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BEOWULF.

Siððan Heremōdes⁠hild sweðrode,

eafoð^[1] ond ellen;⁠hē mid eotenum wearð
on fēonda geweald⁠forð forlācen,
snūde forsended.⁠Hine sorh-wylmas
905lemede tō lange;⁠hē his lēodum wearð,
eallum æþelingnm,^[2]⁠to aldor-ceare.
Swylce oft bemearn⁠ǣrran mǣlum
swið-ferhþes sīð⁠snotor ceorl monig,
sē þe him bealwa⁠tō bōte gelȳfde,
910þæt þæt ðēodnes bearn⁠geþēon scolde,
fæder æþelum^[3] onfōn,⁠folc gehealdan,
hord ond hlēo-burh,⁠hæleþa rīce,
ēðel Scyldinga.⁠Hē þǣr eallum wearð,
mǣg Higelāces⁠manna cynne,
915frēondum gefægra;⁠hine fyren onwōd.^[4]
Hwīlum flītende⁠fealwe strǣte
mēarum mǣton.⁠Ðā wæs morgen-lēoht
scofen ond scynded.⁠*Eode scealc monig ⁠Fol. 150a.
switð-hicgende⁠tō sele þām hēan
920searo-wundor sēon;⁠swylce self cyning
of brȳd-būre,⁠bēah-horda weard,
tryddode tīr-fæst⁠getrume micle,
cystum gecȳþed,⁠ond his cwēn mid him
medo-stīg gemæt⁠mægþa hōse.^[5]

↑ 902. MS. ‘earfoð,’ retained by Wülcker; cf. l. 534. On the other hand, see ll. 602, 2349.
↑ 906. MS. ‘æþellingum.’
↑ 911. There appears to be no sufficient reason for making a compound, fæder-æþelum, here, as the editors do. Cf. ll. 21, 1479.
↑ 915. Some editors mark the close of this episode by a space between this line and the next. There is nothing more than a dot in the MS., not a fresh line, nor even a capital to hwīlum.
↑ don l. 1242, and for the phrase cf. weorð-myndum þāh l. 8. Nevertheless I cannot bring myself to abandon the clear reading of the MS., which makes at least as good sense as many another passage.

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[1] 902. MS. ‘earfoð,’ retained by Wülcker; cf. l. 534. On the other hand, see ll. 602, 2349.

[2] 906. MS. ‘æþellingum.’

[3] 911. There appears to be no sufficient reason for making a compound, fæder-æþelum, here, as the editors do. Cf. ll. 21, 1479.

[4] 915. Some editors mark the close of this episode by a space between this line and the next. There is nothing more than a dot in the MS., not a fresh line, nor even a capital to hwīlum.

[5] don l. 1242, and for the phrase cf. weorð-myndum þāh l. 8. Nevertheless I cannot bring myself to abandon the clear reading of the MS., which makes at least as good sense as many another passage.