Old English Reading 1: Appendix, Texts
Beowulf: Lines 1 to 11

Source: Wikisource, Beowulf (Wyatt), A. J. Wyatt's 1894 edition based on Zupitza's autotypes, lines 1 to 11 of the Prelude. The dot marks the gap between half-lines.
Licence: The edition is public domain by age; Wikisource's own contributions to the transcription are generally CC BY-SA, which I did not check for this page.
Note: Only this extract is given. The poem has over 3,000 lines and I have not read a source of the whole text.
Old English only. The editors' marks are kept; no gloss or translation.

  1  Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena · in gēar-dagum
  2  þēod-cyninga · þrym gefrūnon,
  3  hū ðā æþelingas · ellen fremedon.
  4  Oft Scyld Scēfing · sceaþena þrēatum,
  5  monegum mǣgþum · meodo-setla oftēah.
  6  Egsode eorl, · syððan ǣrest wearð
  7  fēa-sceaft funden; · hē þæs frōfre gebād,
  8  wēox under wolcnum, · weorð-myndum þāh,
  9  oð þæt him ǣghwylc · þāra ymb-sittendra
 10  ofer hron-rāde · hȳran scolde,
 11  gomban gyldan; · þæt wæs gōd cyning.