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VI | ||
Hroðgar maþelode helm scyldinga | ||
ic hine cuðe cnihtwesende | ||
wæs his ealdfæder ecgþeo haten | ||
ðæm to ham forgeaf hreþel geata | ||
angan dohto(r) is his eaforan nu | 375 | |
heard her cumen sohte holdne wine. | ||
ðonne
sægdon |
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þa ðe gifsceattas geata fyredon | ||
þyder to
þance |
138v | |
manna mægencræft on his (mund)gripe | 380 | |
heaþorof hæbbe hine halig god | ||
for arstafum us onsende | ||
to west-denum (þ)æs ic wen hæbbe. | ||
wið grendles gryre (ic) þæm godan sceal | ||
for his modþræce (m)admas beodan | 385 | |
beo ðu on ofeste hát in gán | ||
seon sibbegedriht samod ætgædere. | ||
gesaga him eac
wordum |
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deniga leodum <...> | ||
<...> word inne abead. | 390 | |
eow het secgan sigedrihten min | ||
aldor
east-dena |
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7 ge him syndon ofer sæwylmas | ||
heardhicgende hider wilcuman | ||
nu ge moton gangan in eowrum guðgeatawum | ||
under heregriman hroðgar geseon | 396 | |
lætað hildebord her onbidan | ||
wuduwælsceaftas worda geþinges. | ||
aras þa se rica ymb hine rinc manig | ||
þryðlic þegna heap sume þær bidon | ||
heaðoreaf heoldon swa him se / (hea)rda bebead. | 401 | 139r |
snyredon ætsomn(e) (þa) secg wisode | ||
under heorotes hrof <...> | ||
hea[rd] under
helme |
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beowulf maðelode on him byrne scan | ||
sea[ro]net seowed smiþes orþancum | 406 | |
wæs þu hr(oð)gar hal ic eom higelaces | ||
mæg 7 magoðegn. hæbbe ic mærða fela | ||
ongunnen on geogoþe me wearð grendles þing. | ||
on minre eþeltyrf undyrne cuð | ||
secgað
sæliðend |
411 | |
reced selesta rinca gehwylcum | ||
idel 7 unnyt siððan æfenleoht | ||
under heofenes hador beholen weorþeð. | ||
þa me
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þa selestan snotere ceorlas. | 416 | |
þeoden
hroðgar |
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for þan hie mægenes cræft mine cuþon. | ||
selfe ofersawon ða ic of searwum cwom. | ||
fah from feondum þær ic fife geband | ||
yðde eotena cyn 7 on yðum slog. | 421 | |
niceras nihtes nearoþearfe dreah | ||
wræc. / (Wed)[e]ra nið wean ahsodon | 139v | |
forgrand g(ra)mum 7 nu wið grendel sceal | ||
wið þam aglæcan ana gehegan. | ||
ðing wið þyrse (ic) þe nu ða | 426 | |
brego beorht-dena biddan wille | ||
eodor scyldinga anre bene. | ||
freowine (f)olca nu ic þus feorran com. | ||
431 | ||
ond þes hearda heap heorot fælsian | ||
hæbbe ic eac
geahsod |
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for his wonhydum wæpna ne recceð. | ||
ic |
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min mondrihten modes bliðe. | 436 | |
geolorand to guþe. ac ic mid grape sceal | ||
fon wið feonde 7 ymb feorh sacan | ||
lað wið laþum ðær gelyfan sceal | ||
dryhtnes dome se þe hine deað nimeð. | 441 | |
wen ic
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in þæm guðsele geotena leode | ||
etan unforhte swa he / oft dyde | 140r | |
mægenhreð manna na (þu) minne þearft | ||
hafalan hydan. ac he me habban wile | 446 | |
deore fahne gif mec deað nimeð. | ||
byreð blodig wæl byrgea(n) þenceð | ||
eteð angenga unmurnlice | ||
mearcað morhopu no ðu ymb mines ne þearft | ||
lices feorme leng sorgian. | 451 | |
Onsend higelace gif mec hild nime | ||
beaduscruda
betst |
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hrægla
selest |
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welandes geweorc gæð a wyrd swa hio scel. |