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gearo gūð-freca,gold-māðmas hēold, eald under eorðan;næs þæt ȳðe cēap tō gegangennegumena ǣnigum. Gesæt ðā on næssenīð-heard cyning, þenden hǣlo ābēadheorð-genēatum, gold-wine Gēata.Him wæs gēomor sefa, wǣfre ond wæl-fūs,wyrd ungemete nēah, sē ðone gomelangrētan sceolde, sēcean sāwle hord,sundur gedǣlan līf wið līce;nō þon lange wæs feorh æþelingesflǣsce bewunden. Bīowulf maþelade,bearn Ecgðēowes: “Fela ic on giogoðegūð-rǣsa genæs, orleg-hwīla;ic þæt eall gemon. &#x2A;Ic wæs syfan-wintre,þā mec sinca baldor, frēa-wine folca,æt mīnum fæder genam; hēold mec ond hæfdeHrēðel cyning, geaf mē sinc ond symbel,sibbe gemunde; næs ic him tō līfelāðra ōwihte beorn in burgumþonne his bearna hwylc, Herebeald ond Hǣðcyn,oððe Hygelāc mīn. Wæs þām yldestanungedēfelīce mǣges dǣdummorþor-bed strēd, syððan hyne Hǣðcynof horn-bogan, his frēa-wine,flāne geswencte, miste mercelsesond his mǣg ofscēt, brōðor ōðerne,blōdigan gāre. Þæt wæs feoh-lēas gefeoht,fyrenum gesyngad, hreðre hyge-mēðe;sceolde hwæðre swā þēah æðeling unwrecenealdres linnan.