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Ðǣr wæs on blōde⁠brim weallende,
atol ȳða geswing⁠eal gemenged
hāton heolfre,^[1]⁠*heoro-drēore, wēol;Fol 148b.
850dēað-fǣge dēog,⁠siððan drēama lēas
in fen-freoðo⁠feorh ālegde,
hǣþene sāwle;⁠þǣr him hel onfēng.
Þanon eft gewiton⁠eald-gesīðas,
swylce geong manig⁠of gomen-wāþe,
855fram mere mōdge⁠mēarum rīdan,
beornas on blancum.⁠Ðǣr wæs Bēowulfes
mǣrðo mǣned;⁠monig oft gecwæð,
þætte sūð ne norð⁠be sǣm twēonum
ofer eormen-grund⁠ōþer nǣnig
860under swegles begong⁠sēlra nǣre
rond-hæbbendra,⁠rīces wyrðra.
Ne hīe hūru wine-drihten⁠wiht ne lōgon,
glædne Hrōðgār,⁠ac þǣt wæs gōd cyning.
Hwīlum heaþo-rōfe⁠hlēapan lēton,
865on geflit faran,⁠fealwe mēaras,
ðǣr him fold-wegas⁠fægere þūhton,
cystum cūðe.⁠Hwīlum cyninges þegn,
guma gilp-hlæden,⁠gidda gemyndig,
sē ðe eal-fela⁠eald-gesegena
870worn gemunde,⁠word ōþer fand
sōðe gebunden.^[2]⁠Secg eft ongan
sīð Bēowulfes⁠snyttrum *styrian,Fol. 149a.
ond on spēd wrecan⁠spel gerāde,
wordum wrixlan;⁠wel-hwylc gecwæð,

1. 849. MS. ‘hat on heolfre,’ and so Wülcker. Grein ‘hatan’ = hāton in the text. The reading in the text is much easier than that of the MS., and l. 1423 turns the probability in its favour.
2. 870—1. Rieger and Bugge put ‘word…gebunden’ in a parenthesis.