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| XIIII | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode he to healle geon(g) | ||
| stod on stapole geseah steapne hrof | 926 | |
| golde fahne. ond grendles hond. | ||
| ðisse ansyne alwealdan þanc | ||
| lungre gelimpe fela ic laþes gebad | ||
| grynna æt grendle. a mæg god wyrcan | ||
| wunder æfter wundre wuldres hyrde. | 931 | |
| ðæt
wæs ungeara |
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| weana ne wende to widan feore | ||
| bote gebidan (þonne blode fah | ||
| husa selest heorodreorig stod | ||
| wea widscofen) witena gehwylcne. | 936 | |
| ðara þe ne wendon þæt hie wideferhð | ||
| leoda landgeweorc laþum beweredon. | ||
| / scuccum 7 scinnum nu scealc hafað | 150v | |
| þurh drihtnes miht dæd gefremede. | ||
| ðe we ealle (ær) ne meahton | 941 | |
| snyttrum
besyrwan hwæt ( |
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| efne swa hwylc mægþa swa ðone magan cende. | ||
| æfter gumcynnum gyf heo gyt lyfað | ||
| bearngebyrdo nu ic beowulf þec | 946 | |
| secg bet{o}sta me for sunu wylle | ||
| freogan on ferhþe heald forð tela. | ||
| niwe sibbe ne bið þe ænigre gad | ||
| worolde wilna þe ic geweald hæbbe | ||
| ful oft ic for læssan lean teohhode | 951 | |
| hordweorþunge hnahran rince | ||
| sæmran æt sæcce þu þe self hafast. | ||
| dædum
gefremed |
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| awa to aldre alwalda þec | ||
| gode forgylde swa he nu gyt dyde. | 956 | |
| beowulf maþelode bearn ec{g}þeowes | ||
| we |
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| feohtan fremedon frecne geneðdon. | ||
| eafoð uncuþes uþe ic swiþor | ||
| 961 | ||
| feond on frætewum fylwerigne. | ||
| ic him hrædlice / heardan clammum | 151r | |
| on wælbedde wriþan þohte | ||
| licgean lifbysig butan his lic swice. | 966 | |
| ic hine ne mihte þa metod nolde | ||
| gange(s) getwæman no ic him þæs georne ætfealh | ||
| feorhgeniðlan wæs to foremi(htig) | ||
| feond on feþe hwæþere he his folme f(or)let | ||
| to lifwraþe last weardian | 971 | |
| earm 7 (eax)le no þær ænige swa þeah | ||
| feasceaft (gu)ma frofre gebohte. | ||
| no þy leng leof(að) laðgeteona | ||
| synnum geswenced ac hyne sár hafað | ||
| in {nið}gripe nearwe befongen | 976 | |
| balwon bendum ðær abidan sceal | ||
| maga mane fah miclan domes | ||
| hu him scir metod scrifan wille. | ||
| ða wæs swigra secg sunu ec{g}lafes | ||
| on gylpspræce guðgeweorca | 981 | |
| siþðan æþelingas eorles cræfte | ||
| ofer heanne hrof hand sceawedon | ||
| feondes fingras foran æghwylc wæs | ||
| steda nægla gehwylc style gelicost | ||
| hæþenes handsporu hilde/rinces | 986 | 151v |
| egl unheoru æghwylc gecwæð | ||
| iren ærgod
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| blodge beadufolme (o)nberan wolde. |