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BEOWULF.
2340þæt him holt-wudu  he[lpan][1] ne meahte,

lind wið līge.  Sceolde lǣn-daga.[2]
æþeling ǣr-gōd  ende gebīdan,
worulde līfes,  ond se wyrm somod,
þēah ðe hord-welan  hēolde lange.
2345Oferhogode ðā  hringa fengel,
þæt hē þone wīd-flogan  weorode gesōhte,
sīdan herge;  nō hē him þā[3] sæcce ondrēd,
ne him þæs wyrmes wīg  for wiht dyde,
eafoð ond ellen,  forðon hē ǣr fela,
2350nearo nēðende,  nīða gedīgde,
hilde-hlemma,  syððan hē Hrōðgāres,
sigor-ēadig secg,  sele fǣlsode,
ond æt gūðe forgrāp  Grendeles mǣgum
lāðan cynnes.  Nō þæt lǣsest wæs
2355hond-gemōt,  þǣr mon Hygelāc slōh,
syððan Gēata cyning  gūðe rǣsum,[4]
frēa-wine folca  Frēs-londum on,
Hrēðles eafora,  hioro-dryncum swealt
bille gebēaten;  þonan Bīowulf cōm
2360sylfes cræfte,  sund-nytte drēah;
hæfde him on earme  *[āna][5] þrittig⁠Fol. 182b.
hilde-geatwa,  þā hē tō holme [st]āg.

Nealles Hetware  hrēmge þorf[t]on
  1. ↑ 2340. MS. defective at corner.
  2. ↑ 2241. MS. ‘þend’; Kemble ‘lǣn.’ Cf. l. 2591.
  3. ↑ 2347. MS. ‘þa’ (= þām). Wūlcker retains the MS. reading and defends it in a note, which one can only suppose to be a misprint: “Da on mit dat. ebenso wie mit accus. verbunden wird.” Sæcc is fem. (Sievers § 258. 1).
  4. ↑ 2356. Zupitza ‘guðe-ræsum.’ Not one of the sixty odd compounds of gūð is formed in this way.
  5. ↑ 2361. MS. defective at corner, here and in two following lines. Zupitza ‘. . . xxx.’ Grein’s emendation.
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