1605 wiston and ne wēndon, þæt hīe heora wine-drihten selfne gesāwon. Þā þæt sweord ongan æfter heaðo-swāte hilde-gicelum wīg-bil wanian; þæt wæs wundra sum, þæt hit eal gemealt īse gelīcost, 1610 þonne forstes bend fæder onlǣteð, onwindeð wæl-rāpas, sē þe geweald hafað sǣla and mǣla; þæt is sōð metod. Ne nom hē in þǣm wīcum, Weder-Gēata lēod, māðm-ǣhta mā, þēh hē þǣr monige geseah, 1615 būton þone hafelan and þā hilt somod, since fāge; sweord ǣr gemealt, forbarn brōden mǣl: wæs þæt blōd tō þæs hāt, ǣttren ellor-gǣst, sē þǣr inne swealt. Sōna wæs on sunde, sē þe ǣr æt sæcce gebād 1620 wīg-hryre wrāðra, wæter up þurh-dēaf; wǣron ȳð-gebland eal gefǣlsod, ēacne eardas, þā se ellor-gāst oflēt līf-dagas and þās lǣnan gesceaft. Cōm þā tō lande lid-manna helm 1625 swīð-mōd swymman, sǣ-lāce gefeah, mægen-byrðenne þāra þe hē him mid hæfde. Ēodon him þā tōgēanes, gode þancodon, þrȳðlīc þegna hēap, þēodnes gefēgon, þæs þe hī hyne gesundne gesēon mōston. 1630 Þā wæs of þǣm hrōran helm and byrne lungre ālȳsed: lagu drūsade, wæter under wolcnum, wæl-drēore fāg. Fērdon forð þonon fēðe-lāstum ferhðum fægne, fold-weg mǣton, 1635 cūðe strǣte; cyning-balde men from þǣm holm-clife hafelan bǣron earfoðlīce heora ǣghwæðrum fela-mōdigra: fēower scoldon on ðæm wæl-stenge weorcum geferian 1640 tō þǣm gold-sele Grendles hēafod, oð þæt semninga tō sele cōmon frome fyrd-hwate fēower-tȳne Gēata gongan; gum-dryhten mid mōdig on gemonge meodo-wongas træd. 1645 Þā cōm in gān ealdor þegna, dǣd-cēne mon dōme gewurðad, hæle hilde-dēor. Hrōðgār grētan: Þā wæs be feaxe on flet boren Grendles hēafod, þǣr guman druncon, 1650 egeslīc for eorlum and þǣre idese mid: wlite-sēon wrǣtlīc weras onsāwon. XXV. HROTHGAR'S GRATITUDE: HE DISCOURSES.