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hraþor on holme;⁠nō ic fram him wolde.
Ðā wit æt *somne⁠on sǣ wǣronFol. 142b.
545fīf nihta fyrst,⁠oþ þæt unc flōd tōdrāf,
wado weallende;⁠wedera cealdost,
nīpende niht⁠ond norþan wind,
heaðo-grim ondhwearf;^[1]⁠hrēo wǣron ȳþa.
Wæs mere-fixa⁠mōd onhrēred;
550þǣr mē wið lāðum⁠līc-syrce mīn,
heard hond-locen,⁠helpe gefremede;
beado-hrægl brōden⁠on brēostum læg,
golde gegyrwed.⁠Mē tō grunde tēah
fāh fēond-scaða,⁠fæste hæfde
555grim on grāpe;⁠hwæþre mē gyfeþe wearð,
þæt ic āglǣcan⁠orde gerǣhte,
hilde-bille;⁠heaþo-rǣs fornam
mihtig mere-dēor⁠þurh mīne hand.

VIIII.

Swā mec gelōme⁠lāð-getēonan
560þrēatedon þearle.⁠Ic him þēnode
dēoran sweorde,⁠swa hit gedēfe wæs;
næs hīe ðǣre fylle⁠gefēan hæfdon,
mān-fordǣdlan,⁠þæt hīe mē þēgon,
symbel ymb-sǣton⁠sǣ-grunde nēah;
565ac on mergenne⁠mēcum *wundeFol. 143a.
be ȳð-lāfe⁠uppe lǣgon,

1. 548. MS. ‘⁊hwearf’; cf. ‘⁊swarode,’ l. 258. Grein takes hwearf to be an adj., which he glosses ‘versatilis, volubilis,’ and compares Icel. hverfr.