módig on ge-monge dóme ge-wurp[ad], weras on-sawon. XXIIII. 3300 Beó-wulf mapelode tíres tó tácne, 3310 wigge under wætere, earfod-lice; æt rihte wæs gúð ge-twæfed nymde mec God scylde. wiht ge-wyrcan, peah wapen dúge, 3320 ac me ge-úde ylda waldend pic on wage ge-seah wlitig [han]gian eald sweord eácen, oftost wísode [f. 166b.] picy wæpne ge-bræd. for-[barn] brogden-mæl, feóndum æt-ferede; 3328 of-slóh. 3310 Ic hit pe poñ ge-háte mid þínra secga ge-dryht, duguðe and iógoðe, þú him on-drædan ne pearft on þá healfe, þeóden Scyldinga, 3350 aldor-bealu eorlum, 3360 wundor-smiþa ge-weorc, be sem tweónu, [f. 167] 3370 ára de on Sceden-igge on þæm was ôr-wri[ten] swá was on þæm scen[ne] purh rún-stafas rihte [ge]-mearcod, 3390 ge-seted and ge-sæd, hwám swe[ord] ge-worht, írenna cyst, ærest wære, wr[eopen]-hylt and wyrm-fáh. Dá se wísa spræc su[nu] Healf-denes, lá mæg secgan 3400 fremeð on folce, feor eal ge-mon 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 ; [167b.] 3420 [ne] ge-weox he him tó willan ac to wæl-feal[le], and to dead-cwalum, breát [bol]gen-mód |