ac hīe hæfdon gefrūnen,þǣt hīe ǣr tō fela micles
695in þǣm wīn-selewǣl-dēað fornam,
Denigea lēode.Ac him Dryhten forgeaf
wīg-spēda gewiofu,*Wedera lēodumFol. 146a.
frōfor ond fultum,þæt hīe fēond heora
ðurh ānes cræftealle ofercōmon,
700selfes mihtum;sōð is gecȳþed,
þæt mihtig Godmanna cynnes
wēold wīde-ferhð.[1]Cōm on wanre niht
scrīðan sceadu-genga.Scēotend swǣfon,
þā þæt horn-recedhealdan scoldon,
705ealle būton ānum.Þæt wæs yldum cūþ,
þæt hīe ne mōste,þā metod nolde,
se syn-scaþaunder sceadu bregdan;
ac hē wæccendewrāþum on andan
bād bolgen-mōdbeadwa geþinges.
XI.
710Ðā cōm of mōreunder mist-hleoþum
Grendel gongan,Godes yrre bær;
mynte se mān-scaðamanna cynnes
sumne besyrwanin sele þām hēan.
Wōd under wolcnum,tō þæs þe hē wīn-reced,
715gold-sele gumena,gearwost wisse,
fǣttum fāhne;ne wæs þæt forma sīð,
þæt hē Hrōþgāreshām gesōhte.
Nǣfre hē on aldor-dagumǣr *ne siþðanFol. 146b.
heardran hæle,heal-ðegnas fand.
- ↑ 702. Thorkelin ‘ride’; “now nothing left but part of the perpendicular stroke of the first letter.”
