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þā sēlestan,⁠snotere ceorlas,
þēoden Hrōðgār,⁠þæt ic þē sōhte,
forþan hīe mægenes cræft⁠mīn[n]e^[1] cūþon;
selfe ofersāwon,⁠ðā ic of searwum cwōm,
420fāh from fēondum,⁠þǣr ic fīfe geband,
ȳðde eotena cyn,⁠ond on ȳðum slōg
niceras nihtes,⁠nearo-þearfe drēah,
wræc *Wedera nīð⁠(wēan āhsodon),Fol. 139b.
forgrand gramum;⁠ond nū wið Grendel sceal,
425wið þām āglǣcan,⁠āna gehēgan
ðing wið þyrse.⁠Ic þē nū ðā,
brego Beorht-Dena,⁠biddan wille,
eodor Scyldinga,⁠ānre bēne,
þæt ðū mē ne forwyrne,⁠wīgendra hlēo,
430frēo-wine folca,⁠nū ic þus feorran cōm,
þæt ic mōte āna⁠[ond]^[2] mīnra eorla gedryht,
þes hearda hēap,⁠Heorot fǣlsian.
Hæbbe ic ēac geāhsod,⁠þæt se ǣglǣca
for his won-hȳdum⁠wǣpna ne rēcceð;
435ic þæt þonne forhicge,⁠swā mē Higelāc sīe,
mīn mon-drihten,⁠mōdes bliðe,
þæt ic sweord bere⁠oþðe sīdne scyld,
geolo-rand tō gūþe;⁠ac ic mid grāpe sceal
fōn wið fēonde,⁠ond ymb feorh sacan
440lāð wið lāþum;⁠ðǣr gelȳfan sceal
Dryhtnes dōme⁠sē þe hine dēað nimeð.
Wēn ic þæt hē wille,⁠gif hē wealdan mōt,
in þǣm. gūð-sele⁠Gēatena^[3] lēode
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1. 418. Grein ‘mīn[n]e’; cf. l. 255.
2. 431—2. MS. ‘ana minra eorla gedryht ⁊ þes’ &c. Grein transposed the ⁊ (ond) from before þes to before minra.
3. 443. MS. ‘geotena.’