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| Heht ða |
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| up ofer ecgclif
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| morgenlongne dæg modgiomor sæt | 2894 | |
| bordhæbbende bega on wenum | ||
| endedogores 7 eftcymes | ||
| leofes. monnes lyt swigode | ||
| niwra spella se ðe næs gerád | ||
| ac he soðlice sægde ofer ealle | 2899 | |
| nu is wilgeofa wedra leoda | ||
| dryhten geata deaðbedde fæst | ||
| wunað wæl.reste wyrmes dædum | ||
| him on efn ligeð ealdorgewinna | ||
| siexbennum seoc sweorde ne meahte | 2904 | |
| on ðam aglæcean ænige þinga | ||
| wunde gewyrcean wiglaf siteð | ||
| ofer biowulfe byre wihstanes | ||
| eorl ofer oðrum unlifigendum | ||
| healdeð higemæðum / (heafod)wearde | 2909 | 193r |
| leofes 7 la(ð)es nu y(s leodum) wen. | ||
| orleghwile syððan und{y}r{ne} | ||
| froncu(m) 7 frysum fyll cyninges | ||
| wide weorðeð wæs sio wroht scepen | ||
| heard wið hugas syððan higelac cwom | 2914 | |
| faran flotherge on fresn(a) land | ||
| þær hyne hetware hilde gehnægdon | ||
| elne geeodon mid ofermægene | ||
| feoll on feðan nalles frætwe geaf | 2919 | |
| ealdor dugoðe us wæs a syððan | ||
| merewioingas milts ungyfeðe. | ||
| Ne ic te swe(o)ðeode sibbe oððe treowe | ||
| wihte ne wene ac wæs wide cuð | ||
| 2924 | ||
| hæðce(n) hreþling wið hrefnawudu | ||
| þa for on(med)lan ærest gesohton | ||
| geata leode guð-sci(l)fingas. | ||
| Sona him se froda fæder ohthere(s) | ||
| eald 7 egesfull hondslyht ageaf | 2929 | |
| abreot brimwisan bryda he{ro}de | ||
| gomela iomeowl(a)[n] golde berofene | ||
| onelan modor 7 ohtheres | ||
| 7 ða folgode feorhgeniðlan | ||
| oð ðæt hi oðeodo(n) earfoðlice | 2934 | |
| in hrefnesholt hlafordlease | ||
| besæt ða sinherge sweorda lafe | ||
| wundum werge / (wean o)ft gehet | 193v | |
| earmre teohhe on(d longe) niht | ||
| cwæð he on mergenne meces ecgum | 2939 | |
| getan wolde sum on galgtreowu{m} | ||
| <fuglum> to gamene frofor eft gelamp | ||
| sarigmodum somod ærdæge | ||
| syððan hie hygelaces horn 7 byman | ||
| gealdor ongeaton þa se goda cóm | 2944 | |
| leoda dugoðe on last faran. |