Þā wæs on morgen mīne gefrǣge ymb þā gif-healle gūð-rinc monig: 840 fērdon folc-togan feorran and nēan geond wīd-wegas wundor scēawian, lāðes lāstas. Nō his līf-gedāl sārlīc þūhte secga ǣnegum, þāra þe tīr-lēases trode scēawode, 845 hū hē wērig-mōd on weg þanon, nīða ofercumen, on nicera mere fǣge and geflȳmed feorh-lāstas bær. Þǣr wæs on blōde brim weallende, atol ȳða geswing eal gemenged 850 hātan heolfre, heoro-drēore wēol; dēað-fǣge dēog, siððan drēama lēas in fen-freoðo feorh ālegde hǣðene sāwle, þǣr him hel onfēng. Þanon eft gewiton eald-gesīðas, 855 swylce geong manig of gomen-wāðe, fram mere mōdge, mēarum rīdan, beornas on blancum. Þǣr wæs Bēowulfes mǣrðo mǣned; monig oft gecwæð, þætte sūð nē norð be sǣm tweonum 860 ofer eormen-grund ōðer nǣnig under swegles begong sēlra nǣre rond-hæbbendra, rīces wyrðra. Nē hīe hūru wine-drihten wiht ne lōgon, glædne Hrōðgār, ac þæt wæs gōd cyning. 865 Hwīlum heaðo-rōfe hlēapan lēton, on geflīt faran fealwe mēaras, þǣr him fold-wegas fægere þūhton, cystum cūðe; hwīlum cyninges þegn, guma gilp-hlæden gidda gemyndig, 870 sē þe eal-fela eald-gesegena worn gemunde, word ōðer fand sōðe gebunden: secg eft ongan sīð Bēowulfes snyttrum styrian and on spēd wrecan spel gerāde, 875 wordum wrixlan, wēl-hwylc gecwæð, þæt hē fram Sigemunde secgan hȳrde, ellen-dǣdum, uncūðes fela, Wælsinges gewin, wīde sīðas, þāra þe gumena bearn gearwe ne wiston, 880 fǣhðe and fyrene, būton Fitela mid hine, þonne hē swylces hwæt secgan wolde ēam his nefan, swā hīe ā wǣron æt nīða gehwām nȳd-gesteallan: hæfdon eal-fela eotena cynnes 885 sweordum gesǣged. Sigemunde gesprong æfter dēað-dæge dōm unlȳtel, syððan wīges heard wyrm ācwealde, hordes hyrde; hē under hārne stān, æðelinges bearn, āna genēðde 890 frēcne dǣde; ne wæs him Fitela mid. Hwæðre him gesǣlde, þæt þæt swurd þurhwōd wrǣtlīcne wyrm, þæt hit on wealle ætstōd, dryhtlīc īren; draca morðre swealt. Hæfde āglǣca elne gegongen, 895 þæt hē bēah-hordes brūcan mōste selfes dōme: sǣ-bāt gehlōd, bær on bearm scipes beorhte frætwa, Wælses eafera; wyrm hāt gemealt. Sē wæs wreccena wīde mǣrost 900 ofer wer-þēode, wīgendra hlēo ellen-dǣdum: hē þæs āron þāh. Siððan Heremōdes hild sweðrode eafoð and ellen. Hē mid eotenum wearð on fēonda geweald forð forlācen, 905 snūde forsended. Hine sorh-wylmas lemede tō lange, hē his lēodum wearð,