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etan unforhte,⁠swa hē *oft dyde Fol. 140a.
445mægen Hrēð-manna.⁠Nā þū mīnne þearft
hafalan hȳclan,⁠ac hē me habban wile
d[r]ēore fāhne,⁠gif mec dēað nimeð;
byreð blōdig wæl,⁠byrgean þenceð,
eteð ān-genga⁠unmurnlīce,
450mearcað mōr-hopu;⁠nō ðū ymb mīnes ne þearft
līces feorme⁠leng sorgian.
Onsend Higelāce,⁠gif mec hild nime,
beadu-scrūda betst,⁠þæt mīne brēost wereð,
hrægla sēlest;⁠þæt is Hrædlan^[1] lāf,
455Wēlandes geweorc.⁠Gǣð ā wyrd swā hīo scel.”

VII.

Hrōðgār maþelode,⁠helm Scyldinga:
“F[or w]ere-fyhtum^[2] þū,⁠wine mīn Bēowulf,
ond for ār-stafum⁠ūsic sōhtest.
Geslōh þin fæder⁠fǣhðe mǣste,
460wearþ hē Heaþolāfe⁠tō hand-bonan
mid Wilfingum;⁠ðā hine Wedera^[3] cyn
for here-brōgan⁠habban ne mihte.
Þanon hē gesōhte⁠Sūð-Dena folc
ofer ȳða gewealc,⁠Ār-*Scyldinga;Fol. 140b.
465ðā ic furþum wēold⁠folce Deniga,^[4]
ond on geogoðe hēold⁠gimme-rīce

1. 454. Ettmüller ‘Hrēðlan,’ gen. of Hrēðla = Hrēðel, Beowulf’s maternal grandfather; adopted by Heyne and Earle.
2. 457. MS. ‘fere fyhtum.’ The reading in the text was suggested by Grundtvig.
3. 461. MS. ‘gara’; Grundtvig ‘Wedera.’ See ll. 225, 423, &c.
4. 465. MS. ‘deninga.’ See ll. 155, 271, &c.