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BEOWULF.
Geworhton ðā  Wedra lēode

hl[ǣw][1] on [h]liðe,[2]  sē wæs hēah ond brād,
[wǣ]g-līðendum  wīde g[e]sȳne,[3]
ond betimbredon  on tȳn dagum
3160beadu-rōfes bēcn;  bronda lāfe[4]
wealle beworhton,  swā hyt weorðlīcost
fore-snotre men  findan mihton.
Hī on beorg dydon  bēg ond siglu,
eall swylce hyrsta,  swylce on horde ǣr
3165nīð-hēdige men  genumen hæfdon;
forlēton eorla gestrēon  eorðan healdan,
gold on grēote,  þǣr hit nū gēn lifað
eldum swā unnyt,  swā hi[t ǣro]r wæs.[5]
Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan  hilde-dēore
3170æþelinga bearn  ealra twelfa,
woldon [ceare][6] cwīðan,  kyning mǣnan,
word-gyd wrecan,  ond ymb w[er][7] sprecan;

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  1. ↑ 3157. Zupitza ‘hi : : on liðe,’ and in a foot-note: “I am unable to make out hlæw after leode: the two last letters seem to me to be rather eo.” See l. 3169.
  2. ↑ Thorpe ‘hliðe.’
  3. ↑ 3158. The remainder of this page is frequently illegible or defective, both at the edges and elsewhere.
  4. ↑ 3160. Heyne: “be lāfe—so MS. nach Zupitza.” This is an error; Zupitza has no be.
  5. ↑ 3168. Zupitza ‘hi : : : : r.’ Kemble’s emendation.
  6. ↑ 3171. Zupitza ‘: : : :’; Grein ‘ceare.’ Possibly the missing word is wōpe, as in “Gen.” 996.
  7. ↑ 3172. Zupitza ‘w : :’; Grein ‘wer.’
  8. ↑ æfter Bēowulfe  bunden-heorde
    song sorg-cearig,  sǣde geneahhe,
    þæt hīo hyre hearm-dagas  hearde ondrēde,
    wæl-fylla worn,  wīgendes egesan,
    hȳnðo ond hæft-nyd,  hēof on rīce wealg. He adds: “For the whole passage cf. ll. 3016—20. Beowulf’s aged widow (gēo-mēowle) was perhaps Hygd; cf. ll. 2369 ff.
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