golde geregnad, þǣr þā graman wunnon; þæs ne wēndon ǣr witan Scyldinga, 780 þæt hit ā mid gemete manna ǣnig betlīc and bān-fāg tōbrecan meahte, listum tōlūcan, nymðe līges fæðm swulge on swaðule. Swēg up āstāg nīwe geneahhe; Norð-Denum stōd 785 atelīc egesa ānra gehwylcum þāra þe of wealle wōp gehȳrdon, gryre-lēoð galan godes andsacan, sige-lēasne sang, sār wānigean helle hæftan. Hēold hine tō fæste 790 sē þe manna wæs mægene strengest on þǣm dæge þysses līfes. XIII. BĒOWULF TEARS OFF GRENDEL'S ARM. Nolde eorla hlēo ǣnige þinga þone cwealm-cuman cwicne forlǣtan, nē his līf-dagas lēoda ǣnigum 795 nytte tealde. Þǣr genehost brægd eorl Bēowulfes ealde lāfe, wolde frēa-drihtnes feorh ealgian mǣres þēodnes, þǣr hīe meahton swā; hīe þæt ne wiston, þā hīe gewin drugon, 800 heard-hicgende hilde-mecgas, and on healfa gehwone hēawan þōhton, sāwle sēcan, þæt þone syn-scaðan ǣnig ofer eorðan īrenna cyst, gūð-billa nān grētan nolde; 805 ac hē sige-wǣpnum forsworen hæfde, ecga gehwylcre. Scolde his aldor-gedāl on þǣm dæge þysses līfes earmlīc wurðan and se ellor-gāst on fēonda geweald feor sīðian. 810 Þā þæt onfunde sē þe fela ǣror mōdes myrðe manna cynne fyrene gefremede (hē wæs fāg wið god) þæt him se līc-homa lǣstan nolde, ac hine se mōdega mǣg Hygelāces 815 hæfde be honda; wæs gehwæðer ōðrum lifigende lāð. Līc-sār gebād atol ǣglǣca, him on eaxle wearð syn-dolh sweotol, seonowe onsprungon burston bān-locan. Bēowulfe wearð 820 gūð-hrēð gyfeðe; scolde Grendel þonan feorh-sēoc flēon under fen-hleoðu, sēcean wyn-lēas wīc; wiste þē geornor, þæt his aldres wæs ende gegongen, dōgera dæg-rīm. Denum eallum wearð 825 æfter þām wæl-rǣse willa gelumpen. Hæfde þā gefǣlsod, sē þe ǣr feorran cōm, snotor and swȳð-ferhð sele Hrōðgāres, genered wið nīðe. Niht-weorce gefeh, ellen-mǣrðum; hæfde Ēast-Denum 830 Gēat-mecga lēod gilp gelǣsted, swylce oncȳððe ealle gebētte, inwid-sorge, þē hīe ǣr drugon and for þrēa-nȳdum þolian scoldon, torn unlȳtel. Þæt wæs tācen sweotol, 835 syððan hilde-dēor hond ālegde, earm and eaxle (þǣr wæs eal geador Grendles grāpe) under gēapne hrōf. XIV. THE JOY AT HEOROT.