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BEOWULF.
2110rehte æfter rihte  rūm-heort cyning;

hwīlum eft ongan  eldo gebunden,
gomel gūð-wiga  gioguðe cwīðau
hilde-strengo;  hreðer inne wēoll,
þonne hē wintrum frōd  worn gemunde.
2115Swā wē þǣr inne  ondlangne dæg
nīode nāman,  oð ðæt niht becwōm
ōðer tō yldum.  Þā wæs eft hraðe
gearo gyrn-wræce  Grendeles mōdor,
sīðode sorh-full;  sunu dēað fornam,
2120wīg-hete Wedra.  Wīf unhȳre
hyre bearn gewræc,  beorn ācwealde
ellenlīce;  þǣr wæs Æschere,
frōdan fyrn-witan,  feorh ūð-genge.
Nōðer hȳ hine ne mōston,  syððan mergen cwōm,
2125dēað-wērigne  Denia lēode,
bronde forbærnan,  ne on bǣl[1] hladan
lēofne mannan;  *hīo þæt līc ætbær⁠Fol. 177a.
fēondes fæð[mum  un]der[2] firgen-strēam.
Þæt wæs Hrōðgāre  hrēowa tornost,
2130þāra þe lēod-fruman  lange begēate.
Þā se ðēoden mec  ðīne līfe
healsode hrēoh-mōd,  þæt ic on holma geþring
eorl-scipe efnde,  ealdre genēðde,
mǣrðo fremede;  hē mē mēde gehēt.
2135Ic ðā ðǣs wælmes,  þe is wīde cūð,

grimne,[3] gryrelīcne  grund-hyrde fond.
  1. ↑ 2126. MS. ‘bęl (=bæl).
  2. ↑ 2128. Grein’s emendation. Zupitza ‘fæðrunga [un]der,’ and in a foot-note: “fædr....with unga written over the dots with another ink B; now nothing preserved but fæð and part of a letter which may have been r, m, or n; the word has been torn asunder.”
  3. ↑ 2136. MS. ‘grimme.’
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