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flōd under foldan.⁠Nis þæt feor heonon
mīl-gemearces,⁠þæt se mere standeð,^[1]
ofer þǣm hongiað⁠hrīmge bearwas,^[2]
wudu wyrtum fæst,⁠wæter oferhelmað.
1365Þǣr mæg nihta gehwǣm⁠nīð-wundor sēon,
fȳr on flōde.⁠Nō þæs frōd leofað
gumena beama,⁠þæt þone grund wite.
Ðēah þe hǣð-stapa⁠hundum geswenced,
heorot hornum trum,⁠holt-wudu sēce,
1370feorran geflȳmed,⁠ǣr hē feorh seleð,
aldor on ōfre,⁠ǣr hē in wille
hafelan [hȳdan].^[3]⁠Nis þæt hēoru stōw;
þonon ȳd-geblond⁠ūp āstīgeð
won tō wolcnum,⁠þonne wind styreþ
1375lāð gewidru,⁠oð ðæt lyft drysmaþ,
roderas rēotað.⁠Nū is se rǣd gelang
eft æt *þē ānum.⁠Eard git ne const,Fol. 160b.
frēcne stōwe,⁠ðær þū findan miht
fela-sinnigne secg;⁠sēc gif þū dyrre.
1380Ic þē þā fǣhðe⁠fēo lēanige,
eald-gestrēonum,⁠swā ic ǣr dyde,
wundnum^[4] golde,⁠gyf þū onweg cymest.”

1. 1362. MS. ‘stanðeð.’
2. 1363. MS. ‘hrinde.’ The emendation is based on the discovery by Dr Morris of the phrase hrīmige bearwas in the Blickling Homilies (see the Preface vi, vii).
3. 1372. No gap in MS. Thorpe’s emendation.
4. 1382. MS. ‘wun’ at end of line, ‘dini’ or ‘dmi’ on next line, “certainly not dum”; A ‘dmi’; B ‘dini’; Zupitza ‘dini.’