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wea(xeð) 7 wridað þonne se weard swefeð | ||
sawele hy(rde) bið se slæp to fæst | 1742 | |
bisgum gebunde(n) bona swiðe neah | ||
se þe of flanbogan fyrenum sceoteð | ||
þonne bið on hreþre under helm drepen | ||
biteran stræle (him bebeorgan ne con) | ||
wom wundorbebodum wergan gastes | 1747 | |
þinceð him
to lytel |
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gytsað gromhydig nallas on gylp seleð | ||
fædde beagas 7 he þa forðgesceaft | ||
forgyteð 7 forgymeð þæs þe him ær god sealde | ||
wuldres/ (wal)dend weorðmynda dæl. | 1752 | 168v |
hit on endestæf eft gelimpeð | ||
fæge gefealleð fehð oþer (to) | ||
se þe unmurnlice madmas dæleþ | ||
(eor)les ærgestreon egesan ne gymeð. | 1757 | |
(be)beorh þe ðone bealonið beowulf leofa | ||
(s)ecg bet{o}sta
7 þe |
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ece rædas (of)erhyda ne gym | ||
mære cempa nu is þines (m)ægnes blæd | ||
ane hwile eft sona bið | 1762 | |
oððe (fy)res feng oððe flodes wylm | ||
oððe gripe (m)eces oððe gares fliht | ||
oððe atol yldo (o)ððe eagena bearhtm | ||
forsiteð 7 forswor(c)eð semninga bið. | 1767 | |
swa ic hring-dena hund missera | ||
weold under wolcnum 7 hig wigge beleac | ||
manigum mægþa geond þysne middangeard. | ||
æscum 7
ecgum |
1772 | |
under swegles begong gesacan ne tealde. | ||
hwæt me þæs on eþle edwendan cwom | ||
gyrn æfter gomene seoþðan grendel wearð | ||
ealdgewinna ingenga min. | ||
/ Ic þære socne singales wæg | 1777 | 169r |
modcear(e) micle þæs sig metode þanc | ||
ecean (dryht)ne þæs ðe ic on aldre gebad | ||
ofer eal(d ge)win eagum starige. | ||
ga nu to setle (sym)belwynne dreoh | 1782 | |
wiggeweorþad unc (sceal) worn fela | ||
maþma gemænra siþðan (mor)gen bið. | ||
geat wæs glædmod geong son(a to) | ||
setles neosan swa se snottra heht. | ||
þ(a wæs) eft swa ær ellenrofum | 1787 | |
fletsittendum fægere gereorded | ||
niowan stefne ni(ht)helm geswearc | ||
deorc ofer dryhtgu(mum) duguð eal aras | ||
wolde blondenfeax beddes neosan | ||
gamela scylding geat unigmetes wel. | 1792 | |
rofne randwigan restan lys(te) | ||
sona him seleþegn siðes wergum | ||
feorrancundum forð wisade | ||
se for andrysnum ealle beweote{d}e | ||
þegnes þearfe swylce þy dogore | 1797 | |
heaþoliðende habban scoldon. | ||
reste hine þa rumheort reced hliuade | ||
geap 7 goldfah gæst inne swæf | ||
oþ
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bliðheort bodode / [ða c]om beorht scacan | 1802 | 169v |
<..> scaþan onetton. | ||
(wæro)n æþelingas eft to leodum | ||
fuse to [f](ar)en[n]e wolde feor þanon | ||
cuma col[l](enf)erhð ceoles neosan. | ||
Heht þa se hear(da) (h)runting beran | 1807 | |
sunu ecglafes heht (his s)weord niman | ||
leoflic iren sægde him (þæ)s leanes þanc | ||
cwæð he þone guðwine (go)dne tealde. | ||
wigcræftigne nales (wor)dum log | ||
meces ecge
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1812 | |
(7 þ)a siðfrome searwum gearwe | ||
wigend wæron. (Eo)de weorð denum | ||
æþeling to yppan (þæ)r se oþer wæs | ||
h{æl}e hildedeor hroð(g)ar grette. |