Copy 1, Volume 1
Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright.
- Thomas Wright
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ne inc enig mon, ne ledf ne 14%, be-lean mihte sore-fullne sid. pa git on sund redn, peer git eagor-stream earmum péhton, meton mere-streta, mundum brugdon, glidon ofer gar-secg; geofon-ypum weol wintrys wylm: git on weeteres wht seofon-niht swuncon. He be et sunde ofer-flat, heefde mare megen: pa hine on morgen-tid on Heabo-reemes holm up-zet-beer ; Sonon he ge-sdéhte swesne éSel, leéf his le6dum, land Brondinga, freddo-burh fegere, peer he folc ahte burh and beagas. Bedt eal wid pe sunu Bean-stanes s6[Se] ge-leste. Donne wéne ic td pe wyrsan pingea, Seah pa heaSo-reesa ge-hweer déhte, grimre guise, gif pa Grendl[es] dearst niht-longne fyrst nean hi[dan].’ You two might no man, neither friend nor enemy, hinder by his reproaches from your sorrowful journey. Then ye two rowed on the deep where ye the ocean-stream covered with your arms; ye measured the lake-paths, with your arms ye whirled them ye glided over the ocean ; with the waves of the sea the tide of winter boiled. Ye two on the domain of the water laboured seven days. He beat thee on the waves— he had more strength: then, at the morning tide, the deep sea bore him up on Heathoreeme ; thence he sought, dear to his people, his own peculiar inheritance, the land of the Brondings— a fair metropolis, where he possessed a people, a town, and rings [treasures]. All his promise the son of Beanstan truly performed to thee. Yet I expect for thee a worse affair, though thou in hostile onsets, in grim war, hast been everywhere successful, if thou darest, for the space of a whole night, to abide near Grendel.’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33097963_0001_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
