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| VII | ||
| Hroðgar maþelode helm scyldinga | 456 | |
| fere fyhtum þu wine min beowulf. | ||
| 7 for arstafum usic sohtest | ||
| gesloh þin fæder fæhðe mæste. | ||
| wearþ he heaþolafe to handbonan | ||
| mid wilfingum ða hine gara cyn | 461 | |
| for herebrogan habban ne mihte. | ||
| þanon he gesohte suð-dena folc | ||
| ofer yða gewealc ar-/(scyl)dinga | 140v | |
| ða ic furþum weold folce deninga | ||
| 7 on geogoðe heold gimmerice | 466 | |
| hordburh hæleþa ða wæs heregar dead | ||
| min yldra mæg unlifigende | ||
| bearn (h)ealfdenes se wæs betera ðonne ic | ||
| siððan (þ)a fæhðe feo þingode. | ||
| sende ic wylfingum ofer wæteres hrycg | 471 | |
| ealde madmas he me aþas swor. | ||
| Sorh is me to secganne on sefan minum | ||
| gumena ængum hwæt me grendel hafað. | ||
| hynðo on heorote mid his heteþancum | ||
| færniða gefremed is min fletwerod | 476 | |
| wigheap gewanod hie wyrd forsweop | ||
| on grendles gryre god eaþe mæg | ||
| þone dolsceaðan dæda getwæfan. | ||
| Ful oft gebeotedon beore druncne | ||
| ofer ealowæge oretmecgas | 481 | |
| grendles guþe mid gryrum ecga. | ||
| ðonne wæs þeos medoheal on morgentid | ||
| drihtsele dreorfah þonne dæg lixte. | ||
| eal / bencþelu blode bestymed | 486 | 141r |
| heall heor(u)dreore ahte ic holdra þy læs | ||
| deorre duguðe þe þa deað fornam | ||
| site nu t(o) symle 7 onsæl meoto | ||
| sigehreð secgum swa þin sefa hwette. | ||
| þa wæs geatmæcgum geador ætsomne | 491 | |
| on beorsele benc gerymed | ||
| þær swiðferhþe sittan eodon | ||
| þryðum dealle þegn nytte beheold | ||
| se þe on handa bær hroden ealowæge | ||
| scencte scir wered scop hwilum sang | 496 | |
| hador on heorote þær wæs hæleða dream | ||
| duguð unlytel dena 7 wedera. |