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  • [2] For 'aldor-léase' (15) Gr. suggested 'aldor-ceare': _He perceived their distress, that they formerly had suffered life-sorrow a long while_.

    Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

  • Hine sorh-wylmas lemede tô lange, he his leódum wearð, eallum äðelingum tô aldor-ceare; swylce oft bemearn ærran mælum swîð-ferhðes sîð snotor ceorl monig,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Ne wæs þæt forma sīð, þæt hē Hrōðgāres hām gesōhte: nǣfre hē on aldor-dagum ǣr nē siððan

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Hine sorh-wylmas lemede tō lange, hē his lēodum wearð, eallum æðelingum tō aldor-ceare; swylce oft bemearn ǣrran mǣlum swīð-ferhðes sīð snotor ceorl monig,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Scolde his aldor-gedâl on þäm däge þysses lîfes earmlîc wurðan and se ellor-gâst on feónda geweald feor sîðian.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • He him þäs leán forgeald, rêðe cempa, tô þäs þe he on räste geseah gûð-wêrigne Grendel licgan, aldor-leásne, swâ him ær gescôd hild ät Heorote; hrâ wîde sprong,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • S. suggests þâ (_which_) for þät, as object of dreógan; and for aldor-leáse, Gr. suggested aldor-ceare.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Ne wäs þät forma sîð, þät he Hrôðgâres hâm gesôhte: næfre he on aldor-dagum ær ne siððan

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Grendle tô-geánes, swâ guman gefrungon, sele-weard âseted, sundor-nytte beheóld ymb aldor Dena, eoton weard âbeád;

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • III. hûru se aldor deáh, _especially is the prince capable_, 369; ðonne his ellen deáh,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

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