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Beowulf

Dobbie, 1953 3-98; Dobbie, E.V.K., Beowulf and Judith, ASPR 4 (New York).

Hwæt! We Gardena      in geardagum,

þeodcyninga,      þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas      ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scefing      sceaþena þreatum,

5

monegum mægþum,      meodosetla ofteah,

egsode eorlas .      Syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden,      he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum,      weorðmyndum þah,

oðþæt him æghwylc      þara ymbsittendra

10

ofer hronrade      hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan.      þæt wæs god cyning!

ðæm eafera wæs      æfter cenned,

geong in geardum,      þone god sende

folce to frofre;      fyrenðearfe ongeat

15

þe hie ær drugon      aldorlease

lange hwile.      Him þæs liffrea,

wuldres wealdend,      woroldare forgeaf;

Beowulf wæs breme      (blæd wide sprang),

Scyldes eafera      Scedelandum in.

20

Swa sceal geong guma      gode gewyrcean,

fromum feohgiftum      on fæder bearme ,

Hwæt! We Gardena      in geardagum,

þeodcyninga,      þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas      ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scefing      sceaþena þreatum,

5

monegum mægþum,      meodosetla ofteah,

egsode eorlas .      Syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden,      he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum,      weorðmyndum þah,

oðþæt him æghwylc      þara ymbsittendra

10

ofer hronrade      hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan.      þæt wæs god cyning!

ðæm eafera wæs      æfter cenned,

geong in geardum,      þone god sende

folce to frofre;      fyrenðearfe ongeat

15

þe hie ær drugon      aldorlease

lange hwile.      Him þæs liffrea,

wuldres wealdend,      woroldare forgeaf;

Beowulf wæs breme      (blæd wide sprang),

Scyldes eafera      Scedelandum in.

20

Swa sceal geong guma      gode gewyrcean,

fromum feohgiftum      on fæder bearme ,

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Gummere version

Hwæt! We Gardena      in geardagum,

þeodcyninga,      þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas      ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scefing      sceaþena þreatum,

5

monegum mægþum,      meodosetla ofteah,

egsode eorlas .      Syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden,      he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum,      weorðmyndum þah,

oðþæt him æghwylc      þara ymbsittendra

10

ofer hronrade      hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan.      þæt wæs god cyning!

ðæm eafera wæs      æfter cenned,

geong in geardum,      þone god sende

folce to frofre;      fyrenðearfe ongeat

15

þe hie ær drugon      aldorlease

lange hwile.      Him þæs liffrea,

wuldres wealdend,      woroldare forgeaf;

Beowulf wæs breme      (blæd wide sprang),

Scyldes eafera      Scedelandum in.

20

Swa sceal geong guma      gode gewyrcean,

fromum feohgiftum      on fæder bearme ,

Dobbie version

LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings

of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,

we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!

Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,

from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,

awing the earls. Since erst he lay

friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:

for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,

till before him the folk, both far and near,

who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,

gave him gifts: a good king he!

To him an heir was afterward born,

a son in his halls, whom heaven sent

to favor the folk, feeling their woe

that erst they had lacked an earl for leader

so long a while; the Lord endowed him,

the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.

Famed was this Beowulf:

far flew the boast of him,

son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.

So becomes it a youth to quit him well

with his father's friends, by fee and gift,

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Hwæt! We Gardena      in geardagum,

þeodcyninga,      þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas      ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scefing      sceaþena þreatum,

5

monegum mægþum,      meodosetla ofteah,

egsode eorlas .      Syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden,      he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum,      weorðmyndum þah,

oðþæt him æghwylc      þara ymbsittendra

10

ofer hronrade      hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan.      þæt wæs god cyning!

ðæm eafera wæs      æfter cenned,

geong in geardum,      þone god sende

folce to frofre;      fyrenðearfe ongeat

15

þe hie ær drugon      aldorlease

lange hwile.      Him þæs liffrea,

wuldres wealdend,      woroldare forgeaf;

Beowulf wæs breme      (blæd wide sprang),

Scyldes eafera      Scedelandum in.

20

Swa sceal geong guma      gode gewyrcean,

fromum feohgiftum      on fæder bearme ,

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Old English Text

Revised version of one part of http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/headers/1936.xml

Dobbie, 1953 3-98; Dobbie, E.V.K., Beowulf and Judith, ASPR 4 (New York). The Anglo-Saxon poetic records: a collective edition, Krapp, George Philip, 1872-1934 (editor) Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirk (editor) 6 v. : ill. ; 23 cm. Columbia University Press. New York: . [Each [vol.] has also a distinctive title page] [Title from half-title] [Vols. 1-2, 5, edited by G.P. Krapp; v. 3 by G.P. Krapp and E.V.K. Dobbie; v. 4, 6 by E.V.K. Dobbie]

Editor: Hidley, Gregory Ray, 1950-

creation of machine-readable version: Hidley, Gregory Ray, 1950-

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Deposited by Macrae-Gibson, O.Duncan
D of English
U of Aberdeen
King"s College
AB9 2UB Old Aberdeen
UK

DMG@CS.ABDN.AC.UK
1993-10-13

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Modern English Text

Modern English text is from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/981)

Translator: Gummere, Francis Barton, 1855-1919

Title: Beowulf

Release Date: 1 Jul 1997

Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.

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Video is from The Woruldhord Project (http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/contributions/161). Audio is extracted from the same.

Title: Beowulf - Scyld Scefing's Funeral - Read in Old English.

Contributor: Matt Love.

Date: 14 Jan 2010.

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Image of the first page of Cotton Vitellius A. xv. from Wikipedia (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg)

According to Wikipedia, 'This is a public domain image from Kip Wheeler's homepage at Carson-Newman College. Kip Wheeler declared its status thus: "The original image of the Beowulf manuscript comes from the anonymous Anglo-Saxon scribe who wrote the 'Nowell Codex', Cotton Vitellius A.x.v. 129 r. It appears here as reproduced in Julius Zupitza's Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv. in the British Museum with a Transliteration and Notes. E.E.T.S. O.S. 77. London: Trubner & Co., 1882. This image is public domain."
Originally uploaded to English Wikipedia by Jwrosenzweig.'

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