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þæt hit ellen-weorcæfnan scolde.
1465Hūru ne gemundemago Ecglāfes
eafoþes cræftig,þæt hē ǣr gespræc
wīne druncen,þā hā þæs wǣpnes onlāh
sēlran sweord-frecan;selfa ne dorste
under ȳða gewinaldre genēþan,
1470driht-scype drēogan;þǣr hē dōme forlēas,
ellen-*mǣrðum.^[1]Ne wæs þǣm ōðrum swā,Fol. 162b.
syðþan hē hine tō gūðegegyred hæfde.

XXII.

Bēowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:
“Geþenc nū, se mǣramaga Healfdenes,
1475snottra fengel,nū ic eom sīðes fūs,
gold-wine gumena,hwæt wit gēo sprǣcon:
gif ic æt þearfeþīnre scolde
aldre linnan,þæt ðū mē ā wǣre
forð-gewitenumon fæder stǣle.
1480Wes þū mund-boramīnum mago-þegnum,^[2]
hond-gesellum,gif mec hild nime;
swylce þū ðā mādmas,þe þū mē sealdest,
Hrōðgār lēofa,Higelāce onsend.
Mæg þonne on þǣm golde ongitanGēata dryhten,
1485gesēon sunu Hrēðles,^[3]þonne hē on þæt sinc starað,
þæt ic gum-cystumgōdne funde
bēaga bryttan,brēac þonne mōste.

1. 1471. AB ‘mærdam’; Thorpe ‘mærðum’; Zupitza ‘mær^um’: “um at the end of the word is still distinct, and before um I think I see a considerable part of rð.”
2. 1480. Heyne divides this line wrongly, after mīnum.
3. 1485. MS. ‘hrædles.’