"druncne dryht-guman, dōð swā ic bidde!" Ēode þā tō setle. Þǣr wæs symbla cyst, druncon wīn weras: wyrd ne cūðon, 1235 geō-sceaft grimme, swā hit āgangen wearð eorla manegum, syððan ǣfen cwōm and him Hrōðgār gewāt tō hofe sīnum, rīce tō ræste. Reced weardode unrīm eorla, swā hīe oft ǣr dydon: 1240 benc-þelu beredon, hit geond-brǣded wearð beddum and bolstrum. Bēor-scealca sum fūs and fǣge flet-ræste gebēag. Setton him tō hēafdum hilde-randas, bord-wudu beorhtan; þǣr on bence wæs 1245 ofer æðelinge ȳð-gesēne heaðo-stēapa helm, hringed byrne, þrec-wudu þrymlīc. Wæs þēaw hyra, þæt hīe oft wǣron an wīg gearwe, gē æt hām gē on herge, gē gehwæðer þāra 1250 efne swylce mǣla, swylce hira man-dryhtne þearf gesǣlde; wæs sēo þēod tilu. XX. GRENDEL'S MOTHER ATTACKS THE RING-DANES. Sigon þā tō slǣpe. Sum sāre angeald ǣfen-ræste, swā him ful-oft gelamp, siððan gold-sele Grendel warode, 1255 unriht æfnde, oð þæt ende becwōm, swylt æfter synnum. Þæt gesȳne wearð, wīd-cūð werum, þætte wrecend þā gȳt lifde æfter lāðum, lange þrāge æfter gūð-ceare; Grendles mōdor, 1260 ides āglǣc-wīf yrmðe gemunde, sē þe wæter-egesan wunian scolde, cealde strēamas, siððan Cain wearð tō ecg-banan āngan brēðer, fæderen-mǣge; hē þā fāg gewāt, 1265 morðre gemearcod man-drēam flēon, wēsten warode. Þanon wōc fela geōsceaft-gāsta; wæs þǣra Grendel sum, heoro-wearh hetelīc, sē æt Heorote fand wæccendne wer wīges bīdan, 1270 þǣr him āglǣca æt-grǣpe wearð; hwæðre hē gemunde mægenes strenge, gim-fæste gife, þē him god sealde, and him tō anwaldan āre gelȳfde, frōfre and fultum: þȳ hē þone fēond ofercwōm, 1275 gehnǣgde helle gāst: þā hē hēan gewāt, drēame bedǣled dēað-wīc sēon, man-cynnes fēond. And his mōdor þā gȳt gīfre and galg-mōd gegān wolde sorh-fulne sīð, suna dēað wrecan. 1280 Cōm þā tō Heorote, þǣr Hring-Dene geond þæt sæld swǣfun. Þā þǣr sōna wearð ed-hwyrft eorlum, siððan inne fealh Grendles mōdor; wæs se gryre lǣssa efne swā micle, swā bið mægða cræft, 1285 wīg-gryre wīfes be wǣpned-men, þonne heoru bunden, hamere geþuren, sweord swāte fāh swīn ofer helme, ecgum dyhtig andweard scireð. Þā wæs on healle heard-ecg togen, 1290 sweord ofer setlum, sīd-rand manig hafen handa fæst; helm ne gemunde, byrnan sīde, þe hine se brōga angeat. Hēo wæs on ofste, wolde ūt þanon fēore beorgan, þā hēo onfunden wæs; 1295 hraðe hēo æðelinga ānne hæfde fæste befangen, þā hēo tō fenne gang;