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BEOWULF.^[1]

⁠Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena⁠in gēar-dagum Fol. 129a.
þēod-cyninga⁠þrym gefrūnon,
hū ðā æþelingas⁠ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scēfing⁠sceaþena þrēatum,
5monegum mǣgþum⁠meodo-setla oftēah.
Egsode eorl,⁠syððan ǣrest wearð
fēa-sceaft funden;⁠hē þæs frōfre gebād,
wēox under wolcnum,⁠weorð-myndum þāh,
oð þæt him ǣghwylc⁠ þāra ymb-sittendra
10ofer hron-rāde⁠hȳran scolde,
gomban gyldan;⁠þæt wæs gōd cyning.
Ðǣm eafera wæs⁠æfter cenned
geong in geardum,⁠þone God sende
folce tō frōfre;⁠fyren-ðearfe ongeat,
15þæt^[2] hīe ǣr drugon⁠aldor-[lē]ase

↑ Letters supplied in the text, but found neither in the MS. nor in Thorkelin’s transcripts, are printed within square brackets. All other deviations from the MS. are indicated in the text by the use of italics, and the reading of the MS. is given in a footnote.
↑ 15. MS. ‘ꝥ’ as usual. Zupitza says: “ꝥ” generally means þæt, but sometimes, it would seem, þā.” If þā be adopted, it must refer to fyren-ðearfe. In latter half of same line the MS. is defective.

[1] Letters supplied in the text, but found neither in the MS. nor in Thorkelin’s transcripts, are printed within square brackets. All other deviations from the MS. are indicated in the text by the use of italics, and the reading of the MS. is given in a footnote.

[2] 15. MS. ‘ꝥ’ as usual. Zupitza says: “ꝥ” generally means þæt, but sometimes, it would seem, þā.” If þā be adopted, it must refer to fyren-ðearfe. In latter half of same line the MS. is defective.

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