"Swā mec gelōme lāð-getēonan 560 "þrēatedon þearle. Ic him þēnode "dēoran sweorde, swā hit gedēfe wæs; "næs hīe þǣre fylle gefēan hæfdon, "mān-fordǣdlan, þæt hīe mē þēgon, "symbel ymb-sǣton sǣ-grunde nēah, 565 "ac on mergenne mēcum wunde "be ȳð-lāfe uppe lǣgon, "sweordum āswefede, þæt syððan nā "ymb brontne ford brim-līðende "lāde ne letton. Lēoht ēastan cōm, 570 "beorht bēacen godes; brimu swaðredon, "þæt ic sǣ-næssas gesēon mihte, "windige weallas. Wyrd oft nereð "unfǣgne eorl, ðonne his ellen dēah! "Hwæðere mē gesǣlde, þæt ic mid sweorde ofslōh 575 "niceras nigene. Nō ic on niht gefrægn "under heofones hwealf heardran feohtan, "nē on ēg-strēamum earmran mannan; "hwæðere ic fāra feng fēore gedīgde, "siðes wērig. Þā mec sǣ oðbær, 580 "flōd æfter faroðe, on Finna land, "wadu weallendu. Nō ic wiht fram þē "swylcra searo-nīða secgan hȳrde, "billa brōgan: Breca nǣfre gīt "æt heaðo-lāce, nē gehwæðer incer 585 "swā dēorlīce dǣd gefremede "fāgum sweordum . . . . . . . ". . . . . . . nō ic þæs gylpe; "þēah þū þīnum brōðrum tō banan wurde, "hēafod-mǣgum; þæs þū in helle scealt 590 "werhðo drēogan, þēah þīn wit duge, "Secge ic þē tō sōðe, sunu Ecglāfes, "þæt nǣfre Grendel swā fela gryra gefremede, "atol ǣglǣca ealdre þīnum, "hȳnðo on Heorote, gif þīn hige wǣre, 595 "sefa swā searo-grim, swā þū self talast. "Ac hē hafað onfunden, þæt hē þā fǣhðe ne þearf, "atole ecg-þræce ēower lēode "swīðe onsittan, Sige-Scyldinga; "nymeð nȳd-bāde, nǣnegum ārað 600 "lēode Deniga, ac hē on lust wīgeð, "swefeð ond sendeð, secce ne wēneð "tō Gār-Denum. Ac him Gēata sceal "eafoð and ellen ungeāra nū "gūðe gebēodan. Gǣð eft sē þe mōt 605 "tō medo mōdig, siððan morgen-lēoht "ofer ylda bearn ōðres dōgores, "sunne swegl-wered sūðan scīneð!" Þā wæs on sālum sinces brytta gamol-feax and gūð-rōf, gēoce gelȳfde 610 brego Beorht-Dena; gehȳrde on Bēowulfe folces hyrde fæst-rǣdne geþōht. Þǣr wæs hæleða hleahtor; hlyn swynsode, word wǣron wynsume. Ēode Wealhþēow forð, cwēn Hrōðgāres, cynna gemyndig, 615 grētte gold-hroden guman on healle, and þā frēolīc wīf ful gesealde ǣrest Ēast-Dena ēðel-wearde, bæd hine blīðne æt þǣre bēor-þege, lēodum lēofne; hē on lust geþeah 620 symbel and sele-ful, sige-rōf kyning. Ymb-ēode þā ides Helminga duguðe and geogoðe dǣl ǣghwylcne; sinc-fato sealde, oð þæt sǣl ālamp, þæt hīo Bēowulfe, bēag-hroden cwēn, 625 mōde geþungen, medo-ful ætbær;