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| Ða wæs gegongen gum{an} unfrodum | ||
| earfoðlice |
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| þone leofestan lifes æt ende | ||
| bleate gebæran bona swylce læg | 2824 | |
| egeslic eorðdraca ealdr(e) bereafod | ||
| bealwe gebæded beahhordum leng | ||
| wyrm wohbogen wealdan ne moste | ||
| ac him irenna ecga fornamon | ||
| hearde heaðoscearde homera lafe | 2829 | |
| hreas on hrusan hordærne neah | ||
| nalles / æfter lyfte lacende. hwearf | 191v | |
| middelnih(tum) maðmæhta wlonc | ||
| ansyn ywde ac he eorðan gefeoll | 2834 | |
| for ðæs hildfruman hondgeweorce | ||
| huru |
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| mægenagendra mine gefræge | ||
| þeah ðe he dæda gehwæs dyrstig wære | ||
| 2839 | ||
| oððe hringsele hondum styrede | ||
| gif he wæccende weard onfunde | ||
| buon on beorge biowulfe wearð | ||
| dryhtmaðma dæl deaðe forgolden | ||
| hæfde æghwæðre ende gefered | 2844 | |
| lænan lifes næs ða lang to ðon | ||
| tydre treowlogan tyne ætsomne | ||
| ða ne dorston ær dareðum lacan | ||
| on hyra mandryhtnes miclan þearfe | 2849 | |
| ac hy scamiende scyldas bæran | ||
| guðgewædu þær se gomela læg | ||
| wlitan on wilaf he gewergad sæt | ||
| feðecempa frean eaxlum neah | ||
| wehte hyne wætre him wiht ne speo{w} | 2854 | |
| ne meahte he on eorðan ðeah he uðe wel | ||
| on ðam frumgare feorh gehealdan | ||
| ne ðæs wealdendes wiht oncirran | ||
| wolde dóm/ (go)des dædum rædan | 192r | |
| gumena gehwylcum sw(a) he nu gen deð | 2859 | |
| þa wæs æt ðam geong{an} grim 7swar(u) | ||
| eðbegete þam ðe ær his elne forleas. | ||
| wiglaf maðelode weohstanes sunu | ||
| sec{g} sarigferð seah on unleofe | ||
| 2864 | ||
| eoredgeatwe þe ge þær on standað. | ||
| þonne he on ealubence oft gesealde | ||
| healsittendum helm 7 byrnan | ||
| þeoden his þegnum swylce he þrydlicost | 2869 | |
| ower feor oððe neah findan meahte | ||
| wraðe forwurpe. ða hyne wig beget | ||
| nealles folccyning fyrdgeste(allum) | ||
| gylpan þorfte hwæðre him god uðe | 2874 | |
| sigor(a) waldend
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| ana mid ecge þa him wæs elnes þearf. | ||
| Ic him lifwraðe lytle meahte | ||
| ætgifan æt guðe 7 ongan swa þeah | ||
| ofer min gemet mæges helpan. | 2879 | |
| Symle wæs þy sæmra þonne ic sweorde drep | ||
| ferhðgeniðlan fyr unswiðor | ||
| weoll of gewitte fergendra to lyt | ||
| þrong ymbe þeoden þa hyne sio / (þ)rag becwom. | 192v | |
| hu sceal sincþego 7 swyrd(gifu) | 2884 | |
| eall eðelwyn eowrum cynne. | ||
| lufen alicgean londrihtes mot | ||
| þære mægburge monna æghwylc | ||
| idel hweorfan syððan æðelingas | ||
| feorran gefricgean fleam eowerne | 2889 | |
| domleasan dæd deað bið sella | ||
| eorla gehwylcum þonne edwitlif |