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seah wundorlice wiht; wombe hæfde micle,
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I
saw a creature with a strange belly
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þryþum geþrungne.
þegn
folgade
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Huge and swollen, handled by a servant,
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mægenstrong ond mundrof; micel
me þuhte
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Hard-muscled and hand-strong, a mighty man
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godlic gumrinc; grap on sona
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Who seized the creature, gripped it so
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heofones toþe [ . . . . . . .]
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That the tooth of heaven began to blow
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bleowe on eage; hio borcade,
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Out through its eye. It struggled and sang,
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wancode willum. Hio wolde seþeah
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Bellowed from below, puffed up and passed out;
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niol [ . . . . . ] [ . . . . . . . ]
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Yet it always arched up on air again.
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