þonne sweorda gelāc sunu Healfdenes efnan wolde; nǣfre on ōre læg wīd-cūðes wīg, þonne walu fēollon. And þā Bēowulfe bēga gehwæðres 1045 eodor Ingwina onweald getēah, wicga and wǣpna; hēt hine wēl brūcan. Swā manlīce mǣre þēoden, hord-weard hæleða heaðo-rǣsas geald mēarum and mādmum, swā hȳ nǣfre man lyhð, 1050 sē þe secgan wile sōð æfter rihte. XVII. SONG OF HROTHGAR'S POET-THE LAY OF HNAEF AND HENGEST. Þā gȳt ǣghwylcum eorla drihten þāra þe mid Bēowulfe brim-lāde tēah, on þǣre medu-bence māððum gesealde, yrfe-lāfe, and þone ǣnne heht 1055 golde forgyldan, þone þe Grendel ǣr māne ācwealde, swā hē hyra mā wolde, nefne him wītig god wyrd forstōde and þæs mannes mōd: metod eallum wēold gumena cynnes, swā hē nū gīt dēð; 1060 forþan bið andgit ǣghwǣr sēlest, ferhðes fore-þanc! fela sceal gebīdan lēofes and lāðes, sē þe longe hēr on þyssum win-dagum worolde brūceð. Þǣr wæs sang and swēg samod ætgædere 1065 fore Healfdenes hilde-wīsan, gomen-wudu grēted, gid oft wrecen, þonne heal-gamen Hrōðgāres scop æfter medo-bence mǣnan scolde Finnes eaferum, þā hīe se fǣr begeat: 1070 "Hæleð Healfdenes, Hnæf Scyldinga, "in Fr..es wæle feallan scolde. "Nē hūru Hildeburh herian þorfte "Eotena trēowe: unsynnum wearð "beloren lēofum æt þām lind-plegan 1075 "bearnum and brōðrum; hīe on gebyrd hruron "gāre wunde; þæt wæs geōmuru ides. "Nalles hōlinga Hōces dōhtor "meotod-sceaft bemearn, syððan morgen cōm, "þā hēo under swegle gesēon meahte 1080 "morðor-bealo māga, þǣr hēo ǣr mǣste hēold "worolde wynne: wīg ealle fornam "Finnes þegnas, nemne fēaum ānum, "þæt hē ne mehte on þǣm meðel-stede "wīg Hengeste wiht gefeohtan, 1085 "nē þā wēa-lāfe wīge forþringan "þōodnes þegne; ac hig him geþingo budon, "þæt hīe him ōðer flet eal gerȳmdon, "healle and hēah-setl, þæt hīe healfre geweald "wið Eotena bearn āgan mōston, 1090 "and æt feoh-gyftum Folcwaldan sunu "dōgra gehwylce Dene weorðode, "Hengestes hēap hringum wenede, "efne swā swīðe sinc-gestrēonum "fǣttan goldes, swā hē Frēsena cyn 1095 "on bēor-sele byldan wolde. "Þā hīe getruwedon on twā healfa "fæste frioðu-wǣre; Fin Hengeste "elne unflitme āðum benemde, "þæt hē þā wēa-lāfe weotena dōme 1100 "ārum heolde, þæt þǣr ǣnig mon "wordum nē worcum wǣre ne brǣce, "nē þurh inwit-searo ǣfre gemǣnden, "þēah hīe hira bēag-gyfan banan folgedon "þēoden-lēase, þā him swā geþearfod wæs: 1105 "gyf þonne Frȳsna hwylc frēcnan sprǣce