flōd under foldan.Nis þæt feor heonon
mīl-gemearces,þæt se mere standeð,[1]
ofer þǣm hongiaðhrīmge bearwas,[2]
wudu wyrtum fæst,wæter oferhelmað.
1365Þǣr mæg nihta gehwǣmnīð-wundor sēon,
fȳr on flōde.Nō þæs frōd leofað
gumena beama,þæt þone grund wite.
Ðēah þe hǣð-stapahundum geswenced,
heorot hornum trum,holt-wudu sēce,
1370feorran geflȳmed,ǣr hē feorh seleð,
aldor on ōfre,ǣr hē in wille
hafelan [hȳdan].[3]Nis þæt hēoru stōw;
þonon ȳd-geblondūp āstīgeð
won tō wolcnum,þonne wind styreþ
1375lāð gewidru,oð ðæt lyft drysmaþ,
roderas rēotað.Nū is se rǣd gelang
eft æt *þē ānum.Eard git ne const,Fol. 160b.
frēcne stōwe,ðær þū findan miht
fela-sinnigne secg;sēc gif þū dyrre.
1380Ic þē þā fǣhðefēo lēanige,
eald-gestrēonum,swā ic ǣr dyde,
wundnum[4] golde,gyf þū onweg cymest.”
- ↑ 1362. MS. ‘stanðeð.’
- ↑ 1363. MS. ‘hrinde.’ The emendation is based on the discovery by Dr Morris of the phrase hrīmige bearwas in the Blickling Homilies (see the Preface vi, vii).
- ↑ 1372. No gap in MS. Thorpe’s emendation.
- ↑ 1382. MS. ‘wun’ at end of line, ‘dini’ or ‘dmi’ on next line, “certainly not dum”; A ‘dmi’; B ‘dini’; Zupitza ‘dini.’