In pure gold inlay on the sword-guards there were rune-markings correctly incised, stating and recording for whom the sword had been first made and ornamented with its scrollworked hilt.

In pure gold inlay on the sword-guards
there were rune-markings correctly incised,
stating and recording for whom the sword
had been first made and ornamented
with its scrollworked hilt.

– Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.)

Lines 1694-1698: A description of the hilt of the sword Beowulf recovered from Grendel’s mother.

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