Toscead betweox fadungum "Bēoƿulf"

'''Bēoƿulf''' ƿæs ȝeanƿyrde bēon þæt ānne miċelne lēoþ inne Englisc āƿrit. Hit ƿæs writen mid [[Englisc sprǣc|Englisc]], mid [[Westan-Saxon sprǣc|Westan-Saxon]] lǣdan, and ǣƿielmen mid sprǣc betƿēonan þæt nēah 7 hundred ȝēara CE and ǣror 9 hundred ȝēara CE. Þone ǣƿielm nōtere ƿæs uncūþ, ac hit ƿæs æfterƿriten fram tƿēȝen nōtera, þā ƿǣron ȝelīċian Crīstne, and ābīdan sƿā ānga ānne bōc ȝeboren æt 10 hundred ȝēara CE, habbe fram þā [[Bryttisc Museum]]. Þæt lēoþ is 3182 līna lang, ȝebrocen intō fruma and 43 læppan, and ātellan Germanisc cālendcƿide.

 

Bēoƿulf, der echter, se ealdor, ƿæs Gēatisc æðeling. Þā of þāra pliht Hrōðgār þone Deniscan cyning hē ȝefracg, þā hƿā fērde tō helpenne. Bēoƿulf nīðpleȝen and ofslaȝen þā nīðiȝ ƿuhte Grendel and Grendles mōdor, tō ǣrgōd lāstƿord and lean. Hie þǣræfter ȝēanhwurf cȳþþu tō ƿeorðenne Gēatisc cyning æftanƿeard, ƿyrd þā deaþ his fæderes. Hīe regolian 50 ȝēara, and sƿealt ofslaȝen gram ƿyrm þæt ābrocen his land. Hīe ƿæs giermane fram his nēodfrēond Ƿiȝlaf.