[2] spēda [on bēoð], þæt is, on wildrum. Hē hæfde þā gȳt, ðā

3 hē þone cyningc[5] sōhte, tamra dēora unbebohtra syx hund.

4 Þā dēor hī hātað ‘hrānas’; þāra wǣron syx stælhrānas;

5 ðā bēoð swȳðe dȳre mid Finnum, for ðǣm hȳ fōð þā

6 wildan hrānas mid. Hē wæs mid þǣm fyrstum mannum

7 on þǣm lande: næfde hē þēah mā ðonne twēntig hrȳðera,

8 and twēntig scēapa, and twēntig swȳna; and þæt lȳtle

9 þæt hē ęrede, hē ęrede mid horsan.[4] Ac hyra ār is mǣst

10 on þǣm gafole þe ðā Finnas him gyldað. Þæt gafol bið

11 on dēora fellum, and on fugela feðerum, and hwales bāne,