# Beowulf hwæt we gardena || in geardagum ðeodcyninga || ðrym gefrunon hu ða æðelingas || ellen fremedon oft scyld scefing || sceaðena ðreatum monegum mægðum || meodosetla ofteah egsode eorlas || syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden || he ðæs frofre gebad weox under wolcnum || weorðmyndum ðah oððæt him æghwylc || ðara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade || hyran scolde gomban gyldan || ðæt wæs god cyning ðæm eafera wæs || æfter cenned geong in geardum || ðone god sende folce to frofre || fyrenðearfe ongeat ðe hie ær drugon || aldorlease lange hwile || him ðæs liffrea wuldres wealdend || woroldare forgeaf beowulf wæs breme || blæd wide sprang scyldes eafera || scedelandum in swa sceal geong guma || gode gewyrcean fromum feohgiftum || on fæder bearme ðæt hine on ylde || eft gewunigen wilgesiðas || ðonne wig cume leode gelæsten || lofdædum sceal in mægða gehwære || man geðeon him ða scyld gewat || to gescæphwile felahror feran || on frean wære hi hyne ða ætbæron || to brimes faroðe swæse gesiðas || swa he selfa bæd ðenden wordum weold || wine scyldinga leof landfruma || lange ahte ðær æt hyðe stod || hringedstefna isig ond utfus || æðelinges fær aledon ða || leofne ðeoden beaga bryttan || on bearm scipes mærne be mæste || ðær wæs madma fela of feorwegum || frætwa gelæded ne hyrde ic cymlicor || ceol gegyrwan hildewæpnum || ond heaðowædum billum ond byrnum || him on bearme læg madma mænigo || ða him mid scoldon on flodes æht || feor gewitan nalæs hi hine læssan || lacum teodan ðeodgestreonum || ðon ða dydon ðe hine æt frumsceafte || forð onsendon ænne ofer yðe || umborwesende ða gyt hie him asetton || segen geldenne heah ofer heafod || leton holm beran geafon on garsecg || him wæs geomor sefa murnende mod || men ne cunnon secgan to soðe || selerædende hæleð under heofenum || hwa ðæm hlæste onfeng ða wæs on burgum || beowulf scyldinga leof leodcyning || longe ðrage folcum gefræge || fæder ellor hwearf aldor of earde || oððæt him eft onwoc heah healfdene || heold ðenden lifde gamol ond guðreouw || glæde scyldingas ðæm feower bearn || forð gerimed in worold wocun || weoroda ræswan heorogar ond hroðgar || ond halga til hyrde ic ðæt || wæs onelan cwen heaðoscilfingas || healsgebedda ða wæs hroðgare || heresped gyfen wiges weorðmynd || ðæt him his winemagas georne hyrdon || oðð ðæt seo geogoð geweox magodriht micel || him on mod bearn ðæt healreced || hatan wolde medoærn micel || men gewyrcean ðonne yldo bearn || æfre gefrunon ond ðær on innan || eall gedælan geongum ond ealdum || swylc him god sealde buton folcscare || ond feorum gumena ða ic wide gefrægn || weorc gebannan manigre mægðe || geond ðisne middangeard folcstede frætwan || him on fyrste gelomp ædre mid yldum || ðæt hit wearð ealgearo healærna mæst || scop him heort naman se ðe his wordes geweald || wide hæfde he beot ne aleh || beagas dælde sinc æt symle || sele hlifade heah ond horngeap || heaðowylma bad laðan liges || ne wæs hit lenge ða gen ðæt se ecghete || aðumsweorum æfter wælniðe || wæcnan scolde ða se ellengæst || earfoðlice ðrage geðolode || se ðe in ðystrum bad ðæt he dogora gehwam || dream gehyrde hludne in healle || ðær wæs hearpan sweg swutol sang scopes || sægde se ðe cuðe frumsceaft fira || feorran reccan cwæð ðæt se ælmihtiga || eorðan worhte wlitebeorhtne wang || swa wæter bebugeð gesette sigehreðig || sunnan ond monan leoman to leohte || landbuendum ond gefrætwade || foldan sceatas leomum ond leafum || lif eac gesceop cynna gehwylcum || ðara ðe cwice hwyrfað swa ða drihtguman || dreamum lifdon eadiglice || oððæt an ongan fyrene fremman || feond on helle wæs se grimma gæst || grendel haten mære mearcstapa || se ðe moras heold fen ond fæsten || fifelcynnes eard wonsæli wer || weardode hwile siððan him scyppend || forscrifen hæfde in caines cynne || ðone cwealm gewræc ece drihten || ðæs ðe he abel slog ne gefeah he ðære fæhðe || ac he hine feor forwræc metod for ðy mane || mancynne fram ðanon untydras || ealle onwocon eotenas ond ylfe || ond orcneas swylce gigantas || ða wið gode wunnon lange ðrage || he him ðæs lean forgeald gewat ða neosian || syððan niht becom hean huses || hu hit hringdene æfter beorðege || gebun hæfdon fand ða ðær inne || æðelinga gedriht swefan æfter symble || sorge ne cuðon wonsceaft wera || wiht unhælo grim ond grædig || gearo sona wæs reoc ond reðe || ond on ræste genam ðritig ðegna || ðanon eft gewat huðe hremig || to ham faran mid ðære wælfylle || wica neosan ða wæs on uhtan || mid ærdæge grendles guðcræft || gumum undyrne ða wæs æfter wiste || wop up ahafen micel morgensweg || mære ðeoden æðeling ærgod || unbliðe sæt ðolode ðryðswyð || ðegnsorge dreah syððan hie ðæs laðan || last sceawedon wergan gastes || wæs ðæt gewin to strang lað ond longsum || næs hit lengra fyrst ac ymb ane niht || eft gefremede morðbeala mare || ond no mearn fore fæhðe ond fyrene || wæs to fæst on ðam ða wæs eaðfynde || ðe him elles hwær gerumlicor || ræste sohte bed æfter burum || ða him gebeacnod wæs gesægd soðlice || sweotolan tacne healðegnes hete || heold hyne syððan fyr ond fæstor || se ðæm feonde ætwand swa rixode || ond wið rihte wan ana wið eallum || oððæt idel stod husa selest || wæs seo hwil micel twelf wintra tid || torn geðolode wine scyldinga || weana gehwelcne sidra sorga || forðam secgum wearð ylda bearnum || undyrne cuð gyddum geomore || ðætte grendel wan hwile wið hroðgar || heteniðas wæg fyrene ond fæhðe || fela missera singale sæce || sibbe ne wolde wið manna hwone || mægenes deniga feorhbealo feorran || fea ðingian ne ðær nænig witena || wenan ðorfte beorhtre bote || to banan folmum ac se æglæca || ehtende wæs deorc deaðscua || duguðe ond geogoðe seomade ond syrede || sinnihte heold mistige moras || men ne cunnon hwyder helrunan || hwyrftum scriðað swa fela fyrena || feond mancynnes atol angengea || oft gefremede heardra hynða || heorot eardode sincfage sel || sweartum nihtum no he ðone gifstol || gretan moste maððum for metode || ne his myne wisse ðæt wæs wræc micel || wine scyldinga modes brecða || monig oft gesæt rice to rune || ræd eahtedon hwæt swiðferhðum || selest wære wið færgryrum || to gefremmanne hwilum hie geheton || æt hærgtrafum wigweorðunga || wordum bædon ðæt him gastbona || geoce gefremede wið ðeodðreaum || swylc wæs ðeaw hyra hæðenra hyht || helle gemundon in modsefan || metod hie ne cuðon dæda demend || ne wiston hie drihten god ne hie huru heofena helm || herian ne cuðon wuldres waldend || wa bið ðæm ðe sceal ðurh sliðne nið || sawle bescufan in fyres fæðm || frofre ne wenan wihte gewendan || wel bið ðæm ðe mot æfter deaðdæge || drihten secean ond to fæder fæðmum || freoðo wilnian swa ða mælceare || maga healfdenes singala seað || ne mihte snotor hæleð wean onwendan || wæs ðæt gewin to swyð lað ond longsum || ðe on ða leode becom nydwracu niðgrim || nihtbealwa mæst ðæt fram ham gefrægn || higelaces ðegn god mid geatum || grendles dæda se wæs moncynnes || mægenes strengest on ðæm dæge || ðysses lifes æðele ond eacen || het him yðlidan godne gegyrwan || cwæð he guðcyning ofer swanrade || secean wolde mærne ðeoden || ða him wæs manna ðearf ðone siðfæt him || snotere ceorlas lythwon logon || ðeah he him leof wære hwetton higerofne || hæl sceawedon hæfde se goda || geata leoda cempan gecorone || ðara ðe he cenoste findan mihte || fiftiena sum sundwudu sohte || secg wisade lagucræftig mon || landgemyrcu fyrst forð gewat || flota wæs on yðum bat under beorge || beornas gearwe on stefn stigon || streamas wundon sund wið sande || secgas bæron on bearm nacan || beorhte frætwe guðsearo geatolic || guman ut scufon weras on wilsið || wudu bundenne gewat ða ofer wægholm || winde gefysed flota famiheals || fugle gelicost oððæt ymb antid || oðres dogores wundenstefna || gewaden hæfde ðæt ða liðende || land gesawon brimclifu blican || beorgas steape side sænæssas || ða wæs sund liden eoletes æt ende || ðanon up hraðe wedera leode || on wang stigon sæwudu sældon || syrcan hrysedon guðgewædo || gode ðancedon ðæs ðe him yðlade || eaðe wurdon ða of wealle geseah || weard scildinga se ðe holmclifu || healdan scolde beran ofer bolcan || beorhte randas fyrdsearu fuslicu || hine fyrwyt bræc modgehygdum || hwæt ða men wæron gewat him ða to waroðe || wicge ridan ðegn hroðgares || ðrymmum cwehte mægenwudu mundum || meðelwordum frægn hwæt syndon ge || searohæbbendra byrnum werede || ðe ðus brontne ceol ofer lagustræte || lædan cwomon hider ofer holmas || /le wæs endesæta || ægwearde heold ðe on land dena || laðra nænig mid scipherge || sceððan ne meahte no her cuðlicor || cuman ongunnon lindhæbbende || ne ge leafnesword guðfremmendra || gearwe ne wisson maga gemedu || næfre ic maran geseah eorla ofer eorðan || ðonne is eower sum secg on searwum || nis ðæt seldguma wæpnum geweorðad || næfne him his wlite leoge ænlic ansyn || nu ic eower sceal frumcyn witan || ær ge fyr heonan leassceaweras || on land dena furður feran || nu ge feorbuend mereliðende || minne gehyrað anfealdne geðoht || ofost is selest to gecyðanne || hwanan eowre cyme syndon him se yldesta || ondswarode werodes wisa || wordhord onleac we synt gumcynnes || geata leode ond higelaces || heorðgeneatas wæs min fæder || folcum gecyðed æðele ordfruma || ecgðeow haten gebad wintra worn || ær he on weg hwurfe gamol of geardum || hine gearwe geman witena welhwylc || wide geond eorðan we ðurh holdne hige || hlaford ðinne sunu healfdenes || secean cwomon leodgebyrgean || wes ðu us larena god habbað we to ðæm mæran || micel ærende deniga frean || ne sceal ðær dyrne sum wesan ðæs ic wene || ðu wast gif hit is swa we soðlice || secgan hyrdon ðæt mid scyldingum || sceaðona ic nat hwylc deogol dædhata || deorcum nihtum eaweð ðurh egsan || uncuðne nið hynðu ond hrafyl || ic ðæs hroðgar mæg ðurh rumne sefan || ræd gelæran hu he frod ond god || feond oferswyðeð gyf him edwendan || æfre scolde bealuwa bisigu || bot eft cuman ond ða cearwylmas || colran wurðað oððe a syððan || earfoððrage ðreanyd ðolað || ðenden ðær wunað on heahstede || husa selest weard maðelode || ðær on wicge sæt ombeht unforht || æghwæðres sceal scearp scyldwiga || gescad witan worda ond worca || se ðe wel ðenceð ic ðæt gehyre || ðæt ðis is hold weorod frean scyldinga || gewitað forð beran wæpen ond gewædu || ic eow wisige swylce ic maguðegnas || mine hate wið feonda gehwone || flotan eowerne niwtyrwydne || nacan on sande arum healdan || oððæt eft byreð ofer lagustreamas || leofne mannan wudu wundenhals || to wedermearce godfremmendra || swylcum gifeðe bið ðæt ðone hilderæs || hal gedigeð gewiton him ða feran || flota stille bad seomode on sale || sidfæðmed scip on ancre fæst || eoforlic scionon ofer hleorberan || gehroden golde fah ond fyrheard || ferhwearde heold guðmod grimmon || guman onetton sigon ætsomne || oððæt hy sæl timbred geatolic ond goldfah || ongyton mihton ðæt wæs foremærost || foldbuendum receda under roderum || on ðæm se rica bad lixte se leoma || ofer landa fela him ða hildedeor || hof modigra torht getæhte || ðæt hie him to mihton gegnum gangan || guðbeorna sum wicg gewende || word æfter cwæð mæl is me to feran || fæder alwalda mid arstafum || eowic gehealde siða gesunde || ic to sæ wille wið wrað werod || wearde healdan stræt wæs stanfah || stig wisode gumum ætgædere || guðbyrne scan heard hondlocen || hringiren scir song in searwum || ða hie to sele furðum in hyra gryregeatwum || gangan cwomon setton sæmeðe || side scyldas rondas regnhearde || wið ðæs recedes weal bugon ða to bence || byrnan hringdon guðsearo gumena || garas stodon sæmanna searo || samod ætgædere æscholt ufan græg || wæs se irenðreat wæpnum gewurðad || ða ðær wlonc hæleð oretmecgas || æfter æðelum frægn hwanon ferigeað ge || fætte scyldas græge syrcan || ond grimhelmas heresceafta heap || ic eom hroðgares ar ond ombiht || ne seah ic elðeodige ðus manige men || modiglicran wen ic ðæt ge for wlenco || nalles for wræcsiðum ac for higeðrymmum || hroðgar sohton him ða ellenrof || andswarode wlanc wedera leod || word æfter spræc heard under helme || we synt higelaces beodgeneatas || beowulf is min nama wille ic asecgan || sunu healfdenes mærum ðeodne || min ærende aldre ðinum || gif he us geunnan wile ðæt we hine swa godne || gretan moton wulfgar maðelode || ðæt wæs wendla leod wæs his modsefa || manegum gecyðed wig ond wisdom || ic ðæs wine deniga frean scildinga || frinan wille beaga bryttan || swa ðu bena eart ðeoden mærne || ymb ðinne sið ond ðe ða ondsware || ædre gecyðan ðe me se goda || agifan ðenceð hwearf ða hrædlice || ðær hroðgar sæt eald ond anhar || mid his eorla gedriht eode ellenrof || ðæt he for eaxlum gestod deniga frean || cuðe he duguðe ðeaw wulfgar maðelode || to his winedrihtne her syndon geferede || feorran cumene ofer geofenes begang || geata leode ðone yldestan || oretmecgas beowulf nemnað || hy benan synt ðæt hie ðeoden min || wið ðe moton wordum wrixlan || no ðu him wearne geteoh ðinra gegncwida || glædman hroðgar hy on wiggetawum || wyrðe ðinceað eorla geæhtlan || huru se aldor deah se ðæm heaðorincum || hider wisade hroðgar maðelode || helm scyldinga ic hine cuðe || cnihtwesende wæs his ealdfæder || ecgðeo haten ðæm to ham forgeaf || hreðel geata angan dohtor || is his eafora nu heard her cumen || sohte holdne wine ðonne sægdon ðæt || sæliðende ða ðe gifsceattas || geata fyredon ðyder to ðance || ðæt he ðritiges manna mægencræft || on his mundgripe heaðorof hæbbe || hine halig god for arstafum || us onsende to westdenum || ðæs ic wen hæbbe wið grendles gryre || ic ðæm godan sceal for his modðræce || madmas beodan beo ðu on ofeste || hat in gan seon sibbegedriht || samod ætgædere gesaga him eac wordum || ðæt hie sint wilcuman deniga leodum || || word inne abead eow het secgan || sigedrihten min aldor eastdena || ðæt he eower æðelu can ond ge him syndon || ofer sæwylmas heardhicgende || hider wilcuman nu ge moton gangan || in eowrum guðgeatawum under heregriman || hroðgar geseon lætað hildebord || her onbidan wudu wælsceaftas || worda geðinges aras ða se rica || ymb hine rinc manig ðryðlic ðegna heap || sume ðær bidon heaðoreaf heoldon || swa him se hearda bebead snyredon ætsomne || ða secg wisode under heorotes hrof || heard under helme || ðæt he on heoðe gestod beowulf maðelode || on him byrne scan searonet seowed || smiðes orðancum wæs ðu hroðgar hal || ic eom higelaces mæg ond magoðegn || hæbbe ic mærða fela ongunnen on geogoðe || me wearð grendles ðing on minre eðeltyrf || undyrne cuð secgað sæliðend || ðæt ðæs sele stande reced selesta || rinca gehwylcum idel ond unnyt || siððan æfenleoht under heofenes hador || beholen weorðeð ða me ðæt gelærdon || leode mine ða selestan || snotere ceorlas ðeoden hroðgar || ðæt ic ðe sohte forðan hie mægenes cræft || minne cuðon selfe ofersawon || ða ic of searwum cwom fah from feondum || ðær ic fife geband yðde eotena cyn || ond on yðum slog niceras nihtes || nearoðearfe dreah wræc wedera nið || wean ahsodon forgrand gramum || ond nu wið grendel sceal wið ðam aglæcan || ana gehegan ðing wið ðyrse || ic ðe nu-ða brego beorhtdena || biddan wille eodor scyldinga || anre bene ðæt ðu me ne forwyrne || wigendra hleo freowine folca || nu ic ðus feorran com ðæt ic mote ana || ond minra eorla gedryht ðes hearda heap || heorot fælsian hæbbe ic eac geahsod || ðæt se æglæca for his wonhydum || wæpna ne recceð ic ðæt ðonne forhicge || swa me higelac sie min mondrihten || modes bliðe ðæt ic sweord bere || oððe sidne scyld geolorand to guðe || ac ic mid grape sceal fon wið feonde || ond ymb feorh sacan lað wið laðum || ðær gelyfan sceal dryhtnes dome || se ðe hine deað nimeð wen ic ðæt he wille || gif he wealdan mot in ðæm guðsele || geotena leode etan unforhte || swa he oft dyde mægen hreðmanna || na ðu minne ðearft hafalan hydan || ac he me habban wile dreore fahne || gif mec deað nimeð byreð blodig wæl || byrgean ðenceð eteð angenga || unmurnlice mearcað morhopu || no ðu ymb mines ne ðearft lices feorme || leng sorgian onsend higelace || gif mec hild nime beaduscruda betst || ðæt mine breost wereð hrægla selest || ðæt is hrædlan laf welandes geweorc || gæð a wyrd swa hio scel hroðgar maðelode || helm scyldinga for gewyrhtum ðu || wine min beowulf ond for arstafum || usic sohtest gesloh ðin fæder || fæhðe mæste wearð he heaðolafe || to handbonan mid wilfingum || ða hine wedera cyn for herebrogan || habban ne mihte ðanon he gesohte || suðdena folc ofer yða gewealc || arscyldinga ða ic furðum weold || folce deniga ond on geogoðe heold || ginne rice hordburh hæleða || ða wæs heregar dead min yldra mæg || unlifigende bearn healfdenes || se wæs betera ðonne ic siððan ða fæhðe || feo ðingode sende ic wylfingum || ofer wæteres hrycg ealde madmas || he me aðas swor sorh is me to secganne || on sefan minum gumena ængum || hwæt me grendel hafað hynðo on heorote || mid his heteðancum færniða gefremed || is min fletwerod wigheap gewanod || hie wyrd forsweop on grendles gryre || god eaðe mæg ðone dolsceaðan || dæda getwæfan ful oft gebeotedon || beore druncne ofer ealowæge || oretmecgas ðæt hie in beorsele || bidan woldon grendles guðe || mid gryrum ecga ðonne wæs ðeos medoheal || on morgentid drihtsele dreorfah || ðonne dæg lixte eal bencðelu || blode bestymed heall heorudreore || ahte ic holdra ðy læs deorre duguðe || ðe ða deað fornam site nu to symle || ond onsæl meoto sigehreð secgum || swa ðin sefa hwette ða wæs geatmæcgum || geador ætsomne on beorsele || benc gerymed ðær swiðferhðe || sittan eodon ðryðum dealle || ðegn nytte beheold se ðe on handa bær || hroden ealowæge scencte scir wered || scop hwilum sang hador on heorote || ðær wæs hæleða dream duguð unlytel || dena ond wedera unferð maðelode || ecglafes bearn ðe æt fotum sæt || frean scyldinga onband beadurune || wæs him beowulfes sið modges merefaran || micel æfðunca forðon ðe he ne uðe || ðæt ænig oðer man æfre mærða ðon ma || middangeardes gehedde under heofenum || ðonne he sylfa eart ðu se beowulf || se ðe wið brecan wunne on sidne sæ || ymb sund flite ðær git for wlence || wada cunnedon ond for dolgilpe || on deop wæter aldrum neðdon || ne inc ænig mon ne leof ne lað || belean mihte sorhfullne sið || ða git on sund reon ðær git eagorstream || earmum ðehton mæton merestræta || mundum brugdon glidon ofer garsecg || geofon yðum weol wintrys wylmum || git on wæteres æht seofon niht swuncon || he ðe æt sunde oferflat hæfde mare mægen || ða hine on morgentid on heaðoræmas || holm up ætbær ðonon he gesohte || swæsne eðel leof his leodum || lond brondinga freoðoburh fægere || ðær he folc ahte burh ond beagas || beot eal wið ðe sunu beanstanes || soðe gelæste ðonne wene ic to ðe || wyrsan geðingea ðeah ðu heaðoræsa || gehwær dohte grimre guðe || gif ðu grendles dearst nihtlongne fyrst || nean bidan beowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðeowes hwæt ðu worn fela || wine min unferð beore druncen || ymb brecan spræce sægdest from his siðe || soð ic talige ðæt ic merestrengo || maran ahte earfeðo on yðum || ðonne ænig oðer man wit ðæt gecwædon || cnihtwesende ond gebeotedon || wæron begen ða git on geogoðfeore || ðæt wit on garsecg ut aldrum neðdon || ond ðæt geæfndon swa hæfdon swurd nacod || ða wit on sund reon heard on handa || wit unc wið hronfixas werian ðohton || no he wiht fram me flodyðum feor || fleotan meahte hraðor on holme || no ic fram him wolde ða wit ætsomne || on sæ wæron fif nihta fyrst || oððæt unc flod todraf wado weallende || wedera cealdost nipende niht || ond norðanwind heaðogrim ondhwearf || hreo wæron yða wæs merefixa || mod onhrered ðær me wið laðum || licsyrce min heard hondlocen || helpe gefremede beadohrægl broden || on breostum læg golde gegyrwed || me to grunde teah fah feondscaða || fæste hæfde grim on grape || hwæðre me gyfeðe wearð ðæt ic aglæcan || orde geræhte hildebille || heaðoræs fornam mihtig meredeor || ðurh mine hand swa mec gelome || laðgeteonan ðreatedon ðearle || ic him ðenode deoran sweorde || swa hit gedefe wæs næs hie ðære fylle || gefean hæfdon manfordædlan || ðæt hie me ðegon symbel ymbsæton || sægrunde neah ac on mergenne || mecum wunde be yðlafe || uppe lægon sweordum aswefede || ðæt syððan na ymb brontne ford || brimliðende lade ne letton || leoht eastan com beorht beacen godes || brimu swaðredon ðæt ic sænæssas || geseon mihte windige weallas || wyrd oft nereð unfægne eorl || ðonne his ellen deah hwæðere me gesælde || ðæt ic mid sweorde ofsloh niceras nigene || no ic on niht gefrægn under heofones hwealf || heardran feohtan ne on egstreamum || earmran mannon hwaðere ic fara feng || feore gedigde siðes werig || ða mec sæ oðbær flod æfter faroðe || on finna land wadu weallendu || no ic wiht fram ðe swylcra searoniða || secgan hyrde billa brogan || breca næfre git æt heaðolace || ne gehwæðer incer swa deorlice || dæd gefremede fagum sweordum || no ic ðæs fela gylpe ðeah ðu ðinum broðrum || to banan wurde heafodmægum || ðæs ðu in helle scealt werhðo dreogan || ðeah ðin wit duge secge ic ðe to soðe || sunu ecglafes ðæt næfre grendel swa fela || gryra gefremede atol æglæca || ealdre ðinum hynðo on heorote || gif ðin hige wære sefa swa searogrim || swa ðu self talast ac he hafað onfunden || ðæt he ða fæhðe ne ðearf atole ecgðræce || eower leode swiðe onsittan || sigescyldinga nymeð nydbade || nænegum arað leode deniga || ac he lust wigeð swefeð ond sendeð || secce ne weneð to gardenum || ac ic him geata sceal eafoð ond ellen || ungeara nu guðe gebeodan || gæð eft se ðe mot to medo modig || siððan morgenleoht ofer ylda bearn || oðres dogores sunne sweglwered || suðan scineð ða wæs on salum || sinces brytta gamolfeax ond guðrof || geoce gelyfde brego beorhtdena || gehyrde on beowulfe folces hyrde || fæstrædne geðoht ðær wæs hæleða hleahtor || hlyn swynsode word wæron wynsume || eode wealhðeow forð cwen hroðgares || cynna gemyndig grette goldhroden || guman on healle ond ða freolic wif || ful gesealde ærest eastdena || eðelwearde bæd hine bliðne || æt ðære beorðege leodum leofne || he on lust geðeah symbel ond seleful || sigerof cyning ymbeode ða || ides helminga duguðe ond geogoðe || dæl æghwylcne sincfato sealde || oððæt sæl alamp ðæt hio beowulfe || beaghroden cwen mode geðungen || medoful ætbær grette geata leod || gode ðancode wisfæst wordum || ðæs ðe hire se willa gelamp ðæt heo on ænigne || eorl gelyfde fyrena frofre || he ðæt ful geðeah wælreow wiga || æt wealhðeon ond ða gyddode || guðe gefysed beowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðeowes ic ðæt hogode || ða ic on holm gestah sæbat gesæt || mid minra secga gedriht ðæt ic anunga || eowra leoda willan geworhte || oððe on wæl crunge feondgrapum fæst || ic gefremman sceal eorlic ellen || oððe endedæg on ðisse meoduhealle || minne gebidan ðam wife ða word || wel licodon gilpcwide geates || eode goldhroden freolicu folccwen || to hire frean sittan ða wæs eft swa ær || inne on healle ðryðword sprecen || ðeod on sælum sigefolca sweg || oððæt semninga sunu healfdenes || secean wolde æfenræste || wiste ðæm ahlæcan to ðæm heahsele || hilde geðinged siððan hie sunnan leoht || geseon ne meahton oððe nipende || niht ofer ealle scaduhelma gesceapu || scriðan cwoman wan under wolcnum || werod eall aras gegrette ða || guma oðerne hroðgar beowulf || ond him hæl abead winærnes geweald || ond ðæt word acwæð næfre ic ænegum men || ær alyfde siððan ic hond ond rond || hebban mihte ðryðærn dena || buton ðe nu-ða hafa nu ond geheald || husa selest gemyne mærðo || mægenellen cyð waca wið wraðum || ne bið ðe wilna gad gif ðu ðæt ellenweorc || aldre gedigest ða him hroðgar gewat || mid his hæleða gedryht eodur scyldinga || ut of healle wolde wigfruma || wealhðeo secan cwen to gebeddan || hæfde cyningwuldor grendle togeanes || swa guman gefrungon seleweard aseted || sundornytte beheold ymb aldor dena || eotonweard abead huru geata leod || georne truwode modgan mægnes || metodes hyldo ða he him of dyde || isernbyrnan helm of hafelan || sealde his hyrsted sweord irena cyst || ombihtðegne ond gehealdan het || hildegeatwe gespræc ða se goda || gylpworda sum beowulf geata || ær he on bed stige no ic me an herewæsmun || hnagran talige guðgeweorca || ðonne grendel hine forðan ic hine sweorde || swebban nelle aldre beneotan || ðeah ic eal mæge nat he ðara goda || ðæt he me ongean slea rand geheawe || ðeah ðe he rof sie niðgeweorca || ac wit on niht sculon secge ofersittan || gif he gesecean dear wig ofer wæpen || ond siððan witig god on swa hwæðere hond || halig dryhten mærðo deme || swa him gemet ðince hylde hine ða heaðodeor || hleorbolster onfeng eorles andwlitan || ond hine ymb monig snellic særinc || selereste gebeah nænig heora ðohte || ðæt he ðanon scolde eft eardlufan || æfre gesecean folc oððe freoburh || ðær he afeded wæs ac hie hæfdon gefrunen || ðæt hie ær to fela micles in ðæm winsele || wældeað fornam denigea leode || ac him dryhten forgeaf wigspeda gewiofu || wedera leodum frofor ond fultum || ðæt hie feond heora ðurh anes cræft || ealle ofercomon selfes mihtum || soð is gecyðed ðæt mihtig god || manna cynnes weold wideferhð || com on wanre niht scriðan sceadugenga || sceotend swæfon ða ðæt hornreced || healdan scoldon ealle buton anum || ðæt wæs yldum cuð ðæt hie ne moste || ða metod nolde se scynscaða || under sceadu bregdan ac he wæccende || wraðum on andan bad bolgenmod || beadwa geðinges ða com of more || under misthleoðum grendel gongan || godes yrre bær mynte se manscaða || manna cynnes sumne besyrwan || in sele ðam hean wod under wolcnum || to ðæs ðe he winreced goldsele gumena || gearwost wisse fættum fahne || ne wæs ðæt forma sið ðæt he hroðgares || ham gesohte næfre he on aldordagum || ær ne siððan heardran hæle || healðegnas fand com ða to recede || rinc siðian dreamum bedæled || duru sona onarn fyrbendum fæst || syððan he hire folmum æthran onbræd ða bealohydig || ða he gebolgen wæs recedes muðan || raðe æfter ðon on fagne flor || feond treddode eode yrremod || him of eagum stod ligge gelicost || leoht unfæger geseah he in recede || rinca manige swefan sibbegedriht || samod ætgædere magorinca heap || ða his mod ahlog mynte ðæt he gedælde || ærðon dæg cwome atol aglæca || anra gehwylces lif wið lice || ða him alumpen wæs wistfylle wen || ne wæs ðæt wyrd ða gen ðæt he ma moste || manna cynnes ðicgean ofer ða niht || ðryðswyð beheold mæg higelaces || hu se manscaða under færgripum || gefaran wolde ne ðæt se aglæca || yldan ðohte ac he gefeng hraðe || forman siðe slæpendne rinc || slat unwearnum bat banlocan || blod edrum dranc synsnædum swealh || sona hæfde unlyfigendes || eal gefeormod fet ond folma || forð near ætstop nam ða mid handa || higeðihtigne rinc on ræste || ræhte ongean feond mid folme || he onfeng hraðe inwitðancum || ond wið earm gesæt sona ðæt onfunde || fyrena hyrde ðæt he ne mette || middangeardes eorðan sceata || on elran men mundgripe maran || he on mode wearð forht on ferhðe || no ðy ær fram meahte hyge wæs him hinfus || wolde on heolster fleon secan deofla gedræg || ne wæs his drohtoð ðær swylce he on ealderdagum || ær gemette gemunde ða se goda || mæg higelaces æfenspræce || uplang astod ond him fæste wiðfeng || fingras burston eoten wæs utweard || eorl furður stop mynte se mæra || ðær he meahte swa widre gewindan || ond on weg ðanon fleon on fenhopu || wiste his fingra geweald on grames grapum || ðæt wæs geocor sið ðæt se hearmscaða || to heorute ateah dryhtsele dynede || denum eallum wearð ceasterbuendum || cenra gehwylcum eorlum ealuscerwen || yrre wæron begen reðe renweardas || reced hlynsode ða wæs wundor micel || ðæt se winsele wiðhæfde heaðodeorum || ðæt he on hrusan ne feol fæger foldbold || ac he ðæs fæste wæs innan ond utan || irenbendum searoðoncum besmiðod || ðær fram sylle abeag medubenc monig || mine gefræge golde geregnad || ðær ða graman wunnon ðæs ne wendon ær || witan scyldinga ðæt hit a mid gemete || manna ænig betlic ond banfag || tobrecan meahte listum tolucan || nymðe liges fæðm swulge on swaðule || sweg up astag niwe geneahhe || norðdenum stod atelic egesa || anra gehwylcum ðara ðe of wealle || wop gehyrdon gryreleoð galan || godes ondsacan sigeleasne sang || sar wanigean helle hæfton || heold hine fæste se ðe manna wæs || mægene strengest on ðæm dæge || ðysses lifes nolde eorla hleo || ænige ðinga ðone cwealmcuman || cwicne forlætan ne his lifdagas || leoda ænigum nytte tealde || ðær genehost brægd eorl beowulfes || ealde lafe wolde freadrihtnes || feorh ealgian mæres ðeodnes || ðær hie meahton swa hie ðæt ne wiston || ða hie gewin drugon heardhicgende || hildemecgas ond on healfa gehwone || heawan ðohton sawle secan || ðone synscaðan ænig ofer eorðan || irenna cyst guðbilla nan || gretan nolde ac he sigewæpnum || forsworen hæfde ecga gehwylcre || scolde his aldorgedal on ðæm dæge || ðysses lifes earmlic wurðan || ond se ellorgast on feonda geweald || feor siðian ða ðæt onfunde || se ðe fela æror modes myrðe || manna cynne fyrene gefremede || he wæs fag wið god ðæt him se lichoma || læstan nolde ac hine se modega || mæg hygelaces hæfde be honda || wæs gehwæðer oðrum lifigende lað || licsar gebad atol æglæca || him on eaxle wearð syndolh sweotol || seonowe onsprungon burston banlocan || beowulfe wearð guðhreð gyfeðe || scolde grendel ðonan feorhseoc fleon || under fenhleoðu secean wynleas wic || wiste ðe geornor ðæt his aldres wæs || ende gegongen dogera dægrim || denum eallum wearð æfter ðam wælræse || willa gelumpen hæfde ða gefælsod || se ðe ær feorran com snotor ond swyðferhð || sele hroðgares genered wið niðe || nihtweorce gefeh ellenmærðum || hæfde eastdenum geatmecga leod || gilp gelæsted swylce oncyððe || ealle gebette inwidsorge || ðe hie ær drugon ond for ðreanydum || ðolian scoldon torn unlytel || ðæt wæs tacen sweotol syððan hildedeor || hond alegde earm ond eaxle || ðær wæs eal geador grendles grape || under geapne hrof ða wæs on morgen || mine gefræge ymb ða gifhealle || guðrinc monig ferdon folctogan || feorran ond nean geond widwegas || wundor sceawian laðes lastas || no his lifgedal sarlic ðuhte || secga ænegum ðara ðe tirleases || trode sceawode hu he werigmod || on weg ðanon niða ofercumen || on nicera mere fæge ond geflymed || feorhlastas bær ðær wæs on blode || brim weallende atol yða geswing || eal gemenged haton heolfre || heorodreore weol deaðfæge deog || siððan dreama leas in fenfreoðo || feorh alegde hæðene sawle || ðær him hel onfeng ðanon eft gewiton || ealdgesiðas swylce geong manig || of gomenwaðe fram mere modge || mearum ridan beornas on blancum || ðær wæs beowulfes mærðo mæned || monig oft gecwæð ðætte suð ne norð || be sæm tweonum ofer eormengrund || oðer nænig under swegles begong || selra nære rondhæbbendra || rices wyrðra ne hie huru winedrihten || wiht ne logon glædne hroðgar || ac ðæt wæs god cyning hwilum heaðorofe || hleapan leton on geflit faran || fealwe mearas ðær him foldwegas || fægere ðuhton cystum cuðe || hwilum cyninges ðegn guma gilphlæden || gidda gemyndig se ðe ealfela || ealdgesegena worn gemunde || word oðer fand soðe gebunden || secg eft ongan sið beowulfes || snyttrum styrian ond on sped wrecan || spel gerade wordum wrixlan || welhwylc gecwæð ðæt he fram sigemundes || secgan hyrde ellendædum || uncuðes fela wælsinges gewin || wide siðas ðara ðe gumena bearn || gearwe ne wiston fæhðe ond fyrena || buton fitela mid hine ðonne he swulces hwæt || secgan wolde eam his nefan || swa hie a wæron æt niða gehwam || nydgesteallan hæfdon ealfela || eotena cynnes sweordum gesæged || sigemunde gesprong æfter deaðdæge || dom unlytel syððan wiges heard || wyrm acwealde hordes hyrde || he under harne stan æðelinges bearn || ana geneðde frecne dæde || ne wæs him fitela mid hwæðre him gesælde || ðæt ðæt swurd ðurhwod wrætlicne wyrm || ðæt hit on wealle ætstod dryhtlic iren || draca morðre swealt hæfde aglæca || elne gegongen ðæt he beahhordes || brucan moste selfes dome || sæbat gehleod bær on bearm scipes || beorhte frætwa wælses eafera || wyrm hat gemealt se wæs wreccena || wide mærost ofer werðeode || wigendra hleo ellendædum || he ðæs ær onðah siððan heremodes || hild sweðrode eafoð ond ellen || he mid eotenum wearð on feonda geweald || forð forlacen snude forsended || hine sorhwylmas lemede to lange || he his leodum wearð eallum æðellingum || to aldorceare swylce oft bemearn || ærran mælum swiðferhðes sið || snotor ceorl monig se ðe him bealwa to || bote gelyfde ðæt ðæt ðeodnes bearn || geðeon scolde fæderæðelum onfon || folc gehealdan hord ond hleoburh || hæleða rice eðel scyldinga || he ðær eallum wearð mæg higelaces || manna cynne freondum gefægra || hine fyren onwod hwilum flitende || fealwe stræte mearum mæton || ða wæs morgenleoht scofen ond scynded || eode scealc monig swiðhicgende || to sele ðam hean searowundor seon || swylce self cyning of brydbure || beahhorda weard tryddode tirfæst || getrume micle cystum gecyðed || ond his cwen mid him medostigge mæt || mægða hose hroðgar maðelode || he to healle geong stod on stapole || geseah steapne hrof golde fahne || ond grendles hond ðisse ansyne || alwealdan ðanc lungre gelimpe || fela ic laðes gebad grynna æt grendle || a mæg god wyrcan wunder æfter wundre || wuldres hyrde ðæt wæs ungeara || ðæt ic ænigra me weana ne wende || to widan feore bote gebidan || ðonne blode fah husa selest || heorodreorig stod wea widscofen || witena gehwylcum ðara ðe ne wendon || ðæt hie wideferhð leoda landgeweorc || laðum beweredon scuccum ond scinnum || nu scealc hafað ðurh drihtnes miht || dæd gefremede ðe we ealle || ær ne meahton snyttrum besyrwan || hwæt ðæt secgan mæg efne swa hwylc mægða || swa ðone magan cende æfter gumcynnum || gyf heo gyt lyfað ðæt hyre ealdmetod || este wære bearngebyrdo || nu ic beowulf ðec secg betsta || me for sunu wylle freogan on ferhðe || heald forð tela niwe sibbe || ne bið ðe nænigra gad worolde wilna || ðe ic geweald hæbbe ful oft ic for læssan || lean teohhode hordweorðunge || hnahran rince sæmran æt sæcce || ðu ðe self hafast dædum gefremed || ðæt ðin dom lyfað awa to aldre || alwalda ðec gode forgylde || swa he nu gyt dyde beowulf maðelode || bearn ecðeowes we ðæt ellenweorc || estum miclum feohtan fremedon || frecne geneðdon eafoð uncuðes || uðe ic swiðor ðæt ðu hine selfne || geseon moste feond on frætewum || fylwerigne ic hine hrædlice || heardan clammum on wælbedde || wriðan ðohte ðæt he for mundgripe || minum scolde licgean lifbysig || butan his lic swice ic hine ne mihte || ða metod nolde ganges getwæman || no ic him ðæs georne ætfealh feorhgeniðlan || wæs to foremihtig feond on feðe || hwæðere he his folme forlet to lifwraðe || last weardian earm ond eaxle || no ðær ænige swa ðeah feasceaft guma || frofre gebohte no ðy leng leofað || laðgeteona synnum geswenced || ac hyne sar hafað mid nydgripe || nearwe befongen balwon bendum || ðær abidan sceal maga mane fah || miclan domes hu him scir metod || scrifan wille ða wæs swigra secg || sunu eclafes on gylpspræce || guðgeweorca siððan æðelingas || eorles cræfte ofer heanne hrof || hand sceawedon feondes fingras || foran æghwylc wæs stiðra nægla gehwylc || style gelicost hæðenes handsporu || hilderinces egl unheoru || æghwylc gecwæð ðæt him heardra nan || hrinan wolde iren ærgod || ðæt ðæs ahlæcan blodge beadufolme || onberan wolde ða wæs haten hreðe || heort innanweard folmum gefrætwod || fela ðæra wæs wera ond wifa || ðe ðæt winreced gestsele gyredon || goldfag scinon web æfter wagum || wundorsiona fela secga gehwylcum || ðara ðe on swylc starað wæs ðæt beorhte bold || tobrocen swiðe eal inneweard || irenbendum fæst heorras tohlidene || hrof ana genæs ealles ansund || ðe se aglæca fyrendædum fag || on fleam gewand aldres orwena || no ðæt yðe byð to befleonne || fremme se ðe wille ac gesecan sceal || sawlberendra nyde genydde || niðða bearna grundbuendra || gearwe stowe ðær his lichoma || legerbedde fæst swefeð æfter symle || ða wæs sæl ond mæl ðæt to healle gang || healfdenes sunu wolde self cyning || symbel ðicgan ne gefrægen ic ða mægðe || maran weorode ymb hyra sincgyfan || sel gebæran bugon ða to bence || blædagande fylle gefægon || fægere geðægon medoful manig || magas ðara swiðhicgende || on sele ðam hean hroðgar ond hroðulf || heorot innan wæs freondum afylled || nalles facenstafas ðeodscyldingas || ðenden fremedon forgeaf ða beowulfe || bearn healfdenes segen gyldenne || sigores to leane hroden hildecumbor || helm ond byrnan mære maððumsweord || manige gesawon beforan beorn beran || beowulf geðah ful on flette || no he ðære feohgyfte for sceotendum || scamigan ðorfte ne gefrægn ic freondlicor || feower madmas golde gegyrede || gummanna fela in ealobence || oðrum gesellan ymb ðæs helmes hrof || heafodbeorge wirum bewunden || walu utan heold ðæt him fela laf || frecne ne meahton scurheard sceððan || ðonne scyldfreca ongean gramum || gangan scolde heht ða eorla hleo || eahta mearas fætedhleore || on flet teon in under eoderas || ðara anum stod sadol searwum fah || since gewurðad ðæt wæs hildesetl || heahcyninges ðonne sweorda gelac || sunu healfdenes efnan wolde || næfre on ore læg widcuðes wig || ðonne walu feollon ond ða beowulfe || bega gehwæðres eodor ingwina || onweald geteah wicga ond wæpna || het hine wel brucan swa manlice || mære ðeoden hordweard hæleða || heaðoræsas geald mearum ond madmum || swa hy næfre man lyhð se ðe secgan wile || soð æfter rihte ða gyt æghwylcum || eorla drihten ðara ðe mid beowulfe || brimlade teah on ðære medubence || maððum gesealde yrfelafe || ond ðone ænne heht golde forgyldan || ðone ðe grendel ær mane acwealde || swa he hyra ma wolde nefne him witig god || wyrd forstode ond ðæs mannes mod || metod eallum weold gumena cynnes || swa he nu git deð forðan bið andgit || æghwær selest ferhðes foreðanc || fela sceal gebidan leofes ond laðes || se ðe longe her on ðyssum windagum || worolde bruceð ðær wæs sang ond sweg || samod ætgædere fore healfdenes || hildewisan gomenwudu greted || gid oft wrecen ðonne healgamen || hroðgares scop æfter medobence || mænan scolde be finnes eaferum || ða hie se fær begeat hæleð healfdena || hnæf scyldinga in freswæle || feallan scolde ne huru hildeburh || herian ðorfte eotena treowe || unsynnum wearð beloren leofum || æt ðam lindplegan bearnum ond broðrum || hie on gebyrd hruron gare wunde || ðæt wæs geomuru ides nalles holinga || hoces dohtor meotodsceaft bemearn || syððan morgen com ða heo under swegle || geseon meahte morðorbealo maga || ðær heo ær mæste heold worolde wynne || wig ealle fornam finnes ðegnas || nemne feaum anum ðæt he ne mehte || on ðæm meðelstede wig hengeste || wiht gefeohtan ne ða wealafe || wige forðringan ðeodnes ðegna || ac hig him geðingo budon ðæt hie him oðer flet || eal gerymdon healle ond heahsetl || ðæt hie healfre geweald wið eotena bearn || agan moston ond æt feohgyftum || folcwaldan sunu dogra gehwylce || dene weorðode hengestes heap || hringum wenede efne swa swiðe || sincgestreonum fættan goldes || swa he fresena cyn on beorsele || byldan wolde ða hie getruwedon || on twa healfa fæste frioðuwære || fin hengeste elne unflitme || aðum benemde ðæt he ða wealafe || weotena dome arum heolde || ðæt ðær ænig mon wordum ne worcum || wære ne bræce ne ðurh inwitsearo || æfre gemænden ðeah hie hira beaggyfan || banan folgedon ðeodenlease || ða him swa geðearfod wæs gyf ðonne frysna hwylc || frecnan spræce ðæs morðorhetes || myndgiend wære ðonne hit sweordes ecg || seðan scolde ad wæs geæfned || ond icge gold ahæfen of horde || herescyldinga betst beadorinca || wæs on bæl gearu æt ðæm ade wæs || eðgesyne swatfah syrce || swyn ealgylden eofer irenheard || æðeling manig wundum awyrded || sume on wæle crungon het ða hildeburh || æt hnæfes ade hire selfre sunu || sweoloðe befæstan banfatu bærnan || ond on bæl don eame on eaxle || ides gnornode geomrode giddum || guðrinc astah wand to wolcnum || wælfyra mæst hlynode for hlawe || hafelan multon bengeato burston || ðonne blod ætspranc laðbite lices || lig ealle forswealg gæsta gifrost || ðara ðe ðær guð fornam bega folces || wæs hira blæd scacen gewiton him ða wigend || wica neosian freondum befeallen || frysland geseon hamas ond heaburh || hengest ða gyt wælfagne winter || wunode mid finne eal unhlitme || eard gemunde ðeah ðe he ne meahte || on mere drifan hringedstefnan || holm storme weol won wið winde || winter yðe beleac isgebinde || oððæt oðer com gear in geardas || swa nu gyt deð ða ðe syngales || sele bewitiað wuldortorhtan weder || ða wæs winter scacen fæger foldan bearm || fundode wrecca gist of geardum || he to gyrnwræce swiðor ðohte || ðonne to sælade gif he torngemot || ðurhteon mihte ðæt he eotena bearn || inne gemunde swa he ne forwyrnde || woroldrædenne ðonne him hunlafing || hildeleoman billa selest || on bearm dyde ðæs wæron mid eotenum || ecge cuðe swylce ferhðfrecan || fin eft begeat sweordbealo sliðen || æt his selfes ham siððan grimne gripe || guðlaf ond oslaf æfter sæsiðe || sorge mændon ætwiton weana dæl || ne meahte wæfre mod forhabban in hreðre || ða wæs heal roden feonda feorum || swilce fin slægen cyning on corðre || ond seo cwen numen sceotend scyldinga || to scypon feredon eal ingesteald || eorðcyninges swylce hie æt finnes ham || findan meahton sigla searogimma || hie on sælade drihtlice wif || to denum feredon læddon to leodum || leoð wæs asungen gleomannes gyd || gamen eft astah beorhtode bencsweg || byrelas sealdon win of wunderfatum || ða cwom wealhðeo forð gan under gyldnum beage || ðær ða godan twegen sæton suhtergefæderan || ða gyt wæs hiera sib ætgædere æghwylc oðrum trywe || swylce ðær unferð ðyle æt fotum sæt frean scyldinga || gehwylc hiora his ferhðe treowde ðæt he hæfde mod micel || ðeah ðe he his magum nære arfæst æt ecga gelacum || spræc ða ides scyldinga onfoh ðissum fulle || freodrihten min sinces brytta || ðu on sælum wes goldwine gumena || ond to geatum spræc mildum wordum || swa sceal man don beo wið geatas glæd || geofena gemyndig nean ond feorran || ðu nu hafast me man sægde || ðæt ðu ðe for sunu wolde hererinc habban || heorot is gefælsod beahsele beorhta || bruc ðenden ðu mote manigra medo || ond ðinum magum læf folc ond rice || ðonne ðu forð scyle metodsceaft seon || ic minne can glædne hroðulf || ðæt he ða geogoðe wile arum healdan || gyf ðu ær ðonne he wine scildinga || worold oflætest wene ic ðæt he mid gode || gyldan wille uncran eaferan || gif he ðæt eal gemon hwæt wit to willan || ond to worðmyndum umborwesendum ær || arna gefremedon hwearf ða bi bence || ðær hyre byre wæron hreðric ond hroðmund || ond hæleða bearn giogoð ætgædere || ðær se goda sæt beowulf geata || be ðæm gebroðrum twæm him wæs ful boren || ond freondlaðu wordum bewægned || ond wunden gold estum geeawed || earmreade twa hrægl ond hringas || healsbeaga mæst ðara ðe ic on foldan || gefrægen hæbbe nænigne ic under swegle || selran hyrde hordmaððum hæleða || syððan hama ætwæg to ðære byrhtan byrig || brosinga mene sigle ond sincfæt || searoniðas fleah eormenrices || geceas ecne ræd ðone hring hæfde || higelac geata nefa swertinges || nyhstan siðe siððan he under segne || sinc ealgode wælreaf werede || hyne wyrd fornam syððan he for wlenco || wean ahsode fæhðe to frysum || he ða frætwe wæg eorclanstanas || ofer yða ful rice ðeoden || he under rande gecranc gehwearf ða in francna fæðm || feorh cyninges breostgewædu || ond se beah somod wyrsan wigfrecan || wæl reafedon æfter guðsceare || geata leode hreawic heoldon || heal swege onfeng wealhðeo maðelode || heo fore ðæm werede spræc bruc ðisses beages || beowulf leofa hyse mid hæle || ond ðisses hrægles neot ðeodgestreona || ond geðeoh tela cen ðec mid cræfte || ond ðyssum cnyhtum wes lara liðe || ic ðe ðæs lean geman hafast ðu gefered || ðæt ðe feor ond neah ealne wideferhð || weras ehtigað efne swa side || swa sæ bebugeð windgeard weallas || wes ðenden ðu lifige æðeling eadig || ic ðe an tela sincgestreona || beo ðu suna minum dædum gedefe || dreamhealdende her is æghwylc eorl || oðrum getrywe modes milde || mandrihtne hold ðegnas syndon geðwære || ðeod ealgearo druncne dryhtguman || doð swa ic bidde eode ða to setle || ðær wæs symbla cyst druncon win weras || wyrd ne cuðon geosceaft grimme || swa hit agangen wearð eorla manegum || syððan æfen cwom ond him hroðgar gewat || to hofe sinum rice to ræste || reced weardode unrim eorla || swa hie oft ær dydon bencðelu beredon || hit geondbræded wearð beddum ond bolstrum || beorscealca sum fus ond fæge || fletræste gebeag setton him to heafdon || hilderandas bordwudu beorhtan || ðær on bence wæs ofer æðelinge || yðgesene heaðosteapa helm || hringed byrne ðrecwudu ðrymlic || wæs ðeaw hyra ðæt hie oft wæron || an wig gearwe ge æt ham ge on herge || ge gehwæðer ðara efne swylce mæla || swylce hira mandryhtne ðearf gesælde || wæs seo ðeod tilu sigon ða to slæpe || sum sare angeald æfenræste || swa him ful oft gelamp siððan goldsele || grendel warode unriht æfnde || oððæt ende becwom swylt æfter synnum || ðæt gesyne wearð widcuð werum || ðætte wrecend ða gyt lifde æfter laðum || lange ðrage æfter guðceare || grendles modor ides aglæcwif || yrmðe gemunde se ðe wæteregesan || wunian scolde cealde streamas || siððan cain wearð to ecgbanan || angan breðer fæderenmæge || he ða fag gewat morðre gemearcod || mandream fleon westen warode || ðanon woc fela geosceaftgasta || wæs ðæra grendel sum heorowearh hetelic || se æt heorote fand wæccendne wer || wiges bidan ðær him aglæca || ætgræpe wearð hwæðre he gemunde || mægenes strenge gimfæste gife || ðe him god sealde ond him to anwaldan || are gelyfde frofre ond fultum || ðy he ðone feond ofercwom gehnægde helle gast || ða he hean gewat dreame bedæled || deaðwic seon mancynnes feond || ond his modor ða gyt gifre ond galgmod || gegan wolde sorhfulne sið || sunu deað wrecan com ða to heorote || ðær hringdene geond ðæt sæld swæfun || ða ðær sona wearð edhwyrft eorlum || siððan inne fealh grendles modor || wæs se gryre læssa efne swa micle || swa bið mægða cræft wiggryre wifes || be wæpnedmen ðonne heoru bunden || hamere geðuren sweord swate fah || swin ofer helme ecgum dyhttig || andweard scireð ða wæs on healle || heardecg togen sweord ofer setlum || sidrand manig hafen handa fæst || helm ne gemunde byrnan side || ða hine se broga angeat heo wæs on ofste || wolde ut ðanon feore beorgan || ða heo onfunden wæs hraðe heo æðelinga || anne hæfde fæste befangen || ða heo to fenne gang se wæs hroðgare || hæleða leofost on gesiðes had || be sæm tweonum rice randwiga || ðone ðe heo on ræste abreat blædfæstne beorn || næs beowulf ðær ac wæs oðer in || ær geteohhod æfter maððumgife || mærum geate hream wearð in heorote || heo under heolfre genam cuðe folme || cearu wæs geniwod geworden in wicun || ne wæs ðæt gewrixle til ðæt hie on ba healfa || bicgan scoldon freonda feorum || ða wæs frod cyning har hilderinc || on hreon mode syððan he aldorðegn || unlyfigendne ðone deorestan || deadne wisse hraðe wæs to bure || beowulf fetod sigoreadig secg || samod ærdæge eode eorla sum || æðele cempa self mid gesiðum || ðær se snotera bad hwæðer him alwalda || æfre wille æfter weaspelle || wyrpe gefremman gang ða æfter flore || fyrdwyrðe man mid his handscale || healwudu dynede ðæt he ðone wisan || wordum nægde frean ingwina || frægn gif him wære æfter neodlaðum || niht getæse hroðgar maðelode || helm scyldinga ne frin ðu æfter sælum || sorh is geniwod denigea leodum || dead is æschere yrmenlafes || yldra broðor min runwita || ond min rædbora eaxlgestealla || ðonne we on orlege hafelan weredon || ðonne hniton feðan eoferas cnysedan || swylc scolde eorl wesan æðeling ærgod || swylc æschere wæs wearð him on heorote || to handbanan wælgæst wæfre || ic ne wat hwæder atol æse wlanc || eftsiðas teah fylle gefægnod || heo ða fæhðe wræc ðe ðu gystran niht || grendel cwealdest ðurh hæstne had || heardum clammum forðan he to lange || leode mine wanode ond wyrde || he æt wige gecrang ealdres scyldig || ond nu oðer cwom mihtig manscaða || wolde hyre mæg wrecan ge feor hafað || fæhðe gestæled ðæs ðe ðincean mæg || ðegne monegum se ðe æfter sincgyfan || on sefan greoteð hreðerbealo hearde || nu seo hand ligeð se ðe eow welhwylcra || wilna dohte ic ðæt londbuend || leode mine selerædende || secgan hyrde ðæt hie gesawon || swylce twegen micle mearcstapan || moras healdan ellorgæstas || ðæra oðer wæs ðæs ðe hie gewislicost || gewitan meahton idese onlicnæs || oðer earmsceapen on weres wæstmum || wræclastas træd næfne he wæs mara || ðonne ænig man oðer ðone on geardagum || grendel nemdon foldbuende || no hie fæder cunnon hwæðer him ænig wæs || ær acenned dyrnra gasta || hie dygel lond warigeað wulfhleoðu || windige næssas frecne fengelad || ðær fyrgenstream under næssa genipu || niðer gewiteð flod under foldan || nis ðæt feor heonon milgemearces || ðæt se mere standeð ofer ðæm hongiað || hrinde bearwas wudu wyrtum fæst || wæter oferhelmað ðær mæg nihta gehwæm || niðwundor seon fyr on flode || no ðæs frod leofað gumena bearna || ðæt ðone grund wite ðeah ðe hæðstapa || hundum geswenced heorot hornum trum || holtwudu sece feorran geflymed || ær he feorh seleð aldor on ofre || ær he in wille hafelan hydan || nis ðæt heoru stow ðonon yðgeblond || up astigeð won to wolcnum || ðonne wind styreð lað gewidru || oððæt lyft drysmað roderas reotað || nu is se ræd gelang eft æt ðe anum || eard git ne const frecne stowe || ðær ðu findan miht felasinnigne secg || sec gif ðu dyrre ic ðe ða fæhðe || feo leanige ealdgestreonum || swa ic ær dyde wundnum golde || gyf ðu on weg cymest beowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðeowes ne sorga snotor guma || selre bið æghwæm ðæt he his freond wrece || ðonne he fela murne ure æghwylc sceal || ende gebidan worolde lifes || wyrce se ðe mote domes ær deaðe || ðæt bið drihtguman unlifgendum || æfter selest aris rices weard || uton raðe feran grendles magan || gang sceawigan ic hit ðe gehate || no he on helm losað ne on foldan fæðm || ne on fyrgenholt ne on gyfenes grund || ga ðær he wille ðys dogor ðu || geðyld hafa weana gehwylces || swa ic ðe wene to ahleop ða se gomela || gode ðancode mihtigan drihtne || ðæs se man gespræc ða wæs hroðgare || hors gebæted wicg wundenfeax || wisa fengel geatolic gende || gumfeða stop lindhæbbendra || lastas wæron æfter waldswaðum || wide gesyne gang ofer grundas || ðær heo gegnum for ofer myrcan mor || magoðegna bær ðone selestan || sawolleasne ðara ðe mid hroðgare || ham eahtode ofereode ða || æðelinga bearn steap stanhliðo || stige nearwe enge anpaðas || uncuð gelad neowle næssas || nicorhusa fela he feara sum || beforan gengde wisra monna || wong sceawian oððæt he færinga || fyrgenbeamas ofer harne stan || hleonian funde wynleasne wudu || wæter under stod dreorig ond gedrefed || denum eallum wæs winum scyldinga || weorce on mode to geðolianne || ðegne monegum oncyð eorla gehwæm || syððan æscheres on ðam holmclife || hafelan metton flod blode weol || folc to sægon hatan heolfre || horn stundum song fuslic fyrdleoð || feða eal gesæt gesawon ða æfter wætere || wyrmcynnes fela sellice sædracan || sund cunnian swylce on næshleoðum || nicras licgean ða on undernmæl || oft bewitigað sorhfulne sið || on seglrade wyrmas ond wildeor || hie on weg hruron bitere ond gebolgne || bearhtm ongeaton guðhorn galan || sumne geata leod of flanbogan || feores getwæfde yðgewinnes || ðæt him on aldre stod herestræl hearda || he on holme wæs sundes ðe sænra || ðe hyne swylt fornam hræðe wearð on yðum || mid eoferspreotum heorohocyhtum || hearde genearwod niða genæged || ond on næs togen wundorlic wægbora || weras sceawedon gryrelicne gist || gyrede hine beowulf eorlgewædum || nalles for ealdre mearn scolde herebyrne || hondum gebroden sid ond searofah || sund cunnian seo ðe bancofan || beorgan cuðe ðæt him hildegrap || hreðre ne mihte eorres inwitfeng || aldre gesceððan ac se hwita helm || hafelan werede se ðe meregrundas || mengan scolde secan sundgebland || since geweorðad befongen freawrasnum || swa hine fyrndagum worhte wæpna smið || wundrum teode besette swinlicum || ðæt hine syððan no brond ne beadomecas || bitan ne meahton næs ðæt ðonne mætost || mægenfultuma ðæt him on ðearfe lah || ðyle hroðgares wæs ðæm hæftmece || hrunting nama ðæt wæs an foran || ealdgestreona ecg wæs iren || atertanum fah ahyrded heaðoswate || næfre hit æt hilde ne swac manna ængum || ðara ðe hit mid mundum bewand se ðe gryresiðas || gegan dorste folcstede fara || næs ðæt forma sið ðæt hit ellenweorc || æfnan scolde huru ne gemunde || mago ecglafes eafoðes cræftig || ðæt he ær gespræc wine druncen || ða he ðæs wæpnes onlah selran sweordfrecan || selfa ne dorste under yða gewin || aldre geneðan drihtscype dreogan || ðær he dome forleas ellenmærðum || ne wæs ðæm oðrum swa syððan he hine to guðe || gegyred hæfde beowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðeowes geðenc nu se mæra || maga healfdenes snottra fengel || nu ic eom siðes fus goldwine gumena || hwæt wit geo spræcon gif ic æt ðearfe || ðinre scolde aldre linnan || ðæt ðu me a wære forðgewitenum || on fæder stæle wes ðu mundbora || minum magoðegnum hondgesellum || gif mec hild nime swylce ðu ða madmas || ðe ðu me sealdest hroðgar leofa || higelace onsend mæg ðonne on ðæm golde ongitan || geata dryhten geseon sunu hrædles || ðonne he on ðæt sinc starað ðæt ic gumcystum || godne funde beaga bryttan || breac ðonne moste ond ðu unferð læt || ealde lafe wrætlic wægsweord || widcuðne man heardecg habban || ic me mid hruntinge dom gewyrce || oððe mec deað nimeð æfter ðæm wordum || wedergeata leod efste mid elne || nalas ondsware bidan wolde || brimwylm onfeng hilderince || ða wæs hwil dæges ær he ðone grundwong || ongytan mehte sona ðæt onfunde || se ðe floda begong heorogifre beheold || hund missera grim ond grædig || ðæt ðær gumena sum ælwihta eard || ufan cunnode grap ða togeanes || guðrinc gefeng atolan clommum || no ðy ær in gescod halan lice || hring utan ymbbearh ðæt heo ðone fyrdhom || ðurhfon ne mihte locene leoðosyrcan || laðan fingrum bær ða seo brimwylf || ða heo to botme com hringa ðengel || to hofe sinum swa he ne mihte || no he ðæs modig wæs wæpna gewealdan || ac hine wundra ðæs fela swencte on sunde || sædeor monig hildetuxum || heresyrcan bræc ehton aglæcan || ða se eorl ongeat ðæt he in niðsele || nathwylcum wæs ðær him nænig wæter || wihte ne sceðede ne him for hrofsele || hrinan ne mehte færgripe flodes || fyrleoht geseah blacne leoman || beorhte scinan ongeat ða se goda || grundwyrgenne merewif mihtig || mægenræs forgeaf hildebille || hond sweng ne ofteah ðæt hire on hafelan || hringmæl agol grædig guðleoð || ða se gist onfand ðæt se beadoleoma || bitan nolde aldre sceððan || ac seo ecg geswac ðeodne æt ðearfe || ðolode ær fela hondgemota || helm oft gescær fæges fyrdhrægl || ða wæs forma sið deorum madme || ðæt his dom alæg eft wæs anræd || nalas elnes læt mærða gemyndig || mæg hylaces wearp ða wundenmæl || wrættum gebunden yrre oretta || ðæt hit on eorðan læg stið ond stylecg || strenge getruwode mundgripe mægenes || swa sceal man don ðonne he æt guðe || gegan ðenceð longsumne lof || na ymb his lif cearað gefeng ða be eaxle || nalas for fæhðe mearn guðgeata leod || grendles modor brægd ða beadwe heard || ða he gebolgen wæs feorhgeniðlan || ðæt heo on flet gebeah heo him eft hraðe || andlean forgeald grimman grapum || ond him togeanes feng oferwearp ða werigmod || wigena strengest feðecempa || ðæt he on fylle wearð ofsæt ða ðone selegyst || ond hyre seax geteah brad ond brunecg || wolde hire bearn wrecan angan eaferan || him on eaxle læg breostnet broden || ðæt gebearh feore wið ord ond wið ecge || ingang forstod hæfde ða forsiðod || sunu ecgðeowes under gynne grund || geata cempa nemne him heaðobyrne || helpe gefremede herenet hearde || ond halig god geweold wigsigor || witig drihten rodera rædend || hit on ryht gesced yðelice || syððan he eft astod geseah ða on searwum || sigeeadig bil eald sweord eotenisc || ecgum ðyhtig wigena weorðmynd || ðæt wæs wæpna cyst buton hit wæs mare || ðonne ænig mon oðer to beadulace || ætberan meahte god ond geatolic || giganta geweorc he gefeng ða fetelhilt || freca scyldinga hreoh ond heorogrim || hringmæl gebrægd aldres orwena || yrringa sloh ðæt hire wið halse || heard grapode banhringas bræc || bil eal ðurhwod fægne flæschoman || heo on flet gecrong sweord wæs swatig || secg weorce gefeh lixte se leoma || leoht inne stod efne swa of hefene || hadre scineð rodores candel || he æfter recede wlat hwearf ða be wealle || wæpen hafenade heard be hiltum || higelaces ðegn yrre ond anræd || næs seo ecg fracod hilderince || ac he hraðe wolde grendle forgyldan || guðræsa fela ðara ðe he geworhte || to westdenum oftor micle || ðonne on ænne sið ðonne he hroðgares || heorðgeneatas sloh on sweofote || slæpende fræt folces denigea || fyftyne men ond oðer swylc || ut offerede laðlicu lac || he him ðæs lean forgeald reðe cempa || to ðæs ðe he on ræste geseah guðwerigne || grendel licgan aldorleasne || swa him ær gescod hild æt heorote || hra wide sprong syððan he æfter deaðe || drepe ðrowade heorosweng heardne || ond hine ða heafde becearf sona ðæt gesawon || snottre ceorlas ða ðe mid hroðgare || on holm wliton ðæt wæs yðgeblond || eal gemenged brim blode fah || blondenfeaxe gomele ymb godne || ongeador spræcon ðæt hig ðæs æðelinges || eft ne wendon ðæt he sigehreðig || secean come mærne ðeoden || ða ðæs monige gewearð ðæt hine seo brimwylf || abroten hæfde ða com non dæges || næs ofgeafon hwate scyldingas || gewat him ham ðonon goldwine gumena || gistas setan modes seoce || ond on mere staredon wiston ond ne wendon || ðæt hie heora winedrihten selfne gesawon || ða ðæt sweord ongan æfter heaðoswate || hildegicelum wigbil wanian || ðæt wæs wundra sum ðæt hit eal gemealt || ise gelicost ðonne forstes bend || fæder onlæteð onwindeð wælrapas || se geweald hafað sæla ond mæla || ðæt is soð metod ne nom he in ðæm wicum || wedergeata leod maðmæhta ma || ðeh he ðær monige geseah buton ðone hafelan || ond ða hilt somod since fage || sweord ær gemealt forbarn brodenmæl || wæs ðæt blod to ðæs hat ættren ellorgæst || se ðær inne swealt sona wæs on sunde || se ðe ær æt sæcce gebad wighryre wraðra || wæter up ðurhdeaf wæron yðgebland || eal gefælsod eacne eardas || ða se ellorgast oflet lifdagas || ond ðas lænan gesceaft com ða to lande || lidmanna helm swiðmod swymman || sælace gefeah mægenbyrðenne || ðara ðe he him mid hæfde eodon him ða togeanes || gode ðancodon ðryðlic ðegna heap || ðeodnes gefegon ðæs ðe hi hyne gesundne || geseon moston ða wæs of ðæm hroran || helm ond byrne lungre alysed || lagu drusade wæter under wolcnum || wældreore fag ferdon forð ðonon || feðelastum ferhðum fægne || foldweg mæton cuðe stræte || cyningbalde men from ðæm holmclife || hafelan bæron earfoðlice || heora æghwæðrum felamodigra || feower scoldon on ðæm wælstenge || weorcum geferian to ðæm goldsele || grendles heafod oððæt semninga || to sele comon frome fyrdhwate || feowertyne geata gongan || gumdryhten mid modig on gemonge || meodowongas træd ða com in gan || ealdor ðegna dædcene mon || dome gewurðad hæle hildedeor || hroðgar gretan ða wæs be feaxe || on flet boren grendles heafod || ðær guman druncon egeslic for eorlum || ond ðære idese mid wliteseon wrætlic || weras on sawon beowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðeowes hwæt we ðe ðas sælac || sunu healfdenes leod scyldinga || lustum brohton tires to tacne || ðe ðu her to locast ic ðæt unsofte || ealdre gedigde wigge under wætere || weorc geneðde earfoðlice || ætrihte wæs guð getwæfed || nymðe mec god scylde ne meahte ic æt hilde || mid hruntinge wiht gewyrcan || ðeah ðæt wæpen duge ac me geuðe || ylda waldend ðæt ic on wage geseah || wlitig hangian eald sweord eacen || oftost wisode winigea leasum || ðæt ic ðy wæpne gebræd ofsloh ða æt ðære sæcce || ða me sæl ageald huses hyrdas || ða ðæt hildebil forbarn brogdenmæl || swa ðæt blod gesprang hatost heaðoswata || ic ðæt hilt ðanan feondum ætferede || fyrendæda wræc deaðcwealm denigea || swa hit gedefe wæs ic hit ðe ðonne gehate || ðæt ðu on heorote most sorhleas swefan || mid ðinra secga gedryht ond ðegna gehwylc || ðinra leoda duguðe ond iogoðe || ðæt ðu him ondrædan ne ðearft ðeoden scyldinga || on ða healfe aldorbealu eorlum || swa ðu ær dydest ða wæs gylden hilt || gamelum rince harum hildfruman || on hand gyfen enta ærgeweorc || hit on æht gehwearf æfter deofla hryre || denigea frean wundorsmiða geweorc || ond ða ðas worold ofgeaf gromheort guma || godes ondsaca morðres scyldig || ond his modor eac on geweald gehwearf || woroldcyninga ðæm selestan || be sæm tweonum ðara ðe on scedenigge || sceattas dælde hroðgar maðelode || hylt sceawode ealde lafe || on ðæm wæs or writen fyrngewinnes || syððan flod ofsloh gifen geotende || giganta cyn frecne geferdon || ðæt wæs fremde ðeod ecean dryhtne || him ðæs endelean ðurh wæteres wylm || waldend sealde swa wæs on ðæm scennum || sciran goldes ðurh runstafas || rihte gemearcod geseted ond gesæd || hwam ðæt sweord geworht irena cyst || ærest wære wreoðenhilt ond wyrmfah || ða se wisa spræc sunu healfdenes || swigedon ealle ðæt la mæg secgan || se ðe soð ond riht fremeð on folce || feor eal gemon eald eðelweard || ðæt ðes eorl wære geboren betera || blæd is aræred geond widwegas || wine min beowulf ðin ofer ðeoda gehwylce || eal ðu hit geðyldum healdest mægen mid modes snyttrum || ic ðe sceal mine gelæstan freode swa wit furðum spræcon || ðu scealt to frofre weorðan eal langtwidig || leodum ðinum hæleðum to helpe || ne wearð heremod swa eaforum ecgwelan || arscyldingum ne geweox he him to willan || ac to wælfealle ond to deaðcwalum || deniga leodum breat bolgenmod || beodgeneatas eaxlgesteallan || oððæt he ana hwearf mære ðeoden || mondreamum from ðeah ðe hine mihtig god || mægenes wynnum eafeðum stepte || ofer ealle men forð gefremede || hwæðere him on ferhðe greow breosthord blodreow || nallas beagas geaf denum æfter dome || dreamleas gebad ðæt he ðæs gewinnes || weorc ðrowade leodbealo longsum || ðu ðe lær be ðon gumcyste ongit || ic ðis gid be ðe awræc wintrum frod || wundor is to secganne hu mihtig god || manna cynne ðurh sidne sefan || snyttru bryttað eard ond eorlscipe || he ah ealra geweald hwilum he on lufan || læteð hworfan monnes modgeðonc || mæran cynnes seleð him on eðle || eorðan wynne to healdanne || hleoburh wera gedeð him swa gewealdene || worolde dælas side rice || ðæt he his selfa ne mæg for his unsnyttrum || ende geðencean wunað he on wiste || no hine wiht dweleð adl ne yldo || ne him inwitsorh on sefan sweorceð || ne gesacu ohwær ecghete eoweð || ac him eal worold wendeð on willan || he ðæt wyrse ne con oððæt him on innan || oferhygda dæl weaxeð ond wridað || ðonne se weard swefeð sawele hyrde || bið se slæp to fæst bisgum gebunden || bona swiðe neah se ðe of flanbogan || fyrenum sceoteð ðonne bið on hreðre || under helm drepen biteran stræle || him bebeorgan ne con wom wundorbebodum || wergan gastes ðinceð him to lytel || ðæt he lange heold gytsað gromhydig || nallas on gylp seleð fædde beagas || ond he ða forðgesceaft forgyteð ond forgymeð || ðæs ðe him ær god sealde wuldres waldend || weorðmynda dæl hit on endestæf || eft gelimpeð ðæt se lichoma || læne gedreoseð fæge gefealleð || fehð oðer to se ðe unmurnlice || madmas dæleð eorles ærgestreon || egesan ne gymeð bebeorh ðe ðone bealonið || beowulf leofa secg betsta || ond ðe ðæt selre geceos ece rædas || oferhyda ne gym mære cempa || nu is ðines mægnes blæd ane hwile || eft sona bið ðæt ðec adl oððe ecg || eafoðes getwæfeð oððe fyres feng || oððe flodes wylm oððe gripe meces || oððe gares fliht oððe atol yldo || oððe eagena bearhtm forsiteð ond forsworceð || semninga bið ðæt ðec dryhtguma || deað oferswyðeð swa ic hringdena || hund missera weold under wolcnum || ond hig wigge beleac manigum mægða || geond ðysne middangeard æscum ond ecgum || ðæt ic me ænigne under swegles begong || gesacan ne tealde hwæt me ðæs on eðle || edwenden cwom gyrn æfter gomene || seoððan grendel wearð ealdgewinna || ingenga min ic ðære socne || singales wæg modceare micle || ðæs sig metode ðanc ecean dryhtne || ðæs ðe ic on aldre gebad ðæt ic on ðone hafelan || heorodreorigne ofer ealdgewin || eagum starige ga nu to setle || symbelwynne dreoh wigge weorðad || unc sceal worn fela maðma gemænra || siððan morgen bið geat wæs glædmod || geong sona to setles neosan || swa se snottra heht ða wæs eft swa ær || ellenrofum fletsittendum || fægere gereorded niowan stefne || nihthelm geswearc deorc ofer dryhtgumum || duguð eal aras wolde blondenfeax || beddes neosan gamela scylding || geat unigmetes wel rofne randwigan || restan lyste sona him seleðegn || siðes wergum feorrancundum || forð wisade se for andrysnum || ealle beweotede ðegnes ðearfe || swylce ðy dogore heaðoliðende || habban scoldon reste hine ða rumheort || reced hliuade geap ond goldfah || gæst inne swæf oððæt hrefn blaca || heofones wynne bliðheort bodode || ða com beorht scacan || scaðan onetton wæron æðelingas || eft to leodum fuse to farenne || wolde feor ðanon cuma collenferhð || ceoles neosan heht ða se hearda || hrunting beran sunu ecglafes || heht his sweord niman leoflic iren || sægde him ðæs leanes ðanc cwæð he ðone guðwine || godne tealde wigcræftigne || nales wordum log meces ecge || ðæt wæs modig secg ond ða siðfrome || searwum gearwe wigend wæron || eode weorð denum æðeling to yppan || ðær se oðer wæs hæle hildedeor || hroðgar grette beowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðeowes nu we sæliðend || secgan wyllað feorran cumene || ðæt we fundiað higelac secan || wæron her tela willum bewenede || ðu us wel dohtest gif ic ðonne on eorðan || owihte mæg ðinre modlufan || maran tilian gumena dryhten || ðonne ic gyt dyde guðgeweorca || ic beo gearo sona gif ic ðæt gefricge || ofer floda begang ðæt ðec ymbsittend || egesan ðywað swa ðec hetende || hwilum dydon ic ðe ðusenda || ðegna bringe hæleða to helpe || ic on higelac wat geata dryhten || ðeah ðe he geong sy folces hyrde || ðæt he mec fremman wile wordum ond worcum || ðæt ic ðe wel herige ond ðe to geoce || garholt bere mægenes fultum || ðær ðe bið manna ðearf gif him ðonne hreðric || to hofum geata geðingeð ðeodnes bearn || he mæg ðær fela freonda findan || feorcyððe beoð selran gesohte || ðæm ðe him selfa deah hroðgar maðelode || him on ondsware ðe ða wordcwydas || wigtig drihten on sefan sende || ne hyrde ic snotorlicor on swa geongum feore || guman ðingian ðu eart mægenes strang || ond on mode frod wis wordcwida || wen ic talige gif ðæt gegangeð || ðæt ðe gar nymeð hild heorugrimme || hreðles eaferan adl oððe iren || ealdor ðinne folces hyrde || ond ðu ðin feorh hafast ðæt ðe sægeatas || selran næbben to geceosenne || cyning ænigne hordweard hæleða || gyf ðu healdan wylt maga rice || me ðin modsefa licað leng swa wel || leofa beowulf hafast ðu gefered || ðæt ðam folcum sceal geata leodum || ond gardenum sib gemæne || ond sacu restan inwitniðas || ðe hie ær drugon wesan ðenden ic wealde || widan rices maðmas gemæne || manig oðerne godum gegretan || ofer ganotes bæð sceal hringnaca || ofer heafu bringan lac ond luftacen || ic ða leode wat ge wið feond ge wið freond || fæste geworhte æghwæs untæle || ealde wisan ða git him eorla hleo || inne gesealde mago healfdenes || maðmas twelfe het hine mid ðæm lacum || leode swæse secean on gesyntum || snude eft cuman gecyste ða || cyning æðelum god ðeoden scyldinga || ðegn betstan ond be healse genam || hruron him tearas blondenfeaxum || him wæs bega wen ealdum infrodum || oðres swiðor ðæt hie seoððan no || geseon moston modige on meðle || wæs him se man to ðon leof ðæt he ðone breostwylm || forberan ne mehte ac him on hreðre || hygebendum fæst æfter deorum men || dyrne langað beorn wið blode || him beowulf ðanan guðrinc goldwlanc || græsmoldan træd since hremig || sægenga bad agendfrean || se ðe on ancre rad ða wæs on gange || gifu hroðgares oft geæhted || ðæt wæs an cyning æghwæs orleahtre || oððæt hine yldo benam mægenes wynnum || se ðe oft manegum scod cwom ða to flode || felamodigra hægstealdra heap || hringnet bæron locene leoðosyrcan || landweard onfand eftsið eorla || swa he ær dyde no he mid hearme || of hliðes nosan gæstas grette || ac him togeanes rad cwæð ðæt wilcuman || wedera leodum scaðan scirhame || to scipe foron ða wæs on sande || sægeap naca hladen herewædum || hringedstefna mearum ond maðmum || mæst hlifade ofer hroðgares || hordgestreonum he ðæm batwearde || bunden golde swurd gesealde || ðæt he syððan wæs on meodubence || maðme ðy weorðra yrfelafe || gewat him on naca drefan deop wæter || dena land ofgeaf ða wæs be mæste || merehrægla sum segl sale fæst || sundwudu ðunede no ðær wegflotan || wind ofer yðum siðes getwæfde || sægenga for fleat famigheals || forð ofer yðe bundenstefna || ofer brimstreamas ðæt hie geata clifu || ongitan meahton cuðe næssas || ceol up geðrang lyftgeswenced || on lande stod hraðe wæs æt holme || hyðweard geara se ðe ær lange tid || leofra manna fus æt faroðe || feor wlatode sælde to sande || sidfæðme scip oncerbendum fæst || ðy læs hym yða ðrym wudu wynsuman || forwrecan meahte het ða up beran || æðelinga gestreon frætwe ond fætgold || næs him feor ðanon to gesecanne || sinces bryttan higelac hreðling || ðær æt ham wunað selfa mid gesiðum || sæwealle neah bold wæs betlic || bregorof cyning heah in healle || hygd swiðe geong wis welðungen || ðeah ðe wintra lyt under burhlocan || gebiden hæbbe hæreðes dohtor || næs hio hnah swa ðeah ne to gneað gifa || geata leodum maðmgestreona || mod ðryðo wæg fremu folces cwen || firen ondrysne nænig ðæt dorste || deor geneðan swæsra gesiða || nefne sinfrea ðæt hire an dæges || eagum starede ac him wælbende || weotode tealde handgewriðene || hraðe seoððan wæs æfter mundgripe || mece geðinged ðæt hit sceadenmæl || scyran moste cwealmbealu cyðan || ne bið swylc cwenlic ðeaw idese to efnanne || ðeah ðe hio ænlicu sy ðætte freoðuwebbe || feores onsæce æfter ligetorne || leofne mannan huru ðæt onhohsnode || hemminges mæg ealodrincende || oðer sædan ðæt hio leodbealewa || læs gefremede inwitniða || syððan ærest wearð gyfen goldhroden || geongum cempan æðelum diore || syððan hio offan flet ofer fealone flod || be fæder lare siðe gesohte || ðær hio syððan well in gumstole || gode mære lifgesceafta || lifigende breac hiold heahlufan || wið hæleða brego ealles moncynnes || mine gefræge ðone selestan || bi sæm tweonum eormencynnes || forðam offa wæs geofum ond guðum || garcene man wide geweorðod || wisdome heold eðel sinne || ðonon eomer woc hæleðum to helpe || hemminges mæg nefa garmundes || niða cræftig gewat him ða se hearda || mid his hondscole sylf æfter sande || sæwong tredan wide waroðas || woruldcandel scan sigel suðan fus || hi sið drugon elne geeodon || to ðæs ðe eorla hleo bonan ongenðeoes || burgum in innan geongne guðcyning || godne gefrunon hringas dælan || higelace wæs sið beowulfes || snude gecyðed ðæt ðær on worðig || wigendra hleo lindgestealla || lifigende cwom heaðolaces hal || to hofe gongan hraðe wæs gerymed || swa se rica bebead feðegestum || flet innanweard gesæt ða wið sylfne || se ða sæcce genæs mæg wið mæge || syððan mandryhten ðurh hleoðorcwyde || holdne gegrette meaglum wordum || meoduscencum hwearf geond ðæt healreced || hæreðes dohtor lufode ða leode || liðwæge bær hæleðum to handa || higelac ongan sinne geseldan || in sele ðam hean fægre fricgcean || hyne fyrwet bræc hwylce sægeata || siðas wæron hu lomp eow on lade || leofa biowulf ða ðu færinga || feorr gehogodest sæcce secean || ofer sealt wæter hilde to hiorote || ac ðu hroðgare widcuðne wean || wihte gebettest mærum ðeodne || ic ðæs modceare sorhwylmum seað || siðe ne truwode leofes mannes || ic ðe lange bæd ðæt ðu ðone wælgæst || wihte ne grette lete suðdene || sylfe geweorðan guðe wið grendel || gode ic ðanc secge ðæs ðe ic ðe gesundne || geseon moste biowulf maðelode || bearn ecgðioes ðæt is undyrne || dryhten higelac micel gemeting || monegum fira hwylc orleghwil || uncer grendles wearð on ðam wange || ðær he worna fela sigescyldingum || sorge gefremede yrmðe to aldre || ic ðæt eall gewræc swa begylpan ne ðearf || grendeles maga ænig ofer eorðan || uhthlem ðone se ðe lengest leofað || laðan cynnes facne bifongen || ic ðær furðum cwom to ðam hringsele || hroðgar gretan sona me se mæra || mago healfdenes syððan he modsefan || minne cuðe wið his sylfes sunu || setl getæhte weorod wæs on wynne || ne seah ic widan feorh under heofones hwealf || healsittendra medudream maran || hwilum mæru cwen friðusibb folca || flet eall geondhwearf bædde byre geonge || oft hio beahwriðan secge sealde || ær hie to setle geong hwilum for duguðe || dohtor hroðgares eorlum on ende || ealuwæge bær ða ic freaware || fletsittende nemnan hyrde || ðær hio nægled sinc hæleðum sealde || sio gehaten is geong goldhroden || gladum suna frodan hafað ðæs geworden || wine scyldinga rices hyrde || ond ðæt ræd talað ðæt he mid ðy wife || wælfæhða dæl sæcca gesette || oft seldan hwær æfter leodhryre || lytle hwile bongar bugeð || ðeah seo bryd duge mæg ðæs ðonne ofðyncan || ðeodne heaðobeardna ond ðegna gehwam || ðara leoda ðonne he mid fæmnan || on flett gæð dryhtbearn dena || duguða biwenede on him gladiað || gomelra lafe heard ond hringmæl || heaðabeardna gestreon ðenden hie ðam wæpnum || wealdan moston oððæt hie forlæddan || to ðam lindplegan swæse gesiðas || ond hyra sylfra feorh ðonne cwið æt beore || se ðe beah gesyhð eald æscwiga || se ðe eall geman garcwealm gumena || him bið grim sefa onginneð geomormod || geongum cempan ðurh hreðra gehygd || higes cunnian wigbealu weccean || ond ðæt word acwyð meaht ðu min wine || mece gecnawan ðone ðin fæder || to gefeohte bær under heregriman || hindeman siðe dyre iren || ðær hyne dene slogon weoldon wælstowe || syððan wiðergyld læg æfter hæleða hryre || hwate scyldungas nu her ðara banena || byre nathwylces frætwum hremig || on flet gæð morðres gylpeð || ond ðone maððum byreð ðone ðe ðu mid rihte || rædan sceoldest manað swa ond myndgað || mæla gehwylce sarum wordum || oððæt sæl cymeð ðæt se fæmnan ðegn || fore fæder dædum æfter billes bite || blodfag swefeð ealdres scyldig || him se oðer ðonan losað lifigende || con him land geare ðonne bioð abrocene || on ba healfe aðsweord eorla || syððan ingelde weallað wælniðas || ond him wiflufan æfter cearwælmum || colran weorðað ðy ic heaðobeardna || hyldo ne telge dryhtsibbe dæl || denum unfæcne freondscipe fæstne || ic sceal forð sprecan gen ymbe grendel || ðæt ðu geare cunne sinces brytta || to hwan syððan wearð hondræs hæleða || syððan heofones gim glad ofer grundas || gæst yrre cwom eatol æfengrom || user neosan ðær we gesunde || sæl weardodon ðær wæs hondscio || hild onsæge feorhbealu fægum || he fyrmest læg gyrded cempa || him grendel wearð mærum maguðegne || to muðbonan leofes mannes || lic eall forswealg no ðy ær ut ða gen || idelhende bona blodigtoð || bealewa gemyndig of ðam goldsele || gongan wolde ac he mægnes rof || min costode grapode gearofolm || glof hangode sid ond syllic || searobendum fæst sio wæs orðoncum || eall gegyrwed deofles cræftum || ond dracan fellum he mec ðær on innan || unsynnigne dior dædfruma || gedon wolde manigra sumne || hyt ne mihte swa syððan ic on yrre || uppriht astod to lang ys to reccenne || hu ic ðam leodsceaðan yfla gehwylces || ondlean forgeald ðær ic ðeoden min || ðine leode weorðode weorcum || he on weg losade lytle hwile || lifwynna breac hwæðre him sio swiðre || swaðe weardade hand on hiorte || ond he hean ðonan modes geomor || meregrund gefeoll me ðone wælræs || wine scildunga fættan golde || fela leanode manegum maðmum || syððan mergen com ond we to symble || geseten hæfdon ðær wæs gidd ond gleo || gomela scilding felafricgende || feorran rehte hwilum hildedeor || hearpan wynne gomenwudu grette || hwilum gyd awræc soð ond sarlic || hwilum syllic spell rehte æfter rihte || rumheort cyning hwilum eft ongan || eldo gebunden gomel guðwiga || gioguðe cwiðan hildestrengo || hreðer inne weoll ðonne he wintrum frod || worn gemunde swa we ðær inne || ondlangne dæg niode naman || oððæt niht becwom oðer to yldum || ða wæs eft hraðe gearo gyrnwræce || grendeles modor siðode sorhfull || sunu deað fornam wighete wedra || wif unhyre hyre bearn gewræc || beorn acwealde ellenlice || ðær wæs æschere frodan fyrnwitan || feorh uðgenge noðer hy hine ne moston || syððan mergen cwom deaðwerigne || denia leode bronde forbærnan || ne on bæl hladan leofne mannan || hio ðæt lic ætbær feondes fæðmum || under firgenstream ðæt wæs hroðgare || hreowa tornost ðara ðe leodfruman || lange begeate ða se ðeoden mec || ðine life healsode hreohmod || ðæt ic on holma geðring eorlscipe efnde || ealdre geneðde mærðo fremede || he me mede gehet ic ða ðæs wælmes || ðe is wide cuð grimne gryrelicne || grundhyrde fond ðær unc hwile wæs || hand gemæne holm heolfre weoll || ond ic heafde becearf in ðam guðsele || grendeles modor eacnum ecgum || unsofte ðonan feorh oðferede || næs ic fæge ða gyt ac me eorla hleo || eft gesealde maðma menigeo || maga healfdenes swa se ðeodcyning || ðeawum lyfde nealles ic ðam leanum || forloren hæfde mægnes mede || ac he me maðmas geaf sunu healfdenes || on minne sylfes dom ða ic ðe beorncyning || bringan wylle estum geywan || gen is eall æt ðe lissa gelong || ic lyt hafo heafodmaga || nefne hygelac ðec het ða in beran || eaforheafodsegn heaðosteapne helm || hare byrnan guðsweord geatolic || gyd æfter wræc me ðis hildesceorp || hroðgar sealde snotra fengel || sume worde het ðæt ic his ærest ðe || est gesægde cwæð ðæt hyt hæfde || hiorogar cyning leod scyldunga || lange hwile no ðy ær suna sinum || syllan wolde hwatum heorowearde || ðeah he him hold wære breostgewædu || bruc ealles well hyrde ic ðæt ðam frætwum || feower mearas lungre gelice || last weardode æppelfealuwe || he him est geteah meara ond maðma || swa sceal mæg don nealles inwitnet || oðrum bregdon dyrnum cræfte || deað renian hondgesteallan || hygelace wæs niða heardum || nefa swyðe hold ond gehwæðer oðrum || hroðra gemyndig hyrde ic ðæt he ðone healsbeah || hygde gesealde wrætlicne wundurmaððum || ðone ðe him wealhðeo geaf ðeodnes dohtor || ðrio wicg somod swancor ond sadolbeorht || hyre syððan wæs æfter beahðege || breost geweorðod swa bealdode || bearn ecgðeowes guma guðum cuð || godum dædum dreah æfter dome || nealles druncne slog heorðgeneatas || næs him hreoh sefa ac he mancynnes || mæste cræfte ginfæstan gife || ðe him god sealde heold hildedeor || hean wæs lange swa hyne geata bearn || godne ne tealdon ne hyne on medobence || micles wyrðne drihten wedera || gedon wolde swyðe wendon || ðæt he sleac wære æðeling unfrom || edwenden cwom tireadigum menn || torna gehwylces het ða eorla hleo || in gefetian heaðorof cyning || hreðles lafe golde gegyrede || næs mid geatum ða sincmaððum selra || on sweordes had ðæt he on biowulfes || bearm alegde ond him gesealde || seofan ðusendo bold ond bregostol || him wæs bam samod on ðam leodscipe || lond gecynde eard eðelriht || oðrum swiðor side rice || ðam ðær selra wæs eft ðæt geiode || ufaran dogrum hildehlæmmum || syððan hygelac læg ond heardrede || hildemeceas under bordhreoðan || to bonan wurdon ða hyne gesohtan || on sigeðeode hearde hildefrecan || heaðoscilfingas niða genægdan || nefan hererices syððan beowulfe || brade rice on hand gehwearf || he geheold tela fiftig wintra || wæs ða frod cyning eald eðelweard || oððæt an ongan deorcum nihtum || draca ricsian se ðe on heaum hofe || hord beweotode stanbeorh steapne || stig under læg eldum uncuð || ðær on innan giong niða nathwylc || se ðe neh gefeng hæðnum horde || hond // since fahne || he ðæt syððan // ðeah ðe he slæpende || besyred wurde ðeofes cræfte || ðæt sie ðiod onfand bufolc beorna || ðæt he gebolgen wæs nealles mid gewealdum || wyrmhord abræc sylfes willum || se ðe him sare gesceod ac for ðreanedlan || ðeow nathwylces hæleða bearna || heteswengeas fleah ærnes ðearfa || ond ðær inne fealh secg synbysig || sona onfunde ðæt ðær ðam gyste || gryrebroga stod hwæðre earmsceapen || || /sceapen || ða hyne se fær begeat sincfæt // || ðær wæs swylcra fela in ðam eorðhuse || ærgestreona swa hy on geardagum || gumena nathwylc eormenlafe || æðelan cynnes ðanchycgende || ðær gehydde deore maðmas || ealle hie deað fornam ærran mælum || ond se an ða gen leoda duguðe || se ðær lengest hwearf weard winegeomor || wende ðæs ylcan ðæt he lytel fæc || longgestreona brucan moste || beorh eallgearo wunode on wonge || wæteryðum neah niwe be næsse || nearocræftum fæst ðær on innan bær || eorlgestreona hringa hyrde || hordwyrðne dæl fættan goldes || fea worda cwæð heald ðu nu hruse || nu hæleð ne moston eorla æhte || hwæt hyt ær on ðe gode begeaton || guðdeað fornam feorhbealo frecne || fyra gehwylcne leoda minra || ðara ðe ðis lif ofgeaf gesawon seledream || ic nah hwa sweord wege oððe feormie || fæted wæge dryncfæt deore || duguð ellor sceoc sceal se hearda helm || hyrsted golde fætum befeallen || feormynd swefað ða ðe beadogriman || bywan sceoldon ge swylce seo herepad || sio æt hilde gebad ofer borda gebræc || bite irena brosnað æfter beorne || ne mæg byrnan hring æfter wigfruman || wide feran hæleðum be healfe || næs hearpan wyn gomen gleobeames || ne god hafoc geond sæl swingeð || ne se swifta mearh burhstede beateð || bealocwealm hafað fela feorhcynna || forð onsended swa giomormod || giohðo mænde an æfter eallum || unbliðe hwearf dæges ond nihtes || oððæt deaðes wylm hran æt heortan || hordwynne fond eald uhtsceaða || opene standan se ðe byrnende || biorgas seceð nacod niðdraca || nihtes fleogeð fyre befangen || hyne foldbuend swiðe ondrædað || he gesecean sceall hord on hrusan || ðær he hæðen gold warað wintrum frod || ne byð him wihte ðy sel swa se ðeodsceaða || ðreo hund wintra heold on hrusan || hordærna sum eacencræftig || oððæt hyne an abealch mon on mode || mandryhtne bær fæted wæge || frioðowære bæd hlaford sinne || ða wæs hord rasod onboren beaga hord || bene getiðad feasceaftum men || frea sceawode fira fyrngeweorc || forman siðe ða se wyrm onwoc || wroht wæs geniwad stonc ða æfter stane || stearcheort onfand feondes fotlast || he to forð gestop dyrnan cræfte || dracan heafde neah swa mæg unfæge || eaðe gedigan wean ond wræcsið || se ðe waldendes hyldo gehealdeð || hordweard sohte georne æfter grunde || wolde guman findan ðone ðe him on sweofote || sare geteode hat ond hreohmod || hlæw oft ymbehwearf ealne utanweardne || ne ðær ænig mon on ðære westenne || hwæðre wiges gefeh beaduwe weorces || hwilum on beorh æthwearf sincfæt sohte || he ðæt sona onfand ðæt hæfde gumena sum || goldes gefandod heahgestreona || hordweard onbad earfoðlice || oððæt æfen cwom wæs ða gebolgen || beorges hyrde wolde se laða || lige forgyldan drincfæt dyre || ða wæs dæg sceacen wyrme on willan || no on wealle læg bidan wolde || ac mid bæle for fyre gefysed || wæs se fruma egeslic leodum on lande || swa hyt lungre wearð on hyra sincgifan || sare geendod ða se gæst ongan || gledum spiwan beorht hofu bærnan || bryneleoma stod eldum on andan || no ðær aht cwices lað lyftfloga || læfan wolde wæs ðæs wyrmes wig || wide gesyne nearofages nið || nean ond feorran hu se guðsceaða || geata leode hatode ond hynde || hord eft gesceat dryhtsele dyrnne || ær dæges hwile hæfde landwara || lige befangen bæle ond bronde || beorges getruwode wiges ond wealles || him seo wen geleah ða wæs biowulfe || broga gecyðed snude to soðe || ðæt his sylfes ham bolda selest || brynewylmum mealt gifstol geata || ðæt ðam godan wæs hreow on hreðre || hygesorga mæst wende se wisa || ðæt he wealdende ofer ealde riht || ecean dryhtne bitre gebulge || breost innan weoll ðeostrum geðoncum || swa him geðywe ne wæs hæfde ligdraca || leoda fæsten ealond utan || eorðweard ðone gledum forgrunden || him ðæs guðcyning wedera ðioden || wræce leornode heht him ða gewyrcean || wigendra hleo eallirenne || eorla dryhten wigbord wrætlic || wisse he gearwe ðæt him holtwudu || helpan ne meahte lind wið lige || sceolde lændaga æðeling ærgod || ende gebidan worulde lifes || ond se wyrm somod ðeah ðe hordwelan || heolde lange oferhogode ða || hringa fengel ðæt he ðone widflogan || weorode gesohte sidan herge || no he him ða sæcce ondred ne him ðæs wyrmes wig || for wiht dyde eafoð ond ellen || forðon he ær fela nearo neðende || niða gedigde hildehlemma || syððan he hroðgares sigoreadig secg || sele fælsode ond æt guðe forgrap || grendeles mægum laðan cynnes || no ðæt læsest wæs hondgemota || ðær mon hygelac sloh syððan geata cyning || guðe ræsum freawine folca || freslondum on hreðles eafora || hiorodryncum swealt bille gebeaten || ðonan biowulf com sylfes cræfte || sundnytte dreah hæfde him on earme || ana ðritig hildegeatwa || ða he to holme beag nealles hetware || hremge ðorfton feðewiges || ðe him foran ongean linde bæron || lyt eft becwom fram ðam hildfrecan || hames niosan oferswam ða sioleða bigong || sunu ecgðeowes earm anhaga || eft to leodum ðær him hygd gebead || hord ond rice beagas ond bregostol || bearne ne truwode ðæt he wið ælfylcum || eðelstolas healdan cuðe || ða wæs hygelac dead no ðy ær feasceafte || findan meahton æt ðam æðelinge || ænige ðinga ðæt he heardrede || hlaford wære oððe ðone cynedom || ciosan wolde hwæðre he him on folce || freondlarum heold estum mid are || oððæt he yldra wearð wedergeatum weold || hyne wræcmæcgas ofer sæ sohtan || suna ohteres hæfdon hy forhealden || helm scylfinga ðone selestan || sæcyninga ðara ðe in swiorice || sinc brytnade mærne ðeoden || him ðæt to mearce wearð he ðær for feorme || feorhwunde hleat sweordes swengum || sunu hygelaces ond him eft gewat || ongenðioes bearn hames niosan || syððan heardred læg let ðone bregostol || biowulf healdan geatum wealdan || ðæt wæs god cyning se ðæs leodhryres || lean gemunde uferan dogrum || eadgilse wearð feasceaftum freond || folce gestepte ofer sæ side || sunu ohteres wigum ond wæpnum || he gewræc syððan cealdum cearsiðum || cyning ealdre bineat swa he niða gehwane || genesen hæfde sliðra geslyhta || sunu ecgðiowes ellenweorca || oð ðone anne dæg ðe he wið ðam wyrme || gewegan sceolde gewat ða twelfa sum || torne gebolgen dryhten geata || dracan sceawian hæfde ða gefrunen || hwanan sio fæhð aras bealonið biorna || him to bearme cwom maððumfæt mære || ðurh ðæs meldan hond se wæs on ðam ðreate || ðreotteoða secg se ðæs orleges || or onstealde hæft hygegiomor || sceolde hean ðonon wong wisian || he ofer willan giong to ðæs ðe he eorðsele || anne wisse hlæw under hrusan || holmwylme neh yðgewinne || se wæs innan full wrætta ond wira || weard unhiore gearo guðfreca || goldmaðmas heold eald under eorðan || næs ðæt yðe ceap to gegangenne || gumena ænigum gesæt ða on næsse || niðheard cyning ðenden hælo abead || heorðgeneatum goldwine geata || him wæs geomor sefa wæfre ond wælfus || wyrd ungemete neah se ðone gomelan || gretan sceolde secean sawle hord || sundur gedælan lif wið lice || no ðon lange wæs feorh æðelinges || flæsce bewunden biowulf maðelade || bearn ecgðeowes fela ic on giogoðe || guðræsa genæs orleghwila || ic ðæt eall gemon ic wæs syfanwintre || ða mec sinca baldor freawine folca || æt minum fæder genam heold mec ond hæfde || hreðel cyning geaf me sinc ond symbel || sibbe gemunde næs ic him to life || laðra owihte beorn in burgum || ðonne his bearna hwylc herebeald ond hæðcyn || oððe hygelac min wæs ðam yldestan || ungedefelice mæges dædum || morðorbed stred syððan hyne hæðcyn || of hornbogan his freawine || flane geswencte miste mercelses || ond his mæg ofscet broðor oðerne || blodigan gare ðæt wæs feohleas gefeoht || fyrenum gesyngad hreðre hygemeðe || sceolde hwæðre swa ðeah æðeling unwrecen || ealdres linnan swa bið geomorlic || gomelum ceorle to gebidanne || ðæt his byre ride giong on galgan || ðonne he gyd wrece sarigne sang || ðonne his sunu hangað hrefne to hroðre || ond he him helpe ne mæg eald ond infrod || ænige gefremman symble bið gemyndgad || morna gehwylce eaforan ellorsið || oðres ne gymeð to gebidanne || burgum in innan yrfeweardas || ðonne se an hafað ðurh deaðes nyd || dæda gefondad gesyhð sorhcearig || on his suna bure winsele westne || windge reste reote berofene || ridend swefað hæleð in hoðman || nis ðær hearpan sweg gomen in geardum || swylce ðær iu wæron gewiteð ðonne on sealman || sorhleoð gæleð an æfter anum || ðuhte him eall to rum wongas ond wicstede || swa wedra helm æfter herebealde || heortan sorge weallende wæg || wihte ne meahte on ðam feorhbonan || fæghðe gebetan no ðy ær he ðone heaðorinc || hatian ne meahte laðum dædum || ðeah him leof ne wæs he ða mid ðære sorhge || ðe him swa sar belamp gumdream ofgeaf || godes leoht geceas eaferum læfde || swa deð eadig mon lond ond leodbyrig || ða he of life gewat ða wæs synn ond sacu || sweona ond geata ofer wid wæter || wroht gemæne herenið hearda || syððan hreðel swealt oððe him ongenðeowes || eaferan wæran frome fyrdhwate || freode ne woldon ofer heafo healdan || ac ymb hreosnabeorh eatolne inwitscear || oft gefremedon ðæt mægwine || mine gewræcan fæhðe ond fyrene || swa hyt gefræge wæs ðeah ðe oðer his || ealdre gebohte heardan ceape || hæðcynne wearð geata dryhtne || guð onsæge ða ic on morgne gefrægn || mæg oðerne billes ecgum || on bonan stælan ðær ongenðeow || eofores niosað guðhelm toglad || gomela scylfing hreas hildeblac || hond gemunde fæhðo genoge || feorhsweng ne ofteah ic him ða maðmas || ðe he me sealde geald æt guðe || swa me gifeðe wæs leohtan sweorde || he me lond forgeaf eard eðelwyn || næs him ænig ðearf ðæt he to gifðum || oððe to gardenum oððe in swiorice || secean ðurfe wyrsan wigfrecan || weorðe gecypan symle ic him on feðan || beforan wolde ana on orde || ond swa to aldre sceall sæcce fremman || ðenden ðis sweord ðolað ðæt mec ær ond sið || oft gelæste syððan ic for dugeðum || dæghrefne wearð to handbonan || huga cempan nalles he ða frætwe || frescyninge breostweorðunge || bringan moste ac in compe gecrong || cumbles hyrde æðeling on elne || ne wæs ecg bona ac him hildegrap || heortan wylmas banhus gebræc || nu sceall billes ecg hond ond heard sweord || ymb hord wigan beowulf maðelode || beotwordum spræc niehstan siðe || ic geneðde fela guða on geogoðe || gyt ic wylle frod folces weard || fæhðe secan mærðu fremman || gif mec se mansceaða of eorðsele || ut geseceð gegrette ða || gumena gehwylcne hwate helmberend || hindeman siðe swæse gesiðas || nolde ic sweord beran wæpen to wyrme || gif ic wiste hu wið ðam aglæcean || elles meahte gylpe wiðgripan || swa ic gio wið grendle dyde ac ic ðær heaðufyres || hates wene oreðes ond attres || forðon ic me on hafu bord ond byrnan || nelle ic beorges weard forfleon fotes trem || ac unc furður sceal weorðan æt wealle || swa unc wyrd geteoð metod manna gehwæs || ic eom on mode from ðæt ic wið ðone guðflogan || gylp ofersitte gebide ge on beorge || byrnum werede secgas on searwum || hwæðer sel mæge æfter wælræse || wunde gedygan uncer twega || nis ðæt eower sið ne gemet mannes || nefne min anes ðæt he wið aglæcean || eofoðo dæle eorlscype efne || ic mid elne sceall gold gegangan || oððe guð nimeð feorhbealu frecne || frean eowerne aras ða bi ronde || rof oretta heard under helme || hiorosercean bær under stancleofu || strengo getruwode anes mannes || ne bið swylc earges sið geseah ða be wealle || se ðe worna fela gumcystum god || guða gedigde hildehlemma || ðonne hnitan feðan stondan stanbogan || stream ut ðonan brecan of beorge || wæs ðære burnan wælm heaðofyrum hat || ne meahte horde neah unbyrnende || ænige hwile deop gedygan || for dracan lege let ða of breostum || ða he gebolgen wæs wedergeata leod || word ut faran stearcheort styrmde || stefn in becom heaðotorht hlynnan || under harne stan hete wæs onhrered || hordweard oncniow mannes reorde || næs ðær mara fyrst freode to friclan || from ærest cwom oruð aglæcean || ut of stane hat hildeswat || hruse dynede biorn under beorge || bordrand onswaf wið ðam gryregieste || geata dryhten ða wæs hringbogan || heorte gefysed sæcce to seceanne || sweord ær gebræd god guðcyning || gomele lafe ecgum unslaw || æghwæðrum wæs bealohycgendra || broga fram oðrum stiðmod gestod || wið steapne rond winia bealdor || ða se wyrm gebeah snude tosomne || he on searwum bad gewat ða byrnende || gebogen scriðan to gescipe scyndan || scyld wel gebearg life ond lice || læssan hwile mærum ðeodne || ðonne his myne sohte ðær he ðy fyrste || forman dogore wealdan moste || swa him wyrd ne gescraf hreð æt hilde || hond up abræd geata dryhten || gryrefahne sloh incgelafe || ðæt sio ecg gewac brun on bane || bat unswiðor ðonne his ðiodcyning || ðearfe hæfde bysigum gebæded || ða wæs beorges weard æfter heaðuswenge || on hreoum mode wearp wælfyre || wide sprungon hildeleoman || hreðsigora ne gealp goldwine geata || guðbill geswac nacod æt niðe || swa hyt no sceolde iren ærgod || ne wæs ðæt eðe sið ðæt se mæra || maga ecgðeowes grundwong ðone || ofgyfan wolde sceolde ofer willan || wic eardian elles hwergen || swa sceal æghwylc mon alætan lændagas || næs ða long to ðon ðæt ða aglæcean hy || eft gemetton hyrte hyne hordweard || hreðer æðme weoll niwan stefne || nearo ðrowode fyre befongen || se ðe ær folce weold nealles him on heape || handgesteallan æðelinga bearn || ymbe gestodon hildecystum || ac hy on holt bugon ealdre burgan || hiora in anum weoll sefa wið sorgum || sibb æfre ne mæg wiht onwendan || ðam ðe wel ðenceð wiglaf wæs haten || weoxstanes sunu leoflic lindwiga || leod scylfinga mæg ælfheres || geseah his mondryhten under heregriman || hat ðrowian gemunde ða ða are || ðe he him ær forgeaf wicstede weligne || wægmundinga folcrihta gehwylc || swa his fæder ahte ne mihte ða forhabban || hond rond gefeng geolwe linde || gomel swyrd geteah ðæt wæs mid eldum || eanmundes laf suna ohteres || ðam æt sæcce wearð wræccan wineleasum || weohstan bana meces ecgum || ond his magum ætbær brunfagne helm || hringde byrnan eald sweord etonisc || ðæt him onela forgeaf his gædelinges || guðgewædu fyrdsearo fuslic || no ymbe ða fæhðe spræc ðeah ðe he his broðor bearn || abredwade he frætwe geheold || fela missera bill ond byrnan || oððæt his byre mihte eorlscipe efnan || swa his ærfæder geaf him ða mid geatum || guðgewæda æghwæs unrim || ða he of ealdre gewat frod on forðweg || ða wæs forma sið geongan cempan || ðæt he guðe ræs mid his freodryhtne || fremman sceolde ne gemealt him se modsefa || ne his mæges laf gewac æt wige || ðæt se wyrm onfand syððan hie togædre || gegan hæfdon wiglaf maðelode || wordrihta fela sægde gesiðum || him wæs sefa geomor ic ðæt mæl geman || ðær we medu ðegun ðonne we geheton || ussum hlaforde in biorsele || ðe us ðas beagas geaf ðæt we him ða guðgetawa || gyldan woldon gif him ðyslicu || ðearf gelumpe helmas ond heard sweord || ðe he usic on herge geceas to ðyssum siðfate || sylfes willum onmunde usic mærða || ond me ðas maðmas geaf ðe he usic garwigend || gode tealde hwate helmberend || ðeah ðe hlaford us ðis ellenweorc || ana aðohte to gefremmanne || folces hyrde for ðam he manna mæst || mærða gefremede dæda dollicra || nu is se dæg cumen ðæt ure mandryhten || mægenes behofað godra guðrinca || wutun gongan to helpan hildfruman || ðenden hyt sy gledegesa grim || god wat on mec ðæt me is micle leofre || ðæt minne lichaman mid minne goldgyfan || gled fæðmie ne ðynceð me gerysne || ðæt we rondas beren eft to earde || nemne we æror mægen fane gefyllan || feorh ealgian wedra ðeodnes || ic wat geare ðæt næron ealdgewyrht || ðæt he ana scyle geata duguðe || gnorn ðrowian gesigan æt sæcce || urum sceal sweord ond helm byrne ond beaduscrud || bam gemæne wod ða ðurh ðone wælrec || wigheafolan bær frean on fultum || fea worda cwæð leofa biowulf || læst eall tela swa ðu on geoguðfeore || geara gecwæde ðæt ðu ne alæte || be ðe lifigendum dom gedreosan || scealt nu dædum rof æðeling anhydig || ealle mægene feorh ealgian || ic ðe fullæstu æfter ðam wordum || wyrm yrre cwom atol inwitgæst || oðre siðe fyrwylmum fah || fionda niosian laðra manna || ligyðum for born bord wið rond || byrne ne meahte geongum garwigan || geoce gefremman ac se maga geonga || under his mæges scyld elne geeode || ða his agen wæs gledum forgrunden || ða gen guðcyning mærða gemunde || mægenstrengo sloh hildebille || ðæt hyt on heafolan stod niðe genyded || nægling forbærst geswac æt sæcce || sweord biowulfes gomol ond grægmæl || him ðæt gifeðe ne wæs ðæt him irenna || ecge mihton helpan æt hilde || wæs sio hond to strong se ðe meca gehwane || mine gefræge swenge ofersohte || ðonne he to sæcce bær wæpen wundrum heard || næs him wihte ðe sel ða wæs ðeodsceaða || ðriddan siðe frecne fyrdraca || fæhða gemyndig ræsde on ðone rofan || ða him rum ageald hat ond heaðogrim || heals ealne ymbefeng biteran banum || he geblodegod wearð sawuldriore || swat yðum weoll ða ic æt ðearfe gefrægn || ðeodcyninges andlongne eorl || ellen cyðan cræft ond cenðu || swa him gecynde wæs ne hedde he ðæs heafolan || ac sio hand gebarn modiges mannes || ðær he his mæges healp ðæt he ðone niðgæst || nioðor hwene sloh secg on searwum || ðæt ðæt sweord gedeaf fah ond fæted || ðæt ðæt fyr ongon sweðrian syððan || ða gen sylf cyning geweold his gewitte || wællseaxe gebræd biter ond beaduscearp || ðæt he on byrnan wæg forwrat wedra helm || wyrm on middan feond gefyldan || ferh ellen wræc ond hi hyne ða begen || abroten hæfdon sibæðelingas || swylc sceolde secg wesan ðegn æt ðearfe || ðæt ðam ðeodne wæs siðast sigehwila || sylfes dædum worlde geweorces || ða sio wund ongon ðe him se eorðdraca || ær geworhte swelan ond swellan || he ðæt sona onfand ðæt him on breostum || bealoniðe weoll attor on innan || ða se æðeling giong ðæt he bi wealle || wishycgende gesæt on sesse || seah on enta geweorc hu ða stanbogan || stapulum fæste ece eorðreced || innan healde hyne ða mid handa || heorodreorigne ðeoden mærne || ðegn ungemete till winedryhten his || wætere gelafede hilde sædne || ond his helm onspeon biowulf maðelode || he ofer benne spræc wunde wælbleate || wisse he gearwe ðæt he dæghwila || gedrogen hæfde eorðan wynne || ða wæs eall sceacen dogorgerimes || deað ungemete neah nu ic suna minum || syllan wolde guðgewædu || ðær me gifeðe swa ænig yrfeweard || æfter wurde lice gelenge || ic ðas leode heold fiftig wintra || næs se folccyning ymbesittendra || ænig ðara ðe mec guðwinum || gretan dorste egesan ðeon || ic on earde bad mælgesceafta || heold min tela ne sohte searoniðas || ne me swor fela aða on unriht || ic ðæs ealles mæg feorhbennum seoc || gefean habban for ðam me witan ne ðearf || waldend fira morðorbealo maga || ðonne min sceaceð lif of lice || nu ðu lungre geong hord sceawian || under harne stan wiglaf leofa || nu se wyrm ligeð swefeð sare wund || since bereafod bio nu on ofoste || ðæt ic ærwelan goldæht ongite || gearo sceawige swegle searogimmas || ðæt ic ðy seft mæge æfter maððumwelan || min alætan lif ond leodscipe || ðone ic longe heold ða ic snude gefrægn || sunu wihstanes æfter wordcwydum || wundum dryhtne hyran heaðosiocum || hringnet beran brogdne beadusercean || under beorges hrof geseah ða sigehreðig || ða he bi sesse geong magoðegn modig || maððumsigla fealo gold glitinian || grunde getenge wundur on wealle || ond ðæs wyrmes denn ealdes uhtflogan || orcas stondan fyrnmanna fatu || feormendlease hyrstum behrorene || ðær wæs helm monig eald ond omig || earmbeaga fela searwum gesæled || sinc eaðe mæg gold on grunde || gumcynnes gehwone oferhigian || hyde se ðe wylle swylce he siomian geseah || segn eallgylden heah ofer horde || hondwundra mæst gelocen leoðocræftum || of ðam leoma stod ðæt he ðone grundwong || ongitan meahte wræte giondwlitan || næs ðæs wyrmes ðær onsyn ænig || ac hyne ecg fornam ða ic on hlæwe gefrægn || hord reafian eald enta geweorc || anne mannan him on bearm hladon || bunan ond discas sylfes dome || segn eac genom beacna beorhtost || bill ær gescod ecg wæs iren || ealdhlafordes ðam ðara maðma || mundbora wæs longe hwile || ligegesan wæg hatne for horde || hioroweallende middelnihtum || oððæt he morðre swealt ar wæs on ofoste || eftsiðes georn frætwum gefyrðred || hyne fyrwet bræc hwæðer collenferð || cwicne gemette in ðam wongstede || wedra ðeoden ellensiocne || ðær he hine ær forlet he ða mid ðam maðmum || mærne ðioden dryhten sinne || driorigne fand ealdres æt ende || he hine eft ongon wæteres weorpan || oððæt wordes ord breosthord ðurhbræc || gomel on giohðe || gold sceawode ic ðara frætwa || frean ealles ðanc wuldurcyninge || wordum secge ecum dryhtne || ðe ic her on starie ðæs ðe ic moste || minum leodum ær swyltdæge || swylc gestrynan nu ic on maðma hord || mine bebohte frode feorhlege || fremmað gena leoda ðearfe || ne mæg ic her leng wesan hatað heaðomære || hlæw gewyrcean beorhtne æfter bæle || æt brimes nosan se scel to gemyndum || minum leodum heah hlifian || on hronesnæsse ðæt hit sæliðend || syððan hatan biowulfes biorh || ða ðe brentingas ofer floda genipu || feorran drifað dyde him of healse || hring gyldenne ðioden ðristhydig || ðegne gesealde geongum garwigan || goldfahne helm beah ond byrnan || het hyne brucan well ðu eart endelaf || usses cynnes wægmundinga || ealle wyrd forsweop mine magas || to metodsceafte eorlas on elne || ic him æfter sceal ðæt wæs ðam gomelan || gingæste word breostgehygdum || ær he bæl cure hate heaðowylmas || him of hreðre gewat sawol secean || soðfæstra dom ða wæs gegongen || guman unfrodum earfoðlice || ðæt he on eorðan geseah ðone leofestan || lifes æt ende bleate gebæran || bona swylce læg egeslic eorðdraca || ealdre bereafod bealwe gebæded || beahhordum leng wyrm wohbogen || wealdan ne moste ac hine irenna || ecga fornamon hearde heaðoscearde || homera lafe ðæt se widfloga || wundum stille hreas on hrusan || hordærne neah nalles æfter lyfte || lacende hwearf middelnihtum || maðmæhta wlonc ansyn ywde || ac he eorðan gefeoll for ðæs hildfruman || hondgeweorce huru ðæt on lande || lyt manna ðah mægenagendra || mine gefræge ðeah ðe he dæda gehwæs || dyrstig wære ðæt he wið attorsceaðan || oreðe geræsde oððe hringsele || hondum styrede gif he wæccende || weard onfunde buon on beorge || biowulfe wearð dryhtmaðma dæl || deaðe forgolden hæfde æghwæðer || ende gefered lænan lifes || næs ða lang to ðon ðæt ða hildlatan || holt ofgefan tydre treowlogan || tyne ætsomne ða ne dorston ær || dareðum lacan on hyra mandryhtnes || miclan ðearfe ac hy scamiende || scyldas bæran guðgewædu || ðær se gomela læg wlitan on wilaf || he gewergad sæt feðecempa || frean eaxlum neah wehte hyne wætre || him wiht ne speow ne meahte he on eorðan || ðeah he uðe wel on ðam frumgare || feorh gehealdan ne ðæs wealdendes || wiht oncirran wolde dom godes || dædum rædan gumena gehwylcum || swa he nu gen deð ða wæs æt ðam geongan || grim ondswaru eðbegete || ðam ðe ær his elne forleas wiglaf maðelode || weohstanes sunu sec sarigferð || seah on unleofe ðæt la mæg secgan || se ðe wyle soð specan ðæt se mondryhten || se eow ða maðmas geaf eoredgeatwe || ðe ge ðær on standað ðonne he on ealubence || oft gesealde healsittendum || helm ond byrnan ðeoden his ðegnum || swylce he ðrydlicost ower feor oððe neah || findan meahte ðæt he genunga || guðgewædu wraðe forwurpe || ða hyne wig beget nealles folccyning || fyrdgesteallum gylpan ðorfte || hwæðre him god uðe sigora waldend || ðæt he hyne sylfne gewræc ana mid ecge || ða him wæs elnes ðearf ic him lifwraðe || lytle meahte ætgifan æt guðe || ond ongan swa ðeah ofer min gemet || mæges helpan symle wæs ðy sæmra || ðonne ic sweorde drep ferhðgeniðlan || fyr unswiðor weoll of gewitte || wergendra to lyt ðrong ymbe ðeoden || ða hyne sio ðrag becwom nu sceal sincðego || ond swyrdgifu eall eðelwyn || eowrum cynne lufen alicgean || londrihtes mot ðære mægburge || monna æghwylc idel hweorfan || syððan æðelingas feorran gefricgean || fleam eowerne domleasan dæd || deað bið sella eorla gehwylcum || ðonne edwitlif heht ða ðæt heaðoweorc || to hagan biodan up ofer ecgclif || ðær ðæt eorlweorod morgenlongne dæg || modgiomor sæt bordhæbbende || bega on wenum endedogores || ond eftcymes leofes monnes || lyt swigode niwra spella || se ðe næs gerad ac he soðlice || sægde ofer ealle nu is wilgeofa || wedra leoda dryhten geata || deaðbedde fæst wunað wælreste || wyrmes dædum him on efn ligeð || ealdorgewinna sexbennum seoc || sweorde ne meahte on ðam aglæcean || ænige ðinga wunde gewyrcean || wiglaf siteð ofer biowulfe || byre wihstanes eorl ofer oðrum || unlifigendum healdeð higemæðum || heafodwearde leofes ond laðes || nu ys leodum wen orleghwile || syððan underne froncum ond frysum || fyll cyninges wide weorðeð || wæs sio wroht scepen heard wið hugas || syððan higelac cwom faran flotherge || on fresna land ðær hyne hetware || hilde genægdon elne geeodon || mid ofermægene ðæt se byrnwiga || bugan sceolde feoll on feðan || nalles frætwe geaf ealdor dugoðe || us wæs a syððan merewioingas || milts ungyfeðe ne ic to sweoðeode || sibbe oððe treowe wihte ne wene || ac wæs wide cuð ðætte ongenðio || ealdre besnyðede hæðcen hreðling || wið hrefnawudu ða for onmedlan || ærest gesohton geata leode || guðscilfingas sona him se froda || fæder ohtheres eald ond egesfull || ondslyht ageaf abreot brimwisan || bryd ahredde gomela iomeowlan || golde berofene onelan modor || ond ohtheres ond ða folgode || feorhgeniðlan oððæt hi oðeodon || earfoðlice in hrefnesholt || hlafordlease besæt ða sinherge || sweorda lafe wundum werge || wean oft gehet earmre teohhe || ondlonge niht cwæð he on mergenne || meces ecgum getan wolde || sum on galgtreowum fuglum to gamene || frofor eft gelamp sarigmodum || somod ærdæge syððan hie hygelaces || horn ond byman gealdor ongeaton || ða se goda com leoda dugoðe || on last faran wæs sio swatswaðu || sweona ond geata wælræs weora || wide gesyne hu ða folc mid him || fæhðe towehton gewat him ða se goda || mid his gædelingum frod felageomor || fæsten secean eorl ongenðio || ufor oncirde hæfde higelaces || hilde gefrunen wlonces wigcræft || wiðres ne truwode ðæt he sæmannum || onsacan mihte heaðoliðendum || hord forstandan bearn ond bryde || beah eft ðonan eald under eorðweall || ða wæs æht boden sweona leodum || segn higelaces freoðowong ðone || forð ofereodon syððan hreðlingas || to hagan ðrungon ðær wearð ongenðiow || ecgum sweorda blondenfexa || on bid wrecen ðæt se ðeodcyning || ðafian sceolde eafores anne dom || hyne yrringa wulf wonreding || wæpne geræhte ðæt him for swenge || swat ædrum sprong forð under fexe || næs he forht swa ðeh gomela scilfing || ac forgeald hraðe wyrsan wrixle || wælhlem ðone syððan ðeodcyning || ðyder oncirde ne meahte se snella || sunu wonredes ealdum ceorle || ondslyht giofan ac he him on heafde || helm ær gescer ðæt he blode fah || bugan sceolde feoll on foldan || næs he fæge ða git ac he hyne gewyrpte || ðeah ðe him wund hrine let se hearda || higelaces ðegn bradne mece || ða his broðor læg eald sweord eotonisc || entiscne helm brecan ofer bordweal || ða gebeah cyning folces hyrde || wæs in feorh dropen ða wæron monige || ðe his mæg wriðon ricone arærdon || ða him gerymed wearð ðæt hie wælstowe || wealdan moston ðenden reafode || rinc oðerne nam on ongenðio || irenbyrnan heard swyrd hilted || ond his helm somod hares hyrste || higelace bær he ðam frætwum feng || ond him fægre gehet leana mid leodum || ond gelæste swa geald ðone guðræs || geata dryhten hreðles eafora || ða he to ham becom iofore ond wulfe || mid ofermaðmum sealde hiora gehwæðrum || hund ðusenda landes ond locenra beaga || ne ðorfte him ða lean oðwitan mon on middangearde || syððan hie ða mærða geslogon ond ða iofore forgeaf || angan dohtor hamweorðunge || hyldo to wedde ðæt ys sio fæhðo || ond se feondscipe wælnið wera || ðæs ðe ic wen hafo ðe us seceað to || sweona leoda syððan hie gefricgeað || frean userne ealdorleasne || ðone ðe ær geheold wið hettendum || hord ond rice æfter hæleða hryre || hwate scildingas folcred fremede || oððe furður gen eorlscipe efnde || nu is ofost betost ðæt we ðeodcyning || ðær sceawian ond ðone gebringan || ðe us beagas geaf on adfære || ne scel anes hwæt meltan mid ðam modigan || ac ðær is maðma hord gold unrime || grimme geceapod ond nu æt siðestan || sylfes feore beagas gebohte || ða sceall brond fretan æled ðeccean || nalles eorl wegan maððum to gemyndum || ne mægð scyne habban on healse || hringweorðunge ac sceal geomormod || golde bereafod oft nalles æne || elland tredan nu se herewisa || hleahtor alegde gamen ond gleodream || forðon sceall gar wesan monig morgenceald || mundum bewunden hæfen on handa || nalles hearpan sweg wigend weccean || ac se wonna hrefn fus ofer fægum || fela reordian earne secgan || hu him æt æte speow ðenden he wið wulf || wæl reafode swa se secg hwata || secggende wæs laðra spella || he ne leag fela wyrda ne worda || weorod eall aras eodon unbliðe || under earnanæs wollenteare || wundur sceawian fundon ða on sande || sawulleasne hlimbed healdan || ðone ðe him hringas geaf ærran mælum || ða wæs endedæg godum gegongen || ðæt se guðcyning wedra ðeoden || wundordeaðe swealt ær hi ðær gesegan || syllicran wiht wyrm on wonge || wiðerræhtes ðær laðne licgean || wæs se legdraca grimlic gryrefah || gledum beswæled se wæs fiftiges || fotgemearces lang on legere || lyftwynne heold nihtes hwilum || nyðer eft gewat dennes niosian || wæs ða deaðe fæst hæfde eorðscrafa || ende genyttod him big stodan || bunan ond orcas discas lagon || ond dyre swyrd omige ðurhetone || swa hie wið eorðan fæðm ðusend wintra || ðær eardodon ðonne wæs ðæt yrfe || eacencræftig iumonna gold || galdre bewunden ðæt ðam hringsele || hrinan ne moste gumena ænig || nefne god sylfa sigora soðcyning || sealde ðam ðe he wolde he is manna gehyld || hord openian efne swa hwylcum manna || swa him gemet ðuhte ða wæs gesyne || ðæt se sið ne ðah ðam ðe unrihte || inne gehydde wræte under wealle || weard ær ofsloh feara sumne || ða sio fæhð gewearð gewrecen wraðlice || wundur hwar ðonne eorl ellenrof || ende gefere lifgesceafta || ðonne leng ne mæg mon mid his magum || meduseld buan swa wæs biowulfe || ða he biorges weard sohte searoniðas || seolfa ne cuðe ðurh hwæt his worulde gedal || weorðan sceolde swa hit oð domes dæg || diope benemdon ðeodnas mære || ða ðæt ðær dydon ðæt se secg wære || synnum scildig hergum geheaðerod || hellbendum fæst wommum gewitnad || se ðone wong strude næs he goldhwæte || gearwor hæfde agendes est || ær gesceawod wiglaf maðelode || wihstanes sunu oft sceall eorl monig || anes willan wræc adreogan || swa us geworden is ne meahton we gelæran || leofne ðeoden rices hyrde || ræd ænigne ðæt he ne grette || goldweard ðone lete hyne licgean || ðær he longe wæs wicum wunian || oð woruldende heold on heahgesceap || hord ys gesceawod grimme gegongen || wæs ðæt gifeðe to swið ðe ðone ðeodcyning || ðyder ontyhte ic wæs ðær inne || ond ðæt eall geondseh recedes geatwa || ða me gerymed wæs nealles swæslice || sið alyfed inn under eorðweall || ic on ofoste gefeng micle mid mundum || mægenbyrðenne hordgestreona || hider ut ætbær cyninge minum || cwico wæs ða gena wis ond gewittig || worn eall gespræc gomol on gehðo || ond eowic gretan het bæd ðæt ge geworhton || æfter wines dædum in bælstede || beorh ðone hean micelne ond mærne || swa he manna wæs wigend weorðfullost || wide geond eorðan ðenden he burhwelan || brucan moste uton nu efstan || oðre siðe seon ond secean || searogimma geðræc wundur under wealle || ic eow wisige ðæt ge genoge || neon sceawiað beagas ond brad gold || sie sio bær gearo ædre geæfned || ðonne we ut cymen ond ðonne geferian || frean userne leofne mannan || ðær he longe sceal on ðæs waldendes || wære geðolian het ða gebeodan || byre wihstanes hæle hildedior || hæleða monegum boldagendra || ðæt hie bælwudu feorran feredon || folcagende godum togenes || nu sceal gled fretan weaxan wonna leg || wigena strengel ðone ðe oft gebad || isernscure ðonne stræla storm || strengum gebæded scoc ofer scildweall || sceft nytte heold feðergearwum fus || flane fulleode huru se snotra || sunu wihstanes acigde of corðre || cyninges ðegnas syfone tosomne || ða selestan eode eahta sum || under inwithrof hilderinca || sum on handa bær æledleoman || se ðe on orde geong næs ða on hlytme || hwa ðæt hord strude syððan orwearde || ænigne dæl secgas gesegon || on sele wunian læne licgan || lyt ænig mearn ðæt hi ofostlice || ut geferedon dyre maðmas || dracan ec scufun wyrm ofer weallclif || leton weg niman flod fæðmian || frætwa hyrde ða wæs wunden gold || on wæn hladen æghwæs unrim || æðeling boren har hilderinc || to hronesnæsse him ða gegiredan || geata leode ad on eorðan || unwaclicne helmum behongen || hildebordum beorhtum byrnum || swa he bena wæs alegdon ða tomiddes || mærne ðeoden hæleð hiofende || hlaford leofne ongunnon ða on beorge || bælfyra mæst wigend weccan || wudurec astah sweart ofer swioðole || swogende leg wope bewunden || windblond gelæg oððæt he ða banhus || gebrocen hæfde hat on hreðre || higum unrote modceare mændon || mondryhtnes cwealm swylce giomorgyd || geatisc meowle || bundenheorde song sorgcearig || swiðe geneahhe ðæt hio hyre heofungdagas || hearde ondrede wælfylla worn || werudes egesan hynðo ond hæftnyd || heofon rece swealg geworhton ða || wedra leode hleo on hoe || se wæs heah ond brad wægliðendum || wide gesyne ond betimbredon || on tyn dagum beadurofes becn || bronda lafe wealle beworhton || swa hyt weorðlicost foresnotre men || findan mihton hi on beorg dydon || beg ond siglu eall swylce hyrsta || swylce on horde ær niðhedige men || genumen hæfdon forleton eorla gestreon || eorðan healdan gold on greote || ðær hit nu gen lifað eldum swa unnyt || swa hit æror wæs ða ymbe hlæw riodan || hildediore æðelinga bearn || ealra twelfe woldon ceare cwiðan || ond cyning mænan wordgyd wrecan || ond ymb wer sprecan eahtodan eorlscipe || ond his ellenweorc duguðum demdon || swa hit gedefe bið ðæt mon his winedryhten || wordum herge ferhðum freoge || ðonne he forð scile of lichaman || læded weorðan swa begnornodon || geata leode hlafordes hryre || heorðgeneatas cwædon ðæt he wære || wyruldcyninga manna mildust || ond monðwærust leodum liðost || ond lofgeornost