"þæs morðor-hetes myndgiend wǣre, "þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde. "Āð wæs geæfned and icge gold "āhæfen of horde. Here-Scyldinga 1110 "betst beado-rinca wæs on bǣl gearu; "æt þǣm āde wæs ēð-gesȳne "swāt-fāh syrce, swȳn eal-gylden, "eofer īren-heard, æðeling manig "wundum āwyrded; sume on wæle crungon. 1115 "Hēt þā Hildeburh æt Hnæfes āde "hire selfre sunu sweoloðe befæstan, "bān-fatu bærnan and on bǣl dōn. "Earme on eaxle ides gnornode, "geōmrode giddum; gūð-rinc āstāh. 1120 "Wand tō wolcnum wæl-fȳra mǣst, "hlynode for hlāwe; hafelan multon, "ben-geato burston, þonne blōd ætspranc "lāð-bite līces. Līg ealle forswealg, "gǣsta gīfrost, þāra þe þǣr gūð fornam 1125 "bēga folces; wæs hira blǣd scacen. XVIII. THE GLEEMAN'S TALE IS ENDED. "Gewiton him þā wīgend wīca nēosian, "frēondum befeallen Frȳsland gesēon, "hāmas and hēa-burh. Hengest þā gȳt "wæl-fāgne winter wunode mid Finne 1130 "ealles unhlitme; eard gemunde, "þēah þe hē ne meahte on mere drīfan "hringed-stefnan; holm storme wēol, "won wið winde; winter ȳðe belēac "īs-gebinde oð þæt ōðer cōm 1135 "geār in geardas, swā nū gȳt dēð, "þā þe syngales sēle bewitiað, "wuldor-torhtan weder. Þā wæs winter scacen, "fæger foldan bearm; fundode wrecca, "gist of geardum; hē tō gyrn-wræce 1140 "swīðor þōhte, þonne tō sǣ-lāde, "gif hē torn-gemōt þurhtēon mihte, "þæt hē Eotena bearn inne gemunde. "Swā hē ne forwyrnde worold-rǣdenne, "þonne him Hūnlāfing hilde-lēoman, 1145 "billa sēlest, on bearm dyde: "þæs wǣron mid Eotenum ecge cūðe. "Swylce ferhð-frecan Fin eft begeat "sweord-bealo slīðen æt his selfes hām, "siððan grimne gripe Gūðlaf ond Ōslāf 1150 "æfter sǣ-siðe sorge mǣndon, "ætwiton wēana dǣl; ne meahte wǣfre mōd "forhabban in hreðre. Þā wæs heal hroden "fēonda fēorum, swilce Fin slægen, "cyning on corðre, and sēo cwēn numen. 1155 "Scēotend Scyldinga tō scypum feredon "eal in-gesteald eorð-cyninges, "swylce hīe æt Finnes hām findan meahton "sigla searo-gimma. Hīe on sǣ-lāde "drihtlīce wīf tō Denum feredon, 1160 "lǣddon tō lēodum." Lēoð wæs āsungen, glēo-mannes gyd. Gamen eft āstāh, beorhtode benc-swēg, byrelas sealdon wīn of wunder-fatum. Þā cwōm Wealhþēo forð gān under gyldnum bēage, þǣr þā gōdan twēgen 1165 sǣton suhter-gefæderan; þā gȳt wæs hiera sib ætgædere ǣghwylc ōðrum trȳwe. Swylce þǣr Unferð þyle æt fōtum sæt frēan Scyldinga: gehwylc hiora his ferhðe trēowde, þæt hē hæfde mōd micel, þēah þe hē his māgum nǣre