Beowulf

Beowulf, lines 25–30

Beowulf, lines 25–30
Viperine water snake (Natrix maura), Extremadura, Spain. By Charles James Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

THEN SCYLD LEFT AT THE CORRECT TIME

PROTECTING FREA AS STRONG AS EVER

THEY CARRIED HIM TO THE BEACH

HIS DEAR FRIENDS

BUT ONLY BECAUSE HE 

THE FRIEND OF THE SCYLDINGS

HAD PREVIOUSLY TOLD THEM TO

Today's lines:

him ða scyld gewat to gescæphwile / felahror feran on frean wære / hi hyne þa ætbæron to brimes faroðe / swæse gesiþas / swa he selfa bæd / þenden wordum weold wine scyldinga

Jo Livingstone