/ 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 |
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for his wonhydum wæpna ne recceð. | ||
ic |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
||
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 |
||
milgemearces |
||
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
|
||
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
|
||
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
|
||
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 |
||
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 |
||
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 |
||
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 |
||
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 |
||
selfne gesawon
þa |
||
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 |
||
ac me geuðe ylda waldend | ||
166v | ||
ealdsweord eacen oftost wisode | 1663 | |
(wi)nigea leasum
|
||
(of)sloh ða æt þære sæcce þa me sæl (a)geald | ||
huses hyrdas
þa |
||
for(ba)rn
brogdenmæl. swa |
||
(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 |
||
(so)rhleas swefan mid þinra secga gedryht | ||
(7) þegna gehwylc þinra leoda | 1673 | |
duguðe 7
iogoþe |
||
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
|
||
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 |
||
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
|
||
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 | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
|
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
|
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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
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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
|
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(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
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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
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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
eorðan næs |
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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
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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
|
||
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 |
||
up ofer ecgclif
þær |
||
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
þær inne 7 |
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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
hlytme hwa |
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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. |