Page:Beowulf (Wyatt).djvu/79

Grendles mōdor.⁠Wæs se gryre lǣssa
efne swā micle,⁠swā bið mægþa. cræft,
wīg-gryre wīfes,⁠be wǣpned-men,
1285þonne heoru bunden,⁠hamere geþuren,
sweord swāte fāh⁠swīn ofer helme,
ecgum *dyhtig⁠andweard scireð.Fol. 158b.
Ðā wæs on healle⁠heard-ecg togen
sweord ofer setlum,⁠sīd-rand manig
1290hafen handa fæst;⁠helm ne gemunde,
byrnan sīde,⁠þā hine^[1] se brōga angeat.
Hēo wæs on ōfste,⁠wolde ūt þanon
fēore beorgan,⁠þā hēo onfunden wæs;
hraðe hēo æþelinga⁠ānne hæfde
1295fæste befangen;⁠þā hēo tō fenne gang.
Sē wæs Hrōþgāre⁠hæleþa lēofost
on gesīðes hād⁠be sǣm twēonum,
rīce rand-wīga,⁠þone ðe hēo on ræste ābrēat,
blǣd-fæstne beorn.⁠Næs Bēowulf ðǣr,
1300ac wæs ōþer in⁠ǣr geteohhod
æfter māþðum-gife⁠mǣrum Gēate.
Hrēam wearð in Heorote;⁠hēo under heolfre genam
cūþe folme;⁠cearu wæs genīwod,
geworden in wīcun.⁠Ne wæs þæt gewrixle til,
1305þæt hīe on bā healfa⁠bicgan scoldon
frēonda fēorum.⁠Þā wæs frōd cyning,
hār hilde-rinc,⁠on hrēon *mōde,Fol. 159a.
syðþan hē aldor-þegn⁠unlyfigendne,
þone dēorestan⁠dēadne wisse.
1310Hraþe wæs tō būre⁠Bēowulf fetod,
sigor-ēadig secg;⁠samod ǣr-dæge

1. 1291. Heyne, Sweet, and others emend ‘þe hine,’ whom—at once ingenious, logical, pedantic, and unnecessary.