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| IIII | ||
| Him se yldesta andswarode | ||
| werodes wisa wordhord onleac | ||
| we synt gumcynnes geata leode | 260 | |
| ond higelaces heorðgeneatas. | ||
| wæs min fæder folcum gecyþed | ||
| æþele ordfruma ecgþeow haten. | ||
| gebád wintra worn ær he on weg hwurfe. | ||
| gamol of geardum hine gearwe geman | 265 | |
| witena welhwylc wide geond eorþan. | ||
| we þurh holdne hige hlaford þinne | ||
| sunu healfdenes secean cwomon | ||
| leodgebyrgean wes þu us larena god. | ||
| habbað we to þæm mæran micel ærende | 270 | |
| deniga frean. ne sceal þær dyrne sum | ||
| wesan þæs ic wene þu wast gif hit is | ||
| swa we.soþlice / (s)ecgan hyrdon | 136r | |
| deogol dædhata deorcu(m) nihtum | 275 | |
| eaweð þurh egsan uncuðne ni(ð) | ||
| hynðu 7 hrafyl ic þæs hroðgar mæg | ||
| þur(h) rumne sefan ræd gelæran | ||
| hu he fro(d 7) god feond oferswyðeþ | ||
| gyf him edwend(an) æfre scolde. | 280 | |
| bealuwa bisigu bot eft cuman | ||
| 7 þa cearwylmas colran wurðaþ | ||
| oððe a syþðan earfoðþrage | ||
| þreanyd þolað þenden þær wunað | ||
| on heahstede husa selest. | 285 | |
| weard maþelode ðær on wicge sæt | ||
| ombeht unforht æghwæþres sceal | ||
| scearp scyldwiga gescad witan | ||
| worda 7 worca se þe wel þenceð | ||
| ic |
290 | |
| frean scyldinga gewitaþ forð beran | ||
| wæpen 7 gewædu ic eow wisige | ||
| swylce ic maguþegnas mine hate | ||
| wið feonda gehwone flotan eowerne | ||
| niwtyrwydne nacan on sande | 295 | |
| arum healdan oþ ðæt eft byreð | ||
| ofer lagustrea/ (mas) leofne mannan | 136v | |
| wudu wundenha(ls) (t)o wedermearce | ||
| godfremmendra swylcum gifeþe bið | ||
| 300 | ||
| gewiton him þa feran flota (s)tille bád | ||
| seomode on sole sidfæþmed (sc)ip | ||
| on ancre fæst eoforlic scionon | ||
| (o)fer hleorberan gehroden golde | ||
| fah 7 fyrheard ferhwearde heold | 305 | |
| guþmod grummon guman onetton | ||
| sigon
ætsomne oþ |
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| geatolic 7 goldfah ongyton mihton. | ||
| receda under roderum on þæm se rica bad. | 310 | |
| lixte se leoma ofer landa fela. | ||
| him þa hildedeor {h}of modigra | ||
| torht getæhte þæt hie him to mihton | ||
| gegnum gangan guðbeorna sum | ||
| wicg gewende word æfter cwæð. | 315 | |
| mæl is me to feran fæder alwalda | ||
| mid arstafum eowic gehealde. | ||
| siða gesunde ic to sæ wille | ||
| wið / (w)ra(ð) werod wearde healdan. | 137r |