1810 lēoflīc īren; sægde him þæs lēanes þanc, cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde, wīg-cræftigne, nales wordum lōg mēces ecge: þæt wæs mōdig secg. And þā sīð-frome searwum gearwe 1815 wīgend wǣron, ēode weorð Denum æðeling tō yppan, þǣr se ōðer wæs hæle hilde-dēor, Hrōðgār grētte. XXVII. THE PARTING WORDS. Bēowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes: "Nū wē sǣ-līðend secgan wyllað 1820 "feorran cumene, þæt wē fundiað "Higelāc sēcan. Wǣron hēr tela "willum bewenede; þū ūs wēl dohtest. "Gif ic þonne on eorðan ōwihte mæg "þīnre mōd-lufan māran tilian, 1825 "gumena dryhten, þonne ic gȳt dyde, "gūð-geweorca ic bēo gearo sōna. "Gif ic þæt gefricge ofer flōda begang, "þæt þec ymbe-sittend egesan þȳwað, "swā þec hetende hwīlum dydon, 1830 "ic þē þūsenda þegna bringe, "hæleða tō helpe. Ic on Higelāce wāt, "Gēata dryhten, þēah þe hē geong sȳ, "folces hyrde, þæt hē mec fremman wile "wordum and worcum, þæt ic þē wēl herige, 1835 "and þē tō gēoce gār-holt bere "mægenes fultum, þǣr þē bið manna þearf; "gif him þonne Hrēðrīc tō hofum Gēata "geþingeð, þēodnes bearn, hē mæg þǣr fela "frēonda findan: feor-cȳððe bēoð 1840 "sēlran gesōhte þǣm þe him selfa dēah." Hrōðgār maðelode him on andsware: "Þē þā word-cwydas wittig drihten "on sefan sende! ne hȳrde ic snotorlīcor "on swā geongum feore guman þingian: 1845 "þū eart mægenes strang and on mōde frōd, "wīs word-cwida. Wēn ic talige, "gif þæt gegangeð, þæt þe gār nymeð, "hild heoru-grimme Hrēðles eaferan, "ādl oððe īren ealdor þīnne, 1850 "folces hyrde, and þū þīn feorh hafast, "þæt þe Sǣ-Gēatas sēlran næbben "tō gecēosenne cyning ǣnigne, "hord-weard hæleða, gif þū healdan wylt "māga rīce. Mē þīn mōd-sefa 1855 "līcað leng swā wēl, lēofa Bēowulf: "hafast þū gefēred, þæt þām folcum sceal, "Gēata lēodum and Gār-Denum "sib gemǣnum and sacu restan, "inwit-nīðas, þē hīe ǣr drugon; 1860 "wesan, þenden ic wealde wīdan rīces, "māðmas gemǣne, manig ōðerne "gōdum gegrētan ofer ganotes bæð; "sceal hring-naca ofer hēaðu bringan "lāc and luf-tācen. Ic þā lēode wāt 1865 "gē wið fēond gē wið frēond fæste geworhte "ǣghwæs untǣle ealde wīsan." Þā gīt him eorla hlēo inne gesealde, mago Healfdenes māðmas twelfe, hēt hine mid þǣm lācum lēode swǣse 1870 sēcean on gesyntum, snūde eft cuman. Gecyste þā cyning æðelum gōd, þēoden Scildinga, þegen betstan and be healse genam; hruron him tēaras, blonden-feaxum: him wæs bēga wēn, 1875 ealdum infrōdum, ōðres swīðor,