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BEOWULF.
gomen glēo-bēames,  ne gōd hafoc

geond sæl swingeð,  ne se swifta mearh
2265burh-stede bēateð.  Bealo-cwealm hafað
fela feorh-cynna  forð[1] onsended.”
Swā gīomor-mōd  giohðo mǣnde
ān æfter eallum,  unblīðe hwē[op]
dæges ond nihtes,  oð ðæt dēaðes wylm
2270hrān æt heortan.  Hord-wynne fond
eald ūht-sceaða  opene standan,
sē ðe byrnende  biorgas sēceð,
nacod nīð-draca,  nihtes flēogeð
fȳre befangen;  hyne fold-būend
2275*[swīðe ondrǣ]da[ð].[2]  Hē gesēcean sceall⁠Fol. 180b.
[ho]r[d on] hrūsan,  þǣr hē hǣðen gold
warað wintrum frōd;  ne byð him wihte ðȳ sēl.
Swā se ðēod-sceaða  þrēo hund wintra
hēold on hrūsan[3]  hord-ærna sum
2280ēacen-cræftig,  oð ðæt hyne ān ābealh[4]
mon on mōde;  man-dryhtne bær
fǣted wǣge,  frioðo-wǣre bæd
hlāford sīnne.  Ða wæs hord rāsod,
onboren bēaga hord;[5]  bēne getīðad
2285fēa-sceaftum men.  Frēa scēawode

fīra fyrn-geweorc  forman sīðe.
  1. ↑ 2266. A B ‘feorð’; Zupitza ‘forð.’ He says: “There is a dot under e, which is besides very indistinct.” Underdotting is equivalent to erasure. Heyne considers l. 808 conclusive in favour of his reading ‘feorr.’
  2. ↑ 2275—6. MS. defective and illegible at top and corner. Zupitza’s emendations.
  3. ↑ 2279. MS. ‘hrusam.’
  4. ↑ 2280. MS. ‘abealch.’
  5. ↑ 2284. Bugge suggests ‘beaga dǣl’ on the ground that the repetition of hord is a mistake of the scribe.

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