Ðā wæs of þǣm hrōran helm ond byrne
1630lungre ālȳsed. Lagu drūsade,
wæter under wolcnum, wæl-drēore fāg.
Fērdon forð þonon fēþe-lāstum
ferhþum fægne, fold-weg mæton,
cūþe strǣte, cyning-balde men;
1635from þǣm holm-clife hafelan bǣron
earfoðlīce heora ǣghwæþrum
fela-mōdigra; fēower scoldon
on þǣm wæl-stenge weorcum geferian
tō þǣm gold-sele Grendles hēafod,
1640oþ ðæt *semninga tō sele cōmonFol. 166a.
frome, fyrd-hwate, fēower-tȳne
Gēata gongan; gum-dryhten mid,
mōdig on gemonge, meodo-wongas træd.
Ðā cōm in gān ealdor ðegna,
1645dǣd-cēne mon dōme gewurþad,
hæle hilde-dēor, Hrōðgār grētan.
Þā wæs be feaxe on flet boren
Grendles hēafod, þǣr guman druncon,
egeslīc for eorlum ond þǣre idese mid;
1650wlite-sēon wrætlīc weras onsāwon.
XXIV.
Bēowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:
“Hwæt! wē þē þās sǣ-lāc, sunu Healfdenes
lēod Scyldinga, lustum brōhton
tīres tō tācne, þe þū hēr tō lōcast.
1655Ic þæt unsōfte ealdre gedīgde,
wigge under wætere weorc genēþde
earfoðlice; ætrihte wæs
