sibbe ne wolde

wið manna hwone

mægenes Deniga, 310 feorh-bealo feorran fea pingian:

ne þær nænig witena
wénan porfte
beorhtre bóte

to banu folmu;
.æg-láca

ehtende wæs,
deorc deáp-sc[ua],
[dú]gupe and geogope:
320 seómade and syrede,
[s]in-nihte heóld
mistige móras:
men ne [c]unnon
hwyder hel-rúnan
hwyrftum scrípað.
Swa fela fyrena
feónd man-cynnes,
átol ân-gengea,
oft ge-fremede,
330 heardra hynða :
Heorot eardode,
sinc-[f]áge sel,
sweartum nihtum ;
nó he pone gif-stól

311 feo.

316 átol. T.

[133b.]

315 banan.
320 seómode.

grétan moste,
máþðum, for metode,
ne his myne wisse :
was wrac micel.
Wine Scyldinga
340 módes brecda

monig oft ge-sæt,
ríce tó rúne;
rád eahtedon,
hwæt swíð-ferhðum

sélest wære

wið fær-grýrū tó ge-fremmanne. Hwílum híe ge-héton æt hrærg-trafum 350 wig-weordunga; wordum bædon phim gast-bona geóce ge-fremede, wið þeód-preáum. Swyle was peáw hyra, hæþenra hyht; helle ge-mundon in mód-sefan,

metod híe ne cúpon

360 dæda démend,

ne wiston híe drihten God:

huru heofena helm

319 hearg-trafum.

[134]

herian [ne] cúpon,
wuldres waldend.

Wá bið þám de sceal purh slíðne níð sáwle be-scúfa[n], in fýres fæpm; frófre ne wénan 370 wihte ge-wendan: wel bið þám þe mót æfter deað-dage drihten sécean,

and tó fæder fæþmum
freo do wilnian.

III.

Swá da mál-ceare

maga Healf-denes

singala seáð:

ne mihte snotor hæle

380 weán on-wendan

was ge-win tó swýð,
láp and long-sum,
þe on da leóde be-com,
nýd-wracu níp-grim
niht-bealwa mæst.

Det fram hám ge-frægn
Híge-laces þegn,
gód mid Geátum,
Grendles dada;

372 dæge.

390 se wæs mon-cynnes
mægenes strengest
on þæm dæge
þysses lífes,
æpele and eácen.
Hét him ýð-lidan
gódne ge-gyrwan;
cwad he gúð-cyning
ofer swan-ráde
sécean wolde,

400 mærne þeóden,

þá him was manna þearf.
Done sid-fæt him

snotere ceorlas

lyt-hwon logon,

[pea]h he him leóf ware: [134]

hwetton hige....

hæl sceàwedon,

hæfde se góda
Geáta leóda

410 cempan gecorone,

pára þe he cénoste
findan mihte :
xvna sum

sund-wudu sóhte;
secg wísade,

lagu-cræftig mon,
land-ge-myrcu.

Fyrst ford ge-wât, flota was on ýðum, 420 bât under beorge; beornas gearwe on stefn stigon; streámas wundon, sund wið sande; secgas baron

in bearm nacan
beorhte frætwe,
gúð-searo geato-líc;
guman út-scufon,
430 weras on wil-síð,
wudu bundenne.

Ge-wát þá ofer wag-holm,
winde ge-fýsed,
flóta fámi-heals,

fugle ge-lícost,

oð þymb án-tíd

ópres dogores,

wunden stefna
ge-waden hæfde,

440 da lidende