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| XVII | ||
| (G)Ewiton him ða wigend wica neosian | ||
| freondum befeallen frysland geseon | 1126 | |
| hamas 7 heaburh hengest ða gyt | ||
| wælfagne winter wunode mid finn | ||
| {ea}l unhlitine eard gemunde | ||
| þeah þe {n}e meahte on mere drifan | ||
| hringedstefnan holm storme weol | 1131 | |
| won wið winde winter yþe beleac | ||
| isgebinde oþ ðæt oþer com | ||
| gear in geardas swa nu gyt deð | ||
| þa ðe syngales sele bewitiað | ||
| wuldortorhtan weder ða wæs winter scacen | 1136 | |
| fæger foldan bearm fundode wrecca | ||
| gist of geardum he to gyrnwræce | ||
| swiðor / þohte þonne to sælade | 155r | |
| gif he tor(nge)mot þurhteon mihte | ||
| 1141 | ||
| Swa he ne fo(r)wyrnde woroldrædenne | ||
| þonne him hunlafing hildeleoman | ||
| billa sele(st) on bearm dyde | ||
| þæs wæron mid eoten(um) ecge cuðe | ||
| swylce ferhðfrecan fin. eft begeat | 1146 | |
| sweordbealo sliðen æt hi(s) selfes hám | ||
| siþðan grimne gripe guðlaf ond oslaf | ||
| æfter sæsiðe sorge mændon | ||
| ætwiton weana dæl ne meahte wæfre mod | ||
| forhabban in hreþre ða wæs heal hroden | 1151 | |
| feonda feorum swilce fin slægen | ||
| cyning on corþre 7 seo cwen numen | ||
| sceotend scyldinga to scypon feredon | ||
| eal ingesteald eorðcyninges | ||
| swylce hie æt finnes ham findan meahton | 1156 | |
| sigla searogimma hie on sælade | ||
| drihtlice wif to denum feredon | ||
| læddon. / (to l)eodum leoð wæs asungen | 155v | |
| gleoman(nes) gyd gamen eft astah. | ||
| beorhtode (b)encsweg byrelas sealdon | 1161 | |
| wín of (w)underfatum. þa cwom wealhþeo forð | ||
| (g)án under gyldnum beage þær þa godan twegen | ||
| sæton suhtergefæde(r)an þa gyt wæs hiera sib ætgædere | ||
| æghwylc oðrum trywe swylce þær hunferþ þyle | ||
| æt fotum sæt frean scyldinga gehwylc hiora his ferhþe treowde | 1166 | |
| þæt he hæfde mód micel þeah þe he his magum nære | ||
| árfæst æt ecga gelacum. Spræc ða ides scyldinga. | ||
| gehwylc hiora his ferhþe treowde | ||
| þæt he hæfde mód micel þeah þe he his magum | ||
| nære árfæst æt ecga gelacum. | ||
| Spræc ða ides scyldinga. | 1170 | |
| onfoh þissum fulle freodrihten min | ||
| sinces brytta þu on sælum wes | ||
| goldwine gumena 7 to geatum spræc | ||
| mildum wordum swa sceal man don. | ||
| beo wið geatas glæd geofena gemyndig | 1173 | |
| nean 7 feorran þu nu hafast | ||
| me man sægde þæt / (þ)u (ð)e for sunu wolde | 156r | |
| hereric hab(ban) heorot is gefælsod | ||
| beahsele beor(hta) brúc þenden þu mote | ||
| manigra me(do) 7 þinum magum læf | 1178 | |
| folc 7 rice þonne ðu forð scyle | ||
| metodsceaft seon (ic) minne can | ||
| glædne
hroþulf |
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| arum healdan gyf þu ær þonne he | ||
| wine scildinga worold oflætest | 1183 | |
| wene ic
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| uncran
eaferan gif he |
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| hwæt wit to willan 7 to worðmyndum | ||
| umborwesendum ær arna gefremedon. | ||
| hwearf þa bi bence þær hyre byre wæron | 1188 | |
| hreðric 7 hroðmund 7 hæleþa bearn | ||
| giogoð æt gædere þær se goda sæt | ||
| beowulf geata be þæm gebroðrum twæm(.) |