nacan on sande, árum healdan, 590 opdæt eft byreð ofer lagu-streá[mas] leófne mannan

wudu wunden-hals

[t]ó weder-mearce,
gód-fremmendra
swylcum gifepe bið
pone hilde-ræs
hál ge-díged.

Ge-witon him þá feran, 600 flóta [s]tille bád,

seómode on sole,

síd-fæþmed scip,

on ancre fæst:
eofor-líc sciónon
ofer-hleor beran;
ge-hroden golde
fáh and fýr-heard
ferh-wearde heóld :
gúð-mód grummon,

610 guman on-etton,
sigon æt-somne
ophý l-timbred,
geatolic and gold-fáh,
on-gyton mihton,
was fore-márost

[136b.]

fold-búendum,

receda under roderum,
on þæm se ríca bád.
Lixte se leóma

620 ofer landa fela:

him pa hilde-deór
[h]of módigra
torht ge-tæhte,

þæt híe him tó mihton

gegnum gangan. Gúð-beorna sum wicg ge-wende, word æfter cwæð: mal is me tó feran, 630 fæder al-walda

mid ár-stafum

eówic ge-healde,
siða ge-sunde;
ic tó sa wille
wid [w]ráð-werod
wearde healdan.

V.

Stræt wæs stán-fáh,
stíg wísode

gumum æt-gædere; 640 gúð-byrne scán, heard hond-locen ; hring-iren scír

song in searwum

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þá híe tó sele furðum,
in hyra grýre-geatwum,
gangan cwomon.
Setton sæ-mépe
síde scyldas,

rondas regn-hearde,
650 wið þæs recedes weal.
Bugon þá tó bence,
byrnan hringdon,
gúð-searo gumena
gáras stódon

sæ-manna searo
samod æt-gædere,
æsc-holt ufan græg;
wæs se iren-þreát
wæpnum ge-wurpad.

660 Dá dær wlonc hæled

oret-mecgas

æfter hælepum frægn: hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas, græge syrcan, and grim-helmas, here-sceafta heáp? Ic eóm Hróð-gáres ár and om-biht: 670 ne seah ic el-peódige

bus manige men
módig-lícran :

wén ic ge for wlenco,

nalles for wræc-síðum,

ac for hige-[br]ymmum, [137b.]
Hróð-gár sóhton.

Him pa e[llen]-róf
and-swarode

wlanc Wedera leód,

680 word æfter

spræc,

heard under helme;
we synt Hige-láces
beód-ge-neátas

Beowulf is mín nama;

wille ic á-secgan
sunu Healf-denes,
márum þeódne,
mín ærende,

aldre þínum,

690 gif he us ge-unnan wile
we hine swá gódne
grétan móton.
Wulf-gár mapelode
wæs Wendla leód,
wæs his mód-sefa
manegum ge-cýded,
wig and wís-dóm :
ic pæs wine Deniga
freán Scildinga
700 frínan wille,
beága bryttan,

swá þú béna eart,
þeóden márne
ymb þínne síð;
and pe pa and-sware
ædre ge-cýðan
Je me se góda
á-gifan þenceð.
Hwearf þá hræd-líce
710 þær Hróð-gár sæt,
eald and un-hâr,

mid his eorla ge driht.
Eóde ellen-róf

he for eaxlum ge-stód
Deniga freán,

cúpe he dúgude þeáw.
Wulf-gár maðelode
tó his wine-drihtne ;
her syndon ge[fere]de,
720 feorran cumene

ofer geofenes [be]-gang,
Geáta leóde:

þone yldestan

ore[t]-mecgas

Beo-wulf nemnad;

hý bénan synt

híe peóden mín

wið þe móton

wordum wrixlan;

730 nó dú him wearne. Ge-teóh

Sínra gegn-cwida

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