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BEOWULF.
[mǣre][1] gemēting,  monegum fīra,

hwylc [orleg-]hwīl[2]  uncer Grendles
wearð on ðām wange,  þǣr hē worna fela
Sige-Scyldingum  sorge gefremede,
2005yrmðe tō aldre;  ic ðæt eall gewræc,
swā [ne] gylpan[3] þearf  Grendeles māga
[ǣnig][4] ofer eorðan  ūht-hlem þone,
sē þe lengest leofað  lāðan cynnes
f[enne] bifongen.[5]  Ic ðǣr furðum cwōm
2010tō ðām hring-sele  Hrōðgār grētan;
sōna mē se mǣra  mago Healfdenes,
syððan hē mōd-sefan  mīnne cūðe,
wið his sylfes sunu  setl getǣhte.
Weorod wæs on wynne;  ne seah ic wīdan feorh
2015under heofones hwealf  heal-sittendra
medu-drēam māran.  Hwīlum mǣru cwēn,
friðu-sibb folca,  flet eall geond-hwearf,
bǣdde byre geonge; oft hīo bēah-wriðan
secge *[sealde],[6]  ær hīo tō setle gēong.⁠Fol. 174b.
2020Hwīlum for [d]uguðe[7]  dohtor Hrōðgāres
eorlum on ende  ealu-wǣge bær,

þā ic Frēaware  flet-sittende
  1. ↑ 2001. MS. defective at corner, and in l. 2002. Grein ‘[mǣre].’
  2. ↑ 2002. Thorpe ‘[orleg-].’
  3. ↑ 2006. MS. defective at edge, and in ll. 2007, 2009. Grein ‘begylpan [ne].’ In favour of this reading, A has ‘swabe,’ B ‘swal,’ and I can find no other instance of gielpan with an accus.; against it, begielpan is found in no other edited text, and it supposes an omission where there is no gap in the MS.
  4. ↑ 2007. Kemble ‘[ænig].’
  5. ↑ 2009. A ‘fæ‘ and a blank; B ‘fer..’; Kemble ‘fǣr-bifongen’ (so Wülcker); Grundtvig ‘fenne bifongen’ (so Heyne).
  6. ↑ 2019. MS. defective at corner.  MS. ‘hie.’
  7. ↑ 2020. MS. defective at edge, and in ll. 2023, 2024, 2026.
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