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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![Beé-wulf mapelode, bearn Ecg-bedwes : ‘Hweet! ba worn fela wine min Hunfer[S], bedére druncen, ymb Brecan sprece, seegdest from his sise ; 868 ic talige peet ic mere-strengo maran 4hte, earfebo on ypum, Sonne enig éper man. Wit bet ge-cwedon cniht-wesende and ge-bedtedon (weeron begen pa git on gedgos-feore), beet wit on gar-secg ut aldrum néédon, and pet ge-zfndon swa. Heefdon swurd nacod, pa wit on sund redn, heard on handa ; wit unc wid hron-fixas wérian pdohton. Ne he wiht fram me fl6d-ypum feor fledtan meahte, hrapor on holme, no ic fram him wolde : Sa wit et-[s]omne on sz weeron fif nihta fyrst, op pet unc fldd té-draf, wado weallende, wedera cealdost, nipende niht, Beowulf spoke, the son of Ecgtheow : ‘Lo! thou for a long time, my friend Hunferth, drunken with beer, hast discoursed concerning Breca, has spoken respecting his journey ; I tell thee the truth, that I possess more of strength on the sea, of laboriousness on the waters, than any other man. We two had said that, when we were boys, and had promised (we were still both in the prime of youth). that we out on the ocean would venture our lives, and that we accomplished thus. We had our naked swords hard in our hands when we rowed upon the deep we thought to defend ourselves against the walruses. more swift on the deep, swim far from me, over the waves of the sea: I would not from him. There we two together were on the sea the space of five nights, until the flood drove us asunder ; the boiling fords, the coldest of storms, the darkening night,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33097963_0001_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
