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BEOWULF.

Heaðo-Scilfinges^[1]⁠heals-gebedda.

Þā wæs Hrōðgāre⁠here-spēd gyfen,
65wīges weorð-mynd,⁠þæt him his wine-māgas
georne hȳrdon,⁠oðð þæt sēo geogoð gewēox,
mago-driht micel.⁠Him on mōd bearn,
þæt heal-reced^[2]⁠hātan wolde,
*medo-ærn micel⁠men gewyrcean,⁠Fol. 130b.
70þon[n]e yldo bearn⁠ǣfre gefrūnon,
ond þǣr on innan⁠eall gedǣlan
geongum ond ealdum,⁠swylc him God sealde,
būton folc-scare⁠ond feorum gumena.
Ðā ic wīde gefrægn⁠weorc gebannan
75manigre mǣgþe⁠geond þisne middan-geard,
folc-stede frætwan.⁠Him on fyrste gelomp
ǣdre mid yldum,⁠þæt hit wearð eal gearo,
heal-ærna mǣst;⁠scōp him Heort naman,
sē þe his wordes geweald⁠wīde hæfde.
80Hē bēot ne ālēh,⁠bēagas dǣlde,
sinc æt symle.⁠Sele hlīfade
hēah ond horn-gēap;⁠heaðo-wylma bād
lāðan līges.⁠Ne wæs hit lenge þā, gēn,
þæt se ecg-hete⁠āþum-swerian^[3]

85æfter wæl-nīðe⁠wæcnan scolde.

↑ 63. MS. ‘heaðo scilfingas.’ For the form gebedda applied to a woman Heyne compares forgenga, applied to Judith’s female attendant, “Judith” 127. See Sievers’ O. E. Grammar, § 278, Note.
↑ 68. Kemble ‘þæt [hē] heal-reced.’
↑ 84. MS. ‘secg hete’; Grain ‘ecg-hete.’ Cf. l. 1738, and Seafarer 70. MS. ‘aþum swerian’: āþum = son-in-law, and Bugge suggested that āðum-swerian is a compound belonging to the same class as the suhtergefæderan of l. 1164, and meaning ‘son-in-law and father-in-law.’ This makes excellent sense of an otherwise difficult passage, the reference being to Ingeld, who married Hrothgar’s daughter Freawaru (l. 2022), and to the events referred to in ll. 2020—69.

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[1] 63. MS. ‘heaðo scilfingas.’ For the form gebedda applied to a woman Heyne compares forgenga, applied to Judith’s female attendant, “Judith” 127. See Sievers’ O. E. Grammar, § 278, Note.

[2] 68. Kemble ‘þæt [hē] heal-reced.’

[3] 84. MS. ‘secg hete’; Grain ‘ecg-hete.’ Cf. l. 1738, and Seafarer 70. MS. ‘aþum swerian’: āþum = son-in-law, and Bugge suggested that āðum-swerian is a compound belonging to the same class as the suhtergefæderan of l. 1164, and meaning ‘son-in-law and father-in-law.’ This makes excellent sense of an otherwise difficult passage, the reference being to Ingeld, who married Hrothgar’s daughter Freawaru (l. 2022), and to the events referred to in ll. 2020—69.