eallum æðelingum tō aldor-ceare; swylce oft bemearn ǣrran mǣlum swīð-ferhðes sīð snotor ceorl monig, 910 sē þe him bealwa tō bōte gelȳfde, þæt þæt þēodnes bearn geþēon scolde, fæder-æðelum onfōn, folc gehealdan, hord and hlēo-burh, hæleða rīce, ēðel Scyldinga. Hē þǣr eallum wearð, 915 mǣg Higelāces manna cynne, frēondum gefægra; hine fyren onwōd. Hwīlum flītende fealwe strǣte mēarum mǣton. Þā wæs morgen-lēoht scofen and scynded. Ēode scealc monig 920 swīð-hicgende tō sele þām hēan, searo-wundor sēon, swylce self cyning, of brȳd-būre bēah-horda weard, tryddode tīr-fæst getrume micle, cystum gecȳðed, and his cwēn mid him 925 medo-stīg gemæt mægða hōse. XV. HROTHGAR'S GRATULATION. Hrōðgār maðelode (hē tō healle gēong, stōd on stapole, geseah stēapne hrōf golde fāhne and Grendles hond): "þisse ansȳne al-wealdan þanc 930 "lungre gelimpe! Fela ic lāðes gebād, "grynna æt Grendle: ā mæg god wyrcan "wunder æfter wundre, wuldres hyrde! "Þæt wæs ungeāra, þæt ic ǣnigra mē "wēana ne wēnde tō wīdan feore 935 "bōte gebīdan þonne blōde fāh "hūsa sēlest heoro-drēorig stōd; "wēa wīd-scofen witena gehwylcne "þāra þe ne wēndon, þæt hīe wīde-ferhð "lēoda land-geweorc lāðum beweredon 940 "scuccum and scinnum. Nū scealc hafað "þurh drihtnes miht dǣd gefremede, "þē wē ealle ǣr ne meahton "snyttrum besyrwan. Hwæt! þæt secgan mæg "efne swā hwylc mægða, swā þone magan cende 945 "æfter gum-cynnum, gyf hēo gȳt lyfað, "þæt hyre eald-metod ēste wǣre "bearn-gebyrdo. Nū ic Bēowulf "þec, secg betsta, mē for sunu wylle "frēogan on ferhðe; heald forð tela 950 "nīwe sibbe. Ne bið þē nǣnigra gād "worolde wilna, þē ic geweald hæbbe. "Ful-oft ic for lǣssan lēan teohhode "hord-weorðunge hnāhran rince, "sǣmran æt sæcce. Þū þē self hafast 955 "dǣdum gefremed, þæt þīn dōm lyfað "āwa tō aldre. Alwalda þec "gōde forgylde, swā hē nū gȳt dyde!" Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes: "Wē þæt ellen-weorc ēstum miclum, 960 "feohtan fremedon, frēcne genēðdon "eafoð uncūðes; ūðe ic swīðor, "þæt þū hinc selfne gesēon mōste, "fēond on frætewum fyl-wērigne! "Ic hine hrædlīce heardan clammum 965 "on wæl-bedde wrīðan þōhte, "þæt hē for mund-gripe mīnum scolde "licgean līf-bysig, būtan his līc swice; "ic hine ne mihte, þā metod nolde, "ganges getwǣman, nō ic him þæs georne ætfealh, 970 "feorh-genīðlan; wæs tō fore-mihtig "fēond on fēðe. Hwæðere hē his folme forlēt "tō līf-wraðe lāst weardian,