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| / HWÆT WE GARDE na in geardagum. | 129r | |
| þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon | ||
| hu ða æþelingas elle(n) fremedon. | ||
| Oft scyld scefing sceaþen[a] þreatum | ||
| monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah | 5 | |
| egsode eorl{e} syððan ærest wear(ð) | ||
| feasceaft funden he þæs frofre geba(d) | ||
| weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah. | ||
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| ofer hronrade hyran scolde | 10 | |
| gomban
gyldan |
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| ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned | ||
| geong in geardum þone god sende | ||
| folce to frofre fyrenðearfe ongeat | ||
| 15 | ||
| lange hwile him þæs liffrea | ||
| wuldres wealdend woroldare forgeaf. | ||
| beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang | ||
| scyldes eafera scedelandum in. | ||
| Swa sceal ge<ong> guma gode gewyrcean | 20 | |
| fromum feohgiftum on fæder /<bea>rme | 129v | |
| wi(l)gesiþas þonne wig cume. | ||
| leode gelæsten lofdædum sceal | ||
| in mægþa gehwære man geþeon. | 25 | |
| him ða scyld gewat to gescæphwile | ||
| felahror feran on frean wære | ||
| hi hyne þa ætbæron to brimes faroðe | ||
| swæse gesiþas Swa he selfa bæd | ||
| þenden wordum weold wine scyldinga | 30 | |
| leof landfruma lange ahte | ||
| þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna | ||
| isig 7 útfus æþelinges fær. | ||
| aledon þa leofne þeoden | ||
| beaga bryttan on bearm scipes | 35 | |
| mærne be mæste. þær wæs madma fela | ||
| of feorwegum frætwa gelæded. | ||
| Ne hyrde ic cymlicor ceol gegyrwan | ||
| hildewæpnum 7 heaðowædum | ||
| billum 7 byrnum him on bearme læg | 40 | |
| madma mænigo þa him mid scoldon | ||
| on flodes æht feor gewitan. | ||
| Nalæs hi hine læssan lacum teodan | ||
| þeodgestreonum þon{ne} (þ)a d(y)don | ||
| þe hine æt frumsceafte forð onsendon | 45 | |
| ænne ofer yðe umborwe / sende | 130r | |
| Þa gyt hie him asetton segen g<yl>denne | ||
| heah ofer heafod leton holm ber(an) | ||
| geafon on garsecg him wæs geomor sefa | ||
| murnende mod men ne cunnon | 50 | |
| secgan t(o) soðe selerædenne | ||
| hæleð under heofenum hwa þæm hlæste onfeng. |