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þrēa-nȳd þolað,⁠þenden þǣr wunað
285on hēah-stede⁠hūsa sēlest.”
Weard maþelode,⁠ðǣr on wicge saet,
ombeht unforht:⁠“Ǣghwaþres sceal
scearp scyld-wiga⁠gescād witan,
worda ond worca,⁠sē þe wel þenceð.
290Ic þæt gehȳre,⁠þæt þis is hold weorod
frēan Scyldinga.⁠Gewītaþ forð beran
wǣpen ond gewǣdu,⁠ic ēow wīsige;
swylce ic magu-þegnas⁠mīne hāte
wið fēonda gehwone⁠flotan ēowerne,
295nīw-tyrwydne⁠nacan on sande,
ārum healdan,⁠oþ þæt eft byreð
ofer lagu-strēa*mas⁠lēofne mannanFol. 136b.
wudu wunden-hals⁠tō Weder-mearce.
Gōd-fremmendra^[1]⁠swylcum gifeþe bið,
300þæt þone hilde-rǣs⁠hāl gedīgeð.”
Gewiton him þā fēran;⁠^[2]flota stille bād,
seomode on sāle^[3]⁠sīd-fæþmed scip,
on ancre fæst.⁠^[4]Eofor-līc scionon^[5]

1. 299. Grundtvig’s needless emendation gūð-fremmendra is followed by some editors and by Earle.
2. 301—3. Heyne puts “flota……faest” in a parenthesis, with a semi-colon at the close.
3. 302. MS. ‘sole.’ For the emendation cf. ll. 226, 1906, and 1917, and mod. “riding on a hawser.” The MS. reading is not impossible. It is from sol, mod. Kent, sole, a muddy pool.
4. 303—5. These lines have given rise to much discussion and many suggestions. Bugge takes eofor as the subject of hēold, ferh- (for feorh-) wearde, “life-guard,” as the object, and līc-scīonon, “of handsome form,” as the dat. sing, of an adj. referring to Beowulf.
5. 303. Grein’s Glossary gives scionon as a second form of scinon, pret. pi. of scīnan, “shine,” but adds: “wenn letzteres nicht zu einem redupl. Verbum scānan scēon gehört.” This supposition is quite needless; in