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þā sēlestan,snotere ceorlas,
þēoden Hrōðgār,þæt ic þē sōhte,
forþan hīe mægenes cræftmīn[n]e^[1] cūþon;
selfe ofersāwon,ðā ic of searwum cwōm,
420fāh from fēondum,þǣr ic fīfe geband,
ȳðde eotena cyn,ond on ȳðum slōg
niceras nihtes,nearo-þearfe drēah,
wræc *Wedera nīð(wēan āhsodon),Fol. 139b.
forgrand gramum;ond nū wið Grendel sceal,
425wið þām āglǣcan,āna gehēgan
ðing wið þyrse.Ic þē nū ðā,
brego Beorht-Dena,biddan wille,
eodor Scyldinga,ānre bēne,
þæt ðū mē ne forwyrne,wīgendra hlēo,
430frēo-wine folca,nū ic þus feorran cōm,
þæt ic mōte āna[ond]^[2] mīnra eorla gedryht,
þes hearda hēap,Heorot fǣlsian.
Hæbbe ic ēac geāhsod,þæt se ǣglǣca
for his won-hȳdumwǣpna ne rēcceð;
435ic þæt þonne forhicge,swā mē Higelāc sīe,
mīn mon-drihten,mōdes bliðe,
þæt ic sweord bereoþðe sīdne scyld,
geolo-rand tō gūþe;ac ic mid grāpe sceal
fōn wið fēonde,ond ymb feorh sacan
440lāð wið lāþum;ðǣr gelȳfan sceal
Dryhtnes dōmesē þe hine dēað nimeð.
Wēn ic þæt hē wille,gif hē wealdan mōt,
in þǣm. gūð-seleGēatena^[3] lēode
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1. 418. Grein ‘mīn[n]e’; cf. l. 255.
2. 431—2. MS. ‘ana minra eorla gedryht ⁊ þes’ &c. Grein transposed the ⁊ (ond) from before þes to before minra.
3. 443. MS. ‘geotena.’