eóletes æt ende: on wang stigon; [Dá] of wealle ge-seah se pe [holm]-clifu 470 mægen-wudu mundum, méþel-wordum frægn: C [135] ofer lagu-strate lædan cwomon, hider ofer holmas? le was ende-sæta 480 æg-wearde heóld, þe on land Dena Íáðra nænig midscip-herge sce pan ne meahte. cuman on-gunnon né geleáfnes-word 490 gearwe ne wisson, næfre ic máran ge-seah secg on searwum ; án-líc an-sýn. 500 Nú ic eówer sceal frum-cyn witan, ær ge fyr [heó]nan, 479 Ic þæs. [135b.] 180 ég-wearde. on land Den[a] Nú ge feor-búend, 510 ófost is sélest tó ge-cýðanne hwanan eówre cyme syndon. Him se yldesta IV. werodes wísa We synt gum-cynnes folcum ge-cýped, 508 mínne. 530 wide geond eorpan. sunu Healf-denes, leód ge-byrgean. Wæs þú ús lárena gód; Deniga freán : 540 ne sceal þær dyrne-sum secgan hyrdon, mid Scyldingum scea dena]ic nát hwylc, deogol dad-hata, deorcum nihtum hú he fród [and] gód 536 Wes. [136] æfre scolde; bealuwa bisigu 560 bót eft cuman, and þa cear-wylmas cólran wurðaþ: odde á sypðan earfod-prage, þreá-nýd pólað, penden þær wunað on heáh-stede húsa sélest. Weard mapelode, 570 dær on wicge sæt om-beht un-forht; Eg-hwæpres sceal scearp scyld-wíga ge-scád wítan, worda and worca, se þe wel þenced. Ic ge-hýre pis is hold weorod freán Scyldinga: 580 ge-wita ford beran wapen and ge-wadu, wið feónda gehwone |