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| XVI | ||
| ÐA gyt æghwylcum eorla drihten | ||
| þara þe mid beowulfe brimleade teah | 1051 | |
| on þære medubence. maþðum gesealde | ||
| yr/ felafe 7 þone ænne heht | 153r | |
| golde forgy(l)dan þone ðe grendel ær | ||
| mane acwealde swa he hyra ma wolde | ||
| nefne him witi(g) god wyrd forstode | 1056 | |
| 7 ðæs mannes mod (me)tod eallum weold | ||
| gumena cynnes swa h(e) nu git deð | ||
| forþan bið andgit æghwær selest | ||
| ferhðes foreþanc fela sceal g(e)bidan | ||
| leofes 7 laþes se þe longe her | 1061 | |
| on ðyssum windagum worolde bruceð. | ||
| þær wæs sang 7 sweg samod ætgædere | ||
| fore healfdenes hildewisan | ||
| gomenwudu greted gid oft wrecen. | ||
| ðonne healgamen hroþgares scop | 1066 | |
| æfter medobence mænan scolde | ||
| finnes eaferum ða hie se fær begeat | ||
| hæleð healfdena hnæf scyldinga | ||
| in freswæle feallan scolde | ||
| ne huru hildeburh herian þorfte. | 1071 | |
| eotena treowe unsynnum wearð | ||
| beloren leofum æt þam hildplegan | ||
| bearnum 7 broðrum hie on gebyrd hruron | ||
| gare / (w)unde |
153v | |
| nalles holinga (h)oces dohtor | 1076 | |
| meotodsceaft bemearn (sy)þðan morgen com. | ||
| ða heo under swegle (ge)seon meahte | ||
| morþorbealo maga (þ)ær he ær mæste heold | ||
| worolde wynne wig ealle fornam | ||
| finnes þegnas nemne feaum anum | 1081 | |
| þæt he ne mehte on þæm meðelstede | ||
| wig hengeste wiht gefeohtan | ||
| ne þa wealafe wige forþringan | ||
| þeodnes ðegne. ac hig him geþingo budon | ||
| 1086 | ||
| healle 7 heahsetl |
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| wið eotena bearn agan moston | ||
| 7 æt feohgyftum folcwaldan sunu | ||
| dogra gehwylce dene weorþode | ||
| hengestes heap hringum wenede | 1091 | |
| efne swa swiðe sincgestreonum | ||
| fættan goldes swa he fresena cyn | ||
| on beorsele byldan wolde. | ||
| ða hie getruwedon on twa healfa | ||
| fæste frioðuwære fin hengeste | 1096 | |
| elne unflitme aðum / benemde. | 154r | |
| arum
heolde |
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| wordum ne worcum wære ne bræce. | ||
| (ne) þurh inwitsearo æfre gemænden | 1101 | |
| ðeah hie hira beaggyfan banan folgedon | ||
| ðeodenlease þa him swa geþearfod wæs | ||
| gyf þonne frysna hwylc frecnen spræ(ce) | ||
| ðæs morþorhetes myndgiend wære | ||
| þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde | 1106 | |
| a{d} wæs geæfned 7 i{n}cge gold. | ||
| ahæfen of horde here-scyldinga | ||
| betst beadorinca. wæs on bæl gearu | ||
| æt þæm ade wæs eþgesyne | ||
| swatfah syrce swyn ealgylden. | 1111 | |
| eofer irenheard æþeling manig | ||
| wundum awyrded sume on wæle crungon. | ||
| het ða hildeburh æt hnæfes ade | ||
| hire selfre sunu sweoloðe befæstan | ||
| bánfatu bærnan 7 on bæl dón | 1116 | |
| earme on eaxle ides gnornode | ||
| geomrode giddum guðrinc astah. | ||
| wand / (to) wolcnum wælfyra mæst | 154v | |
| hlynode (fo)r hlawe hafelan multon. | ||
| bengeato (bu)rston ðonne blód ætspranc. | 1121 | |
| laðbite lices lig ealle forswealg | ||
| gæsta (g)ifrost þara ðe þær guð fornam | ||
| bega folces wæs hira blæd scacen. |