þæt gē genōge nēon[1] scēawiað
3105bēagas ond brād gold. Sīe sīo bǣr gearo
ǣdre geæfned, þonne wē ūt cymen,
ond þonne geferian frēan ūserne,
lēofne mannan, þǣr hē longe sceal
on ðæs Waldendes wǣre geþolian.”
3110Hēt ðā gebēodan byre Wihstānes,
hæle hilde-dīor, hæleða monegum,
bold-āgendra, þæt hīe bǣl-wudu
feorran feredon, folc-āgende,
gōdum tōgēnes: “Nū sceal glēd fretan
3115(weaxan wonna lēg) wigena strengel,
þone ðe oft gebād īsern-scūre,
þonne strǣla storm strengum gebǣded
scōc ofer scild-weall, sceft nytte hēold,
feðer-gēarwum[2] fūs flāne full-ēode.”
3120Hūru se snotra sunu Wihstānes
ācīgde of corðre [3]*cyni[n]ges[4] þegnasFol. 198a.
syfone [æt]somne,[5] þā sēlestan,
ēode eahta sum under inwit-hrōf;
hilde-rinc sum on handa bær
3125ǣled-lēoman, sē ðe on orde gēong.
Næs ðā on hlytme, hwā þǣt hord strude,
syððan orwearde ǣnigne dǣl
secgas gesēgon on sele wunian,
- ↑ 3104. Heyne ‘nēan.” See Sievers § 150. 3.
- ↑ 3119. MS. ‘fæder gearwū.’ Kemble’s emendation.
- ↑ 3121. This folio, the last, is terribly mutilated with tears and holes.
- ↑ MS. ‘cyniges.’
- ↑ 3122. Zupitza ‘[to]-somme,’ and in a foot-note: “now to entirely gone.” That “now” is misleading, for apparently it was just as entirely gone in Thorkelin’s time. In the absence of evidence in its favour, I read ætsomne with Grein; cf. l. 2847.
