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XIV.

925Hrōðgār maþelode;⁠hē tō healle gēong,
stōd on stapole,⁠geseah stēapne hrōf
golde fāhne⁠ond Grendles hond:
“Ðisse ansȳne⁠Al-wealdan þanc
lungre gelimpe.⁠Fela ic lāþes gebād,
930grynna æt Grendle;⁠ā mæg God wyrcan
wunder æfter wundre,⁠wuldres Hyrde.
Ðæt wæs ungēara,⁠þæt ic ǣnigra mē
wēana ne wēnde⁠tō wīdan fēore
bōte gebīdan,⁠þonne blōde fāb,
935hūsa sēlest⁠heoro-drēorig stōd;
wēa wīd-scofen⁠witena gebwylcne,
ðāra þe ne wēndon,⁠þæt hīe wīde-ferhð
lēoda land-geweorc⁠lāþum beweredon
*scuccum ond scinnum.⁠Nū scealc hafaðFol. 150b.
940þurb Drihtnes miht⁠dǣd gefremede,
ðe wē ealle⁠ǣr ne meabton
snyttrum besyrwan,⁠Hwæt! þæt secgan mæg
efne swā hwylc mægþa,⁠swā ðone magan cende
æfter gum-cynnum,⁠gyf hēo gyt lyfað,
945þæt hyre eald Metod^[1]⁠ēste wǣre
bearn-gebyrdo.⁠Nū ic, Bēowulf, þec,
secg betsta,⁠mē for sunu wylle
frēogan on ferhþe;⁠heald forð tela
nīwe sibbe.⁠Ne bið þē [n]ǣnigra^[2] gād
950worolde wilna,⁠þe ic geweald hæbbe.
Ful oft ic for lǣssan⁠lēan teohhode,

1. 945. Heyne ‘eald-metod.’ See note on l. 1776.
2. 949. MS. ‘ænigre.’