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lond-búendum,

se pe him God syleð
gumena ríce
tó ge-healdenne
penden he her leofað.
Swá scrípende

270 ge-sceapum hweorfað
gleó-men gumena
geond grunda fela,
þearfe secgað,
ponc-word sprecap,
simle sú oppe norð
sumne ge-métað
gydda gleáwne,

geofum un-hneáwne, se pe fore dúgupe wile 280 dôm â-ræran, eorl-scipe æfnan, oppæt eal scace leóht and líf somod. Lóf se ge-wyrced hafað under heofonu heáh-fæstne dôm.

267 ge-healdanne.

THE

BATTLE OF FINNES-BURH.

....

nas byrnað,

næfre hleóprode þá hearo-geóng cyning, né dis ne dagað eástan, né her draca ne fleógeð, né her disse healle hornas ne byrnað, ac her ford-berað, fugelas singað, 10 gylle græg-hama, gúð-wudu hlynne, scyld scefte on-cwyð; nú scíned des mona wadol under wolcnum, nú á-rísað weá-dada de disne folces níð fremman willað: ac on-wacnigeað nú wígend mine,

20 habbað eówre landa [æht],

heoro-g.

13 sceafte.

20 eówra.

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wesad on-móde. Đá á-rás monig gold-headen þegn, gyrde hine his swurde; Já tó dura eódon driht-líce cempan, Sige-fer and Eaha 30 hyra sweord ge-tugon, and æt óðrum durum Ord-láf and Gúð-láf, and Hengest sylf hwearf him on laste. Đá gyt Gár-ulf

Gúd-ere styrode,

Sæt he swá freolíc-feorh

forman síðe

tó bære healle durum

40 hyrsta ne bæran,
nú hyt nípa heard
á-nyman wólde;
ac he fragn ofer eal
un-dearninga,

deór-mód hæle,

hwá da duru heólde.

Sige-ferp is mín nama, cwæð he,

21 hycgeað.

40 bære.

42 á-niman.

25 gold-hladen.

41 hit.

43 frægn.

ic eom Secgena leód,
wrecten wide-cúð;

50 fela ic weána ge-bád,
heardra hilda,

de is gyt her witod
swæ þer du sylf tó me
sécean wylle.

Đá wæs on healle
wæl-slihta ge-hlyn,
+ sceólde celod bord
†ge-numon handa,
bán-helm berstan,
60 buruh-delu dynede,
od æt þære gúðe
Gár-ulf ge-crang,
ealra ærest
eorð-búendra,

Gúð-láfes sunu: ymb hyne
gódra fæla hwearf
lacra hrær

hræfen wandrode,

sweart and sealo-brún ;

70 swurd-leóma stód

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53 swá þær.

54 wille.

57 As they stand, this and the following line are unintelligible. As the metre is defective, it is possible that some lines may have been lost between them: I will venture a correction; sceólde næglod bord ge-numen handa.

66 fela.

67 láðra hræw.

swylce eal Finns-buruh

fýrenu wære;

ne ge-frægn ic næfre wurɣlicor æt wera hilde

sixtig sige-beorna

sél ge-bæran,

† ne nefre swá

noc hwítne medo
sél for-gyldan,

80 Sonne Hnæfe guldon
his hæg-stealdas:
híg fúhton fif dagas
swá hyra nán ne feól
driht-gesíða,

ac híg da duru heóldon;
Xá ge-wát him wund hæles

on wæg gangan,

sæde

his byrne

á-brocen wære,

90 here-sceorpum hrór,

and eac was his helm dyrl.

Đá hine sóna frægn

folces hyrde

hú da wígend hyra

wunda ge-næson,

odde hwæper dæra hyssa...

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