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ac hīe hæfdon gefrūnen,⁠þǣt hīe ǣr tō fela micles
695in þǣm wīn-sele⁠wǣl-dēað fornam,
Denigea lēode.⁠Ac him Dryhten forgeaf
wīg-spēda gewiofu,⁠*Wedera lēodumFol. 146a.
frōfor ond fultum,⁠þæt hīe fēond heora
ðurh ānes cræft⁠ealle ofercōmon,
700selfes mihtum;⁠sōð is gecȳþed,
þæt mihtig God⁠manna cynnes
wēold wīde-ferhð.^[1]⁠Cōm on wanre niht
scrīðan sceadu-genga.⁠Scēotend swǣfon,
þā þæt horn-reced⁠healdan scoldon,
705ealle būton ānum.⁠Þæt wæs yldum cūþ,
þæt hīe ne mōste,⁠þā metod nolde,
se syn-scaþa⁠under sceadu bregdan;
ac hē wæccende⁠wrāþum on andan
bād bolgen-mōd⁠beadwa geþinges.

XI.

710Ðā cōm of mōre⁠under mist-hleoþum
Grendel gongan,⁠Godes yrre bær;
mynte se mān-scaða⁠manna cynnes
sumne besyrwan⁠in sele þām hēan.
Wōd under wolcnum,⁠tō þæs þe hē wīn-reced,
715gold-sele gumena,⁠gearwost wisse,
fǣttum fāhne;⁠ne wæs þæt forma sīð,
þæt hē Hrōþgāres⁠hām gesōhte.
Nǣfre hē on aldor-dagum⁠ǣr *ne siþðanFol. 146b.
heardran hæle,⁠heal-ðegnas fand.

1. 702. Thorkelin ‘ride’; “now nothing left but part of the perpendicular stroke of the first letter.”