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tō þǣm hēah-selehilde geþinged, siððan hīe sunnan lēohtgesēon [ne] meahton, oþðe nīpendeniht ofer ealle, scadu-helma gesceapuscrīðan cwōman, wan under wolcnum.Werod eall ārās; grētte þā guma ōþerne, Hrōðgār Bēowulf,ond him hǣl ābēad, wīn-ærnes *geweald,ond þæt word ācwæð: “Nǣfre ic ǣnegum menǣr ālȳfde, siþðan ic hond ond rondhebban mihte, ðrȳþ-ærn Denabūton þē nū ðā. Hafa nū ond gehealdhūsa sēlest, gemyne mǣrþo,mægen-ellen cȳð, waca wið wrāþum.Ne bið þē wilna gād, gif þū þæt ellen-weorcaldre gedīgest.”

 

Ða him Hrōðgār gewātmid his hæleþa gedryht, eodur Scyldinga,ūt of healle; wolde wīg-frumaWealhþēo sēcan, cwēn tō gebeddan.Hæfde kyning[a] wuldor Grendle tō-gēanes,swā guman gefrungon, 