ârfäst ät ecga gelâcum. Spräc þâ ides Scyldinga: 1170 "Onfôh þissum fulle, freó-drihten mîn, "sinces brytta; þu on sælum wes, "gold-wine gumena, and tô Geátum sprec "mildum wordum! Swâ sceal man dôn. "Beó wið Geátas gläd, geofena gemyndig; 1175 "neán and feorran þu nu friðu hafast. "Me man sägde, þät þu þe for sunu wolde "here-rinc habban. Heorot is gefælsod, "beáh-sele beorhta; brûc þenden þu môte "manigra mêda and þînum mâgum læf 1180 "folc and rîce, þonne þu forð scyle "metod-sceaft seón. Ic mînne can "glädne Hrôðulf, þät he þâ geogoðe wile "ârum healdan, gyf þu ær þonne he, "wine Scildinga, worold oflætest; 1185 "wêne ic, þät he mid gôde gyldan wille "uncran eaferan, gif he þät eal gemon, "hwät wit tô willan and tô worð-myndum "umbor wesendum ær ârna gefremedon." Hwearf þâ bî bence, þær hyre byre wæron, 1190 Hrêðrîc and Hrôðmund, and häleða bearn, giogoð ätgädere; þær se gôda sät Beówulf Geáta be þæm gebrôðrum twæm. XIX. BEÓWULF'S JEWELLED COLLAR. THE HEROES REST. Him wäs ful boren and freónd-laðu wordum bewägned and wunden gold 1195 êstum geeáwed, earm-hreáde twâ, hrägl and hringas, heals-beága mæst þâra þe ic on foldan gefrägen häbbe. Nænigne ic under swegle sêlran hýrde hord-mâððum häleða, syððan Hâma ätwäg 1200 tô þære byrhtan byrig Brosinga mene, sigle and sinc-fät, searo-nîðas fealh Eormenrîces, geceás êcne ræd. Þone hring häfde Higelâc Geáta, nefa Swertinges, nýhstan sîðe, 1205 siððan he under segne sinc ealgode, wäl-reáf werede; hyne Wyrd fornam, syððan he for wlenco weán âhsode, fæhðe tô Frysum; he þâ frätwe wäg, eorclan-stânas ofer ýða ful, 1210 rîce þeóden, he under rande gecranc; gehwearf þâ in Francna fäðm feorh cyninges, breóst-gewædu and se beáh somod: wyrsan wîg-frecan wäl reáfedon äfter gûð-sceare, Geáta leóde 1215 hreâ-wîc heóldon. Heal swêge onfêng. Wealhþeó maðelode, heó fore þäm werede spräc: "Brûc þisses beáges, Beówulf, leófa "hyse, mid hæle, and þisses hrägles neót "þeód-gestreóna, and geþeóh tela, 1220 "cen þec mid cräfte and þyssum cnyhtum wes "lâra lîðe! ic þe þäs leán geman. "Hafast þu gefêred, þät þe feor and neáh "ealne wîde-ferhð weras ehtigað, "efne swâ sîde swâ sæ bebûgeð 1225 "windige weallas. Wes, þenden þu lifige, "äðeling eádig! ic þe an tela "sinc-gestreóna. Beó þu suna mînum "dædum gedêfe dreám healdende! "Her is æghwylc eorl ôðrum getrýwe, 1230 "môdes milde, man-drihtne hold, "þegnas syndon geþwære, þeód eal gearo: