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Oft
ic secga seledreame sceal
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Gleaming with joy, glad with gold,
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fægre onþeon, þonne
ic eom forð boren
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I am carried to the hall where I serve
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glæd mid golde, þær
guman drincað.
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Bold heroes carousing together.
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Hwilum
mec on cofan cysseð muþe
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Sometimes in a chamber as I come full
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tillic esne, þær wit
tu beoþ,
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Bodied to a palate, a man may kiss me,
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fæðme on folm[ . . .].
[ . . . .]grum þyð,
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Press me boldly with his cupped hand,
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wyrceð his willa[ . . . ]
[ . . . .]ð l[ . . . .
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Work his will, drink desire,
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.
. . . .] fulre, þonne ic forð cyme
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Mouth on mine, in a delicate spill
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[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ].
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* * *
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Ne
mæg ic þy miþan, [ . . . . . . . .
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So the light shows what I bear in my belly
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. . . . . . .] [ . . . .]an on
leohte
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* * *
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swylce eac bið sona [ . .
. . . . . . . ]
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So the reckless man raises this treasure,
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[ . . ]r[ . ].te getacnad, hwæt
me to[ . . .
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Drinks deep of my own dark pleasure.
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. . . .]eas rinc, þa unc
geryde wæs.
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