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Text 5. BEOWULF

þa wæs on morgen mīne gefrǣge,

ymb þa gif-healle gūþ-rink monig:

ferdon folc-togan feorran ond neāhan

geond wīd-wēgas wundor sceāwian,

lāðes lāstas. No his līf-gedal

sarlic þūhte secga ǣnegum,

þara þe tir-leāse trode sceāwode,

hū he wērig-mōd on wēg þanon,

nīða ofercumen on nicera mere,

fǣge ond geflӯmed feorh-lāstas bǣr.

Early Modern English Variant

Then in the morning as I have heard tell

Around the gift-hall many a warrior:

The nation's chieftane came, from far and near

Over distant ways the wonder to behold, the traces of the foe:

his life-divorce did not seem painful to any warrior,

Who the inglorious track beheld;

How he in the spirit weary away thence

In hostilities overcame in the nicker's mere,

death-doomed and put to flight,

death-traces bare…