The Fight at Finnsburh
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[H]næ[f] hlēoþrode ðā,
'Ne ðis ne dagað ēast[an],
ne hēr ðisse healle
ac hēr forþ berað,
gylleð grǣghama,
scyld scefte oncwrð.
waðol under wolcnum;
ðe ðisne folces nīð
Ac onwacnigeað nū,
habbað ēowre l[i]nda,
win[n]að on orde,
Ðā ārās mænig goldhladen ðegn,
ðā tō dura ēodon
Sigeferð and Ēaha,
and æt ōþrum durum
and Hengest sylf
Ðā gȳt Gārulf
ðæt hē swā frēolic feorh
tō ðǣre healle durum
nū hyt nīþa heard
ac hē frægn ofer eal
dēormōd hæleþ,
'Sigeferþ is mīn nama,' cweþ hē,
wrec[c]e[a] wīde cūð;
he[a]rdra hilda;
swæper ðū sylf tō mē
Dā wæs on healle
sceolde cel[lod] bor[d]
bānhelm berstan,
oð æt ðǣre gūðe
ealra ǣrest
Gūðlāfes sunu,
hwearfl[i]cra hrǣ[w].
sweart and sealobrūn.
swylce eal Finnsburuh
Ne gefrægn ic nǣfre wurþlīcor
sixtig sigebeorna
ne nēfre swān[as] hwītne medo
ðonne Hnæfe guldan
Hig fuhton fīf dagas,
drihtgesīða,
Ða gewāt him wund hæleð
sǣde þæt his byrne
heresceorp u[n]hrōr,
Dā hine sōna frægn
hū ðā wīgend hyra
oððe hwæþer ðǣra hyssa
[hor]nas byrnað?
hea[þ]ogeong cyning:
ne hēr draca ne flēogeð,
hornas ne byrnað;
fugelas singað,
gūðwudu hlynneð,
Nū scȳneð þes mōna
nū ārīsað wēadǣda,
fremman willað.
wīgend mīne,
hi[c]geaþ on ellen,
wesað on mōde!'
gyrde hine his swurde;
drihtlice cempan,
hyra sword getugon,
Ordlāf and Gūþlāf,
hwearf him on lāste.
Gūðere stȳ[r]de,
forman sīþe
hyrsta ne bǣr[e],
ānyman wolde;
undearninga,
hwā ðā duru hēolde.
'ic eom Secgena lēod,
fæla ic wē[a]na gebād,
ðē is gȳt hēr witod
sēcean wylle.'
wælslihta gehlyn,
[c]ēnum on handa,
buruhðelu dynede,
Gārulf gecrang
eorðbūendra,
ymbe hyne gōdra fæla,
Hræfen wandrode
Swurdlēoma stōd,
fȳrenu wǣre.
æt wera hilde
sēl begǣra[n],
sēl forgyldan,
his hægstealdas.
swā hyra nān ne fēol,
ac hig ðā duru heoldon.
on wæg gangan,
ābrocen wǣre,
and ēac wæs hi helm ðȳr[e]l.
folces hyrde
wunda genǣson,