bugon

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At line 2598 we find -- they to wood went for hȳ on holt bugon, which, whatever be the meaning of ‘bugon,’ is surely a misleading translation.

The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919
«Anb item Saxones fefe fubdiderunt, ac obfides de - f ej-t-8eaxe bugon. anb pj-lobon. anb hopfo -

Chronicon saxonicum : seu Annales rerum in Anglia præcique gestarum, a Christo nato ad annum usque MCLIV. deducti, ac jam demum latinitate donati. Cum indice rerum chronologico. Accedunt regulæ ad investigandas nominum locorum origines. Et nominum locorum ac virorum in chronico memoratorum explicatio 1692
325 Setton sǣ-mēðe sīde scyldas, rondas regn-hearde wið þæs recedes weal, bugon þā tō bence; byrnan hringdon, gūð-searo gumena; gāras stōdon, sǣ-manna searo, samod ætgædere,

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
325 Setton sæ-mêðe sîde scyldas, rondas regn-hearde wið þäs recedes weal, bugon þâ tô bence; byrnan hringdon, gûð-searo gumena; gâras stôdon, sæ-manna searo, samod ätgädere,

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879