***[hor]nas byrnað nǣfre?”
Hlēoðrode þā heaðo-geong[2] cyning:
“Ne ðis ne dagað ēastan,[3] ne hēr draca ne flēogeð,
ne hēr ðisse healle hornas ne byrnað,
5ac fēr[4] forþ beratð, fugelas singað,
gylleð grǣg-hama, gūð-wudu hlynneð,
scyld scefte oncwyð. Nū scȳneð þes mōna
waðol under wolcnum; nū ārīsað wēa-dǣda,
ðe ðisne folces nið fremman willað.
10Ac onwacnigeað nū, wīgend mīne,
habbað ēowre linda, hiegeað[5] on ellen,
winnað[6] on orde, wesað on mōde.”
Þā ārās mænig gold-hladen ðegn, gyrde hine his swurde;
þa tō dura ēodon drihtlīce cempan,
15Sigeferð and Eaha, hyra sword getugon,
and æt ōþrum durum Ordlāf ond Gūþlāf
and Hengest sylf; hwearf him on lāste.
Þā gyt Gārulf Gūðere styrode,
- ↑ “Fragmenti poetici singulare folium, in codice MS. homiliarum Semi-Saxonicarum qui extat in Bibliotheca Lambethana.” Hickes I.192. The MS. is now lost. Hickes’s readings are denoted by H., but they are given only when they have been considerably altered in the text.
- ↑ 2. ‘hearo geong’ H.
- ↑ 3. ‘eastun’ H.
- ↑ 5. ‘her’ H.
- ↑ 11. ‘landa’ H. ‘hie geaþ’ H.
- ↑ 12. ‘windað’ H.
