grētte Gēata lēod, gode þancode wīs-fæst wordum, þæs þe hire se willa gelamp, þæt hēo on ǣnigne eorl gelȳfde fyrena frōfre. Hē þæt ful geþeah, 630 wæl-rēow wiga æt Wealhþēon, and þā gyddode gūðe gefȳsed, Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes: "Ic þæt hogode, þā ic on holm gestāh, "sǣ-bāt gesæt mid mīnra secga gedriht, 635 "þæt ic ānunga ēowra lēoda "willan geworhte, oððe on wæl crunge, "fēond-grāpum fæst. Ic gefremman sceal "eorlīc ellen, oððe ende-dæg "on þisse meodu-healle mīnne gebīdan." 640 Þām wīfe þā word wēl līcodon, gilp-cwide Gēates; ēode gold-hroden frēolīcu folc-cwēn tō hire frēan sittan. Þā wæs eft swā ǣr inne on healle þrȳð-word sprecen, þēod on sǣlum, 645 sige-folca swēg, oð þæt semninga sunu Healfdenes sēcean wolde ǣfen-ræste; wiste æt þǣm āhlǣcan tō þǣm hēah-sele hilde geþinged, siððan hīe sunnan lēoht gesēon ne meahton, 650 oððe nīpende niht ofer ealle, scadu-helma gesceapu scrīðan cwōman, wan under wolcnum. Werod eall ārās. Grētte þā giddum guma ōðerne, Hrōðgār Bēowulf, and him hǣl ābēad, 655 wīn-ærnes geweald and þæt word ācwæð: "Nǣfre ic ǣnegum men ǣr ālȳfde, "siððan ic hond and rond hebban mihte, "þrȳð-ærn Dena būton þē nū þā. "Hafa nū and geheald hūsa sēlest; 660 "gemyne mǣrðo, mægen-ellen cȳð, "waca wið wrāðum! Ne bið þē wilna gād, "gif þū þæt ellen-weorc aldre gedīgest." XI. THE WATCH FOR GRENDEL.