean scildinga frinan wille | ||
| beaga bryttan swa þu bena eart | ||
| þeoden mærne ymb þinne sið. | ||
| 7 þe þa andsware ædre gecyðan | ||
| ðe me se goda agifan þenceð. | 355 | |
| hwearf þa hrædlice þær hroðgar sæt | ||
| eald 7 {a}nhár mid his eorla gedriht. | ||
| eode
ellenrof |
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| deniga frean cuþe he duguðe þeaw. | ||
| wulfgar maðelode / to [h]i(s) winedrihtne | 360 | 138r |
| her syndon ge(fere)de feorran cumene | ||
| ofer geofenes (be)gang geata leode | ||
| þone yldestan ore(t)mecgas. | ||
| beowulf nemnað hy benan synt | ||
| 365 | ||
| wordum wrixlan no ðu him wearne geteoh | ||
| ðinra gegncwida glædman. hroðgar | ||
| hy on wiggetawum wyrðe þinceað. | ||
| eorla geæhtlan huru se aldor deah | ||
| se þæm heaðorincum hider wisade. | 370 | |
| VI | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode helm scyldinga | ||
| ic hine cuðe cnihtwesende | ||
| wæs his ealdfæder ecgþeo haten | ||
| ðæm to ham forgeaf hreþel geata | ||
| angan dohto(r) is his eaforan nu | 375 | |
| heard her cumen sohte holdne wine. | ||
| ðonne
sægdon |
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| þa ðe gifsceattas geata fyredon | ||
| þyder to
þance |
138v | |
| manna mægencræft on his (mund)gripe | 380 | |
| heaþorof hæbbe hine halig god | ||
| for arstafum us onsende | ||
| to west-denum (þ)æs ic wen hæbbe. | ||
| wið grendles gryre (ic) þæm godan sceal | ||
| for his modþræce (m)admas beodan | 385 | |
| beo ðu on ofeste hát in gán | ||
| seon sibbegedriht samod ætgædere. | ||
| gesaga him eac
wordum |
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| deniga leodum <...> | ||
| <...> word inne abead. | 390 | |
| eow het secgan sigedrihten min | ||
| aldor
east-dena |
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| 7 ge him syndon ofer sæwylmas | ||
| heardhicgende hider wilcuman | ||
| nu ge moton gangan in eowrum guðgeatawum | ||
| under heregriman hroðgar geseon | 396 | |
| lætað hildebord her onbidan | ||
| wuduwælsceaftas worda geþinges. | ||
| aras þa se rica ymb hine rinc manig | ||
| þryðlic þegna heap sume þær bidon | ||
| heaðoreaf heoldon swa him se / (hea)rda bebead. | 401 | 139r |
| snyredon ætsomn(e) (þa) secg wisode | ||
| under heorotes hrof <...> | ||
| hea[rd] under
helme |
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| beowulf maðelode on him byrne scan | ||
| sea[ro]net seowed smiþes orþancum | 406 | |
| wæs þu hr(oð)gar hal ic eom higelaces | ||
| mæg 7 magoðegn. hæbbe ic mærða fela | ||
| ongunnen on geogoþe me wearð grendles þing. | ||
| on minre eþeltyrf undyrne cuð | ||
| secgað
sæliðend |
411 | |
| reced selesta rinca gehwylcum | ||
| idel 7 unnyt siððan æfenleoht | ||
| under heofenes hador beholen weorþeð. | ||
| þa me
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| þa selestan snotere ceorlas. | 416 | |
| þeoden
hroðgar |
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| for þan hie mægenes cræft mine cuþon. | ||
| selfe ofersawon ða ic of searwum cwom. | ||
| fah from feondum þær ic fife geband | ||
| yðde eotena cyn 7 on yðum slog. | 421 | |
| niceras nihtes nearoþearfe dreah | ||
| wræc. / (wed)[e]ra nið wean ahsodon | 139v | |
| forgrand g(ra)mum 7 nu wið grendel sceal | ||
| wið þam aglæcan ana gehegan. | ||
| ðing wið þyrse (ic) þe nu ða | 426 | |
| brego beorht-dena biddan wille | ||
| eodor scyldinga anre bene. | ||
| freowine (f)olca nu ic þus feorran com. | ||
| 431 | ||
| ond þes hearda heap heorot fælsian | ||
| hæbbe ic eac
geahsod |
||
| for his wonhydum wæpna ne recceð. | ||
| ic |
||
| min mondrihten modes bliðe. | 436 | |
| geolorand to guþe. ac ic mid grape sceal | ||
| fon wið feonde 7 ymb feorh sacan | ||
| lað wið laþum ðær gelyfan sceal | ||
| dryhtnes dome se þe hine deað nimeð. | 441 | |
| wen ic
|
||
| in þæm guðsele geotena leode | ||
| etan unforhte swa he / oft dyde | 140r | |
| mægenhreð manna na (þu) minne þearft | ||
| hafalan hydan. ac he me habban wile | 446 | |
| deore fahne gif mec deað nimeð. | ||
| byreð blodig wæl byrgea(n) þenceð | ||
| eteð angenga unmurnlice | ||
| mearcað morhopu no ðu ymb mines ne þearft | ||
| lices feorme leng sorgian. | 451 | |
| Onsend higelace gif mec hild nime | ||
| beaduscruda
betst |
||
| hrægla
selest |
||
| welandes geweorc gæð a wyrd swa hio scel. | ||
| VII | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode helm scyldinga | 456 | |
| fere fyhtum þu wine min beowulf. | ||
| 7 for arstafum usic sohtest | ||
| gesloh þin fæder fæhðe mæste. | ||
| wearþ he heaþolafe to handbonan | ||
| mid wilfingum ða hine {wi}gara cyn | 461 | |
| for herebrogan habban ne mihte. | ||
| þanon he gesohte suð-dena folc | ||
| ofer yða gewealc ar-/(scyl)dinga | 140v | |
| ða ic furþum weold folce deninga | ||
| 7 on geogoðe heold gimmerice | 466 | |
| hordburh hæleþa ða wæs heregar dead | ||
| min yldra mæg unlifigende | ||
| bearn (h)ealfdenes se wæs betera ðonne ic | ||
| siððan (þ)a fæhðe feo þingode. | ||
| sende ic wylfingum ofer wæteres hrycg | 471 | |
| 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 | ||
| færniða gefremed is min fletwerod | 476 | |
| wigheap gewanod hie wyrd forsweop | ||
| on grendles gryre god eaþe mæg | ||
| þone dolsceaðan dæda getwæfan. | ||
| Ful oft gebeotedon beore druncne | ||
| ofer ealowæge oretmecgas | 481 | |
| grendles guþe mid gryrum ecga. | ||
| ðonne wæs þeos medoheal on morgentid | ||
| drihtsele dreorfah þonne dæg lixte. | ||
| eal / bencþelu blode bestymed | 486 | 141r |
| heall heor(u)dreore ahte ic holdra þy læs | ||
| deorre duguðe þe þa deað fornam | ||
| site nu t(o) symle 7 onsæl meoto | ||
| sigehreð secgum swa þin sefa hwette. | ||
| þa wæs geatmæcgum geador ætsomne | 491 | |
| on beorsele benc gerymed | ||
| þær swiðferhþe sittan eodon | ||
| þryðum dealle þegn nytte beheold | ||
| se þe on handa bær hroden ealowæge | ||
| scencte scir wered scop hwilum sang | 496 | |
| hador on heorote þær wæs hæleða dream | ||
| duguð unlytel dena 7 wedera. | ||
| VIII | ||
| HVNferð maþelode ecglafes bearn | ||
| þe æt fotum sæt frean scyldinga. |
| onband beadurune wæs him beowulfes sið | 501 | |
| modges merefaran micel æfþunca. | ||
| forþon
þe he ne uþe |
||
| æfre / mærða þon ma middangeardes | 141v | |
| gehedde under heofenum þonne he sylfa | ||
| eart þu se beowulf se þe wið brecan wunne | 506 | |
| on sidne saé ymb sund flite | ||
| ðær git for wlence wada cunnedon | ||
| 7 for dolgilpe on deop wæter | ||
| aldrum neþdon ne inc ænig mon | ||
| ne leof ne lað belean mihte | 511 | |
| sorhfullne sið þa git on sund reon. | ||
| þær git eagorstream earmum þehton | ||
| mæton merestræta mundum brugdon | ||
| glidon ofer garsecg geofon yþum | ||
| weol wintrys wylm git on wæteres æht | 516 | |
| seofon niht swuncon he þe æt sunde oferflat. | ||
| hæfde mare mægen þa hine on morgentid | ||
| on heaþo-ræmes holm up ætbær | ||
| ðonne he gesohte swæsne [eðel] | ||
| leof his leodum lond brondinga | 521 | |
| freoðoburh fægere þær he folc ahte | ||
| burh 7 beagas. / beot eal wið þe | 142r | |
| sunu beanstanes so[ðe] gelæste. | ||
| ðonne wene ic to þe wyrsan (ge)þingea | ||
| ðeah þu heaðoræsa gehwær dohte | 526 | |
| grimre guðe gif þu grendl(es) dearst | ||
| nihtlongne fyrst nean bi(dan) | ||
| beowulf maþelode bearn ecgþeowes | ||
| hwæt þu worn fela wine min hunfer(ð) | ||
| beore druncen ymb brecan spræce | 531 | |
| sægdest from his siðe soð ic talige | ||
| earfeþo on yþum ðonne ænig oþer man. | ||
| wit |
||
| 7 gebeotedon wæron begen þa git | 536 | |
| on
geogoðfeore |
||
| aldrum
neðdon 7 |
||
| hæfdon swurd nacod þa wit on sund reon | ||
| heard on handa wit unc wið hronfixas | ||
| werian þohton. no he wiht fram me | 541 | |
| flodyþum feor fleotan meahte | ||
| hraþor on holme no ic fram him wolde. | ||
| ða wit æt/ (s)omne on saé wæron | 142v | |
| fif nihta
fyrst (o)þ |
||
| wado weallende wedera cealdost | 546 | |
| nipende niht. ond norþan(w)ind | ||
| heaðogrim 7hwearf hreo wæron (y)þa | ||
| wæs merefixa mod onhrered. | ||
| þær me wið laðum licsyrce min | ||
| heard hondlocen helpe gefremede | 551 | |
| beadohrægl broden on breostum læg | ||
| golde gegyrwed me to grunde. teah | ||
| fah feondscaða fæste hæfde. | ||
| grim on grape hwæþre me gyfeþe wearð | ||
| 556 | ||
| hildebille heaþoræs fornam | ||
| mihtig meredeor þurh mine hand | ||
| VIIII | ||
| Swa mec gelome laðgeteonan | ||
| þreatedon þearle ic him þenode | ||
| deoran sweorde swa hit gedefe wæs | 561 | |
| næs hie ðære fylle gefean hæfdon | ||
|
manfordædlan |
||
| symbel ymbsæton saégrunde neah. | ||
| ac on mergenne mecum / wunde | 143r | |
| be yðlafe uppe lægon | 566 | |
| swe<o[r]dum> aswefede |
||
| ymb bront(ne) ford brimliðende | ||
| lade ne letton (leoht) eastan com | ||
| beorht beacen godes brimu swaþredon | ||
| 571 | ||
| windige weallas wyrd oft nereð | ||
| unfægne eorl þonne his ellen deah. | ||
| hwæþere
me gesælde |
||
| niceras nigene no ic on niht gefrægn | ||
| under heofones hwealf heardran feohtan | 576 | |
| ne on egstreamum earmran mannon. | ||
| hwaþere ic fara feng feore gedigde | ||
| siþes werig ða mec saé oþbær | ||
| flod æfter faroðe on finna land. | ||
| wudu weallendu no ic wiht fram þe | 581 | |
| swylcra searoniða secgan hyrde | ||
| billa brogan breca næfre git | ||
| æt heaðolace. ne gehwæþer incer | ||
| swa deorlice dæd gefremede | ||
| fagum sweordum no ic þæs gylpe | 586 | |
| þeah ðu þinum broðrum to banan wurde | ||
| heafodmægum þæs þu in / (hell)e scealt | 143v | |
| werhðo dreogan þeah þin (wit) duge. | ||
| secge ic þe to soðe sunu ecg(laf)es | ||
| 591 | ||
| atol æglæca ealdre þinum. | ||
| hynðo on heorote gif þin hige wære | ||
| sefa swa searogrim swa þu self talast. | ||
| ac he hafað
onfunden. |
||
| atole ecgþræce eower leode | 596 | |
| swiðe onsittan sige-scyldinga | ||
| nymeð nydbade nænegum arað. | ||
| leode deniga ac he lust wigeð. | ||
| swefeð ond sendeþ. secce ne weneþ | ||
| to gar-denum ac ic him geata sceal | 601 | |
| eafoð 7 ellen ungeara nu | ||
| guþe gebeodan gæþ eft se þe mót. | ||
| to medo modig siþþan morgenleoht | ||
| ofer ylda bearn oþres dogores | ||
| sunne sweglwered suþan scineð. | 606 | |
| þa wæs on salum sinces brytta | ||
| gamolfeax 7 guðrof geoce gelyfde | ||
| / brego beorht-dena gehyrde on (beo)wulfe | 144r | |
| folces hyrde fæstrædne geþoht | ||
| ðær wæs hæleþa hleahtor hlyn swynsode | 611 | |
| word wæron wynsume eode wealhþeow forð | ||
| cwen hroðgares cynna gemyndig | ||
| grette goldhroden guman on healle. | ||
| 7 þa freolic wif ful gesealde | ||
| ærest east-dena eþelwearde | 616 | |
| bæd hine bliðne æt þær(e) beorþege | ||
| leodum leofne he on lust geþeah | ||
| symbel 7 seleful sigerof kyning | ||
| ymbeode þa ides helminga | ||
| duguþe 7 geogoþe dæl æghwylcne | 621 | |
| sincfato sealde oþ þæt sæl alamp | ||
| mode geþungen medoful ætbær. | ||
| grette geata leod gode þancode | ||
| wisfæst wordum þæs ðe hire se willa gelamp | 626 | |
| fyrena frofre he
|
||
| wælreow wiga / (æt w)ealhþeon | 144v | |
| 7 þa gyddode guþe gefysed | ||
| beowulf maþelode bearn ecgþeowes. | 631 | |
| ic þæt hogode þa ic on holm gestah. | ||
| sæbat gesæt mid minra secga gedriht | ||
| willan geworhte oþðe on wæl crunge. | ||
| feondgrapum fæst ic gefremman sceal | 636 | |
| eorlic ellen oþðe endedæg | ||
| on þisse meoduhealle minne gebidan. | ||
| ðam wife þa word wel licodon | ||
| gilpcwide geates eode goldhroden. | ||
| freolicu folccwen to hire frean sittan. | 641 | |
| þa wæs eft swa ær inne on healle | ||
| þryðword sprecen ðeod on sælum | ||
| sigefolca
sweg oþ |
||
| sunu healfdenes secean wolde | ||
| æfenræste. wiste þæm ahlæcan | 646 | |
| to þæm heahsele hilde geþinged. | ||
| siððan hie sunnan leoht geseon meahton | ||
| oþðe nipende niht ofer ealle | ||
| scaduhelma gesceapu scriðan cwoman | ||
| wan under wolcnum werod eall aras. | 651 | |
| {ge}grette þa guma [guman] oþerne | ||
| hroðgar beowulf 7 him hæl abead. | ||
| winærnes
/ geweald 7 |
145r | |
| Næfre ic ænegum men ær alyfde | ||
| siþðan ic hond 7 rond hebban mihte | 656 | |
| ðryþærn dena buton þe nu ða | ||
| hafa nu 7 geheald husa selest | ||
| gemyne mærþo mægenellen cyð | ||
| waca wið wraþum. ne bið þe wilna gád | ||
| gif þu
|
661 | |
| X | ||
| ÐA him hroþgar gewat mid his hæleþa gedryht | ||
| eodur scyldinga ut of healle | ||
| wolde wigfruma wealhþeo secan | ||
| cwen to gebeddan hæfde kyningwuldor | ||
| grendle togeanes swa guman gefrungon | 666 | |
| seleweard aseted sundornytte beheold | ||
| ymb aldor dena eotonweard abead | ||
| huru geata leod georne truwode | ||
| modgan mægnes metodes hyldo. | ||
| ða he him of dyde isernbyrnan | 671 | |
| helm of hafelan sealde his hyrsted sweord | ||
| irena cyst ombihtþegne | ||
| 7 gehealdan het hildegeatwe | ||
| gespræc þa se goda gylpworda sum. | ||
| beowulf / geata ær he on bed stige | 676 | 145v |
| no ic me an herewæsmun hnagran talige | ||
| guþgeweorca þonne grendel hine | ||
| forþan ic hine sweorde swebban nelle | ||
| aldre beneotan þeah ic eal mæge | ||
| nát he þara
goda |
681 | |
| rand geheawe þeah ðe he rof sie | ||
| niþgeweorca ac wit on niht sculon. | ||
| secge ofersittan gif h{e} gesecean dear. | ||
| wig ofer wæpen 7 siþðan witig god | ||
| on swa hwæþere hond halig dryhten | 686 | |
| mærðo deme swa him gemet þince. | ||
| hylde hine þa heaþodeor hleorbolster onfeng | ||
| eorles andwlitan 7 hine ymb monig | ||
| snellic saérinc selereste gebeah. | ||
| nænig heora
þohte |
691 | |
| eft eardlufan æfre gesecean | ||
| folc oþðe freoburh þær he afeded wæs. | ||
| ac hie hæfdon
gefrunen |
||
| in þæm winsele wældeað fornam | ||
| denigea leode ac him dryhten forgeaf | 696 | |
| wigspeda gewiofu. / wedera leodum | 146r | |
| frofor 7
fult(um) ( |
||
| ðurh anes cræft ealle ofercomon | ||
| selfes mihtum soð is gecyþed | ||
| 701 | ||
| weold ({w}ide)ferhð com on wanre niht | ||
| scriðan s(cea)dugenga sceotend swæfon | ||
| þa
|
||
| ealle buton
an(um) |
||
| 706 | ||
| se synscaþa under sceadu bregdan. | ||
| ac he wæccende wraþum on andan | ||
| bad bolgenmod beadwa geþinges. | ||
| XI | ||
| Ða com of more under misthleoþum | ||
| grendel gongan godes yrre bær | 711 | |
| mynte se manscaða manna cynnes | ||
| sumne b(e)syrwan in sele þam hean | ||
| wod under (wolc)num to þæs þe he winreced | ||
| goldsele gum(e)na gearwost wisse. | ||
| fættum fahne ne wæs þæt forma sið | 716 | |
| næfre he on aldordagum ær /(ne) siþðan | 146v | |
| heardran hæle healðegnas fand | ||
| com þa to recede rinc siðian | ||
| dreamum bedæled duru sona onarn | 721 | |
| fyr(ben)dum fæst syþðan he hire folmum <æt>hran. | ||
| Onbræd þa bealohydig ða [h]e gebolgen wæs | ||
| recedes muþan raþe æfter þon | ||
| on fagne flor feond treddode | ||
| eode yrremod him of eagum stod | 726 | |
| ligge gelicost leoht unfæger. | ||
| geseah he in recede rinca manige | ||
| swefan sibbegedriht samod ætgædere | ||
| magorinca heap þa his mod ahlog. | ||
| mynte þæt he gedælde ær þon dæg cwome. | 731 | |
| atol aglæca anra gehwylces | ||
| lif wið lice þa him alumpen wæs | ||
| wistfylle wen ne
wæs ( |
||
| ðicgean ofer þa niht þryðswyð beheold | 736 | |
| mæg higelaces hu se manscaða | ||
| under færgripum gefaran wolde. | ||
| ne |
||
| ac he ge/ feng hraðe forman siðe | 147A/ (131)r | |
| slæpendn(e) rinc slat unwearnum | 741 | |
| bát banlocan bl(od) edrum dranc | ||
| synsnædum swealh sona hæfde | ||
| unlyfigendes ealgefeormod. | ||
| fe(t) 7 folma forð near ætstop | ||
| nam þa mid h(an)da higeþihtigne | 746 | |
| rinc on ræste ræhte ongean | ||
| feond mid folme he onfeng hraþe | ||
| inwitþancum 7 wið earm gesæt | ||
| sona |
| 751 | ||
| 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 | ||
| secan deofla gedræg ne wæs his drohtoð þær | 756 | |
| swylce he on ealderdagum ær gemette. | ||
| gemunde þa se goda mæg higelaces | ||
| æfenspræce uplang astod | ||
| 7 him fæste wiðfeng fingras burston | ||
| eoten wæs utweard eorl furþur stop | 761 | |
| mynte se mæra. / [hw](ær) he meahte swa. | 147A/ (131)v | |
| widre gewindan 7 (o)n weg þanon | ||
| fleon on fenhopu wiste [h]is fingra geweald | ||
| on grames grapum (þæt) he wæs geocorsið | ||
| 766 | ||
| dryhtsele (dy)nede denum eallum wearð | ||
| ceasterbuendum cenra gehwylcum | ||
| eorlum ealuscerwen yrre wæron begen. | ||
| reþe renweardas reced hlynsode | ||
| þa wæs
wundor micel |
771 | |
| wiðhæfde heaþodeorum þæt he on hrusan ne feol | ||
| fæger foldbold ac he þæs fæste wæs. | ||
| innan 7 utan irenbendum | ||
| searoþoncum besmiþod þær fram sylle ábeag. | ||
| medubenc monig mine gefræge | 776 | |
| golde geregnad þær þa graman wunnon | ||
| þæs ne wendon ær witan scyldinga | ||
| {b}etlic 7 bánfag tobrecan meahte | ||
| listum tolucan nymþe liges fæþm | 781 | |
| swulge on swaþule sweg /up astag. | 147r | |
| niwe geneahhe norð-denum st(od) | ||
| atelic egesa anra gehwylcum | ||
| þara (þe) of wealle wop gehyrdon. | ||
| gryreleoð (ga)lan godes andsacan | 786 | |
| sigeleasne sang (sar) wanigean. | ||
| helle hæfton heold hine fæste | ||
| se þe manna wæs mægene str(en)gest | ||
| on þæm dæge þysses lifes. | ||
| XII | ||
| Nolde eorla hleo ænige þinga | 791 | |
| þone cwealmcuman cwicne forlætan. | ||
| ne his lifdagas leoda ænigum | ||
| nytte tealde þær genehost brægd | ||
| eorl beowulfes ealde lafe | ||
| wolde freadrihtnes feorh ealgian | 796 | |
| mæres þeodnes ðær hie meahton swa. | ||
| hie |
||
| heardhicgende hildemecgas. | ||
| 7 on healfa gehwone heawan þohton | ||
| sawle secan þone synscaðan. | 801 | |
| ænig ofer eorþan irenna cyst | ||
| guðbilla nan gretan nolde. | ||
| ac he sigewæpnum / (fo)rsworen hæfde | 147v | |
| ecga gehwylcre scolde (h)is aldorgedal | ||
| on ðæm dæge þysses (lif)es | 806 | |
| earmlic wurðan 7 se ellor. gast | ||
| (on) feonda geweald feor siðian. | ||
| ða þæt (o)nfunde se þe fela æror | ||
| modes myrðe (m)anna cynne | ||
| fyrene gefremede. he (f)ag wið god | 811 | |
| ac hine se modega mæg hygela(c)es | ||
| hæfde be honda wæs gehwæþer oðrum | ||
| lifigende lað licsar gebad | ||
| atol æglæca him on eaxle wearð | 816 | |
| syndolh sweotol seonowe onsprungon | ||
| burston banlocan beowulfe wearð | ||
| guðhreð gyfeþe scolde grendel þonan | ||
| feorhseoc fleon under fenhleoðu | ||
| secean wynleas wíc wiste þe geornor | 821 | |
| dogera dægrim denum eallum wearð | ||
| æfter þam wælræse willa gelumpen. | ||
| hæfde þa gefælsod se þe ær feorran com | ||
| snotor 7 swyðferhð sele hroðgares | 826 | |
| genered wið / niðe nihtweorce gefeh | 148r | |
| ellenmær(þum) hæfde east-denum | ||
| geatmecga leod gilp gelæsted. | ||
| Swylce oncyþðe ealle ge(bette) | ||
| inwidsorge þe hie ær drugon | 831 | |
| 7 for (þrea)nydum þolian scoldon | ||
| torn
unlyt(el) |
||
| syþðan hildedeor hond alegde | ||
| earm 7 eaxle þær wæs eal geador | ||
| grendles grape under geapne h<rof> | 836 | |
| XIII | ||
| ÐA wæs on morgen mine gefræge | ||
| ymb þa gifhealle guðrinc monig | ||
| ferdon folctogan feorran 7 nean | ||
| geond widwegas wundor sceawian | ||
| laþes lastas no his lifgedal | 841 | |
| sarlic þuhte secga ænegum | ||
| þara þe tirleases trode sceawode | ||
| hu he werigmod on weg þanon | ||
| niða ofercumen on nicera mere | ||
| fæge 7 geflymed feorhlastas bær. | 846 | |
| ðær wæs on blode brim weallende | ||
| atol yða geswing eal gemenged. | ||
| haton heolfre / (heo)rodreore weol | 148v | |
| deaðfæge deog. siððan dreama leas. | ||
| in fenfreoðo feorh alegde. | 851 | |
| (hæþ)ene sawle þær him hel onfeng. | ||
| þanon (eft) gewiton ealdgesiðas | ||
| swylce geong (ma)nig of gomenwaþe | ||
| fram mere modge (m)earum ridan | ||
| beornas on blancum ðær (w)æs beowulfes | 856 | |
| mærðo mæned monig oft gecwæð | ||
| þætte suð ne norð be sæm tweonum | ||
| ofer eormengrund oþer nænig | ||
| under swegles begong selra nære | ||
| rondhæbbendra rices wyrðra. | 861 | |
| ne hie huru winedrihten wiht ne logon | ||
| glædne
hroðgar ac |
||
| Hwilum heaþorofe hleapan leton | ||
| on geflit faran fealwe mearas | ||
| ðær him foldwegas fægere þuhton | 866 | |
| cystum cuðe hwilum cyninges þegn | ||
| guma gilphlæden gidda gemyndig | ||
| se ðe ealfela ealdgesegena | ||
| worn gemunde word oþer fand | ||
| soðe gebunden secg eft ongan | 871 | |
| sið beowulfes snyttrum / styrian | 149r | |
| 7 on sped wrecan spel gerade | ||
| wordum wrixlan welhwylc gecwæð | ||
| þæt he fram sigemunde secgan hyrde | ||
| elle(ndæ)dum uncuþes fela | 876 | |
| wælsinges gewin wide siðas | ||
| þara þe gumena bearn gearwe ne wiston. | ||
| fæhðe 7 fyrena buton fitela (mid) hine | ||
| þonne he swulces hwæt secgan wol(de) | ||
| eam his nefan swa hie a wæron | 881 | |
| æt niða gehwam nydgesteallan. | ||
| Hæfdon ealfela eotena cynnes | ||
| sweordum gesæged sigemunde gesprong | ||
| æfter deaðdæge dom unlytel. | ||
| Syþðan wiges heard wyrm acwealde | 886 | |
| hordes hyrde he under harne stan | ||
| æþelinges bearn ana geneðde | ||
| frecne dæde ne wæs him fitela mid. | ||
| hwæþre
him gesælde ðæt |
||
| wrætlicne
wyrm |
891 | |
| dryhtlic iren draca morðre swealt. | ||
| hæfde aglæca elne gegongen | ||
| selfes dome / sæbat gehleod | 149v | |
| bær on bearm scipes beorhte frætwa | 896 | |
| wælses eafera wyrm hat (ge)mealt. | ||
| Se wæs wreccena wide mærost | ||
| (o)fer werþeode wigendra hleo | ||
| ellendædum (h)e þæs ær onðah | ||
| siððan heremodes hild (s)weðrode | 901 | |
| earfoð 7 ellen he mid eotenum (w)earð | ||
| on feonda geweald forð forlacen | ||
| (s)nude forsended hine sorhwylmas | ||
| lemede to lange he his leodum wearð | ||
| eallum æþellingum to aldorceare. | 906 | |
| Swylce oft bemearn ærran mælum | ||
| swiðferhþes sið snotor ceorl monig | ||
| se þe him bealwa to bote gelyfde | ||
| fæderæþelum onfón folc gehealdan | 911 | |
| hord 7 hleoburh hæleþa rice | ||
| [eðel] scyldinga he þær eallum wearð | ||
| mæg higelaces manna cynne | ||
| freondum gefægra hine fyren onwod. | ||
| hwilum flitende fealwe stræte | 916 | |
| mearum mæton. Ða wæs morgenleoht | ||
| scofen 7 scynded / eode scealc monig | 150r | |
| swiðhicgende to sele þam hean | ||
| searowundor seon swylce se(lf) cyning | ||
| of brydbure beahhorda wear(d) | 921 | |
| tryddode tirfæst. getrume micle | ||
| cystum gecyþed 7 his cwen mid him | ||
| med(o)stigge mæt mægþa hose. | ||
| XIIII | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode he to healle geon(g) | ||
| stod on stapole geseah steapne hrof | 926 | |
| golde fahne. ond grendles hond. | ||
| ðisse ansyne alwealdan þanc | ||
| lungre gelimpe fela ic laþes gebad | ||
| grynna æt grendle. a mæg god wyrcan | ||
| wunder æfter wundre wuldres hyrde. | 931 | |
| ðæt
wæs ungeara |
||
| weana ne wende to widan feore | ||
| bote gebidan (þonne blode fah | ||
| husa selest heorodreorig stod | ||
| wea widscofen) witena gehwylcne. | 936 | |
| ðara þe ne wendon þæt hie wideferhð | ||
| leoda landgeweorc laþum beweredon. | ||
| / scuccum 7 scinnum nu scealc hafað | 150v | |
| þurh drihtnes miht dæd gefremede. | ||
| ðe we ealle (ær) ne meahton | 941 | |
| snyttrum
besyrwan hwæt ( |
||
| efne swa hwylc mægþa swa ðone magan cende. | ||
| æfter gumcynnum gyf heo gyt lyfað | ||
| bearngebyrdo nu ic beowulf þec | 946 | |
| secg bet{o}sta me for sunu wylle | ||
| freogan on ferhþe heald forð tela. | ||
| niwe sibbe ne bið þe ænigre gad | ||
| worolde wilna þe ic geweald hæbbe | ||
| ful oft ic for læssan lean teohhode | 951 | |
| hordweorþunge hnahran rince | ||
| sæmran æt sæcce þu þe self hafast. | ||
| dædum
gefremed |
||
| awa to aldre alwalda þec | ||
| gode forgylde swa he nu gyt dyde. | 956 | |
| beowulf maþelode bearn ec{g}þeowes | ||
| we |
||
| feohtan fremedon frecne geneðdon. | ||
| eafoð uncuþes uþe ic swiþor | ||
| 961 | ||
| feond on frætewum fylwerigne. | ||
| ic him hrædlice / heardan clammum | 151r | |
| on wælbedde wriþan þohte | ||
| licgean lifbysig butan his lic swice. | 966 | |
| ic hine ne mihte þa metod nolde | ||
| gange(s) getwæman no ic him þæs georne ætfealh | ||
| feorhgeniðlan wæs to foremi(htig) | ||
| feond on feþe hwæþere he his folme f(or)let | ||
| to lifwraþe last weardian | 971 | |
| earm 7 (eax)le no þær ænige swa þeah | ||
| feasceaft (gu)ma frofre gebohte. | ||
| no þy leng leof(að) laðgeteona | ||
| synnum geswenced ac hyne sár hafað | ||
| in {nið}gripe nearwe befongen | 976 | |
| balwon bendum ðær abidan sceal | ||
| maga mane fah miclan domes | ||
| hu him scir metod scrifan wille. | ||
| ða wæs swigra secg sunu ec{g}lafes | ||
| on gylpspræce guðgeweorca | 981 | |
| siþðan æþelingas eorles cræfte | ||
| ofer heanne hrof hand sceawedon | ||
| feondes fingras foran æghwylc wæs | ||
| steda nægla gehwylc style gelicost | ||
| hæþenes handsporu hilde/rinces | 986 | 151v |
| egl unheoru æghwylc gecwæð | ||
| iren ærgod
|
||
| blodge beadufolme (o)nberan wolde. | ||
| XV | ||
| ÐA wæs haten hreþe heort innanweard | 991 | |
| folmum gefrætwod fela þæra wæs | ||
| wera 7
wifa þe |
||
| gestsele gyredon goldfag scinon | ||
| web æfter wagum wundorsiona fela | ||
| secga gehwylcum þara þe on swylc starað. | 996 | |
| wæs
|
||
| eal inneweard irenbendum fæst | ||
| heorras tohlidene hrof ana genæs | ||
| ealles ansund þe se aglæca |
| fyrendædum fag on fleam gewand | 1001 | |
| aldres orwena no
|
||
| to befleonne fremme se þe wille. | ||
| Ac gesacan sceal sawlberendra | ||
| nyde genydde niþða bearna | ||
| grundbuendra gearwe stowe. | 1006 | |
| þær his lichoma legerbedde fæst. | ||
| Swefeþ æfter symle Þa wæs sæl 7 mæl | ||
| 152r | ||
| wolde self cyni(ng) symbel þicgan | ||
| ne gefrægen ic þa mægþ(e) maran weorode | 1011 | |
| ymb hyra sincgyfan s(el) gebæran. | ||
| bugon þa to bence blæd(agan)de | ||
| fylle gefægon fægere geþægon | ||
| (me)doful manig magas þara | ||
| swiðhicgend(e) on sele þam hean | 1016 | |
| hroðgar 7 hroþulf (heo)rot innan wæs | ||
| freondum afylled nalles f(acen)stafas | ||
| þeod-scyldingas þenden fremed(on) | ||
| forgeaf þa beowulfe brand healfde(nes) | ||
| segen gyldenne sigores to leane | 1021 | |
| hro(den) hiltecumbor helm 7 byrnan | ||
| mære m(að)þumsweord manige gesawon. | ||
| beforan be(orn) beran beowulf geþah | ||
| ful on flette. no (he) þære feohgyfte | ||
| for scotenum scami(gan) ðorfte | 1026 | |
| ne gefrægn ic freondlicor feow(er) madmas | ||
| golde gegyrede gummanna fela | ||
| in ealobence oðrum gesellan. | ||
| ym(b) þæs helmes hrof heafodbeorge | ||
| wirum bewunden walan utan heold | 1031 | |
| þæt him fela / (la)f frecne ne meahton | 152v | |
| scurheard sceþ(ða)n þonne scyldfreca | ||
| ongean gramum (g)angan scolde. | ||
| Heht ða eorla hleo eah(ta) mearas | ||
| fætedhleore on flet teon. | 1036 | |
| (in u)nder eoderas þara anum stod | ||
| sadol searwum fáh since gewurþad | ||
| þæt wæs hilde. setl heahcyninges | ||
| ðonne sweorda gelac sunu healfdenes | ||
| efnan wolde næfre on ore læg | 1041 | |
| widcuþes wig ðonne walu feollon | ||
| 7 ða beowulfe bega gehwæþres | ||
| eodor ingwina onweald geteah. | ||
| wicga 7 wæpna het hine wel brucan. | ||
| swa manlice mære þeoden | 1046 | |
| 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 | ||
| þara þe mid beowulfe brimleade teah | 1051 | |
| on þære medubence. maþðum gesealde | ||
| yr/ felafe 7 þone ænne heht | 153r | |
| golde forgy(l)dan þone ðe grendel ær | ||
| mane acwealde swa he hyra ma wolde | ||
| nefne him witi(g) god wyrd forstode | 1056 | |
| 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 | ||
| leofes 7 laþes se þe longe her | 1061 | |
| on ðyssum windagum worolde bruceð. | ||
| þær wæs sang 7 sweg samod ætgædere | ||
| fore healfdenes hildewisan | ||
| gomenwudu greted gid oft wrecen. | ||
| ðonne healgamen hroþgares scop | 1066 | |
| æfter medobence mænan scolde | ||
| finnes eaferum ða hie se fær begeat | ||
| hæleð healfdena hnæf scyldinga | ||
| in freswæle feallan scolde | ||
| ne huru hildeburh herian þorfte. | 1071 | |
| eotena treowe unsynnum wearð | ||
| beloren leofum æt þam hildplegan | ||
| bearnum 7 broðrum hie on gebyrd hruron | ||
| gare / (w)unde |
153v | |
| nalles holinga (h)oces dohtor | 1076 | |
| 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 | ||
| finnes þegnas nemne feaum anum | 1081 | |
| þæt he ne mehte on þæm meðelstede | ||
| wig hengeste wiht gefeohtan | ||
| ne þa wealafe wige forþringan | ||
| þeodnes ðegne. ac hig him geþingo budon | ||
| 1086 | ||
| healle 7 heahsetl |
||
| wið eotena bearn agan moston | ||
| 7 æt feohgyftum folcwaldan sunu | ||
| dogra gehwylce dene weorþode | ||
| hengestes heap hringum wenede | 1091 | |
| efne swa swiðe sincgestreonum | ||
| fættan goldes swa he fresena cyn | ||
| on beorsele byldan wolde. | ||
| ða hie getruwedon on twa healfa | ||
| fæste frioðuwære fin hengeste | 1096 | |
| elne unflitme aðum / benemde. | 154r | |
| arum
heolde |
||
| wordum ne worcum wære ne bræce. | ||
| (ne) þurh inwitsearo æfre gemænden | 1101 | |
| ðeah hie hira beaggyfan banan folgedon | ||
| ðeodenlease þa him swa geþearfod wæs | ||
| gyf þonne frysna hwylc frecnen spræ(ce) | ||
| ðæs morþorhetes myndgiend wære | ||
| þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde | 1106 | |
| a{d} wæs geæfned 7 i{n}cge gold. | ||
| ahæfen of horde here-scyldinga | ||
| betst beadorinca. wæs on bæl gearu | ||
| æt þæm ade wæs eþgesyne | ||
| swatfah syrce swyn ealgylden. | 1111 | |
| eofer irenheard æþeling manig | ||
| wundum awyrded sume on wæle crungon. | ||
| het ða hildeburh æt hnæfes ade | ||
| hire selfre sunu sweoloðe befæstan | ||
| bánfatu bærnan 7 on bæl dón | 1116 | |
| earme on eaxle ides gnornode | ||
| geomrode giddum guðrinc astah. | ||
| wand / (to) wolcnum wælfyra mæst | 154v | |
| hlynode (fo)r hlawe hafelan multon. | ||
| bengeato (bu)rston ðonne blód ætspranc. | 1121 | |
| 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 | ||
| freondum befeallen frysland geseon | 1126 | |
| hamas 7 heaburh hengest ða gyt | ||
| wælfagne winter wunode mid finn | ||
| {ea}l unhlitine eard gemunde | ||
| þeah þe {n}e meahte on mere drifan | ||
| hringedstefnan holm storme weol | 1131 | |
| won wið winde winter yþe beleac | ||
| isgebinde oþ ðæt oþer com | ||
| gear in geardas swa nu gyt deð | ||
| þa ðe syngales sele bewitiað | ||
| wuldortorhtan weder ða wæs winter scacen | 1136 | |
| fæger foldan bearm fundode wrecca | ||
| gist of geardum he to gyrnwræce | ||
| swiðor / þohte þonne to sælade | 155r | |
| gif he tor(nge)mot þurhteon mihte | ||
| 1141 | ||
| Swa he ne fo(r)wyrnde woroldrædenne | ||
| þonne him hunlafing hildeleoman | ||
| billa sele(st) on bearm dyde | ||
| þæs wæron mid eoten(um) ecge cuðe | ||
| swylce ferhðfrecan fin. eft begeat | 1146 | |
| sweordbealo sliðen æt hi(s) selfes hám | ||
| siþðan grimne gripe guðlaf ond oslaf | ||
| æfter sæsiðe sorge mændon | ||
| ætwiton weana dæl ne meahte wæfre mod | ||
| forhabban in hreþre ða wæs heal hroden | 1151 | |
| feonda feorum swilce fin slægen | ||
| cyning on corþre 7 seo cwen numen | ||
| sceotend scyldinga to scypon feredon | ||
| eal ingesteald eorðcyninges | ||
| swylce hie æt finnes ham findan meahton | 1156 | |
| sigla searogimma hie on sælade | ||
| drihtlice wif to denum feredon | ||
| læddon. / (to l)eodum leoð wæs asungen | 155v | |
| gleoman(nes) gyd gamen eft astah. | ||
| beorhtode (b)encsweg byrelas sealdon | 1161 | |
| wín of (w)underfatum. þa cwom wealhþeo forð | ||
| (g)án under gyldnum beage þær þa godan twegen | ||
| sæton suhtergefæde(r)an þa gyt wæs hiera sib ætgædere | ||
| æghwylc oðrum trywe swylce þær hunferþ þyle | ||
| æt fotum sæt frean scyldinga gehwylc hiora his ferhþe treowde | 1166 | |
| þæt he hæfde mód micel þeah þe he his magum nære | ||
| árfæst æt ecga gelacum. 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. | ||
| beo wið geatas glæd geofena gemyndig | 1173 | |
| nean 7 feorran þu nu hafast | ||
| me man sægde þæt / (þ)u (ð)e for sunu wolde | 156r | |
| hereric hab(ban) heorot is gefælsod | ||
| beahsele beor(hta) brúc þenden þu mote | ||
| manigra me(do) 7 þinum magum læf | 1178 | |
| folc 7 rice þonne ðu forð scyle | ||
| metodsceaft seon (ic) minne can | ||
| glædne
hroþulf |
||
| arum healdan gyf þu ær þonne he | ||
| wine scildinga worold oflætest | 1183 | |
| wene ic
|
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| uncran
eaferan gif he |
||
| hwæt wit to willan 7 to worðmyndum | ||
| umborwesendum ær arna gefremedon. | ||
| hwearf þa bi bence þær hyre byre wæron | 1188 | |
| hreðric 7 hroðmund 7 hæleþa bearn | ||
| giogoð æt gædere þær se goda sæt | ||
| beowulf geata be þæm gebroðrum twæm(.) | ||
| XVIII | ||
| HIm wæs ful boren 7 freondlaþu | ||
| wordum bewægned 7 wundengold | 1193 | |
| estum geeawed earmreade twa | ||
| hrægl 7 hrin/ (ga)s healsbeaga mæst | 156v | |
| þara þe ic on fol(dan) (ge)frægen hæbbe | ||
| nænigne ic under sweg(l)e selran hyrde | ||
| hordmadmum hæleþa syþðan hama ætwæg | 1198 | |
| to herebyrhtan (byri)g brosinga mene | ||
| sigle 7 sincfæt (se)aroniðas fealh | ||
| eormenrices geceas ecne ræd | ||
| þone hring hæfde higelac geata | ||
| nefa swertinges nyhstan siðe | 1203 | |
| siðþan he under segne sinc ealgode. | ||
| wælreaf werede hyne wyrd fornam | ||
| syþðan he for wlenco wean ahsode | ||
| fæhðe to frysum he þa frætwe wæg | ||
| eorclanstanas ofer yða ful. | 1208 | |
| rice þeoden he under rande gecranc | ||
| gehwearf þa in francna fæþm feorh cyninges | ||
| breostgewædu 7 se beah somod | ||
| wyrsan wigfrecan wæl reafeden | ||
| æfter guðsceare geata leode | 1213 | |
| hreawic heoldon heal swege onfeng. | ||
| Wealhðeo maþelode heo fore þæm werede spræc | ||
| bruc ðisses beages beowulf leofa | ||
| hyse mid hæle / (7 þ)isses hrægles neot | 157r | |
| þeo{d} gestreona (7 geþeoh) tela | 1218 | |
| cen þec mid cræfte 7 þyssum cnyht(um) wes | ||
| lara liðe ic þe þæs lean geman | ||
| ha(fast) þu
gefered |
||
| ealne widefe(rhþ) weras ehtigað | ||
| efne swa side swa saé beb(ugeð) | 1223 | |
| windgeard weallas wes þenden þu lifige | ||
| æþ(eling) eadig ic þe an tela | ||
| sincgestreona beo þu suna minum | ||
| dædum gedefe dreamhealde(n)de. | ||
| her is æghwylc eorl oþrum getrywe | 1228 | |
| 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 | ||
| druncon wín weras wyrd ne cuþon | 1233 | |
| geosceaft grim{m}e swa hit agangen wearð | ||
| eorla manegum syþðan æfen cwom | ||
| 7 him hroþgar gewat to hofe sinum | ||
| rice to ræste reced weardode | ||
| unrim eorla swa hie oft ær dydon | 1238 | |
| bencþelu beredon hit geondbræded wearð | ||
| beddum 7 bolstrum beorscealca sum | ||
| fus 7 fæge fletræste ge/(beag) | 157v | |
| setton him to heafdon hilderandas | ||
| (b)ordwudu beorhtan þær on bence wæs. | 1243 | |
| ofer æþelinge yþgesene | ||
| heaþosteapa helm hringed byrne | ||
| þrecwudu þrymlic wæs (þ)eaw hyra | ||
| ge æt ham ge on herge ge gehwæþer þara | 1248 | |
| 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 | ||
| siþðan goldsele grendel (w)arode | 1253 | |
| unriht æfnde oþ |
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| swylt æfter
synnum |
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| widcuþ werum
|
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| lifde æfter laþum lange þrage | ||
| æfter guðceare grendles modor | 1258 | |
| ides aglæcwif yrmþe gemunde | ||
| se þe wæteregesan wunian scolde | ||
| cealde streamas siþðan camp {him} wearð | ||
| to ecgbanan angan breþer | ||
| fæderenmæge he þa fag gewat | 1263 | |
| morþre gemearcod / (ma)n(d)ream fleon | 158r | |
| westen warode þ(anon woc) fela | ||
| geosceaftgasta wæs þæra grend(el) sum | ||
| heorowearh hetelic se æt heorote fand | ||
| wæccendne wer wiges bidan | 1268 | |
| þær him aglæca ætgræpe wearð | ||
| hwæþre he gemunde mægenes strenge | ||
| gimfæste gife ðe him god sealde | ||
| 7 him to anwaldan are gelyfde | ||
| frofre 7 fultum ðy he þone feon(d) ofercwom | 1273 | |
| gehnægde helle gast þa he hean gewát | ||
| dreame bedæled deaþwíc seon | ||
| mancynnes feond 7 his modor þa gyt | ||
| gifre 7 galgmod gegan wolde | ||
| sorhfulne sið sunu {d}eo{ð} wrecan | 1278 | |
| com þa to heorote ðær hring-dene | ||
| geond
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| edhwyrft eorlum siþðan inne fealh | ||
| grendles modor wæs se gryre læssa | ||
| efne swa micle swa bið mægþa cræft | 1283 | |
| wiggryre wifes bewæpned men | ||
| þonne heoru bunden hamere geþuren | ||
| sweord swate fah swin ofer helme | ||
| ecgum/ (dyhttig) andweard scireð. | 158v | |
| þa wæs on hea(lle) (he)ardecg togen | 1288 | |
| 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 | ||
| feore beorgan þa heo onfunden wæs | 1293 | |
| hraðe heo æþelinga anne hæfde | ||
| fæste befangen þa heo to fenne gang | ||
| se wæs hroþgare hæleþa (l)eofost | ||
| on gesiðes hád be sæm tweonum | ||
| rice randwiga þone ðe heo on ræste abreat | 1298 | |
| blædfæstne beorn næs beowulf ðær. | ||
| ac wæs oþer in ær geteohhod | ||
| æfter maþðumgife. mærum geate | ||
| hream wearð in heorote heo under heolfre genam | ||
| cuþe folme cearu wæs geniwod | 1303 | |
| geworden in wicun
ne wæs |
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| freonda feorum þa wæs frod cyning. | ||
| hár hilderinc on hreon/ (mo)de | 159r | |
| syðþan he aldorþegn unly(figendne) | 1308 | |
| þone deorestan deadne wisse. | ||
| hra(þe wæs) to bure beowulf fetod | ||
| sigoreadig secg samod ærdæge | ||
| eode eorla sum æþele cempa | ||
| self mid gesiðum þær se snot(e)ra bád. | 1313 | |
| hwæþre him alfwalda æf(re) wille | ||
| æfter weaspelle wyrpe gefremman | ||
| gang ða æfter flore fyrdwyrðe man | ||
| mid his handscale healwudu dynede | ||
| 1318 | ||
| frean ingwina frægn gif him wære | ||
| æfter neodlaðu niht getæse. | ||
| XX | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode helm scyldinga | ||
| ne frin þu æfter sælum sorh is geniwod | ||
| denigea leodum dead is æschere | 1323 | |
| yrmenlafes yldra broþor | ||
| min rúnwita 7 min rædbora | ||
| eaxlgestealla ðonne we on orlege | ||
| hafelan weredon þonne hniton feþan | ||
| eoferas cnysedan / (swy)[lc] [eorl] (s)colde | 1328 | 159v |
| wesan <..> ærgod swylc æsc(here) (wæs) | ||
| wearð him on heorote to handbanan | ||
| wælgæst wæfre ic ne wát hwæþer | ||
| atol æse wlanc eftsiðas teah | ||
| fylle gefrægnod heo þa fæhðe wræc | 1333 | |
| 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 | ||
| ealdres scyldig 7 nu oþer cwom | 1338 | |
| mihtig manscaða wolde hyre mæg wrecan. | ||
| ge feor hafað fæhðe gestæled | ||
| þæs þe þincean mæg þegne monegum | ||
| se þe æfter sincgyfan on sefan greoteþ | ||
| hreþerbealo hearde nu seo hand ligeð | 1343 | |
| se þe eow welhwylcra wilna dohte. | ||
| ic |
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| selerædende secgan hyrde | ||
| micle mearcstapan moras healdan | 1348 | |
| ellorgæstas ðæra oðer wæs | ||
| þæs þe hie gewislicost gewitan meahton | ||
| idese onlicnæs oðer earmsceapen | ||
| on weres wæstmum wræclastas / træd | 160r | |
| næfne he wæs mara þonne ænig m(an) oðer | 1353 | |
| þone on geardagum grendel nem(don) | ||
| foldbuende no hie fæder cunnon | ||
| hwæ(þer) him ænig wæs ær acenned | ||
| dyrnra gasta hie dygel lond | ||
| warigeað wulfhleoþu windi(ge) næssas | 1358 | |
| frecne fengelad ðær fyrgenstream | ||
| under næssa genipu niþer gewiteð | ||
| flod under foldan
nis |
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| milgemearces |
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| ofer þæm hongiað hri{mg}e bearwas | 1363 | |
| wudu wyrtum fæst wæter oferhelmað | ||
| þær mæg nihta gehwæm niðwundor seon | ||
| fyr on flode no þæs frod leofað | ||
| gumena bearna
|
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| ðeah þe hæðstapa hundum geswenced | 1368 | |
| heorot hornum trum holtwudu sece | ||
| feorran geflymed ær he feorh seleð | ||
| aldor on ofre ær he in wille | ||
| hafelan;{helan} nis
|
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| þonon yðgeblond up astigeð | 1373 | |
| won to wolcnum þonne wind styreþ | ||
| lað gewidru
oð |
||
| roderas reotað nu is se ræd gelang | ||
| eft æt / (þ)e anum eard git ne const | 160v | |
| frecne stowe (ðær) þu findan miht | 1378 | |
| 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 | ||
| (B)EOWVLF maþelode bearn ecgþeo[w]es | 1383 | |
| 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 | ||
| domes aér
deaþe |
1388 | |
| unlifgendum æfter selest | ||
| áris rices weard uton hraþe feran | ||
| grendles magan gang sceawigan. | ||
| Ic hit þe gehate no he on helm losaþ. | ||
| ne on foldan fæþm ne on fyrgenholt. | 1393 | |
| ne on gyfenes grund gá þær he wille | ||
| ðys dogor þu geþyld hafa | ||
| weana gehwylces swa ic þe wene to. | ||
| ahleop ða se gomela gode þancode | ||
| mihtigan drihtne þæs se man ge/ (spræc) | 1398 | 161r |
| þa wæs hroðgare hors ge(bæted) | ||
| wicg wundenfeax wisa fengel | ||
| geato(lic) gende gumfeþa stop | ||
| lindhæbbendra l(astas) wæron | ||
| æfter waldswaþum wide gesyne | 1403 | |
| gang ofer grundas gegnum <..> for | ||
| ofer (myr)can mor magoþegna bær | ||
| þone selestan sawolleasne | ||
| þara þe mid hroðgare hám eahtode | ||
| ofereode þa æþelinga bearn | 1408 | |
| steap stanhliðo stige nearwe | ||
| enge anpaðas uncuð gelad | ||
| neowle næssas nicorhusa fela. | ||
| he feara sum beforan gengde | ||
| wisra monna wong sceawian | 1413 | |
| oþ
|
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| ofer harne stan hleonian funde | ||
| wynleasne wudu wæter under stod | ||
| dreorig 7 gedrefed denum eallum wæs | ||
| winum scyldinga w{æ}rce on mode | 1418 | |
| to geþolianne ðegne monegum | ||
| oncyð eorla gehwæm syðþan æscheres | ||
| on þam holmclife hafelan metton | ||
| flod blode weol folc to sægon | ||
| / (hatan) heolfre horn stundum song | 1423 | 161v |
| 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. | ||
| ða on undernmæl oft bewitigað | 1428 | |
| sorhfulne sið on seglrade | ||
| wyrmas 7 wildeor hie on weg hruron | ||
| bitere 7 gebolgne bearhtm ongeaton | ||
| guðhorn galan sumne geata leod | ||
| of flanbogan feores getwæfde | 1433 | |
| yðgewinnes |
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| herestræl hearda he on holme wæs | ||
| sundes þe sænra ðe hyne swylt fornam. | ||
| hræþe wearð on yðum mid eoferspreotum | ||
| heorohocyhtum hearde genearwod | 1438 | |
| niða genæged 7 on næs togen | ||
| wundorlic wægbora weras sceawedon | ||
| gryrelicne gist gyrede hine beowulf | ||
| eorlgewædum nalles for ealdre mearn | ||
| scolde herebyrne hondum gebroden | 1443 | |
| sid 7 searofah sund cunnian | ||
| seo ðe báncofan beorgan cuþe | ||
| eorres inwitfeng aldre gesceþðan. | ||
| ac se hwita helm. / (h)afelan werede | 1448 | 162r |
| se þe meregrundas men(gan) scolde | ||
| secan sundgebland since geweo(rðad) | ||
| befongen freawrasnum swa hine fyrndagum | ||
| worhte wæpna smið wundrum teode | ||
| besette swinlicum
|
1453 | |
| brond ne beadomecas bitan ne meahton. | ||
| Næs þæt þonne mætost mægenfultuma | ||
| wæs þæm hæftmece hrunting nama | ||
| 1458 | ||
| 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 | ||
| folcstede fara
næs |
1463 | |
| huru ne gemunde mago ecglafes | ||
| eafoþes
cræftig |
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| wine druncen þa he þæs wæpnes onlah. | ||
| selran sweordfrecan selfa ne dorste | 1468 | |
| under yða gewin aldre geneþan | ||
| drihtscype dreogan þær he dome forleas | ||
| ellen/(mæ)rðum ne wæs þæm oðrum swa | 162v | |
| syðþan (he) hine to guðe gegyred hæfde. |
| XXII | ||
| BEOWVLF maðelode bearn ecgþeowes | 1473 | |
| 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 | ||
| aldre linnan
|
1478 | |
| forðgewitenum on fæder stæle | ||
| wes þu mundbora minum magoþegnum | ||
| hondgesellum gif mec hild nime. | ||
| Swylce þu ða madmas þe þu me sealdest | ||
| hroðgar leofa higelace onsend. | 1483 | |
| mæg þonne on þæm golde ongitan geata dryhten | ||
| geseon sunu hrædles þonne he on þæt sinc starað | ||
| beaga bryttan breac þonne moste. | ||
| 7 þu hunferð læt ealde lafe | 1488 | |
| wrætlic wægsweord widcuðne man | ||
| heardecg habban ic me mid hruntinge | ||
| dóm gewyrce / oþðe mec deað nimeð. | 163r | |
| æfter þæ(m wordum) weder-geata leod | ||
| efste mid elne na(las and)sware | 1493 | |
| bidan wolde brimwylm onfen(g) | ||
| [hil]derince ða wæs hwil dæges | ||
| ær he þone grundwong ongytan mehte. | ||
| Sona |
||
| heorogifre beheold hund missera | 1498 | |
| grim 7
grædig |
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| ælwihta eard ufan cunno(de) | ||
| grap þa togeanes guðrinc gefeng | ||
| at(olan) clommum no þy ær in gescod | ||
| halan lice hring utan ymbbearh | 1503 | |
| locene leoð(o)syrcan laþan fingrum | ||
| bær þa seo brimwyl{f} þa heo to botme com | ||
| hringa þengel to hofe sinum | ||
| swa he ne mihte no he þæs modig wæs | 1508 | |
| wæpna gewealdan ac hine wundra þæs fela | ||
| swecte on sunde sædeor monig | ||
| hildetuxum heresyrcan bræc | ||
| ehton aglæcan ða se eorl ongeat | ||
| 1513 | ||
| þær him nænig wæter wihte ne sceþede | ||
| ne him for hrofsele hrinan ne mehte | ||
| færgripe flodes /(fyrleoh)t geseah | 163v | |
| blacne leoman beorht(e) [scinan] | ||
| ongeat þa se goda grundwyrgenne | 1518 | |
| (mer)ewif mihtig mægenræs forgeaf | ||
| hildebille ho{n}dswenge ne ofteah | ||
| grædig guðleoð [ð]a se gist onfand | ||
| 1523 | ||
| 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 | ||
| deorum madme
|
1528 | |
| eft wæs anræd nalas elnes (l)æt | ||
| mærða gemyndig mæg hy{g}laces | ||
| wearp ða wunde{n}mæl wrættum gebunden | ||
| yrre oretta
|
||
| stið 7 stylecg strenge getruwode | 1533 | |
| 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 | ||
| guð-geata leod grendles modor | 1538 | |
| brægd þa beadwe heard þa he gebolgen wæs | ||
|
feorhgeniðlan |
||
| heo him eft hraþe handlean forgeald | ||
| grim/ man grapum 7 him togeanes feng | 164r | |
| oferwear[p] þa werigmod wigena strengest | 1543 | |
|
feþecempa |
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| Ofsæt þa þone selegy(st) 7 hyre sea{x} geteah | ||
| brad <ond> brúnecg wolde hire bearn wrecan | ||
| angan eaferan him on eaxle læg | ||
| breostnet broden
|
1548 | |
| wið ord 7 wið ecge ingang forstod | ||
| Hæfde ða forsiðod sunu ecgþeowes | ||
| und(er) gynne grund geata cempa | ||
| nemne him heaðobyrne helpe gefremede | ||
| herenet hearde 7 halig god | 1553 | |
| geweold wigsigor witig drihten | ||
| rodera rædend hit on ryht gesced | ||
| yðelice syþðan he eft asto(d) | ||
| XXIII | ||
| GEseah ða on searwum sigeeadig bil | ||
| ealdsweord eotenisc ecgum þyhtig | 1558 | |
| wigena
weorðmynd |
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| buton hit wæs mare ðonne ænig mon oðer | ||
| to beadulace ætberan meahte | ||
| gód 7 geatolic giganta geweorc. | ||
| he gefeng þa fetelhilt freca scyldinga | 1563 | |
| hreoh 7 heorogrim hringmæl gebrægd | ||
| aldres orwena yrringa/ (s)loh | 164v | |
| banhringas bræc bil eal ðurhwod | ||
| fægne flæschoman heo on flet gecrong | 1568 | |
| sweord wæs swatig secg weorce gefeh | ||
| lixte se leoma leoht inne stod | ||
| efne swa of hefene hadre scineð | ||
| rodores candel he æfter recede wlat. | ||
| Hwearf þa be wealle wæpen hafena(de) | 1573 | |
| heard be hiltum higelaces ðegn | ||
| yrre (7 a)nræd. næs seo ecg fracod | ||
| hilderince ac he hraþe wolde | ||
| grendle forgyldan guðræsa (f)ela | ||
| ðara þe he geworhte to west-denum | 1578 | |
| (o)ftor micle ðonne on ænne sið | ||
| þonne he (h)roðgares heorðgeneatas | ||
| sloh on sweofote slæpende fræt | ||
| folces denigea fyftyne men | ||
| 7 oðer swylc ut offerede | 1583 | |
| laðlicu lac he him þæs lean forgeald | ||
| reþe cempa to ðæs. þe he on ræste geseah | ||
| guðwerigne grendel licgan | ||
| aldorleasne swa him aér gescod+ | ||
| hild æt heorote hra wide sprong | 1588 | |
| syþðan he æfter deaðe drepe þrowade | ||
| heorosweng heardne 7 hine þa heafde becearf. | ||
| Sona |
165r | |
| þa ðe mid hroðgare on holm (wliton) | ||
| brim b(lode) fah blondenfeaxe | 1593 | |
| gomele ymb godne ongeador spræcon | ||
| mærne þeoden þa ðæs monige gewearð | 1598 | |
| ða com non dæges næs ofgeafon | ||
| hw(ate) scyldingas gewat him ham þonon | ||
| gold(wine) gumena gistas secan | ||
| modes seoce 7 o(n) mere staredon | 1603 | |
| wiston 7 ne
wendon |
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| selfne gesawon
þa |
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| æfter heaþoswate hildegicelum | ||
| wigbil wanian þæt wæs wundra sum. | ||
| 1608 | ||
| 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 | ||
| maðmæhta ma þeh he þær monige geseah | 1613 | |
| buton þone hafelan 7 þa hilt somod | ||
| since fage wweord ær gemealt | ||
| forbarn
brodenmæl wæs |
165v | |
| ættren ellorgæst se þær (in)ne swealt. | ||
| Sona wæs on sunde se þe (æ)r æt sæcce gebad | 1618 | |
| wighryre wraðra wæter up þurhdeaf | ||
| wæron yðgebland eal gefælsod | ||
| eacne eardas þa se ellorgast | ||
| oflet lifdagas 7 þas lænan gesceaft. | ||
| Com þa to lande lidmanna helm | 1623 | |
| 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 | ||
| þæs þe hi hyne gesundne geseon moston | 1628 | |
| ða wæs of þæm[.] hroran helm 7 byrne | ||
| lungre alysed lagu drusade | ||
| wæter under wolcnum wældreore fag. | ||
| ferdon forð þonon feþelastum | ||
| ferhþum fægne foldweg mæton | 1633 | |
| cuþe stræte cyningbalde men | ||
| from þæm holmclife hafelan bæron | ||
| earfoðlice heora æghwæþrum | ||
| felamodigra feower scoldon | ||
| on þæm wælstenge w{æ}rcum geferian | 1638 | |
| to þæm goldsele grendles heafod | ||
| oþ ðæt / semninga to sele comon | 166r | |
| frome fyrdhwate feowertyne | ||
| geata gongan gu(m)dryhten mid | ||
| modig on gemonge meod(o)wongas træd. | 1643 | |
| ða com in gan ealdor ðegna | ||
| dædcene mon dome gewurþ(ad) | ||
| hæle hildedeor hroðgar gretan. | ||
| þ(a) wæs be feaxe on flet boren | ||
| grendles heafod þær guman druncon | 1648 | |
| egeslic f(or) eorlum 7 þære idese mid | ||
| wliteseon wr(æt)lic weras onsawon. | ||
| XXV | ||
| BEOwulf maþelode bearn ecgþeowe(s) | ||
| hwæt we þe þas saélac sunu healfdene(s) | ||
| leod scyldinga lustum brohton | 1653 | |
| tires to tacne þe þu her to locast. | ||
| ic |
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| wigge under wætere weorc geneþde | ||
| earfoðlice ætrihte wæs | ||
| guð getwæfed nymðe mec god scylde. | 1658 | |
| Ne meahte ic æt hilde mid hruntinge | ||
| wiht gewyrcan
þeah |
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| ac me geuðe ylda waldend | ||
| 166v | ||
| ealdsweord eacen oftost wisode | 1663 | |
| (wi)nigea leasum
|
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| (of)sloh ða æt þære sæcce þa me sæl (a)geald | ||
| huses hyrdas
þa |
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| for(ba)rn
brogdenmæl. swa |
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| (ha)tost
heaþoswata ic |
1668 | |
| feon(d)um ætferede fyrendæda wræc | ||
| deað(c)wealm denigea swa hit gedefe wæs. | ||
| ic (h)it þe
þonne gehate |
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| (so)rhleas swefan mid þinra secga gedryht | ||
| (7) þegna gehwylc þinra leoda | 1673 | |
| duguðe 7
iogoþe |
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| þeoden scyldinga on þa healfe | ||
| aldorbealu eorlum swa þu ær dydest. | ||
| ða wæs gyldenhilt gamelum rince | ||
| harum hildfruman on hand gyfen | 1678 | |
| enta ærgeweorc hit on æht gehwearf | ||
| æfter deofla hryre denigea frean | ||
| wundorsmiþa geweorc 7 þa þas worold ofgeaf | ||
| gromheort guma godes andsaca | ||
| morðres scyldig 7 his modor eac | 1683 | |
| on geweald gehwearf woroldcyninga | ||
| ðæm selestan be / sæm tweonum | 167r | |
| ðara þe on scedenigge (sceat)tas dælde. | ||
| hroðgar maðelode hylt sceawode | ||
| ealde lafe on ðæm wæs or (wri)ten | 1688 | |
| fyrngewinnes. syðþan flod ofs(loh) | ||
| gifen geotende giganta cyn | ||
| frecne (ge)ferdon
|
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| ecean dryh(tne) him þæs endelean | ||
| þurh wæteres wylm waldend sealde. | 1693 | |
| Swa wæs on ðæm scen(num) sciran goldes | ||
| þurh runstafas rihte (ge)mearcod | ||
| geseted 7 gesæd hwam |
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| irena cyst ærest wære | ||
| w(reo)þenhilt 7 wyrmfah ða se wisa spræc | 1698 | |
| s(u)nu healfdenes swigedon ealle. | ||
| fremeð on folce feor eal gemon | ||
| eald [eðel]
wea(rd) |
||
| geboren betera blæd (is) aræred | 1703 | |
| geond widwegas wine min beo[wulf] | ||
| ðin ofer þeoda gehwylce eal þu hit geþyldum healdest | ||
| mægen mid modes snyttrum ic þe sceal mine gelæstan | ||
| freoðe swa wit furðum spræcon ðu scealt to frofre weorþan | 1707 | |
| eal langtwidig leodum þinum | ||
| / (hæl)eðum to helpe ne wearð heremod (swa) | 167v | |
| eaforum ecgwelan ar-scyldingum. | ||
| (Ne) geweox he him to willan ac to wælfeal(le) | ||
| 7 to deaðcwalum deniga leodum | 1712 | |
| breat (bo)lgenmod beodgeneatas | ||
|
eaxlge(ste)allan oþ
|
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| mære þeo(d)en. mondreamum from | ||
| ðeah þe hine (mi)htig god mægenes wynnum | ||
| eafeþum (ste)pte ofer ealle men | 1717 | |
| forð gefreme(d)e hwæþere him on ferhþe greow | ||
| breost(h)ord blodreow nallas beagas geaf. | ||
| denum æfter dome dreamleas gebád | ||
| leodbea(l)o longsum ðu þe lær be þon | 1722 | |
| gumcyste ongit. á ic þis gid be þe | ||
| awræc wintrum frod wundor is to secganne | ||
| hu mihtig god manna cynne | ||
| þurh sidne sefan snyttru bryttað | ||
| eard 7 eorlscipe he ah ealra geweald | 1727 | |
| hwilum he on lufan læteð hworfan | ||
| monnes modgeþonc mæran cynnes. | ||
| Seleð him on eþle eorþan wynne | ||
| to healdanne hleoburh wera | ||
| / gedeð him swa gewealdene worolde (dæ)las | 1732 | 168r |
| side rice
|
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| (for) his unsnyttrum ende geþencean. | ||
| w(unað) he on wiste no hine wiht dweleð | ||
| ad(l) ne yldo ne him inwitsorh | ||
| on sefa<n> sweorceð ne gesacu ohwær | 1737 | |
| ecghe(te) eoweð ac him eal worold | ||
| wendeð on w(il)lan he þæt wyrse ne con. |
| XXVI | ||
| Oð |
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| wea(xeð) 7 wridað þonne se weard swefeð | ||
| sawele hy(rde) bið se slæp to fæst | 1742 | |
| 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) | ||
| wom wundorbebodum wergan gastes | 1747 | |
| þinceð him
to lytel |
||
| gytsað gromhydig nallas on gylp seleð | ||
| fædde beagas 7 he þa forðgesceaft | ||
| forgyteð 7 forgymeð þæs þe him ær god sealde | ||
| wuldres/ (wal)dend weorðmynda dæl. | 1752 | 168v |
| hit on endestæf eft gelimpeð | ||
| fæge gefealleð fehð oþer (to) | ||
| se þe unmurnlice madmas dæleþ | ||
| (eor)les ærgestreon egesan ne gymeð. | 1757 | |
| (be)beorh þe ðone bealonið beowulf leofa | ||
| (s)ecg bet{o}sta
7 þe |
||
| ece rædas (of)erhyda ne gym | ||
| mære cempa nu is þines (m)ægnes blæd | ||
| ane hwile eft sona bið | 1762 | |
| oððe (fy)res feng oððe flodes wylm | ||
| oððe gripe (m)eces oððe gares fliht | ||
| oððe atol yldo (o)ððe eagena bearhtm | ||
| forsiteð 7 forswor(c)eð semninga bið. | 1767 | |
| swa ic hring-dena hund missera | ||
| weold under wolcnum 7 hig wigge beleac | ||
| manigum mægþa geond þysne middangeard. | ||
| æscum 7
ecgum |
1772 | |
| under swegles begong gesacan ne tealde. | ||
| hwæt me þæs on eþle edwendan cwom | ||
| gyrn æfter gomene seoþðan grendel wearð | ||
| ealdgewinna ingenga min. | ||
| / Ic þære socne singales wæg | 1777 | 169r |
| modcear(e) micle þæs sig metode þanc | ||
| ecean (dryht)ne þæs ðe ic on aldre gebad | ||
| ofer eal(d ge)win eagum starige. | ||
| ga nu to setle (sym)belwynne dreoh | 1782 | |
| wiggeweorþad unc (sceal) worn fela | ||
| maþma gemænra siþðan (mor)gen bið. | ||
| geat wæs glædmod geong son(a to) | ||
| setles neosan swa se snottra heht. | ||
| þ(a wæs) eft swa ær ellenrofum | 1787 | |
| fletsittendum fægere gereorded | ||
| niowan stefne ni(ht)helm geswearc | ||
| deorc ofer dryhtgu(mum) duguð eal aras | ||
| wolde blondenfeax beddes neosan | ||
| gamela scylding geat unigmetes wel. | 1792 | |
| rofne randwigan restan lys(te) | ||
| sona him seleþegn siðes wergum | ||
| feorrancundum forð wisade | ||
| se for andrysnum ealle beweote{d}e | ||
| þegnes þearfe swylce þy dogore | 1797 | |
| heaþoliðende habban scoldon. | ||
| reste hine þa rumheort reced hliuade | ||
| geap 7 goldfah gæst inne swæf | ||
| oþ
|
||
| bliðheort bodode / [ða c]om beorht scacan | 1802 | 169v |
| <..> 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. | ||
| Heht þa se hear(da) (h)runting beran | 1807 | |
| 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 | ||
| meces ecge
|
1812 | |
| (7 þ)a siðfrome searwum gearwe | ||
| wigend wæron. (Eo)de weorð denum | ||
| æþeling to yppan (þæ)r se oþer wæs | ||
| h{æl}e hildedeor hroð(g)ar grette. | ||
| XXVII | ||
| (Be)owulf maþelode bearn ecgþeowes | 1817 | |
| nu (w)e sæliðend secgan wyllað | ||
| feorran cumene
|
||
| higelac secan wæron her tela | ||
| willum bewenede þu us wel dohtest. | ||
| Gif ic þonne on eorþan owihte mæg | 1822 | |
| þinre modlufan maran tilian. | ||
| gumena dryhten ðonne ic gyt dyde | ||
| guðgeweorca ic beo gearo sona. | ||
| gif ic þæt ge/ fricge ofer floda begang | 170r | |
| 1827 | ||
| 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 | ||
| folces hyrde
|
1832 | |
| weordum 7 worcum |
||
| 7 þe to geoce garholt bere | ||
| mægenes fultum þær ðe bið manna þearf | ||
| g(if) him þonne hreþrinc to hofum geata | ||
| geþinge{ð} þeodnes bearn he mæg þær fela. | 1837 | |
| freonda findan feorcyþðe beoð | ||
| selran gesohte þæm þe him selfa dea(h.) | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode him on andsware | ||
| þe þa wordcwydas wigtig drihten | ||
| on sefan sende ne hyrde ic snotorlicor | 1842 | |
| on swa geongum feore guman þingian | ||
| þu eart mægenes strang 7 on mode frod | ||
| wis wordcwida wen ic talige | ||
| gif |
||
| hild heorugrimme hreþles eaferan | 1847 | |
| adl oþðe iren ealdor ðinne | ||
| folces hyrde 7 þu þin feorh hafast. | ||
| 170v | ||
| to geceosen(ne) cyning ænigne | ||
| hordweard hæleþa (g)yf þu healdan wylt | 1852 | |
| maga rice me þin [m]odsefa | ||
| licað leng swa wel leofa beo(w)ulf | ||
| hafast þu
gefered |
||
| geata leodum 7 gar-denum | ||
| sib (g)emænum 7 sacu restan | 1857 | |
| inwitniþas (þe) hie ær drugon | ||
| wesan þenden ic weal(d)e widan rices | ||
| maþmas gemæne ma[n]ig oþerne | ||
| godum gegrettan ofer ganotes bæð | ||
| sceal hringnaca ofer (h)eaþu bringan | 1862 | |
| lác 7 luftacen ic þa (l)eode wát | ||
| ge wið feond ge wið freond fæste geworhte | ||
| æghwæs untæle ealde wisan. | ||
| ða git him eorla hleo {h}i{n}e gesealde | ||
| mago healfdenes maþmas .xii. | 1867 | |
| het inne mid þæm lacum leode swæse | ||
| secean on gesyntum snude eft cuman | ||
| gecyste þa cyning æþelum gód | ||
| þeoden scyldinga ðegn bet{o}stan | ||
| 7 be healse genam hruron him tearas | 1872 | |
| blondenfeaxum him wæs bega wen | ||
| ealdum in/ frodum oþres swiðor | 171r | |
| modige on meþle (wæs) him se man to þon leof | ||
| 1877 | ||
| 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 | ||
| since h(re)mig saégenga bad | 1882 | |
| agedfrean se (þe) on ancre rád | ||
| þa wæs on gange gi(fu) hroðgares | ||
| oft geæhted
|
||
| æghwæs
orleahtre oþ |
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| mægenes wynnum se þe oft manegum scod. | 1887 | |
| XXVIII | ||
| CWOM þa to flode fela modigra | ||
| hægstealdra <..> hringnet bæron | ||
| locene leoðosyrcan landweard onfand | ||
| eftsið eorla swa he ær dyde | ||
| no he mid hearme of hliðes nosan | 1892 | |
| / (gæs)<tas> grette ac him togeanes rad | 171v | |
| (cwæ)ð
|
||
| sca(þan) scírhame to scipe foron. | ||
| þa wæs (on) sande sægeap naca | ||
| hladen here(wæ)dum hringedstefna | 1897 | |
| mearum 7 mað(m)um mæst hlifade | ||
| ofer hroðgares (h)ordgestreonum | ||
| he þæm batwearde (bun)den golde | ||
| swurd gesealde
|
||
| on meodubence maþma þy weo(rþ)re | 1902 | |
| yrfelafe gewat him on nacan | ||
| (d)refan deop wæter dena land ofgeaf. | ||
| þa wæs be mæste merehrægla sum | ||
| segl sale fæst sundwudu þunede | ||
| no þær wegflotan wind ofer yðum | 1907 | |
| siðes getwæfde sægenga for | ||
| fleat famigheals forð ofer yðe | ||
| bundenstefna ofer brimstreamas | ||
| cuþe næssas ceol up geþrang | 1912 | |
| lyftgeswenced on lande stod. | ||
| hraþe wæs æt / holme hyðweard geara | 172r | |
| se þe ær lange tid leofra manna | ||
| fus æt faroðe (feor) wlatode | ||
| sælde to sande sidfæþme sci(p) | 1917 | |
| 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) | ||
| to gesecanne sinces bryttan. | 1922 | |
| higelac hreþling þær æt ham wunað | ||
| s(elfa) mid gesiðum saéwealle neah | ||
| bold w(æs) betlic bregorof cyning | ||
| heahealle hygd swiðe geong | ||
| wis welþungen þeah ðe wintra lyt | 1927 | |
| under burhlocan gebide(n) hæbbe | ||
| hæreþes dohtor næs hio hnah swa þeah | ||
| ne to gneað gifa geata leodum | ||
| maþmgestreona mod þryðo {..} wæg | ||
| fremu folces cwen firen 7rysne | 1932 | |
| Nænig
|
||
| swæsra gesiða nefne sinfrea | ||
| ac him wælbende. /(w)eotode tealde | 172v | |
| handgewriþene; hraþe (seo)þðan wæs | 1937 | |
| æfter mundgripe mece (g)eþinged | ||
| cwealmbealu cyðan ne bið swylc (cwen)lic þeaw | ||
| idese to efnanne þeah ðe (h)io ænlicu sy | ||
| 1942 | ||
| æfter ligetorne leofne mannan | ||
| (h)uru
|
||
| (eal)odrincende oðer sædan | ||
| inwitniða [s]yððan ærest wearð | 1947 | |
| gyfen goldhro(d)en geongum cempan | ||
| æðelum diore syððan hio offan flet | ||
| ofer fealone flod be fæder lare | ||
| siðe gesohte ðær hio syððan well | ||
| in gumstole gode mære | 1952 | |
| lifgesceafta lifigende breac. | ||
| hiold heahlufan wið hæleþa brego | ||
| ealles moncynnes mine gefræge | ||
| þæs selestan bi sæm tweonum | ||
| eormencynnes forðam offa/ wæs | 1957 | 173r |
| geofum 7 guðum garcene man | ||
| wíd(e) (ge)weorðod wisdome heold | ||
| eðel sinne þonon <on>geomor wóc | ||
| hæleðum to helpe heminges mæg | ||
| nefa garmundes niða cræftig:~ | 1962 |
| XXVIIII | ||
| GEwat him ða se hearda mid his hondscole | ||
| sylf æfter sande sæwong tredan | ||
| wide waroðas woruldcandel scán | ||
| sigel suðan fús hi sið drugon | ||
| elne geeodon to ðæ(s ðe) eorla hleo | 1967 | |
| bonan ongenþeoes. burg(um) in innan. | ||
| geongne guðcyning godne gefrunon | ||
| hringas dælan higelace wæs | ||
| sið beowulfes snude gecyðed | ||
| 1972 | ||
| lindgestealla lifigende cwom | ||
| heaðolaces. hal to hofe gongan | ||
| hraðe wæs gerymed swa se rica bebead | ||
| feðegestum flet innanweard | ||
| gesæt þa wið sylfne se ða sæcce genæs | 1977 | |
| mæg wið mæge /[s]yððan mandryhten | 173v | |
| þurh hleoðorcwyde holdne gegrette | ||
| meaglum wordum meoduscencum | ||
| hwearf. geond þæt side reced hæreðes dohtor | ||
| lufode ða leode liðwæge bær | 1982 | |
| h{æ}um to handa higelac ongan | ||
| sinne geseldan in sele þam hean | ||
| fægre fricgcean hyne fyrwet bræc | ||
| hwylce sæ-geata siðas wæron | ||
| hu lomp eow on lade leofa biowulf | 1987 | |
| þa ðu færinga feorr gehogodest. | ||
| sæcce secean ofer sealt wæter | ||
| hilde to hiorote ac ðu hroðgare | ||
| wi{d}cuðne wean wihte gebettest | ||
| mærum ðeodne ic ðæs modceare | 1992 | |
| sorhwylmum seað siðe ne truwode | ||
| leofes mannes ic ðe lange bæd | ||
| lete suð-dene sylfe geweorðan | ||
| guðe wið grendel gode ic þanc secge | 1997 | |
| þæs ðe ic ðe gesundne geseon moste. | ||
| Biowulf maðelode bearn ecgðioes | ||
| / |
174r | |
| {micel} gemeting monegum fira. | ||
| hwy[lc] {orleg}hwíl uncer grendles | 2002 | |
| wearð on (ðam) wange þær he worna fela | ||
| sige-(scyl)dingum sorge gefremede | ||
| yrmð(e) to aldre ic ðæt eall gewræc | ||
| swa (be)gylpan <..> þearf grendeles maga | ||
| {yfel} ofer eorðan uhthlem þone. | 2007 | |
| se (ðe) lengest leofað laðan cynnes | ||
| f{æcne} bifongen ic ðær furðum cwom | ||
| to ðam hringsele hroðgar gretan | ||
| sona me se mæra mago healfd(e)nes | ||
| syððan he modsefan minne cuðe | 2012 | |
| 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 | ||
| friðusibb folca flet eall geondhwearf | 2017 | |
| bædde byre geonge oft hio beahwriðan | ||
| secge / {sealde} ær hie to setle geong. | 174v | |
| hwilum fo(r) {d}[ugu]ðe dohtor hroðgares | ||
| eorlum [on] ende ealuwæge bær | ||
| þa ic freaware (flet)sittende. | 2022 | |
| 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 | ||
| ri(ce)s hyrde 7 þæt ræd talað | 2027 | |
| sæcca gesette oft (s)eldan hwær. | ||
| æfter leodhryre lytle (hw)ile | ||
| bongar bugeð þeah seo bryd duge | ||
| (m)æg þæs þonne ofþyncan ðeoden heaðo-(b)eardna | 2032 | |
| 7 þegna gehwam þara leoda | ||
| (þ)onne he mid fæmnan on flett gæð. | ||
| dryhtbearn dena duguða biwenede. | ||
| on him gladiað gomelra lafe | ||
| heard 7 hringmæl heaða-bearna gestreon | 2037 | |
| þenden hie ðam wæpnum wealdan moston. | ||
| [XXX] | ||
| Oð ðæt hie forlæddan to ðam lindplegan | ||
| swæse gesiðas ond hyra sylfra feorh | ||
| þonne cwið æt beore se ðe beah/gesyhð | 175r | |
| eald æscwiga se ðe eall g(e)[man] | 2042 | |
| gárcwealm gumena him bið gri(m) [se]fa | ||
| onginneð geomormod geon(g)<um> cempan | ||
| þurh hreðra gehygd (higes) cunnian | ||
| wigbealu weccean
7 |
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| meaht ðu min wine mec(e) gecnawan | 2047 | |
| þone þin fæder to gef(eohte) bær. | ||
| under heregriman hinde(man) siðe. | ||
| dyre iren þær hyne dene slogon | ||
| weoldon wælstowe syððan wiðergyld læg. | ||
| æfter hæleþa hry(re) hwate scyldungas | 2052 | |
| nu her þara b(a)nena byre nathwylces. | ||
| frætwum hremig on flet gæð | ||
| morðres gyl[pe{ð}] 7 þone maðþum byreð | ||
| þone þe ðu m(id) rihte rædan sceoldest | ||
| manað sw(a) 7 myndgað mæla gehwylce. | 2057 | |
| sarum wordum oð ðæt sæl cymeð | ||
| æfter billes bite blodfag swefeð. | ||
| ealdres scyldig him se oðer þonan | ||
| losað / [{l}i](figen)de con him land geare | 2062 | 175v |
| þon(ne) bio(ð) ({b})rocene on ba healfe | ||
| aðsweorð eorla <syð>ðan ingelde | ||
| weallað wælniðas 7 him (wif)lufan | ||
| æfter cearwælmum colran (we)orðað | ||
| þy ic heaðo-bear{d}na hyldo ne (tel)ge | 2067 | |
| dryhtsibbe dæl denum unfæcne | ||
| (f)reondscipe fæstne ic sceal forð (sp)recan. | ||
| gen ymbe grendel.
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| sinces brytta to hwan syððan (w)earð. | ||
| hondræs hæleða syððan heofones (g)im. | 2072 | |
| glad ofer grundas gæst yrre cwom | ||
| (ea)tol æfengrom user neosan. | ||
| ðær we (g)esunde sæl weardodon | ||
| þær wæs hond(s)cio hilde onsæge | ||
| feorhbealu fægum (h)e fyrmest læg | 2077 | |
| gyrded cempa him grendel wearð | ||
| mærum mag{u}þegne to muðbonan. | ||
| leofes mannes líc eall forswealg. | ||
| no ðy ær ut ða gen idelhende. | ||
| bona blodigtoð bealewa gemyndig | 2082 | |
| of ðam goldsele gongan wolde. | ||
| ac he mægnes róf min costode | ||
| / grapode gear{o}folm. glof (hangode) | 176r | |
| síd 7 syllic searobendum fæst | ||
| (sio) wæs orðoncum eall gegyrwed | 2087 | |
| de(ofles) cræftum 7 dracan fellum | ||
| he mec (þær) on innan unsynnigne | ||
| dior dæ(d)fruma gedón wolde | ||
| manigra sumne hyt ne miht(e) swa | ||
| syððan ic on yrre upprih(te) astod. | 2092 | |
| 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. | ||
| lytle hwile lifwynna br({ea}c). | 2097 | |
| 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. | ||
| fættan golde fela lea(no)de | 2102 | |
| manegum maðmum syððan me(r)gen cóm. | ||
| 7 we to symble geseten hæfdon. | ||
| þær wæs gidd 7 gleo gome(la) / (scilding) | 176v | |
| felafricgende feorran reh(te) | ||
| (hwilum) hildedeor hearpan wynne | 2107 | |
| go(mel)wudu grette hwilum gyd awræc. | ||
| soð (7 sa)rlíc hwilum syllic spell. | ||
| rehte æfter (r)ihte rumheort cyning. | ||
| hwilum eft (onga)n eldo gebunden | ||
| gomel guðwiga (gio)guðe cwiðan | 2112 | |
| hildestrengo hreðer (inn)e weoll. | ||
| þonne he wintrum frod worn (gem)unde | ||
| swa we þær inne andlangne [dæg] | ||
| niode naman oð ðæt niht becwom. | ||
| (oð)er to yldum þa wæs eft hraðe | 2117 | |
| gearo (gyr)nwræce. grendeles modor. | ||
| Siðode (sor)hfull sunu deað fornam | ||
| wighete (wed)ra wif unhyre | ||
| hyre bearn gewræc (beo)rn acwealde | ||
| ellenlice þær wæs æsc(he)re | 2122 | |
| 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. | ||
| leofne mannan
/ (h)io |
2127 | 177r |
| feondes fæð{me} [un]der firgenstream. | ||
| þara þe leodfruman lange begeate. | ||
| þa se ðeoden (mec) ðine life | ||
| healsode hreohmod
( |
2132 | |
| 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 | ||
| þær unc hwil(e) wæs hand gemæne. | 2137 | |
| 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. | ||
| ac me eorla hl(eo) eft gesealde | 2142 | |
| maðma menigeo mag(a) healfdenes. |
| XXXI | ||
| Swa se ðeodkyning þeawum lyfde | ||
| ealles ic ðam leanum forloren hæfde | ||
| mægnes mede ac he me /<maðma>(s) geaf | 177v | |
| sunu healfdenes on <min>ne sylfes dóm. | 2147 | |
| 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. | ||
| het ða in beran eafor (hea)fodsegn. | 2152 | |
| heaðosteapne helm (ha)re byrnan | ||
| guðsweord geatolic (gy)d æfter wræc. | ||
| me ðis hildesceorp (h)roðgár sealde | ||
| snotra fengel sume (w)orde het | ||
| 2157 | ||
| (c)wæð
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| (l)eod scyldunga lange hwile. | ||
| no ðy (æ)r suna sinum syllan wolde | ||
| hwatum (h)eorowearde þeah he him hold wære. | ||
| breostgewædu bruc ealles well. | 2162 | |
| hyrde ic
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| lungre gelice last weardode. | ||
| æppelfealuwe he him est geteah | ||
| meara 7 maðma swa sceal/ mæg dón. | 178r | |
| nealles inwitnet oðr(um) bregdon | 2167 | |
| dyrnum cræfte deað ren<ian> | ||
| hondgesteallan hygelace wæs | ||
| (niða) heardum. nefa swyðe hold | ||
| ond geh(wæðer) oðrum hroþra gemyndig. | ||
| hyrd(e) ic
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2172 | |
| wrætlicne wundur(maððum) ðone þe him wealhðeo geaf | ||
| ðeo(d)<nes> dohtor þrio wicg somod | ||
| swanco(r) 7 sadolbeorht hyre syððan wæs | ||
| (æfter) beahðege br{e}ost geweorðod. | ||
| swa (b)[eal]dode bearn ecgðeowes. | 2177 | |
| guma gu(ð)[um]cuð godum dædum | ||
| dreah æfter dom(e) nealles druncne slog. | ||
| heorðgen(ea)tas næs him hreoh sefa. | ||
| ac he ma(n)cynnes mæste cræfte. | ||
| ginfæsta(n) gife þe him god sealde | 2182 | |
| heold hildedeor hean wæs lange | ||
| swa hyne geat(a) bearn godne ne tealdon. | ||
| ne hyne on medobence micles wyrðne. | ||
| / [dri]hten wereda gedon wolde | 178v | |
| swyðe <sæg>don |
2187 | |
| æðeling un(fro)m edwenden cwom | ||
| tireadigum (me)nn torna gehwylces. | ||
| het ða eorla (hl)eo in gefetian. | ||
| heaðorof cyning (hr)eðles lafe. | ||
| golde gegyrede næs (mid) geatum ða | 2192 | |
| sincmaðþum selra [o](n) sweordes had. | ||
| 7 him gesealde seofan (þ)usendo. | ||
| bold 7 bregostól him wæs [b](a)m samod | ||
| on ðam leodscipe [lo]nd gecynde | 2197 | |
| eard eðelriht oðrum (s)wiðor. | ||
| side rice þam ðær selra wæs. | ||
| (e)ft
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| hilde(h)læmmum syððan hygelac læg. | ||
| 7 hear{dr}ede hildemeceas | 2202 | |
| under bordhreoðan to bonan wurdon. | ||
| ða hyne gesohtan on sigeþeode | ||
| hearde hildefrecan heaðo-scilfingas. | ||
| niða genægdan. nefan hererices | ||
| syððan / beowulfe br[æ]de rice | 2207 | 179r |
| on hand ge[hwearf] he geheold tela | ||
| fiftig wintra w(æs ða) frod cyning | ||
| eald eþelweard oð ð(æt) ón ongan | ||
| deorcum nihtum draca (rics<i>an) | ||
| se ðe on hea<um> h<of>e hord beweot(ode) | 2212 | |
| stanbeorh stear{c}ne stig under l(æg) | ||
| eldum uncuð þær on innan giong. | ||
| nið(a) nathwyl<c> <ond> <neah> gefeng | ||
| hæðnum ho(rde) hond <gewriþenne> | ||
| since fahne (he
|
2217 | |
| þ<eah> ð<e> <he> slæpende (be)syre<d> <hæf>de | ||
| þeo[f]es cræfte |
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| b[u]folc beorn[a]
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| XXXII | ||
| Nealles <næs> geweoldum wyrmhorda<n> cræft | ||
| sylfes willum se ðe him sare (ge)sceod | 2222 | |
| ac for þreanedlan þe<of> nathwylces | ||
| hæleða bearna hetesweng(eas) fleoh | ||
| <ærnes> þea<rfe> ond ðær inne weal(l) | ||
| secg synbysig sona {o}nwa[ca]de | ||
| 2227 | ||
| hwæðre <fyren>sceapen / | 179r-v | |
| <...> se fær begeat | 2230 | |
| Sincfæt <sohte> þær wæs swylcra fela | ||
| in ðam eorð<[se]le> ærgestreona | ||
| swa hy on gearda(gum) gumena nathwylc | ||
| eormenlafe (æþ)elan cynnes | 2234 | |
| 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 | ||
| (we)ard winegeomor {w}ende þæs yldan | 2239 | |
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| brucan (m)oste beorh eallgearo | ||
| wunode on wonge [wæ]teryðum neah | ||
| niwe be næsse nearo(c)ræftum fæst | ||
| þær on innan bær eorl(g)estreona | 2244 | |
| hringa hyrde ha{n}dwyrðne (d)æl | ||
| fættan goldes fea worda cwæð. | ||
| heald þu nu hruse nu hæleð ne m{o}stan | ||
| eorla æhte hwæt hyt ær on ðe | ||
| gode begeaton guðdeað fornam. | 2249 | |
| feorhbeale frecne fyrena gehwylcne. | ||
| leoda minra þa {me}ðe þis <..> ofgeaf | ||
| gesawon. seledream <he> / nah hwa sweord wege | 180r | |
| oððe f<æ>[g]<rie> fæted wæge. | ||
| dryncfæt deore dug<uð> ellor seoc | 2254 | |
| sceal se hearda helm <hyr>stedgolde | ||
| fætum befeallen feormy(nd) swefað. | ||
| þa ðe beadogriman bywan sceoldon. | ||
| ge swylce seo herepád s(io) æt hilde gebád | ||
| ofer borda gebræc bite irena | 2259 | |
| brosnað æfter beorne ne mæg byrnan hring | ||
| æfter wig(fru)man wide feran | ||
| hæleðum be healfe næs hearpan wyn. | ||
| gomen gleobeames ne gód hafoc | ||
| geond sæl swingeð ne se swifta mearh | 2264 | |
| burhstede beateð bea(lo)cwealm hafað | ||
| fela feorhcynna fo(rð) onsended. | ||
| Swa giomormod giohðo mænde. | ||
| an æfter eallum unbliðe hwe{arf} | ||
| dæges 7 nihtes oð ðæt deaðes wylm | 2269 | |
| hr(an) æt heortan hordwynne fond | ||
| eald uh(t)sceaða opene standan | ||
| se ðe byrnend[e] biorgas seceð. | ||
| nacod niðdraca niht(es) fleogeð | ||
| fyre befangen hyne foldbuen(d) | 2274 | |
| / [: : : : : : : : : : : :]nan he gesecean sceall | 180v | |
| <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. | ||
| (h)eold on hrusa{n} hordærna sum | 2279 | |
| eacen(cr)æftig oð ðæt hyne án abealch | ||
| mon on mode mandryhtne bær. | ||
| fæted wæge frioðowære bæd | ||
| hlaford sinne (ða w)æs hord rasod | ||
| onboren beaga (h)ord bene getiðad | 2284 | |
| feasceaftum men frea sceawode. | ||
| fira fyrngeweorc (f)orman siðe. | ||
| þa se wyrm onwóc wroht wæs geniwad. | ||
| stonc ða æfter stane stearcheort onfand | ||
| feondes fot(l)ast he to forð gestop. | 2289 | |
| dyrnan cræfte dracan heafde neah. | ||
| swa mæg unfæge eaðe gedigan | ||
| wean 7 wræcsið se ðe waldendes | ||
| hyldo gehealdeþ hordweard sohte | ||
| georne æfter grunde wolde guman findan. | 2294 | |
| þone þe him on sweofote sare geteode. | ||
| hat 7 hreohmod / hl(æ)wum oft ymbehwearf | 181r | |
| ealn[e utan]weardne ne ðær ænig mon | ||
| on þ[am] westenne <..> hwæðre hilde gefeh | ||
| bea<du> weorces hwilum on beorh æthwe(arf) | 2299 | |
| sincfæt
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| ðæt hæfde gumena sum goldes gefandod | ||
| heahgestreona hordwea(rd) onbád | ||
| earfoðlice oð ðæt æfen c(wom) | ||
| wæs ða gebolgen beorges hyrde. | 2304 | |
| 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 fór | ||
| fyre gefysed wæs se fruma egeslic | 2309 | |
| 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 | ||
| eldum on andan no ðæ(r) aht cwices. | 2314 | |
| lað lyftfloga læfan / (wolde). | 181v | |
| wæs þæs wyrmes wig wide gesy(ne) | ||
| (ne)arofages nið nean 7 feorran | ||
| hu (s)e guðsceaða geata leode | ||
| hatode 7 hyn(de) hord eft gesceat. | 2319 | |
| dryhtsele dyrn(ne) ær dæges hwile. | ||
| hæfde landwara (li)ge befangen | ||
| bæle 7 bronde beorges getruwode | ||
| wiges 7 wealles him seo wen (g)eleah | ||
| þa wæs biowulfe broga gecy(ð)ed | 2324 | |
| snude to soðe
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| bolda selest brynewylmum mealt. | ||
| (g)ifstol geata
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| hreow (o)n hreðre hygesorga mæst. | ||
| wende (s)e wisa
|
2329 | |
| ofer ealde riht ecean dryhtne | ||
| bitre gebulge (b)reost innan weoll | ||
| þeostrum geþoncum> swa him geþywe ne wæs. | ||
| hæfde ligdraca leoda fæsten. | ||
| ealond utan eorðweard ðone | 2334 | |
| gledum forgrunden him ðæs guðkyning | ||
| wedera þioden wræce leornode | ||
| heht him þa gewyrcean wigendra hleo | ||
| eallirenne eorla dryhten | ||
| wigbord wrætlic /wisse he gearwe | 2339 | 182r |
| lind wið lige sceolde <li>þenddaga | ||
| æþeling ærgód ende g(e)bidan | ||
| worulde lifes 7 se wyrm somod | ||
| þeah ðe hordwelan heolde lan(ge) | 2344 | |
| oferhogode ða hringa fengel | ||
| sidan herge no he him þam sæcce 7red. | ||
| ne him þæs wyrmes wig for wiht dyde. | ||
| eafoð 7 ellen forðon he ær fela | 2349 | |
| nearo neðende niða gedig(de) | ||
| hildehlemma syððan he hroðga(res) | ||
| sigoreadig secg sele fælsode. | ||
| 7 æt g(uðe) forgrap grendeles mægum | ||
| laðan cynnes no þæt læsest wæs | 2354 | |
| hondge(mot){a} þær mon hygelac sloh. | ||
| syððan geata cyning guðe ræsum | ||
| freawine folc(a) freslondum on | ||
| hreðles eafora hiorodryncum swealt | ||
| bille gebeate(n) þonan biowulf com | 2359 | |
| sylfes cræfte sundnytte dreah | ||
| hæfde him on earm(e) /<eorla> xxx. | 182v | |
| hildegeatwa þa he to holm(e) <sta>g | ||
| nealles hetware hremge þorf<t>[on] | ||
| feðewiges þe him foran ongean. | 2364 | |
| linde bæron lyt eft becwom | ||
| fram þam hildfrecan hames niosan | ||
| ofer(s)wam ða sioleða bigong sunu ecgðeowes | ||
| (ea)rm anhaga eft to leodum | ||
| þær him hygd gebead hord 7 rice | 2369 | |
| beagas 7 brego(s)tol bearne ne truwode | ||
| healdan cuðe. ða wæs hygelac dead. | ||
| no ðy ær feasceafte (f)indan meahton | ||
| æt ðam æðelinge (æ)nige ðinga | 2374 | |
| oððe þone cynedóm ciosan wol(d)e | ||
| hwæðre. he him on folce freondlarum heold. | ||
| estum mid are oð ðæt he yldra wearð. | ||
| weder-geatum weold hyne wræcmæcgas | 2379 | |
| ofer sæ sohtan suna ohteres | ||
| hæfdon hy forhealden helm scylfinga | ||
| þone selestan sæcyninga | ||
| þara {ðe} in swiorice sinc brytnade. | ||
| mærne/ (þ)eoden him |
2384 | 183r |
| he (þær) {f}or feorme feorhwunde hleat | ||
| sw(eor)des swengum sunu hygelaces. | ||
| 7 [him] eft gewat ongenðioes bearn | ||
| ha(mes) niosan syððan heardred læg. | ||
| let ðone bregostol biowulf healdan | 2389 | |
| geatum wealdan
|
| XXXIIII | ||
| SE ðæs leodhryres lean gemunde | ||
| uferan dogrum eadgilse wearð | ||
| feasceaftum freond folce gestepte. | ||
| ofe(r) sæ side sunu ohteres | 2394 | |
| wigum 7 wæpnum he gewræc syððan | ||
| cealdum cearsiðum cyning ealdre bineat. | ||
| swa he niða gehwane genesen hæfde | ||
| sliðra geslyht(a) sunu ecgðiowes. | ||
| ellenweorca oð ðone anne dæg | 2399 | |
| þe he wið þam wyrme gewegan sceolde. | ||
| gewat þa .xii.a sum torne gebolgen | ||
| dryhten geata dracan sceawia(n) | ||
| hæfde þa gefrunen hwanan sio fæhð aras. | ||
| bealonið biorna him to bearme /(cwom) | 2404 | 183v |
| 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. | ||
| wong (w)isian he ofer willan giong. | 2409 | |
| to ðæs ðe he eorðsele anne wisse. | ||
| hlæw under (hr)usan holmwylme neh. | ||
| yðgewinne se wæs innan full | ||
| wrætta 7 wira weard unhiore | ||
| gearo guðfreca goldmaðmas heold. | 2414 | |
| eald under
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| to gegangenne gumena ænigum | ||
| gesæt ða on næsse niðheard cyning. | ||
| þenden hælo abead heorðgeneatum | ||
| gold(w)ine geata him wæs geomor sefa | 2419 | |
| wæfre 7 wælfus wyrd ungemete neah. | ||
| se ðone gomelan gretan sceolde | ||
| secean sawle hord sundur gedælan | ||
| lif wið lice no þon lange wæs. | ||
| feorh æþelinges flæsce bewunden. | 2424 | |
| biowulf maþelade bearn ecgðeowes | ||
| fela ic on giogoðe guðræsa genæs | ||
| orleghwila ic |
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| / ic wæs syfanwintre þa mec sin(ca bal)dor | 184r | |
| freawine folca æt minum fæ(der) genam | 2429 | |
| 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. | ||
| herebe(ald) 7 hæðcyn. oððe hygelac min | 2434 | |
| wæs þam yldestan ungedefelice | ||
| mæges dædum morþorbed stred | ||
| syððan hyne hæðcyn of hornbogan. | ||
| his freawine flane geswencte | ||
| miste mercelses 7 his mæg o(f)scet | 2439 | |
| broðor oðerne blodigan gare | ||
| hreð(re) hygemeðe sceolde hwæðre swa þeah | ||
| æð(e)ling unwrecen ealdres linnan | ||
| swa bið geomorlic gomelum ceorle | 2444 | |
| to gebidanne
|
||
| giong on galgan þonne h(e) gyd wrece | ||
| sarigne sang þonne his sunu hangað | ||
| hrefne to hroðre 7 he him helpa(n) ne mæg | ||
| eald 7 infrod ænige gefremma(n) | 2449 | |
| symble bið gemyndgad morna gehwylce | ||
| / (eafo)ran ellorsið oðres ne gymeð | 184v | |
| (t)o gebidanne burgum in innan | ||
| yrfeweardas þonne se an hafað | ||
| þurh deaðes nyd dæda gefondad. | 2454 | |
| gesyhð sorhcearig on his suna bure | ||
| winsele westne windge reste. | ||
| reote berofene ridend swefað | ||
| hæleð in hoðman nis þær hearpan sweg | ||
| gomen in geardum swylce ðær iu wæron. | 2459 | |
| 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 | ||
| weallinde wæg wihte ne meahte. | 2464 | |
| 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 sár belamp | ||
| gumdream ofgeaf godes leoht geceas | 2469 | |
| eaferum læfde swa deð eadig mon | ||
| lond 7 leodbyrig þa he of life gewat | ||
| þa/ (wæs) synn 7 sacu sweona 7 geata | 185r | |
| of(er {w}id ) wæter wroht gemæne. | ||
| herenið hea(rda) syððan hreðel swealt | 2474 | |
| oððe him ongenðeowes eaferan wæran | ||
| frome fyrdhwate freode ne woldon | ||
| ofer heafo healdan ac ymb hreosnabeorh | ||
| eat(olne) inwitscear oft {ge}fremedon. | ||
| 2479 | ||
| fæhðe 7 fyrene swa hyt gefræge wæs | ||
| þeah ðe oðer his ealdre gebohte | ||
| heardan ceape hæðcynne wearð | ||
| geata dryhtne guð onsæg(e) | ||
| þa ic on morgne gefrægn mæg oðerne | 2484 | |
| billes ecgum on bonan stælan. | ||
| þær onge(n)þeow eofores niosað. | ||
| guðhelm toglad gomela scylfing | ||
| hreas <heaþo>blac hond gemunde: | ||
| fæhðo genoge feorhsweng ne ofteah. | 2489 | |
| 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 | ||
| 2494 | ||
| oððe in swiorice secean þurfe | ||
| / (wyrs)an wigfrecan weorðe gecypa(n) | 185v | |
| (symle) (ic) him on feðan beforan wolde | ||
| ana on orde 7 swa to aldre sceall | ||
| sæcce fremman þenden þis sweord þolað | 2499 | |
| syððan ic for dugeðum (d)æghrefne wearð | ||
| to handbonan huga (ce)mpan | ||
| nalles he ða frætwe frescyning{e} | ||
| breostweorðunge bringan moste | 2504 | |
| ac in cempan gecrong cumbles hyrde | ||
| æþeling on elne ne wæs ecg bona | ||
| ac him hildegrap heortan wylmas | ||
| banhus gebræc nu sceall billes ecg | ||
| hond 7 heard sweord ymb hord wigan. | 2509 | |
| beowulf maðelode beotwordum spræc | ||
| niehstan siðe (i)c geneðde fela | ||
| guða on geogoðe; gyt ic wylle | ||
| frod folces weard fæhðe secan | ||
| mærðum fremman gif mec se mánsceaða | 2514 | |
| of eorðsele ut geseceð | ||
| gegrette ða gumena gehwylcne | ||
| hwate helmberend hindeman siðe | ||
| swæse gesiðas nolde ic sweord beran | ||
| wæpen to wyrme / gif ic wiste hu | 2519 | 186r |
| 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 | ||
| bord 7 byrnan nelle ic beorges weard | 2524 | |
| oferfleon fotes trem ac unc <..> sce(al) | ||
| weorðan æt wealle swa unc wyrd geteoð | ||
| metod manna gehwæs ic eom on mode from. | ||
| gebide ge on beorge byrnum werede | 2529 | |
| secgas on searwum hwæðer sel mæge | ||
| æfter wælræse wunde gedygan. | ||
| uncer twega nis þæt eower sið | ||
| ne gemet mannes ne(fn)<e> min anes | ||
| wat he wið aglæcean eofoðo dæle | 2534 | |
| eorlscype efne ic mid elne sceall | ||
| gold gegangan oððe guð nimeð | ||
| feorhbealu frecne frean eowerne. | ||
| aras ða bi ronde rof oretta | ||
| heard under helm(e) hiorosercean bær | 2539 | |
| under stancleofu strengo getruwode | ||
| anes mannes ne bið swylc earges sið | ||
| geseah. ða be wealle / (se ð)e worna fela | 186v | |
| gumcystum gód guða ge(d)igde | ||
| hildehlemma þonne hnitan feðan. | 2544 | |
| stodan stanbogan stream ut þonan. | ||
| brecan of beorge wæs þære burnan wælm | ||
| heaðofyrum hat. ne meahte horde neah | ||
| unbyrnende ænige hwile | ||
| deop gedygan for dracan lege. | 2549 | |
| let ða of breostum ða he gebolgen wæs | ||
| weder-geata leod word ut faran | ||
| stearcheort styrmde stefn in becom | ||
| heaðotorht hlynnan under hárne stán | ||
| hete wæs onhrered hordweard oncniow | 2554 | |
| mannes reorde næs ðær mara fyrst | ||
| freode to friclan from ærest cwom | ||
| oruð aglæcean ut of stane | ||
| hat hildeswát hruse dynede | ||
| biorn under beorge bordrand onswáf | 2559 | |
| wið ðam gryregieste geata dryhten | ||
| ða wæs hringbogan heorte gefysed | ||
| sæcce to seceanne sweord ær gebræd | ||
| god guðcyning gomele lafe | ||
| ecgum ungleaw æghwæðrum wæs | 2564 | |
| bealohycgendra / (bro)ga fram oðrum | 187r | |
| stiðmod gestod (wið) steapne rond | ||
| winia bealdor ða se wyr(m) gebeah | ||
| snude tosomne he on searwum bád | ||
| gewat ða byrnende gebogen scriða(n) | 2569 | |
| 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 | ||
| wealdan moste swa him wyrd ne gescraf | 2574 | |
| hreð æt hilde hond u(p) abræd. | ||
| geata dryhten gryrefahne slo(h) | ||
| incgelafe |
||
| brun on bane bat unswiðor. | ||
| þonne his ðiodcyning þe(arfe) hæfde | 2579 | |
| bysigum gebæded þa wæs beorges weard | ||
| æfter heaðuswenge on hreou(m) mode | ||
| wearp wælfyre; wide sprungon | ||
| hildeleoman hreðsigora ne gealp | ||
| goldwine geata guðbill geswác | 2584 | |
| nacod æt niðe swa hyt no sceolde | ||
| iren ærgód
ne wæs |
||
| grundwong þone ofgyfan wolde | ||
| sceolde <..> willan wic eardian. | 2589 | |
| elles hwergen swa / (sceal) æghwylc mon. | 187v | |
| alætan lændag(as) næs ða long to ðon | ||
| hyrte hyne hordweard hreðer æðme weoll | ||
| niwan stefne nearo (ðr)owode | 2594 | |
| 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 | ||
| ealdre burgan hiora in anum weoll | 2599 | |
| 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. | ||
| mæg ælfheres geseah his mondryhten | 2604 | |
| under heregriman hat þrowian. | ||
| gemunde ða ða are þe he him ær forgeaf. | ||
| wícstede weligne wægmundinga | ||
| folcrihta gehwylc swa his fæder ahte | ||
| ne mihte ða forhabban hond rond gefeng | 2609 | |
| geolwe linde gomelswyrd geteah | ||
| þæt wæs mid eldum eanmundes laf. | ||
| / (su)na ohtere þam æt sæcce wearð | 188r | |
| w(ræcca) wineleasum weohstanes bana | ||
| meces ecg(um) 7 his magum ætbær | 2614 | |
| brunfagne helm hringde byrnan | ||
| ealdsweord etonisc
|
||
| his gædelinges guðgewædu | ||
| fyrdsearo fuslic no ymbe ða fæhðe spræc | ||
| þeah ðe he his broðor bearn abredwade. | 2619 | |
| he frætwe geheold fela missera | ||
| bill 7 byrnan oð ðæt his byre mihte | ||
| eorlscipe efnan swa his ærfæder | ||
| geaf him ða mid geatum guðgewæda | ||
| æghwæs unrim þa he of ealdre gewat | 2624 | |
| 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 | ||
| gewac æt wige þa se wyrm onfand | 2629 | |
| syððan hie togædre gegan hæfdon | ||
| wigláf maðelode wordrihta fela | ||
| sægde gesiðum him wæs sefa geomor. | ||
| ic ðæt/ (mæl) geman þær we medu þegun | 188v | |
| þon(ne) (we) geheton ussum hlaforde | 2634 | |
| in biorsele (ð)e us ðas beagas geaf | ||
| gif him þyslicu þearf gelumpe | ||
| helmas 7 heard sweord ðe he usic on herge geceas. | ||
| to ðyssum siðfate sylfes willum | 2639 | |
| onmunde usic mærða 7 me þas maðmas geaf | ||
| þe he usic gárwigend gode tealde | ||
| hwate helmberend þeah ðe hlaford us | ||
| þis ellenweorc ana aðohte | ||
| to gefremmanne folces hyrde | 2644 | |
| forðan he manna mæst mærða gefremede | ||
| dæda dollicra nu is se dæg cumen | ||
| godra guðrinca wutun gongan to | ||
| helpan hildfruman þenden hyt sy | 2649 | |
| gledegesa grim god wat on mec | ||
| mid minne goldgyfan gled fæðmie | ||
| ne þynceð
me gerysne |
||
| eft to earde nemne we æror mægen | 2654 | |
| fáne gefyllan. / (f)eorh. ealgian | 189A/ (197)r | |
| wedra ðeodnes ic wat gear(e) | ||
| g(eata) duguðe gnorn þrowian | ||
| gesigan æt sæcce urum sceal sweord 7 helm | 2659 | |
| byrne 7 byrduscrud (bam) gemæne. | ||
| wod þa þurh þone wælréc wig(hea)folan bær | ||
| frean on fultum fea worda (cwæð) | ||
| leofa Biowulf læst eall tela | ||
| swa ðu on g(eo)guðfeore geara gecwæde | 2664 | |
| dóm gedreosan scealt nu dædum rof | ||
| æðeling anhydig ealle mægene | ||
| feorh ealgian ic ðe fullæstu. | ||
| æfter ðam wordum wyrm yrre cwom | 2669 | |
| atol inwitg(æst) oðre siðe | ||
| fyrwylmum fah fionda nio(s{i}an) | ||
| laðra manna lig yðum for | ||
| born bord (wið) rond byrne. ne meahte | ||
| geongum gárwigan geoce gefremman | 2674 | |
| 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 | ||
| hildebille ( |
2679 | |
| niþe genyded nægl(in)g forbærst | ||
| geswác æt sæcce sweord biowulfes | ||
| / gomol 7 grægmæl him |
189A/ (197)v | |
| ( |
||
| helpan æt hilde wæs sio hond to strong | 2684 | |
| 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 | ||
| frecne fýrdraca fæhða gemyndig | 2689 | |
| ræsde on ðone rofan þa him rum ageald | ||
| hat 7 heaðogrim heals ealne ymbefeng | ||
| biteran banum he geblodegod wearð | ||
| sawuldriore. swat yðum weoll. | ||
| XXXVII | ||
| ÐA ic æt þearfe <gefrægn> þeodcyninges | 2694 | |
| 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 | ||
| 2699 | ||
| secg on searwum
|
||
| fah 7
fæted; |
||
| sweðrian syððan þa gen sylf cyning. | ||
| geweold his gewitte wællseaxe gebræd | ||
| biter 7
beaduscearp |
2704 | |
| forwrat wedra / helm wyrm on middan | 189r | |
| feond gefyldan ferh ellen wræc | ||
| 7 hi hyne þa begen abroten hæfdon | ||
| sibæðelingas swylc sceolde secg wesan. | ||
| þegn æt
ðearfe |
2709 | |
| siðas sigehwile sylfes dædum | ||
| wo(rlde) geweorces. ða sio wund ongon | ||
| þe him se e(orð)draca ær geworhte | ||
| swelan 7
swella(n) (he) |
||
| 2714 | ||
| attor on innan ða se æðeling gion(g) | ||
| gesæt on sesse seah on enta geweorc | ||
| hu ða stanbogan stapulum fæste | ||
| ece eorðreced innan heald(e)[n] | 2719 | |
| hyne þa mid handa heorodreorigne | ||
| (þeo)den mærne þegn ungemete till | ||
| winedry(hten) his wætere gelafede | ||
| hilde sædne 7 his he(l)<m> onspeon. | ||
| biowulf maþelode he ofer be(nne) spræc | 2724 | |
| wunde wælbleate wisse he gearwe | ||
| eorðan wyn<ne> ða wæs eall sceacen | ||
| dogorgerimes deað ungemete neah | ||
| nu ic suna minum syllan wolde | 2729 | |
| guðgewædu þær me gifeðe swa | ||
| ænig yrfe/ weard æfter wurde | 189v | |
| lice gelenge ic ðas leo(de) heold. | ||
| fiftig wintra næs se folccyning | ||
| ymbesittendra ænig ðara | 2734 | |
| þe mec guðwinum (gr)etan dorste | ||
| egesan ðeon ic on earde bád | ||
| (m)ælgesceafta heold min tela | ||
| ne sohte (s)earoniðas ne me swor fela | ||
| aða on un(ri)ht ic ðæs ealles mæg | 2739 | |
| feorhbennum seoc ge(fea)n habban | ||
| forðam me witan ne ðearf waldend fira | ||
| morðorbealo maga þonne min sceaceð | ||
| líf of lice nu ðu lungre geong | ||
| hord sceawian under harne stan. | 2744 | |
| wiglaf leofa nu se wyrm ligeð | ||
| swefeð sare wund (si)nce bereafod | ||
| bio nu on ofoste
|
||
| goldæht ongite gearo sceawige | ||
| swegle searogimmas
|
2749 | |
| æfter maððumwelan (mi)n alætan | ||
| líf 7 leodscipe þone ic longe heold:~ | ||
| XXXVIII | ||
| ÐA ic snude gefrægn sunu wihstanes | ||
| æfter wordcwydum wundum dryhtne. | ||
| hyran heaðosiocum hringnet beran | 2754 | |
| brogdne beadusercean u{n}der beorges hrof. | ||
| geseah ða sigehreðig þa he bi sesse geong. | ||
| magoþegn/ modig maððumsigla fealo | 190r | |
| gold glitinian grunde getenge | ||
| wundur on wealle 7 þæs wyrmes denn | 2759 | |
| ealdes uhtflogan orcas stondan | ||
| fyrnmanna fatu feormendlease | ||
| hyrstum behrorene Þær wæs helm monig | ||
| eald 7 omig earmbeaga fela | ||
| searwum gesæled sinc eaðe mæg | 2764 | |
| gold on gr(und)[e] gumcynnes gehwone | ||
| oferhigian hyde se ðe wylle | ||
| swylce he siomian geseah segn eallgylden | ||
| heah ofer horde hondwundra mæst | ||
| gelocen leoðocræftum of ðam leoman stód | 2769 | |
| wræ{t}e giondwlitan næs ðæs wyrmes þ(ær) | ||
| onsyn ænig ac hyne ecg fornam | ||
| ða ic (on) hlæwe gefrægn hord reafian | ||
| eald ent(a) geweorc anne mannan | 2774 | |
| him on bearm hlo(don) bunan 7 discas | ||
| sylfes dome segn eac geno(m) | ||
| beacna beorhtost bill ær gescod | ||
| ecg wæs iren ealdhlafordes | ||
| þam ðara maðma mundbora wæs | 2779 | |
| longe hwile ligegesan wæg | ||
| hatne for horde hioroweallende | ||
| middelnihtum / oð |
190v | |
| ar wæs on ofoste eftsiðes georn | ||
| frætwumgefyrðred hyne fyrwet bræc | 2784 | |
| hwæðer collenferð cwicne gemette | ||
| in ðam wongstede wedra þeoden | ||
| ellensiocne þær he hine ær forlet. | ||
| he ða mid þam maðmum mærne þioden | ||
| dryhten sinne driorigne fand | 2789 | |
| ealdres æt ende he hine eft ongon | ||
| wæteres
weorpan oð |
||
| breosthord þurhbræc. <...> | ||
| gomel on giogoðe gold sceawode. | ||
| Ic ðara frætwa frean ealles ðanc | 2794 | |
| wuldurcyninge wordum (sec)ge. | ||
| ecum dryhtne þe ic her on starie | ||
| þæs ðe (ic) moste minum leodum | ||
| ær swyltdæge swylc ge(str)ynan | ||
| nu ic on maðma hord minne be(bo)hte | 2799 | |
| frode feorhlege fremmað gena | ||
| (l)eoda þearfe ne mæg ic her leng wesan. | ||
| hatað (h)eaðomære hlæw gewyrcean. | ||
| beorhtne æfter bæle æt brimes nosan. | ||
| se scel to gemyndum minum leodum | 2804 | |
| heah hlifian on hrones næsse | ||
| biowulfes biorh ða ðe brentingas | ||
| ofer / floda genipu feorran drifað | 191r | |
| dyde him of healse hring gyldenne | 2809 | |
| þioden þristhydig þegne gesealde | ||
| geongum garwigan goldfahne helm | ||
| beah 7 byrnan het hyne brucan well. | ||
| þu eart endelaf usses cynnes | ||
| wægmundinga ealle wyrd fors{w}eo{p} | 2814 | |
| mine magas to metodsceafte | ||
| eorlas on elne ic him æfter sceal | ||
| breostgehygdum ær he bæl cure | ||
| hate heaðowylmas him of hwæðre gewát | 2819 | |
| sawol secean soðfæstra dóm. |
| [XXXVIIII] | ||
| Ða wæs gegongen gum{an} unfrodum | ||
| earfoðlice |
||
| þone leofestan lifes æt ende | ||
| bleate gebæran bona swylce læg | 2824 | |
| egeslic eorðdraca ealdr(e) bereafod | ||
| bealwe gebæded beahhordum leng | ||
| wyrm wohbogen wealdan ne moste | ||
| ac him irenna ecga fornamon | ||
| hearde heaðoscearde homera lafe | 2829 | |
| hreas on hrusan hordærne neah | ||
| nalles / æfter lyfte lacende. hwearf | 191v | |
| middelnih(tum) maðmæhta wlonc | ||
| ansyn ywde ac he eorðan gefeoll | 2834 | |
| for ðæs hildfruman hondgeweorce | ||
| huru |
||
| mægenagendra mine gefræge | ||
| þeah ðe he dæda gehwæs dyrstig wære | ||
| 2839 | ||
| oððe hringsele hondum styrede | ||
| gif he wæccende weard onfunde | ||
| buon on beorge biowulfe wearð | ||
| dryhtmaðma dæl deaðe forgolden | ||
| hæfde æghwæðre ende gefered | 2844 | |
| lænan lifes næs ða lang to ðon | ||
| tydre treowlogan tyne ætsomne | ||
| ða ne dorston ær dareðum lacan | ||
| on hyra mandryhtnes miclan þearfe | 2849 | |
| ac hy scamiende scyldas bæran | ||
| guðgewædu þær se gomela læg | ||
| wlitan on wilaf he gewergad sæt | ||
| feðecempa frean eaxlum neah | ||
| wehte hyne wætre him wiht ne speo{w} | 2854 | |
| ne meahte he on eorðan ðeah he uðe wel | ||
| on ðam frumgare feorh gehealdan | ||
| ne ðæs wealdendes wiht oncirran | ||
| wolde dóm/ (go)des dædum rædan | 192r | |
| gumena gehwylcum sw(a) he nu gen deð | 2859 | |
| þa wæs æt ðam geong{an} grim 7swar(u) | ||
| eðbegete þam ðe ær his elne forleas. | ||
| wiglaf maðelode weohstanes sunu | ||
| sec{g} sarigferð seah on unleofe | ||
| 2864 | ||
| eoredgeatwe þe ge þær on standað. | ||
| þonne he on ealubence oft gesealde | ||
| healsittendum helm 7 byrnan | ||
| þeoden his þegnum swylce he þrydlicost | 2869 | |
| ower feor oððe neah findan meahte | ||
| wraðe forwurpe. ða hyne wig beget | ||
| nealles folccyning fyrdgeste(allum) | ||
| gylpan þorfte hwæðre him god uðe | 2874 | |
| sigor(a) waldend
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| ana mid ecge þa him wæs elnes þearf. | ||
| Ic him lifwraðe lytle meahte | ||
| ætgifan æt guðe 7 ongan swa þeah | ||
| ofer min gemet mæges helpan. | 2879 | |
| Symle wæs þy sæmra þonne ic sweorde drep | ||
| ferhðgeniðlan fyr unswiðor | ||
| weoll of gewitte fergendra to lyt | ||
| þrong ymbe þeoden þa hyne sio / (þ)rag becwom. | 192v | |
| hu sceal sincþego 7 swyrd(gifu) | 2884 | |
| eall eðelwyn eowrum cynne. | ||
| lufen alicgean londrihtes mot | ||
| þære mægburge monna æghwylc | ||
| idel hweorfan syððan æðelingas | ||
| feorran gefricgean fleam eowerne | 2889 | |
| domleasan dæd deað bið sella | ||
| eorla gehwylcum þonne edwitlif | ||
| XL | ||
| Heht ða |
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| up ofer ecgclif
þær |
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| morgenlongne dæg modgiomor sæt | 2894 | |
| bordhæbbende bega on wenum | ||
| endedogores 7 eftcymes | ||
| leofes. monnes lyt swigode | ||
| niwra spella se ðe næs gerád | ||
| ac he soðlice sægde ofer ealle | 2899 | |
| nu is wilgeofa wedra leoda | ||
| dryhten geata deaðbedde fæst | ||
| wunað wæl.reste wyrmes dædum | ||
| him on efn ligeð ealdorgewinna | ||
| siexbennum seoc sweorde ne meahte | 2904 | |
| on ðam aglæcean ænige þinga | ||
| wunde gewyrcean wiglaf siteð | ||
| ofer biowulfe byre wihstanes | ||
| eorl ofer oðrum unlifigendum | ||
| healdeð higemæðum / (heafod)wearde | 2909 | 193r |
| leofes 7 la(ð)es nu y(s leodum) wen. | ||
| orleghwile syððan und{y}r{ne} | ||
| froncu(m) 7 frysum fyll cyninges | ||
| wide weorðeð wæs sio wroht scepen | ||
| heard wið hugas syððan higelac cwom | 2914 | |
| faran flotherge on fresn(a) land | ||
| þær hyne hetware hilde gehnægdon | ||
| elne geeodon mid ofermægene | ||
| feoll on feðan nalles frætwe geaf | 2919 | |
| 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 | ||
| 2924 | ||
| 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) | ||
| eald 7 egesfull hondslyht ageaf | 2929 | |
| abreot brimwisan bryda he{ro}de | ||
| gomela iomeowl(a)[n] golde berofene | ||
| onelan modor 7 ohtheres | ||
| 7 ða folgode feorhgeniðlan | ||
| oð ðæt hi oðeodo(n) earfoðlice | 2934 | |
| in hrefnesholt hlafordlease | ||
| besæt ða sinherge sweorda lafe | ||
| wundum werge / (wean o)ft gehet | 193v | |
| earmre teohhe on(d longe) niht | ||
| cwæð he on mergenne meces ecgum | 2939 | |
| getan wolde sum on galgtreowu{m} | ||
| <fuglum> to gamene frofor eft gelamp | ||
| sarigmodum somod ærdæge | ||
| syððan hie hygelaces horn 7 byman | ||
| gealdor ongeaton þa se goda cóm | 2944 | |
| leoda dugoðe on last faran. | ||
| XLI | ||
| Wæs sio swatswaðu swona 7 geata | ||
| wælræs weora wide gesyne | ||
| hu ða folc mid him fæhðe towehton. | ||
| gewat him ða se goda mid his gædelingum | 2949 | |
| frod felageomor fæsten secean | ||
| eorl ongenþio ufor oncirde | ||
| hæfde higelaces hilde gefrunen | ||
| wlonces wigcræft wiðres (n)e truwode | ||
| 2954 | ||
| heaðoliðendum hord forstandan | ||
| bearn 7 bryde beah eft þonan. | ||
| eald under eorðweall þa wæs æht boden | ||
| sweona leodum segn higelace{s}. | ||
| freoðowong þone for{ð} ofereodon | 2959 | |
| syððan hreðlingas to hagan þrungon | ||
| þær wearð ongenðiow ecgum sweord{an} | ||
| blondenfexa on bid wrecen | ||
| eafores / anne dóm hyne yrringa | 2964 | 194r |
| wulf wonreðing wæpne geræhte | ||
| forð under fexe næs he forht swa ðeh | ||
| gomela scilfing ac forgeald hraðe | ||
| wyrsan wrixle wælhlem þone | 2969 | |
| syððan ðeodcyning þyder oncirde. | ||
| Ne meahte se snella sunu wonredes | ||
| ealdum ceorle hondslyht giofan | ||
| ac he him on heafde helm ær gescer | ||
| 2974 | ||
| 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 | ||
| ealdsweord eotonisc entiscne helm | 2979 | |
| 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 | ||
| 2984 | ||
| þenden reafode rinc oðerne | ||
| nam on ongenðio irenbyrnan | ||
| heard swyrd hilted 7 his helm somod | ||
| hares hyrste higelace bær | ||
| he <ðam> frætwum feng 7 him fægre gehet | 2989 | |
| leana <mid> / leodum 7 gelæst{e} swa | 194v | |
| geald þone guðræs geata dryhten | ||
| hreðles eafora þa he to ham becóm | ||
| iofore 7 wulfe mid ofermaðmum | ||
| sealde hiora gehwæðrum hund þusenda | 2994 | |
| landes 7 locenra beaga ne ðorfte him ða lean oðwitan | ||
| mon on middangearde syðða{n} hie ða mærða geslogon. | ||
| 7 ða iofore forgeaf angan dohtor | ||
| hamweorðunge hyldo to wedde | 2998 | |
| wælnið wera ðæs ðe ic<wean> hafo | ||
| þe us seceað to sweona leoda | ||
| syððan hie gefricgeað frean userne | ||
| ealdorleasne þone ðe ær geheold | 3003 | |
| wið hettendum hord (7) rice | ||
| æfter hæleða hryre hwate scildingas | ||
| folcred fremede. oððe furður gen | ||
| eorlscipe efnde me is ofost betost | ||
| 3008 | ||
| 7 þone gebringan þe us beagas geaf | ||
| on ádfære ne scel anes hwæt | ||
| meltan mid þam modigan ac þær is maðma hord | ||
| gold unrime grimme gecea<po>(d) | ||
| 7 nu æt siðestan sylfes feore | 3013 | |
| beagas <geboh>te; þa sceall brond fretan | ||
| æled þeccean / nalles eorl wegan | 195r | |
| maððum to gemyndum ne mægð scyne | ||
| habban on healse hringweorðunge | ||
| ac sceal geomormod golde bereafod | 3018 | |
| oft nalles æne elland tredan | ||
| nu se herewisa hleahtor alegde | ||
| gamen 7 gleodream forðon sceall gar wesan | ||
| monig morgenceald mundum bewunden | ||
| hæfen on handa nalles hearpan sweg | 3023 | |
| wigend weccean ac se wonna hrefn | ||
| fús ofer fægum fela reordian | ||
| earne secgan hu him æt æte speow | ||
| þenden he wið wulf wæl reafode. | ||
| swa se secg hwata secggende wæs | 3028 | |
| laðra spella he ne leag fela | ||
| wyrda ne worda. weorod eall aras | ||
| eodon unbliðe under earna næs | ||
| wollenteare wundu[r] sceawian | ||
| fundon ða on sande sawulleasne | 3033 | |
| hlimbed healdan þone þe him hringas geaf | ||
| ærran mælum þa wæs endedæg | ||
| godum gegongen
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| wedra þeoden wundordeaðe swealt | ||
| ær hi þær gesegan syllicran wiht | 3038 | |
| wyrm on wonge wiðerræhtes þær | ||
| laðne licgean wæs se legdraca | ||
| grimlic gry<regiest> / gledum beswæled | 195v | |
| se wæs fiftiges fotgemearces | ||
| lang on legere lyftwynne heold | 3043 | |
| nihtes hwilum nyðer eft gewat | ||
| dennes niosian wæs ða deaðe fæst | ||
| hæfde eorðscrafa ende genyttod | ||
| him big stodan bunan 7 orcas | ||
| discas lagon 7 dyre swyrd | 3048 | |
| omige þurhetone swa hie wið eorðan fæðm | ||
| þusend wintra þær eardodon. | ||
| þonne wæs |
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| iumonna gold galdre bewunden | ||
| 3053 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Þa wæs gesyne |
3058 | |
| þam ðe unrihte inne gehydde | ||
| wræce under wealle weard ær ofsloh | ||
| feara sumne þa sio fæhð gewearð | ||
| gewrecen wraðlice wundur hwar þonne | ||
| eorl ellenróf ende gefere. | 3063 | |
| lifgesceafta þonne leng ne mæg | ||
| mon mid his [m]{æ}gum meduseld buan | ||
| swa wæs biowulfe. /þa he biorges weard | 196r | |
| sohte searoniðas seolfa ne cuðe | ||
| þurh hwæt his worulde gedal weorðan sceolde. | 3068 | |
| swa hit oð domes dæg diope benemdon | ||
| þeodnas mære þa ðæt þær dydon | ||
| hergum geheaðerod hellbendum fæst | ||
| wommum gewitnad se ðone wong str{u}de | 3073 | |
| næs he goldhwæte gearwor hæfde | ||
| agendes est ær gesceawod. | ||
| wigláf maðelode wihstanes sunu | ||
| oft sceall eorl monig anes willan | ||
| wræc adreog{an} swa us geworden is | 3078 | |
| ne meahton we gelæran leofne þeoden | ||
| rices hyrde ræd ænigne | ||
| lete hyne licgean þær he longe wæs | ||
| wicum wunian oð woruldende | 3083 | |
| heoldon heahgesceap hord ys gesceawod | ||
| grimme gegongen
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| to swið þe ðone <..> þyder ontyhte. | ||
| Ic wæs
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| recedes geatwa þa me gerymed wæs | 3088 | |
| nealles swæslice sið alyfed | ||
| inn under eorðweall ic on ofoste gefeng | ||
| micle mid mundum mægenbyrðenne | ||
| hordgestreona hider / ut ætbær | 196v | |
| cyninge minum cwico wæs þa gena | 3093 | |
| wis 7 gewittig worn eall gespræc | ||
| gomol on gehðo 7 eowic gretan het | ||
| bæd
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| in bælstede beorh þone hean | ||
| micelne 7 mærne swa he manna wæs | 3098 | |
| wigend weorðfullost wide geond eorðan | ||
| þenden he burhwelan brucan moste. | ||
| Uton nu efstan oðre <siðe> | ||
| seon 7 secean <on> searogeþræc | ||
| wundur under wealle ic eow wisige | 3103 | |
| beagas 7 brad gold sie sio bær gearo | ||
| ædre geæfned þonne we ut cymen | ||
| 7 þonne geferian frean userne | ||
| leofne mannan þær he longe sceal | 3108 | |
| on ðæs waldendes wære geþolian. | ||
| het ða gebeodan byre wihstanes | ||
| hæle hildedior hæleða monegum | ||
| boldagendra |
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| feorran feredon folcagende | 3113 | |
| godum togenes nu sceal gled fretan | ||
| weaxan wonna leg wigena strengel | ||
| þone ðe oft gebád isernscure | ||
| þonne stræla storm strengum gebæded | ||
| scoc ofer scildweall sceft nytte heold | 3118 | |
| fæ[ð]ergearwum fús flane fulleode. | ||
| huru se snotra sunu wihstanes | ||
| acigde of corðre / cyniges þegnas | 198r | |
| s[yf]on[e] <tosom>[n]e þa selestan | ||
| eode eahta sum under inwithróf | 3123 | |
| (h)ilderinc sum on handa bær | ||
| æledleoman. se ðe on orde geong | ||
| næs ða on
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| syððan orwearde ænigne dæl | ||
| secgas gesegon on sele wunian | 3128 | |
| læne licgan lyt ænig mearn | ||
| dyre maðmas dracan ec scufun | ||
| wyrm ofer weallclif leton weg niman | ||
| flod fæðmian frætwa hyrde | 3133 | |
| æghwæs unrim æþelinge boren | ||
| har{um} hilde <..>, to hrones næsse:~ | ||
| XLIII | ||
| Him ða gegiredan geata leode | ||
| ád on eorðan unwaclicne | 3138 | |
| helm{um} behongen hildebordum | ||
| beorhtum byrnum swa he bena wæs | ||
| alegdon ða tomiddes mærne þeoden | ||
| hæleð hiofende hlafor[d] leofne | ||
| ongunnon þa on beorge bælfyra mæst. | 3143 | |
| wigend weccan w(ud<u>r)éc astah | ||
| sweart ofer swi{o}ðole swogende l(e{g}) | ||
| (wop)e bewunden windblond gelæg | ||
| oð
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| hat on hreðre higum unrote | 3148 | |
| modceare mændon mondryhtnes (cw<e>a)lm | ||
| swylce giomorgyd / <Ge>at<isc> anmeowle | 198v | |
| <biowulfe brægd> bundenheorde | ||
| <sa>ng sorgcearig sælðe geneah<he> | ||
| 3153 | ||
| wælfylla wo{r}n [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 | ||
| <w>ægliðendum wide gesyne | 3158 | |
| 7 beti<m>bredon on tyn dagum | ||
| beadurofes becn bronda laf | ||
| wealle beworhton swa hyt weorðlicost | ||
| foresnotre men findan mihton | ||
| hi on beorg dydon beg 7 siglu | 3163 | |
| eall swylce hyrsta swylce on horde ær | ||
| niðhedige men genumen hæfdon | ||
| forleton eorla gestreon eorðan healdan | ||
| gold on greote þær hit nu gen lifað | ||
| eldum swa unnyt swa hyt <ære>r wæs. | 3168 | |
| þa ymbe hlæw riodan hildedeore | ||
| æþelinga bearn ealra twelfa | ||
| woldon <cearge> cwiðan kyning mænan | ||
| wordgyd wrecan 7 ymb we<r> sprecan | ||
| eahtodan eorlscipe 7 his ellenweorc | 3173 | |
| duguðum demdon swa hit ged<efe> [bi]ð | ||
| ferhðum freog[e] (þonne) he forð scile | ||
| of l{i}chaman <læded> weorðan | ||
| swa begnornodon geata leode | 3178 | |
| hlafordes <hry>re heorðgeneatas | ||
| cwædon
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| manna mildust 7 (mon[ðw]ær)ust | ||
| leodum liðost 7 lofgeornost. |
