módig on ge-monge
meod[o]-wongas træd.
Đá com in-gán
ealdor degna,
dæd-céne mon
dóme ge-wurp[ad],
3290 hæle hilde-deór,
Hróð-gár grétan :
þá was be feaxe
on flet boren
Grendles heáfod,
þær guman druncon,
eges-líc f[or] eorlum,
and pære idese mid
wlite seón wr[æt]líc
weras on-sawon.
3300 Beó-wulf mapelode
bearn Ecg-peowe[s]:
hwt, we pe pas sâe-lác,
sunu Healf-denes,
leód Scyldinga,
lustu brohton
tíres tó tácne,
þe þú her tó-locast.
Ic pun-sófte
ealdre ge-dígde
3310 wigge under wætere,
weorc ge-népde
earfod-lice;
æt rihte wæs
gúð ge-twæfed
nymde mec God scylde.
Ne meahte ic æt hilde
mid Hruntinge
wiht ge-wyrcan,
3320 ac me ge-úde
ylda waldend
pic on wage ge-seah
wlitig [han]gian
eald sweord eácen,
oftost wísode
wénigea-leásum
picy wæpne ge-bræd.
[O]f-slów þá æt þære sæcce,
þá me sæl á-geald,
3330 húses hyrdas;
þá hilde-bil
for-[barn] brogden-mæl,
swá blód ge-sprang
[h]átost heapo-swáta,
ic hilt þanon
feóndum æt-ferede;
fyren-dada wræc,
dead-cwealm Denigea,
swá hit ge-défe wæs.
3310 Ic hit pe poñ ge-háte
þú on Heorote móst
[sJorh-leás swefan
mid þínra secga ge-dryht,
and þegna ge-hwylc[um]
þínra leóda,
duguðe and iógoðe,
þú him on-drædan ne pearft on þá healfe,
þeóden Scyldinga,
3350 aldor-bealu eorlum,
swá þú ær dydest.
Đá wæs gylden hilt
gamelum rince,
hárum hild-fruman,
on hand gyfen,
enta ær-geweorc;
hit on æht ge-hwearf
æfter deófla hrýre,
Denigea freán,
3360 wundor-smiþa ge-weorc,
and þá þas worold of-geaf
grom-heort guma,
godes and-saca,
mordres scyldig,
and his módor eác,
on ge-weald ge-hwearf
worold-cyninga
þæm sælestan
be sem tweónu,
3370 ára de on Sceden-igge
[sceat]tas dælde.
Hróð-gár maðelode,
hilt sceáwode
ealde láfe,
on þæm was ôr-wri[ten]
fyrn ge-winnes,
sypðan flód of-s[lóh],
gifen geótende,
giganta cyn;
3380 frecne [ge]-ferdon,
p was fremde peód
écean driht[ne],
him þæs ende-leán
purh wæteres wylm
waldend sealde:
swá was on þæm scen[ne]
scíran goldes
purh rún-stafas
rihte [ge]-mearcod,
3390 ge-seted and ge-sæd,
wr[eopen]-hylt and wyrm-fáh.
Dá se wísa spræc
su[nu] Healf-denes,
swigedon ealle :
lá mæg secgan
se þe só and riht
3400 fremeð on folce,
feor eal ge-mon
eald wear[d],
des eorl wære
ge-boren betera.
Blæd [is] á-ræred
geond wid-wegas,
wine mín Beó-[wulf],
þín ofer þeóda ge-hwylce. Eal þú hit ge-pyldum healdest 3410 mægen mid módes snyttrum; ic pe sceal míne ge-læstan freode swá wit furdum spræcon; Jú scealt tó frófre weorpan,
eal-lang twidig,
leódu þínu,
[hæl]eðum to helpe :
ne wear Here-mód [swá]
eaferum Ecg-welan
ár Scyldingum ;
3420 [ne] ge-weox he him tó willan
ac to wæl-feal[le],
and to dead-cwalum,
Deniga leódū;
breát [bol]gen-mód
beód-ge-neátas,
eaxl-ge-[ste]allan,
op he ána hwearf,
mære pe[ód]en,
mon-dreámu from:
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