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BEOWULF.
sīðe gesōhte;  ðǣr hīo syððan well

in gum-stōle,  gōde mǣre,
līf-gesceafta  lifigende brēac,
hīold hēah-lufan  wið hæleþa brego,
1955ealles mon-cynnes,  mīne gefrǣge,
þone[1] sēlestan  bī sǣm twēonum,
eormen-cynnes.  Forðām Offa *wæs,⁠Fol. 173a.
geofum ond gūðum  gār-cēne man,
wīde geweorðod;  wīsdōme hēold
1960ēðel sīnne.  Þonon Ēomǣr[2] wōc
hæleðum tō helpe,  Hem[m]inges mǣg,
nefa Gārmundes,  niða cræftig.

XXVIII.

Gewāt him ðā se hearda  mid his hond-scole
sylf æfter sande  sǣ-wong tredan,
1965wīde waroðas;  woruld-candel scān,
sigel sūðan fūs;  hī sīð drugon,
elne geēodon,  tō ðæs þe eorla hlēo,
bonan Ongenþēoes  burgum in innan,
geongne gūð-cyning  gōdne gefrūnon
1970hringas dǣlan.  Higelāce wæs
sīð Bēowulfes  snūde gecȳðed,
þæt ðǣr on worðig  wīgendra hlēo,
lind-gestealla,  lifigende cwōm,
heaðo-lāces hāl  tō hofe gongan.
1975Hraðe wæs gerȳmed,  swa se rīca bebēad,
fēðe-gestum  flet innan-weard.

Gesæt þā wið sylfne,  sē ðā sæcce genæs,
  1. ↑ 1956. MS. ‘þæs.’
  2. ↑ 1960. MS. ‘geomor’; Bachlechner ‘Eōmǣr’; Grein ‘Eōmor.’

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