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| XIII | ||
| ÐA wæs on morgen mine gefræge | ||
| ymb þa gifhealle guðrinc monig | ||
| ferdon folctogan feorran 7 nean | ||
| geond widwegas wundor sceawian | ||
| laþes lastas no his lifgedal | 841 | |
| sarlic þuhte secga ænegum | ||
| þara þe tirleases trode sceawode | ||
| hu he werigmod on weg þanon | ||
| niða ofercumen on nicera mere | ||
| fæge 7 geflymed feorhlastas bær. | 846 | |
| ðær wæs on blode brim weallende | ||
| atol yða geswing eal gemenged. | ||
| haton heolfre / (heo)rodreore weol | 148v | |
| deaðfæge deog. siððan dreama leas. | ||
| in fenfreoðo feorh alegde. | 851 | |
| (hæþ)ene sawle þær him hel onfeng. | ||
| þanon (eft) gewiton ealdgesiðas | ||
| swylce geong (ma)nig of gomenwaþe | ||
| fram mere modge (m)earum ridan | ||
| beornas on blancum ðær (w)æs beowulfes | 856 | |
| mærðo mæned monig oft gecwæð | ||
| þætte suð ne norð be sæm tweonum | ||
| ofer eormengrund oþer nænig | ||
| under swegles begong selra nære | ||
| rondhæbbendra rices wyrðra. | 861 | |
| ne hie huru winedrihten wiht ne logon | ||
| glædne
hroðgar ac |
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| Hwilum heaþorofe hleapan leton | ||
| on geflit faran fealwe mearas | ||
| ðær him foldwegas fægere þuhton | 866 | |
| cystum cuðe hwilum cyninges þegn | ||
| guma gilphlæden gidda gemyndig | ||
| se ðe ealfela ealdgesegena | ||
| worn gemunde word oþer fand | ||
| soðe gebunden secg eft ongan | 871 | |
| sið beowulfes snyttrum / styrian | 149r | |
| 7 on sped wrecan spel gerade | ||
| wordum wrixlan welhwylc gecwæð | ||
| þæt he fram sigemunde secgan hyrde | ||
| elle(ndæ)dum uncuþes fela | 876 | |
| wælsinges gewin wide siðas | ||
| þara þe gumena bearn gearwe ne wiston. | ||
| fæhðe 7 fyrena buton fitela (mid) hine | ||
| þonne he swulces hwæt secgan wol(de) | ||
| eam his nefan swa hie a wæron | 881 | |
| æt niða gehwam nydgesteallan. | ||
| Hæfdon ealfela eotena cynnes | ||
| sweordum gesæged sigemunde gesprong | ||
| æfter deaðdæge dom unlytel. | ||
| Syþðan wiges heard wyrm acwealde | 886 | |
| hordes hyrde he under harne stan | ||
| æþelinges bearn ana geneðde | ||
| frecne dæde ne wæs him fitela mid. | ||
| hwæþre
him gesælde ðæt |
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| wrætlicne
wyrm |
891 | |
| dryhtlic iren draca morðre swealt. | ||
| hæfde aglæca elne gegongen | ||
| selfes dome / sæbat gehleod | 149v | |
| bær on bearm scipes beorhte frætwa | 896 | |
| wælses eafera wyrm hat (ge)mealt. | ||
| Se wæs wreccena wide mærost | ||
| (o)fer werþeode wigendra hleo | ||
| ellendædum (h)e þæs ær onðah | ||
| siððan heremodes hild (s)weðrode | 901 | |
| earfoð 7 ellen he mid eotenum (w)earð | ||
| on feonda geweald forð forlacen | ||
| (s)nude forsended hine sorhwylmas | ||
| lemede to lange he his leodum wearð | ||
| eallum æþellingum to aldorceare. | 906 | |
| Swylce oft bemearn ærran mælum | ||
| swiðferhþes sið snotor ceorl monig | ||
| se þe him bealwa to bote gelyfde | ||
| fæderæþelum onfón folc gehealdan | 911 | |
| hord 7 hleoburh hæleþa rice | ||
| [eðel] scyldinga he þær eallum wearð | ||
| mæg higelaces manna cynne | ||
| freondum gefægra hine fyren onwod. | ||
| hwilum flitende fealwe stræte | 916 | |
| mearum mæton. Ða wæs morgenleoht | ||
| scofen 7 scynded / eode scealc monig | 150r | |
| swiðhicgende to sele þam hean | ||
| searowundor seon swylce se(lf) cyning | ||
| of brydbure beahhorda wear(d) | 921 | |
| tryddode tirfæst. getrume micle | ||
| cystum gecyþed 7 his cwen mid him | ||
| med(o)stigge mæt mægþa hose. |