"flōd under foldan; nis þæt feor heonon "mīl-gemearces, þæt se mere standeð, "ofer þǣm hongiað hrīmge bearwas, 1365 "wudu wyrtum fæst, wæter oferhelmað. "Þǣr mæg nihta gehwǣm nīð-wundor sēon, "fȳr on flōde; nō þæs frōd leofað "gumena bearna, þæt þone grund wite; "þēah þe hǣð-stapa hundum geswenced, 1370 "heorot hornum trum holt-wudu sēce, "feorran geflȳmed, ǣr hē feorh seleð, "aldor on ōfre, ǣr hē in wille, "hafelan hȳdan. Nis þæt hēoru stōw: "þonon ȳð-geblond up āstīgeð 1375 "won tō wolcnum, þonne wind styreð "lāð gewidru, oð þæt lyft drysmað, "roderas rēotað. Nū is rǣd gelang "eft æt þē ānum! Eard gīt ne const, "frēcne stōwe, þǣr þū findan miht 1380 "sinnigne secg: sēc gif þū dyrre! "Ic þē þā fǣhðe fēo lēanige, "eald-gestrēonum, swā ic ǣr dyde, "wundnum golde, gyf þū on weg cymest." XXII. BĒOWULF SEEKS THE MONSTER IN THE HAUNTS OF THE NIXIES. Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes: 1385 "Ne sorga, snotor guma! sēlre bið ǣghwǣm, "þæt hē his frēond wrece, þonne hē fela murne; "ūre ǣghwylc sceal ende gebīdan "worolde līfes; wyrce sē þe mōte "dōmes ǣr dēaðe! þæt bið driht-guman 1390 "unlifgendum æfter sēlest. "Ārīs, rīces weard; uton hraðe fēran, "Grendles māgan gang scēawigan! "Ic hit þē gehāte: nō hē on helm losað, "nē on foldan fæðm, nē on fyrgen-holt, 1395 "nē on gyfenes grund, gā þǣr hē wille. "Þȳs dōgor þū geþyld hafa "wēana gehwylces, swā ic þē wēne tō!" Āhlēop þā se gomela, gode þancode, mihtigan drihtne, þæs se man gespræc. 1400 Þā wæs Hrōðgāre hors gebǣted, wicg wunden-feax. Wīsa fengel geatolīc gengde; gum-fēða stōp lind-hæbbendra. Lāstas wǣron æfter wald-swaðum wīde gesȳne, 1405 gang ofer grundas; gegnum fōr þā ofer myrcan mōr, mago-þegna bær þone sēlestan sāwol-lēasne, þāra þe mid Hrōðgāre hām eahtode. Ofer-ēode þā æðelinga bearn 1410 stēap stān-hliðo, stīge nearwe, enge ān-paðas, un-cūð gelād, neowle næssas, nicor-hūsa fela; hē fēara sum beforan gengde wīsra monna, wong scēawian, 1415 oð þæt hē fǣringa fyrgen-bēamas ofer hārne stān hleonian funde, wyn-lēasne wudu; wæter under stōd drēorig and gedrēfed. Denum eallum wæs, winum Scyldinga, weorce on mōde, 1420 tō geþolianne þegne monegum, oncȳð eorla gehwǣm, syððan Æsc-heres on þām holm-clife hafelan mētton. Flōd blōde wēol (folc tō sǣgon) hātan heolfre. Horn stundum song 1425 fūslīc fyrd-lēoð. Fēða eal gesæt; gesāwon þā æfter wætere wyrm-cynnes fela, sellīce sǣ-dracan sund cunnian,