"earm and eaxle; nō þǣr ǣnige swā þēah "fēa-sceaft guma frōfre gebohte: 975 "nō þȳ leng leofað lāð-getēona "synnum geswenced, ac hyne sār hafað "in nȳd-gripe nearwe befongen, "balwon bendum: þǣr ābīdan sceal "maga māne fāh miclan dōmes, 980 "hū him scīr metod scrīfan wille." Þā wæs swīgra secg, sunu Ecglāfes, on gylp-sprǣce gūð-geweorca, siððan æðelingas eorles cræfte ofer hēahne hrōf hand scēawedon, 985 fēondes fingras, foran ǣghwylc; wæs stēde nægla gehwylc, stȳle gelīcost, hǣðenes hand-sporu hilde-rinces egle unhēoru; ǣg-hwylc gecwæð, þæt him heardra nān hrīnan wolde 990 īren ǣr-gōd, þæt þæs āhlǣcan blōdge beadu-folme onberan wolde. XVI. THE BANQUET AND THE GIFTS. Þā wæs hāten hreðe Heort innan-weard folmum gefrætwod: fela þǣra wæs wera and wīfa, þē þæt wīn-reced, 995 gest-sele gyredon. Gold-fāg scinon web æfter wāgum, wundor-sīona fela secga gehwylcum þāra þe on swylc starað Wæs þæt beorhte bold tōbrocen swīðe eal inne-weard īren-bendum fæst, 1000 heorras tōhlidene; hrōf āna genæs ealles ansund, þā se āglǣca fyren-dǣdum fāg on flēam gewand, aldres or-wēna. Nō þæt ȳðe byð tō beflēonne (fremme sē þe wille!) 1005 ac gesacan sceal sāwl-berendra nȳde genȳdde niðða bearna grund-būendra gearwe stōwe, þǣr his līc-homa leger-bedde fæst swefeð æfter symle. Þā wæs sǣl and mǣl, 1010 þæt tō healle gang Healfdenes sunu; wolde self cyning symbel þicgan. Ne gefrægen ic þā mǣgðe māran weorode ymb hyra sinc-gyfan sēl gebǣran. Bugon þā tō bence blǣd-āgende, 1015 fylle gefǣgon. Fægere geþǣgon medo-ful manig māgas þāra swīð-hicgende on sele þām hēan, Hrōðgār and Hrōðulf. Heorot innan wæs frēondum āfylled; nalles fācen-stafas 1020 Þēod-Scyldingas þenden fremedon. Forgeaf þā Bēowulfe bearn Healfdenes segen gyldenne sigores tō lēane, hroden hilte-cumbor, helm and byrnan; mǣre māððum-sweord manige gesāwon 1025 beforan beorn beran. Bēowulf geþah ful on flette; nō hē þǣre feoh-gyfte for scēotendum scamigan þorfte, ne gefrægn ic frēondlīcor fēower mādmas golde gegyrede gum-manna fela 1030 in ealo-bence ōðrum gesellan. Ymb þæs helmes hrōf hēafod-beorge wīrum bewunden walan ūtan hēold, þæt him fēla lāfe frēcne ne meahton scūr-heard sceððan, þonne scyld-freca 1035 ongēan gramum gangan scolde. Heht þā eorla hlēo eahta mēaras, fǣted-hlēore, on flet tēon in under eoderas; þāra ānum stōd sadol searwum fāh since gewurðad, 1040 þæt wæs hilde-setl hēah-cyninges,