Hwaet! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum theod-cyninga thrym gefrunon, hu tha aedelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceadena threatum, monegum maegdum meodo-setla ofteah. Egsode eorlas, syddan aerest weard feasceaft funden: he thaes frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weord-myndum dah, od thaet him aeghwylc thara ymb-sittendra ofer hron-rade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. Thaet waes god cyning!