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lange hwīle.⁠Him þæs Līf-frēa,
wuldres Wealdend,⁠worold-āre forgeaf;
Bēowulf wæs brēme⁠(blǣd wīde sprang),
Scyldes eafera⁠Scede-landum in.^[1]
20Swā sceal [geong g]uma^[2]⁠gōde gewyrcean,
fromum feoh-giftum⁠on fæder *[wi]ne,^[3]Fol. 129b.
þæt hine on ylde⁠eft gewunigen
wil-gesīþas,⁠þonne wīg cume,
lēode gelǣsten;⁠lof-dǣdum sceal
25in mǣgþa gehwǣre⁠man geþeon.
Him ða Scyld gewāt⁠tō gescæp-hwīle
fela-hrōr fēran⁠on frēan wǣre;
hī hyne þā ætbǣron⁠tō brimes faroðe,
swǣse gesīþas,⁠swā hē selfa bæd,
30þenden wordum wēold⁠wine Scyldinga,
lēof land-fruma⁠lange āhte.
Þær æt hȳðe stōd⁠hringed-stefna
īsig ond ūt-fūs,⁠æþelinges fær;
ālēdon þā⁠lēofne þēoden,
35bēaga bryttan⁠on bearm scipes,
mǣrne be mæste.⁠Þǣr wæs mādma fela,
of feor-wegum⁠frætwa gelǣded.
Ne hȳrde ic cymlīcor⁠cēol gegyrwan
hilde-wǣpnum⁠ond heaðo-wǣedum,
40billum ond byrnum;⁠him on bearme læg

1. 18, 19. In Heyne and Socin’s edition, these lines stand:

   Bēowulf wæs brēme,⁠blǣd wīde sprang
   Scyldes eafera[n]⁠Scede-landum in.

2. 20. MS. defective. Grein’s reading adopted in text.
3. 21. MS. defective at corner. Zupitza transliterates “. . rme,” following Conybeare and Kemble, but says: “What in the facsimile looks like part of a letter before ne (sic) is owing to a small hole in the MS.” Thorpe suggested bearme = “in his father’s bosom.”