"sīða gesunde! ic tō sǣ wille, "wið wrāð werod wearde healdan." VI. BĒOWULF'S SPEECH. 320 Strǣt wæs stān-fāh, stīg wīsode gumum ætgædere. Gūð-byrne scān heard hond-locen, hring-īren scīr song in searwum, þā hīe tō sele furðum in hyra gryre-geatwum gangan cwōmon. 325 Setton sǣ-mēðe sīde scyldas, rondas regn-hearde wið þæs recedes weal, bugon þā tō bence; byrnan hringdon, gūð-searo gumena; gāras stōdon, sǣ-manna searo, samod ætgædere, 330 æsc-holt ufan grǣg: wæs se īren-þrēat wǣpnum gewurðad. Þā þǣr wlonc hæleð ōret-mecgas æfter æðelum frægn: "Hwanon ferigeað gē fǣtte scyldas, "grǣge syrcan and grīm-helmas, 335 "here-sceafta hēap?-- Ic eom Hrōðgāres "ār and ombiht. Ne seah ic el-þēodige "þus manige men mōdiglīcran. "Wēn' ic þæt gē for wlenco, nalles for wræc-sīðum, "ac for hige-þrymmum Hrōðgār sōhton." 340 Him þā ellen-rōf andswarode, wlanc Wedera lēod word æfter spræc, heard under helme: "Wē synt Higelāces "bēod-genēatas; Bēowulf is mīn nama. "Wille ic āsecgan suna Healfdenes, 345 "mǣrum þēodne mīn ǣrende, "aldre þīnum, gif hē ūs geunnan wile, "þæt wē hine swā gōdne grētan mōton." Wulfgār maðelode (þæt wæs Wendla lēod, wæs his mōd-sefa manegum gecȳðed, 350 wīg and wīs-dōm): "ic þæs wine Deniga, "frēan Scildinga frīnan wille, "bēaga bryttan, swā þū bēna eart, "þēoden mǣrne ymb þīnne sīð ; "and þē þā andsware ǣdre gecȳðan, 355 "þē mē se gōda āgifan þenceð." Hwearf þā hrædlīce, þǣr Hrōðgār sæt, eald and unhār mid his eorla gedriht; ēode ellen-rōf, þæt hē for eaxlum gestōd Deniga frēan, cūðe hē duguðe þēaw. 360 Wulfgār maðelode tō his wine-drihtne: "Hēr syndon geferede feorran cumene "ofer geofenes begang Gēata lēode: "þone yldestan ōret-mecgas "Bēowulf nemnað. Hȳ bēnan synt, 365 "þæt hīe, þēoden mīn, wið þē mōton "wordum wrixlan; nō þū him wearne getēoh, "þīnra gegn-cwida glædnian, Hrōðgār! "Hȳ on wīg-geatwum wyrðe þinceað "eorla geæhtlan; hūru se aldor dēah, 370 "sē þǣm heaðo-rincum hider wīsade." VII. HROTHGAR'S WELCOME.