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354 æfter fyrste, syððan heo ifarene wæron, com þæt lond-&shy; a time after they gone folc tó, þe þær to lafe þa w’æs, þær heoræ lafordes lic left their lord's corpse buton heafde þa læg, and wurdon swiðe sarig for his without head lay were right sorry slægie on mode, and hure þæt heo næfdon þæt heafod to slaughter mind moreover had not þam bodige. Þa sæde ðe sceawere, þe hit ær iseah, þæt beholder erst saw þa flot-men hæfdon þæt heafod mid heom, and wæs him with them to him it iþuht, swa swa hit wæs ful soð, þæt heo hydden þæt seemed as true heofod on þam holte. For-hwæga heo eoden þa endemes However went at last alle to þam wude, sæcende gehwær, geond þyfelas and every where through shrubs brymelas, gif heo mihten imeten þæt heafod. Wæs eac if meet eke mycel wunder þæt an wulf wæs isend, þurh Godes willunge, to biwærigenne þæt heafod, wið þa oðre deór, guard against beasts ofer dæg and niht. Heo eoden ða sæcende, and day cleopigende, swa swa hit iwunelic is þæt ða þe on wude calling customary those that gaþ oft: ‘Hwær eart þu nu gerefa?’ And him and-&shy; go governor swyrde þæt heafod: ‘Her, her, her.’ And swa ilome so often clypode andswarigende, oððet heo alle bicomen, þurh until came þa clypunge, him tó. Þa læg þe grægæ wulf þe bewiste gray guarded þæt heafod, ant mid his twam fotum hæfde þæt heafod two feet