Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Mec se wæta wong, wundrum freorig,
of his innaþe ærist cende.
Ne wat ic mec beworhtne wulle flysum,
hærum þurh heahcræft, hygeþoncum min.
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Wundene me ne beoð wefle, ne ic wearp hafu,
ne þurh þreata geþræcu þræd me ne hlimmeð,
ne æt me hrutende hrisil scriþeð,
ne mec ohwonan sceal am cnyssan.
Wyrmas mec ne awæfan wyrda cræftum,
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þa þe geolo godwebb geatwum frætwað.
Wile mec mon hwæþre seþeah wide ofer eorþan
hatan for hæleþum hyhtlic gewæde.
Saga soðcwidum, searoþoncum gleaw,
wordum wisfæst, hwæt þis gewæde sy.
Riddle 36
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wiht geseah on wege feran,
seo wæs wrætlice wundrum gegierwed.
Hæfde feowere fet under wombe
ond ehtuwe
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monn h w M wiif m x l kf wf hors qxxs
ufon on hrycge;
hæfde tu fiþru ond twelf eagan
ond siex heafdu. Saga hwæt hio wære.
For flodwegas; ne wæs þæt na fugul ana,
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ac þær wæs æghwylces anra gelicnes
horses ond monnes, hundes ond fugles,
ond eac wifes wlite. þu wast, gif þu const,
to gesecganne, þæt we soð witan,
hu þære wihte wise gonge.
Riddle 37
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þa wihte geseah; womb wæs on hindan
þriþum aþrunten. þegn folgade,
mægenrofa man, ond micel hæfde
gefered þæt hit felde, fleah þurh his eage.
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Ne swylteð he symle, þonne syllan sceal
innað þam oþrum, ac him eft cymeð
bot in bosme, blæd biþ aræred;
he sunu wyrceð, bið him sylfa fæder.
Riddle 38
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þa wiht geseah wæpnedcynnes,
geoguðmyrþe grædig; him on gafol forlet
ferðfriþende feower wellan
scire sceotan, on gesceap þeotan.
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Mon maþelade, se þe me gesægde:
"Seo wiht, gif hio gedygeð, duna briceð;
gif he tobirsteð, bindeð cwice."
Riddle 39
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gewritu secgað þæt seo wiht sy
mid moncynne miclum tidum
sweotol ond gesyne. Sundorcræft hafað
maran micle, þonne hit men witen.
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Heo wile gesecan sundor æghwylcne
feorhberendra, gewiteð eft feran on weg.
Ne bið hio næfre niht þær oþre,
ac hio sceal wideferh wreccan laste
hamleas hweorfan; no þy heanre biþ.
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Ne hafað hio fot ne folme, ne æfre foldan hran,
ne eagena ægþer twega,
ne muð hafaþ, ne wiþ monnum spræc,
ne gewit hafað, ac gewritu secgað
þæt seo sy earmost ealra wihta,
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þara þe æfter gecyndum cenned wære.
Ne hafað hio sawle ne feorh, ac hio siþas sceal
geond þas wundorworuld wide dreogan.
Ne hafaþ hio blod ne ban, hwæþre bearnum wearð
geond þisne middangeard mongum to frofre.
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Næfre hio heofonum hran, ne to helle mot,
ac hio sceal wideferh wuldorcyninges
larum lifgan. Long is to secganne
hu hyre ealdorgesceaft æfter gongeð,
woh wyrda gesceapu; þæt is wrætlic þing
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to gesecganne. Soð is æghwylc
þara þe ymb þas wiht wordum becneð;
ne hafað heo ænig lim, leofaþ efne seþeah.
Gif þu mæge reselan recene gesecgan
soþum wordum, saga hwæt hio hatte.
Riddle 40
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ece is se scyppend, se þas eorþan nu
wreðstuþum wealdeð ond þas world healdeð.
Rice is se reccend ond on ryht cyning
ealra anwalda, eorþan ond heofones,
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healdeð ond wealdeð, swa he ymb þas utan hweorfeð.
He mec wrætlice worhte æt frymþe,
þa he þisne ymbhwyrft ærest sette,
heht mec wæccende wunian longe,
þæt ic ne slepe siþþan æfre,
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ond mec semninga slæp ofergongeþ,
beoð eagan min ofestum betyned.
þisne middangeard meahtig dryhten
mid his onwalde æghwær styreð;
swa ic mid waldendes worde ealne
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þisne ymbhwyrft utan ymbclyppe.
Ic eom to þon bleað, þæt mec bealdlice mæg
gearu gongende grima abregan,
ond eofore eom æghwær cenra,
þonne he gebolgen bidsteal giefeð;
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ne mæg mec oferswiþan segnberendra
ænig ofer eorþan, nymþe se ana god
se þisne hean heofon healdeþ ond wealdeþ.
Ic eom on stence strengre micle
þonne ricels oþþe rose sy,
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on eorþan tyrf
wynlic weaxeð; ic eom wræstre þonne heo.
þeah þe lilie sy leof moncynne,
beorht on blostman, ic eom betre þonne heo;
swylce ic nardes stenc nyde oferswiþe
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mid minre swetnesse symle æghwær,
ond ic fulre eom þonne þis fen swearte
þæt her yfle adelan stinceð.
Eal ic under heofones hwearfte recce,
swa me leof fæder lærde æt frymþe,
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þæt ic þa mid ryhte reccan moste
þicce ond þynne; þinga gehwylces
onlicnesse æghwær healde.
Hyrre ic eom heofone, hateþ mec heahcyning
his deagol þing dyre bihealdan;
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eac ic under eorþan eal sceawige
wom wraðscrafu wraþra gæsta.
Ic eom micle yldra þonne ymbhwyrft þes
oþþe þes middangeard meahte geweorþan,
ond ic giestron wæs geong acenned
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mære to monnum þurh minre modor hrif.
Ic eom fægerre frætwum goldes,
þeah hit mon awerge wirum utan;
ic eom wyrslicre þonne þes wudu fula
oððe þis waroð þe her aworpen ligeð.
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Ic eorþan eom æghwær brædre,
ond widgielra þonne þes wong grena;
folm mec mæg bifon ond fingras þry
utan eaþe ealle ymbclyppan.
Heardra ic eom ond caldra þonne se hearda forst,
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hrim heorugrimma, þonne he to hrusan cymeð;
ic eom Ulcanus up irnendan
leohtan leoman lege hatra.
Ic eom on goman gena swetra
þonne þu beobread blende mid hunige;
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swylce ic eom wraþre þonne wermod sy,
þe her on hyrstum heasewe stondeþ.
Ic mesan mæg meahtelicor
ond efnetan ealdum þyrse,
ond ic gesælig mæg symle lifgan
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þeah ic ætes ne sy æfre to feore.
Ic mæg fromlicor fleogan þonne pernex
oþþe earn oþþe hafoc æfre meahte;
nis zefferus, se swifta wind,
þæt swa fromlice mæg feran æghwær;
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me is snægl swiftra, snelra regnwyrm
ond fenyce fore hreþre;
is þæs gores sunu gonge hrædra,
þone we wifel wordum nemnað.
Hefigere ic eom micle þonne se hara stan
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oþþe unlytel leades clympre,
leohtre ic eom micle þonne þes lytla wyrm
þe her on flode gæð fotum dryge.
Flinte ic eom heardre þe þis fyr drifeþ
of þissum strongan style heardan,
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hnescre ic eom micle halsrefeþre,
seo her on winde wæweð on lyfte.
Ic eorþan eom æghwær brædre
ond widgelra þonne þes wong grena;
ic uttor eaþe eal ymbwinde,
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wrætlice gewefen wundorcræfte.
Nis under me ænig oþer
wiht waldendre on worldlife;
ic eom ufor ealra gesceafta,
þara þe worhte waldend user,
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se mec ana mæg ecan meahtum,
geþeon þrymme, þæt ic onþunian ne sceal.
Mara ic eom ond strengra þonne se micla hwæl,
se þe garsecges grund bihealdeð
sweartan syne; ic eom swiþre þonne he,
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swylce ic eom on mægene minum læsse
þonne se hondwyrm, se þe hæleþa bearn,
secgas searoþoncle, seaxe delfað.
Nu hafu ic in heafde hwite loccas
wræste gewundne, ac ic eom wide calu;
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ne ic breaga ne bruna brucan moste,
ac mec bescyrede scyppend eallum;
nu me wrætlice weaxað on heafde
þæt me on gescyldrum scinan motan
ful wrætlice wundne loccas.
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Mara ic eom ond fættra þonne amæsted swin,
bearg bellende, þe on bocwuda,
won wrotende wynnum lifde
þæt he
Riddle 41
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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edniwu;
þæt is moddor monigra cynna,
þæs selestan, þæs sweartestan,
þæs deorestan þæs þe dryhta bearn
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ofer foldan sceat to gefean agen.
Ne magon we her in eorþan owiht lifgan,
nymðe we brucen þæs þa bearn doð.
þæt is to geþencanne þeoda gehwylcum,
wisfæstum werum, hwæt seo wiht sy.
Riddle 42
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah wyhte wrætlice twa
undearnunga ute plegan
hæmedlaces; hwitloc anfeng
wlanc under wædum, gif þæs weorces speow,
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fæmne fyllo. Ic on flette mæg
þurh runstafas rincum secgan,
þam þe bec witan, bega ætsomne
naman þara wihta. þær sceal Nyd wesan
twega oþer ond se torhta æsc
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an an linan, Acas twegen,
Hægelas swa some. Hwylc þæs hordgates
cægan cræfte þa clamme onleac
þe þa rædellan wið rynemenn
hygefæste heold heortan bewrigene
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orþoncbendum? Nu is undyrne
werum æt wine hu þa wihte mid us,
heanmode twa, hatne sindon.
Riddle 43
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wat indryhtne æþelum deorne
giest in geardum, þam se grimma ne mæg
hungor sceððan ne se hata þurst,
yldo ne adle. Gif him arlice
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esne þenað, se þe agan sceal
on þam siðfate, hy gesunde æt ham
findað witode him wiste ond blisse,
cnosles unrim, care, gif se esne
his hlaforde hyreð yfle,
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frean on fore. Ne wile forht wesan
broþor oþrum; him þæt bam sceðeð,
þonne hy from bearme begen hweorfað
anre magan ellorfuse,
moddor ond sweostor. Mon, se þe wille,
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cyþe cynewordum hu se cuma hatte,
eðþa se esne, þe ic her ymb sprice.
Riddle 44
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wrætlic hongað bi weres þeo,
frean under sceate. Foran is þyrel.
Bið stiþ ond heard, stede hafað godne;
þonne se esne his agen hrægl
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ofer cneo hefeð, wile þæt cuþe hol
mid his hangellan heafde gretan
þæt he efenlang ær oft gefylde.
Riddle 45
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic on wincle gefrægn weaxan nathwæt,
þindan ond þunian, þecene hebban;
on þæt banlease bryd grapode,
hygewlonc hondum, hrægle þeahte
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þrindende þing þeodnes dohtor.
Riddle 46
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wer sæt æt wine mid his wifum twam
ond his twegen suno ond his twa dohtor,
swase gesweostor, ond hyra suno twegen,
freolico frumbearn; fæder wæs þær inne
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þara æþelinga æghwæðres mid,
eam ond nefa. Ealra wæron fife
eorla ond idesa insittendra.
Riddle 47
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Moððe word fræt. Me þæt þuhte
wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn,
þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes,
þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide
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ond þæs strangan staþol. Stælgiest ne wæs
wihte þy gleawra, þe he þam wordum swealg.
Riddle 48
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic gefrægn for hæleþum hring endean,
torhtne butan tungan, tila þeah he hlude
stefne ne cirmde, strongum wordum.
Sinc for secgum swigende cwæð:
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"Gehæle mec, helpend gæsta."
Ryne ongietan readan goldes
guman galdorcwide, gleawe beþencan
hyra hælo to gode, swa se hring gecwæð.
Riddle 49
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wat eardfæstne anne standan,
deafne, dumban, se oft dæges swilgeð
þurh gopes hond gifrum lacum.
Hwilum on þam wicum se wonna þegn,
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sweart ond saloneb, sendeð oþre
under goman him golde dyrran,
þa æþelingas oft wilniað,
cyningas ond cwene. Ic þæt cyn nu gen
nemnan ne wille, þe him to nytte swa
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ond to dugþum doþ þæt se dumba her,
eorp unwita, ær forswilgeð.
Riddle 50
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wiga is on eorþan wundrum acenned
dryhtum to nytte, of dumbum twam
torht atyhted, þone on teon wigeð
feond his feonde. Forstrangne oft
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wif hine wrið; he him wel hereð,
þeowaþ him geþwære, gif him þegniað
mægeð ond mæcgas mid gemete ryhte,
fedað hine fægre; he him fremum stepeð
life on lissum. Leanað grimme
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þam þe hine wloncne weorþan læteð.
Riddle 51
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah wrætlice wuhte feower
samed siþian; swearte wæran lastas,
swaþu swiþe blacu. Swift wæs on fore,
fuglum framra; fleag on lyfte,
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deaf under yþe. Dreag unstille
winnende wiga se him wegas tæcneþ
ofer fæted gold feower eallum.
Riddle 52
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah ræpingas in ræced fergan
under hrof sales hearde twegen,
þa wæron genamnan, nearwum bendum
gefeterade fæste togædre;
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þara oþrum wæs an getenge
wonfah Wale, seo weold hyra
bega siþe bendum fæstra.
Riddle 53
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah on bearwe beam hlifian,
tanum torhtne. þæt treow wæs on wynne,
wudu weaxende. Wæter hine ond eorþe
feddan fægre, oþþæt he frod dagum
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on oþrum wearð aglachade
deope gedolgod, dumb in bendum,
wriþen ofer wunda, wonnum hyrstum
foran gefrætwed. Nu he fæcnum weg
þurh his heafdes mægen hildegieste
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oþrum rymeð. Oft hy an yste strudon
hord ætgædre; hræd wæs ond unlæt
se æftera, gif se ærra fær
genamnan in nearowe neþan moste.
Riddle 54
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hyse cwom gangan, þær he hie wisse
stondan in wincsele, stop feorran to,
hror hægstealdmon, hof his agen
hrægl hondum up, hrand under gyrdels
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hyre stondendre stiþes nathwæt,
worhte his willan; wagedan buta.
þegn onnette, wæs þragum nyt
tillic esne, teorode hwæþre
æt stunda gehwam strong ær þon hio,
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werig þæs weorces. Hyre weaxan ongon
under gyrdelse þæt oft gode men
ferðþum freogað ond mid feo bicgað.
Riddle 55
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Ic seah in healle, þær hæleð druncon,
on flet beran feower cynna,
wrætlic wudutreow ond wunden gold,
sinc searobunden, ond seolfres dæl
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ond rode tacn, þæs us to roderum up
hlædre rærde, ær he helwara
burg abræce. Ic þæs beames mæg
eaþe for eorlum æþelu secgan;
þær wæs hlin ond acc ond se hearda iw
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ond se fealwa holen; frean sindon ealle
nyt ætgædre, naman habbað anne,
wulfheafedtreo, þæt oft wæpen abæd
his mondryhtne, maðm in healle,
goldhilted sweord. Nu me þisses gieddes
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ondsware ywe, se hine on mede
wordum secgan hu se wudu hatte.
Riddle 56
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Ic wæs þær inne þær ic ane geseah
winnende wiht wido bennegean,
holt hweorfende; heaþoglemma feng,
deopra dolga. Daroþas wæron
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weo þære wihte, ond se wudu searwum
fæste gebunden. Hyre fota wæs
biidfæst oþer, oþer bisgo dreag,
leolc on lyfte, hwilum londe neah.
Treow wæs getenge þam þær torhtan stod
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leafum bihongen. Ic lafe geseah
minum hlaforde, þær hæleð druncon,
þara flana geweorc, on flet beran.
Riddle 57
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ðeos lyft byreð lytle wihte
ofer beorghleoþa. þa sind blace swiþe,
swearte salopade. Sanges rope
heapum ferað, hlude cirmað,
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tredað bearonæssas, hwilum burgsalo
niþþa bearna. Nemnað hy sylfe.
Riddle 58
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wat anfete ellen dreogan
wiht on wonge. Wide ne fereð,
ne fela rideð, ne fleogan mæg
þurh scirne dæg, ne hie scip fereð,
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naca nægledbord; nyt bið hwæþre
hyre mondryhtne monegum tidum.
Hafað hefigne steort, heafod lytel,
tungan lange, toð nænigne,
isernes dæl; eorðgræf pæþeð.
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Wætan ne swelgeþ ne wiht iteþ,
foþres ne gitsað, fereð oft swa þeah
lagoflod on lyfte; life ne gielpeð,
hlafordes gifum, hyreð swa þeana
þeodne sinum. þry sind in naman
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ryhte runstafas, þara is Rad foran.
Riddle 59
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah in healle hring gyldenne
men sceawian, modum gleawe,
ferþþum frode. Friþospede bæd
god nergende gæste sinum
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se þe wende wriþan; word æfter cwæð
hring on hyrede, hælend nemde
tillfremmendra. Him torhte in gemynd
his dryhtnes naman dumba brohte
ond in eagna gesihð, gif þæs æþelan
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goldes tacen ongietan cuþe
ond dryhtnes dolg, don swa þæs beages
benne cwædon. Ne mæg þære bene
æniges monnes ungefullodre
godes ealdorburg gæst gesecan,
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rodera ceastre. Ræde, se þe wille,
hu ðæs wrætlican wunda cwæden
hringes to hæleþum, þa he in healle wæs
wylted ond wended wloncra folmum.
The Wife's Lament
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þis giedd wrece bi me ful geomorre,
minre sylfre sið. Ic þæt secgan mæg,
hwæt ic yrmþa gebad, siþþan ic up weox,
niwes oþþe ealdes, no ma þonne nu.
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A ic wite wonn minra wræcsiþa.
ærest min hlaford gewat heonan of leodum
ofer yþa gelac; hæfde ic uhtceare
hwær min leodfruma londes wære.
ða ic me feran gewat folgað secan,
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wineleas wrecca, for minre weaþearfe.
Ongunnon þæt þæs monnes magas hycgan
þurh dyrne geþoht, þæt hy todælden unc,
þæt wit gewidost in woruldrice
lifdon laðlicost, ond mec longade.
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Het mec hlaford min herheard niman,
ahte ic leofra lyt on þissum londstede,
holdra freonda. Forþon is min hyge geomor,
ða ic me ful gemæcne monnan funde,
heardsæligne, hygegeomorne,
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mod miþendne, morþor hycgendne.
Bliþe gebæro ful oft wit beotedan
þæt unc ne gedælde nemne deað ana
owiht elles; eft is þæt onhworfen,
is nu swa hit no wære
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freondscipe uncer. Sceal ic feor ge neah
mines felaleofan fæhðu dreogan.
Heht mec mon wunian on wuda bearwe,
under actreo in þam eorðscræfe.
Eald is þes eorðsele, eal ic eom oflongad,
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sindon dena dimme, duna uphea,
bitre burgtunas, brerum beweaxne,
wic wynna leas. Ful oft mec her wraþe begeat
fromsiþ frean. Frynd sind on eorþan,
leofe lifgende, leger weardiað,
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þonne ic on uhtan ana gonge
under actreo geond þas eorðscrafu.
þær ic sittan mot sumorlangne dæg,
þær ic wepan mæg mine wræcsiþas,
earfoþa fela; forþon ic æfre ne mæg
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þære modceare minre gerestan,
ne ealles þæs longaþes þe mec on þissum life begeat.
A scyle geong mon wesan geomormod,
heard heortan geþoht, swylce habban sceal
bliþe gebæro, eac þon breostceare,
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sinsorgna gedreag, sy æt him sylfum gelong
eal his worulde wyn, sy ful wide fah
feorres folclondes, þæt min freond siteð
under stanhliþe storme behrimed,
wine werigmod, wætre beflowen
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on dreorsele. Dreogeð se min wine
micle modceare; he gemon to oft
wynlicran wic. Wa bið þam þe sceal
of langoþe leofes abidan.
The Judgment Day I
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ðæt gelimpan sceal, þætte lagu floweð,
flod ofer foldan; feores bið æt ende
anra gehwylcum. Oft mæg se þe wile
in his sylfes sefan soð geþencan.
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Hafað him geþinged hider þeoden user
on þam mæstan dæge, mægencyninga hyhst,
wile þonne forbærnan brego moncynnes
lond mid lige. Nis þæt lytulu spræc
to geheganne. Hat bið onæled,
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siþþan fyr nimeð foldan sceatas,
byrnende lig beorhte gesceafte;
bið eal þes ginna grund gleda gefylled,
reþra bronda, swa nu rixiað
gromhydge guman, gylpe strynað,
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hyra hlaforde gehlæges tilgað,
oþþæt hy beswicað synna weardas,
þæt hi mid þy heape helle secað,
fleogað mid þam feondum. Him biþ fyr ongean,
droflic wite, þær næfre dæg scineð
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leohte of lyfte, ac a bilocen stondeð,
siþþan þæs gæstes gryre agiefen weorþeð.
Ufan hit is enge ond hit is innan hat;
nis þæt betlic bold, ac þær is brogna hyhst,
ne noht hyhtlic ham, ac þær is helle grund,
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sarlic siðfæt þam þe sibbe ful oft
tomældeð mid his muþe. Ne con he þa mircan gesceaft,
hu hi butan ende ece stondeð
þam þe þær for his synnum onsægd weorþeð,
ond þonne a to ealdre orleg dreogeð.
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Hwa is þonne þæs ferðgleaw, oþþe þæs fela cunne,
þæt æfre mæge heofona heahþu gereccan,
swa georne þone godes dæl, swa he gearo stondeð
clænum heortum, þam þe þisne cwide willað
ondrædan þus deopne? Sceal se dæg weorþan
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þæt we forð berað firena gehwylce,
þeawas ond geþohtas; þæt bið þearlic gemot,
heardlic heremægen. Hat biþ acolod.
Ne biþ þonne on þisse worulde nymþe wætres sweg
fisces eþel;
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ne biþ her ban ne blod, ac sceal bearna gehwylc
mid lice ond mid sawle leanes fricgan
ealles þæs þe we on eorþan ær geworhtan
godes oþþe yfles. Ne mæg nænig gryre mare
geweorþan æfter worulde, ond se bið wide cuð.
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Ne tytaþ her tungul, ac biþ tyr scæcen,
eorþan blædas. Forþon ic a wille
leode læran þæt hi lof godes
hergan on heahþu, hyhtum to wuldre
lifgen on geleafan, ond a lufan dryhtnes
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wyrcan in þisse worulde, ær þon se wlonca dæg
bodige þurh byman brynehatne leg,
egsan oferþrym. Ne bið nænges eorles tir
leng on þissum life, siþþan leohtes weard
ofer ealne foldan fæþm fyr onsendeð.
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Lixeð lyftes mægen, leg onetteð,
blæc byrnende, blodgyte weorþeð
mongum gemeldad, mægencyninges þrea;
beofað eal beorhte gesceaft, brondas lacað
on þam deopan dæge, dyneð upheofon.
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þonne weras ond wif woruld alætað,
eorþan yrmþu, seoð þonne on ece gewyrht.
þonne bið gecyþed hwa in clænnisse
lif alifde; him bið lean gearo.
Hyht wæs a in heofonum, siþþan user hælend wæs,
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middangeardes meotud, þurh þa mæstan gesceaft
on ful blacne beam bunden fæste
cearian clomme. Crist ealle wat
gode dæde; no þæs gilpan þearf
synfull sawel, þæt hyre sie swegl ongean,
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þonne he gehyrweð ful oft halge lare,
brigdeð on bysmer. Ne con he þæs brogan dæl,
yfles ondgiet, ær hit hine on fealleð.
He þæt þonne onfindeð, þonne se fær cymeþ,
geond middangeard monegum gecyþeð,
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þæt he bið on þæt wynstre weorud wyrs gescaden,
þonne he on þa swiþran hond swican mote,
leahtra alysed. Lyt þæt geþenceð,
se þe him wines glæd wilna bruceð,
siteð him symbelgal, siþ ne bemurneð,
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hu him æfter þisse worulde weorðan mote.
Wile þonne forgieldan gæsta dryhten
willum æfter þære wyrde, wuldres ealdor,
þam þe his synna nu sare geþenceþ,
modbysgunge micle dreogeð;
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him þæt þonne geleanað lifes waldend,
heofona hyrde, æfter heonansiþe
godum dædum, þæs þe he swa geomor wearð,
sarig fore his synnum. Ne sceal se to sæne beon
ne þissa larna to læt, se þe him wile lifgan mid gode,
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brucan þæs boldes þe us beorht fæder
gearwað togeanes, gæsta ealdor.
þæt is sigedryhten þe þone sele frætweð,
timbreð torhtlice; to sculon clæne,
womma lease, swa se waldend cwæð,
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ealra cyninga cyning. Forþon cwicra gehwylc,
deophydigra, dryhtne hyreð,
þara þe wile heofona heahþu gestigan.
Hwæþre þæt gegongeð, þeah þe hit sy greote beþeaht,
lic mid lame, þæt hit sceal life onfon,
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feores æfter foldan. Folc biþ gebonnen,
Adames bearn ealle to spræce;
beoð þonne gegædrad gæst ond bansele,
gesomnad to þam siþe. Soþ þæt wile cyþan,
þonne we us gemittað on þam mæstan dæge,
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rincas æt þære rode, secgað þonne ryhta fela,
eal swylce under heofonum gewearð hates ond cealdes,
godes oþþe yfles; georne gehyreð
heofoncyninga hyhst hæleþa dæde.
Næfre mon þæs hlude horn aþyteð
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ne byman ablaweþ, þæt ne sy seo beorhte stefn
ofer ealne middangeard monnum hludre,
waldendes word; wongas beofiað
for þam ærende þæt he to us eallum wat.
Oncweþ nu þisne cwide; cuþ sceal geweorþan
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þæt ic gewægan ne mæg wyrd under heofonum,
ac hit þus gelimpan sceal leoda gehwylcum
ofer eall beorht gesetu, byrnende lig.
Siþþan æfter þam lige lif bið gestaþelad,
welan ah in wuldre se nu wel þenceð.
Resignation
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Age mec se ælmihta god,
helpe min se halga dryhten! þu gesceope heofon ond eorþan
ond wundor eall, min wundorcyning,
þe þær on sindon, ece dryhten,
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micel ond manigfeald. Ic þe, mære god,
mine sawle bebeode ond mines sylfes lic,
ond min word ond min weorc, witig dryhten,
ond eal min leoþo, leohtes hyrde,
ond þa manigfealdan mine geþohtas.
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Getacna me, tungla hyrde,
þær selast sy sawle minre
to gemearcenne meotudes willan,
þæt ic þe geþeo þinga gehwylce,
ond on me sylfum, soðfæst cyning,
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ræd arære. Regnþeof ne læt
on sceade sceþþan, þeah þe ic scyppendum
wuldorcyninge waccor hyrde,
ricum dryhtne, þonne min ræd wære.
Forgif me to lisse, lifgende god,
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bitre bealodæde. Ic þa bote gemon,
cyninga wuldor, cume to, gif ic mot.
Forgif þu me, min frea, fierst ond ondgiet
ond geþyld ond gemynd þinga gehwylces
þara þu me, soþfæst cyning, sendan wylle
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to cunnunge. Nu þu const on mec
firendæda fela, feorma mec hwæþre,
meotod, for þinre miltse, þeah þe ic ma fremede
grimra gylta þonne me god lyfde;
hæbbe ic þonne þearfe þæt ic þine seþeah,
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halges heofoncyninges, hyldo getilge
leorendum dagum, lif æfter oþrum
geseo ond gesece, þæt me siþþan þær
unne arfæst god ecan dreames,
lif alyfe, þeah þe lætlicor
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bette bealodæde þonne bibodu wæron
halgan heofonmægnes. Hwæt, þu me her fela
...... forgeafe. Gesette minne hyht on þec,
forhte foreþoncas, þæt hio fæstlice
stonde gestaðelad. Onstep minne hige,
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gæsta god cyning, in gearone ræd.
Nu ic fundige to þe, fæder moncynnes,
of þisse worulde, nu ic wat þæt ic sceal,
ful unfyr faca; feorma me þonne,
wyrda waldend, in þinne wuldordream,
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ond mec geleoran læt, leofra dryhten,
geoca mines gæstes. þonne is gromra to fela
æfestum eaden, hæbbe ic þonne
æt frean frofre, þeah þe ic ær on fyrste lyt
earnode arna. Forlæt mec englas seþeah
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geniman on þinne neawest, nergende cyning,
meotud, for þinre miltse. þeah ðe ic mana fela
æfter dogrum dyde, ne læt þu mec næfre deofol seþeah
þin lim lædan on laðne sið,
þy læs hi on þone foreþonc gefeon motan
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þy þe hy him sylfum sellan þuhten
englas oferhydige þonne ece Crist.
Gelugon hy him æt þam geleafan; forþon hy longe scul...,
werge wihta, wræce þrowian.
Forstond þu mec ond gestyr him, þonne storm cyme
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minum gæste ongegn; geoca þonne,
mihtig dryhten, minre sawle,
gefreoþa hyre ond gefeorma hy, fæder moncynnes,
hædre gehogode, hæl, ece god,
meotod meahtum swiþ. Min is nu þa
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sefa synnum fah, ond ic ymb sawle eom
feam siþum forht, þeah þu me fela sealde
arna on þisse eorþan. þe sie ealles þonc
meorda ond miltsa, þara þu me sealdest.
No ðæs earninga ænige wæron mid;
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hwæþre ic me ealles þæs ellen wylle
habban ond hlyhhan ond me hyhtan to,
frætwian mec on ferðweg ond fundian
sylf to þam siþe þe ic asettan sceal,
gæst gearwian, ond me þæt eal for gode þolian
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bliþe mode, nu ic gebunden eom
fæste in minum ferþe. Huru me frea witeð
sume þara synna þe ic me sylf ne conn
ongietan gleawlice. Gode ic hæbbe
abolgen, brego moncynnes; forþon ic þus bittre wearð
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gewitnad for þisse worulde, swa min gewyrhto wæron
micle fore monnum, þæt ic martirdom
deopne adreoge. Ne eom ic dema gleaw,
wis fore weorude; forþon ic þas word spræce
fus on ferþe, swa me on frymðe gelomp
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yrmþu ofer eorþan, þæt ic a þolade
geara gehwylce (gode ealles þonc!)
modearfoþa ma þonne on oþrum,
fyrhto in folce; forþon ic afysed eom
earm of minum eþle. Ne mæg þæs anhoga,
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leodwynna leas, leng drohtian,
wineleas wræcca, (is him wrað meotud),
gnornað on his geoguþe,
ond him ælce mæle men fullestað,
ycað his yrmþu, ond he þæt eal þolað,
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sarcwide secga, ond him bið a sefa geomor,
mod morgenseoc. Ic bi me tylgust
secge þis sarspel ond ymb siþ spræce,
longunge fus, ond on lagu þence,
nat min
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hwy ic gebycge bat on sæwe,
fleot on faroðe; nah ic fela goldes
ne huru þæs freondes, þe me gefylste
to þam siðfate, nu ic me sylf ne mæg
fore minum wonæhtum willan adreogan.
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Wudu mot him weaxan, wyrde bidan,
tanum lædan; ic for tæle ne mæg
ænigne moncynnes mode gelufian
eorl on eþle. Eala dryhten min,
meahtig mundbora! þæt ic eom mode seoc,
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bittre abolgen, is seo bot æt þe
gelong æfter life. Ic on leohte ne mæg
butan earfoþum ænge þinga
feasceaft hæle foldan ...unian;
þonne ic me to fremþum freode hæfde,
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cyðþu gecwe... me wæs a cearu symle
lufena to leane, swa ic alifde nu.
Giet biþ þæt selast, þonne mon him sylf ne mæg
wyrd onwendan, þæt he þonne wel þolige.
The Descent into Hell
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ongunnon him on uhtan æþelcunde mægð
gierwan to geonge; wiston gumena gemot
æþelinges lic eorðærne biþeaht.
Woldan werigu wif wope bimænan
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æþelinges deað ane hwile,
reonge bereotan. Ræst wæs acolad,
heard wæs hinsið; hæleð wæron modge,
þe hy æt þam beorge bliðe fundon.
Cwom seo murnende Maria on dægred,
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heht hy oþre mid eorles dohtor.
Sohton sarigu tu sigebearn godes
ænne in þæt eorðærn þær hi ær wiston
þæt hine gehyddan hæleð Iudea;
wendan þæt he on þam beorge bidan sceolde,
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ana in þære easterniht. Huru þæs oþer þing
wiston þa wifmenn, þa hy on weg cyrdon!
Ac þær cwom on uhtan an engla þreat,
behæfde heapa wyn hælendes burg.
Open wæs þæt eorðærn, æþelinges lic
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onfeng feores gæst, folde beofode,
hlogan helwaran; hagosteald onwoc
modig from moldan, mægenþrym aras
sigefæst ond snottor. Sægde Iohannis,
hæleð helwarum, hlyhhende spræc
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modig to þære mengo ymb his mæges ......:
"Hæfde me gehaten hælend user,
þa he me on þisne sið sendan wolde,
þæt he me gesoht... siex monað,
ealles folces fruma. Nu ...... sceacen.
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Wene ic ful swiþe ond witod
...... to dæge dryhten wille
...... gesecan, sigebearn godes."
Fysde hine þa to fore frea moncynnes;
wolde heofona helm helle weallas
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forbrecan ond forbygan, þære burge þrym
onginnan reafian, reþust ealra cyninga.
Ne rohte he to þære hilde helmberendra,
ne he byrnwigend to þam burggeatum
lædan ne wolde, ac þa locu feollan,
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clustor of þam ceastrum; cyning in oþrad,
ealles folces fruma forð onette,
weoruda wuldorgiefa. Wræccan þrungon,
hwylc hyra þæt sygebearn geseon moste,
Adam ond Abraham, Isac ond Iacob,
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monig modig eorl, Moyses ond Dauid,
Esaias ond Sacharias,
heahfædra fela, swylce eac hæleþa gemot,
witgena weorod, wifmonna þreat,
fela fæmnena, folces unrim.
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Geseah þa Iohannis sigebearn godes
mid þy cyneþrymme cuman to helle,
ongeat þa geomormod godes sylfes sið.
Geseah he helle duru hædre scinan,
þa þe longe ær bilocen wæron,
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beþeahte mid þystre; se þegn wæs on wynne.
Abead þa bealdlice burgwarena ord
modig fore þære mengo ond to his mæge spræc
ond þa wilcuman wordum grette:
"þe þæs þonc sie, þeoden user,
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þæt þu us... ...ige secan woldest,
nu we on þissum bendum bidan ......
þonne monige bindeð broþorleasne
wræccan ...... (he bið wide fah),
ne bið he no þæs nearwe under niðloc...
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þæs bitre gebunden under bealuclommum,
þæt he þy yð ne mæge ellen habban,
þonne he his hlafordes hyldo gelyfeð,
þæt hine of þam bendum bicgan wille.
Swa we ealle to þe an gelyfað,
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dryhten min se dyra. Ic adreag fela
siþþan þu end to me in siþadest,
þa þu me gesealdest sweord ond byrnan,
helm ond heorosceorp, (a ic þæt heold nu giet),
ond þu me gecyðdest, cyneþrymma wyn,
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þæt þu mundbora minum wære.
Eala Gabrihel, hu þu eart gleaw ond scearp,
milde ond gemyndig ond monþwære,
wis on þinum gewitte ond on þinum worde snottor!
þæt þu gecyðdest þa þu þone cnyht to us
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brohtest in Bethlem. Bidan we þæs longe,
setan on sorgum, sibbe oflyste,
wynnum ond wenum, hwonne we word godes
þurh his sylfes muð secgan hyrde.
Eala Maria, hu þu us modigne
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cyning acendest, þa þu þæt cild to us
brohtest in Bethlem. We þæs beofiende
under helle dorum hearde sceoldon
bidan in bendum. Bona weorces gefeah;
wæron ure ealdfind ealle on wynnum
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þonne hy gehyrdon hu we hreowen...
...on murnende mægburg usse,
oþþæt ...... sigedryhten god,
bimengdes... ...gust ealra cyninga.
nu us mon modge þe
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ageaf from usse geogoðe. We þurh gifre mod
beswican us sylfe; we þa synne forþon
berað in urum breostum to bonan honda,
sculon eac to ussum feondum freoþo wilnian.
Eala Hierusalem in Iudeum,
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hu þu in þære stowe stille gewunadest!
Ne mostan þe geondferan foldbuende
ealle lifgende, þa þe lof singað.
Eala Iordane in Iudeum,
hu þu in þære stowe stille gewunadest!
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Nales þu geondflowan foldbuende;
mostan hy þynes wætres wynnum brucan.
Nu ic þe halsie, hælend user,
deope in gedyrstum, (þu eart dryhten Crist),
þæt þu us gemiltsie, monna scyppend.
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þu fore monna lufan þinre modor bosm
sylfa gesohtes, sigedryhten god,
nales fore þinre þearfe, þeoda waldend,
ac for þam miltsum þe þu moncynne
oft ætywdest, þonne him wæs are þearf.
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þu meaht ymbfon eal folca gesetu,
swylce þu meaht geriman, rice dryhten,
sæs sondgrotu, selast ealra cyninga.
Swylce ic þe halsige, hælend user,
fore ...inum cildhade, cyninga selast,
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ond fore þære wunde, weoruda dry...
þinum æriste, æþelinga wyn,
ond fore þinre me... ...ian nama,
þa ealle hellwara hergað ond lof...
...lum þe þe ymb stondað,
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þa þu þe lete sittan ...... hond,
þa þu us on þisne wræcsið, weoroda dryhten,
þurh þines sylfes geweald secan woldest,
ond fore Hierusalem in Iudeum,
(sceal seo burg nu þa bidan efne swa þeah,
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þeoden leofa, þines eftcymes),
ond for Iordane in Iudeum,
(wit unc in þære burnan baþodan ætgædre).
Oferwurpe þu mid þy wætre, weoruda dryhten,
bliþe mode ealle burgwaran,
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swylce git Iohannis in Iordane
mid þy fullwihte fægre onbryrdon
ealne þisne middangeard. Sie þæs symle meotude þonc!"
Alms-Giving
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wel bið þam eorle þe him on innan hafað,
reþehygdig wer, rume heortan;
þæt him biþ for worulde weorðmynda mæst,
ond for ussum dryhtne doma selast.
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Efne swa he mid wætre þone weallendan
leg adwæsce, þæt he leng ne mæg
blac byrnende burgum sceððan,
swa he mid ælmessan ealle toscufeð
synna wunde, sawla lacnað.
Pharaoh
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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"Saga me hwæt þær weorudes wære ealles
on Farones fyrde, þa hy folc godes
þurh feondscipe fylgan ongunn...."
"Nat ic hit be wihte, butan ic wene þus,
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þæt þær screoda wære gescyred rime
siex hun... ...a searohæbbendra;
þæt eal fornam yþ...
wraþe wyrde in woruldrice."
The Lord's Prayer I
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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...g fæder, þu þe on heofonum eardast,
geweorðad wuldres dreame. Sy þinum weorcum halgad
noma niþþa bearnum; þu eart nergend wera.
Cyme þin rice wide, ond þin rædfæst willa
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aræred under rodores hrofe, eac þon on rumre foldan.
Syle us to dæge domfæstne blæd,
hlaf userne, helpend wera,
þone singalan, soðfæst meotod.
Ne læt usic costunga cnyssan to swiðe,
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ac þu us freodom gief, folca waldend,
from yfla gehwam, a to widan feore.
Homiletic Fragment II
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gefeoh nu on ferðe ond to frofre geþeoh
dryhtne þinum, ond þinne dom arær,
heald hordlocan, hyge fæste bind
mid modsefan. Monig biþ uncuþ
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treowgeþofta, teorað hwilum,
waciaþ wordbeot; swa þeos woruld fareð,
scurum scyndeð ond gesceap dreogeð.
An is geleafa, an lifgende,
an is fulwiht, an fæder ece,
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an is folces fruma, se þas foldan gesceop,
duguðe ond dreamas. Dom siþþan weox,
þeah þeos læne gesceaft longe stode
heolstre gehyded, helme ...edygled,
biþeaht wel treowum, þystre oferfæðmed,
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siþþan geong aweox
mægeð modhwatu mid moncynne;
ðær gelicade þa... ...op
in þam hordfate, halgan gæste,
beorht on br... ...e scan,
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se wæs ordfruma ealles leohtes.
Riddle 30b
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic eom ligbysig, lace mid winde,
w... ...dre gesomnad,
fus forðweges, fyre gemylted,
bear... blowende, byrnende gled.
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Ful oft mec gesiþas sendað æfter hondum,
þær mec weras ond wif wlonce gecyssað.
þonne ic mec onhæbbe, hi onhnigað to me,
modge miltsum, swa ic mongum sceal
ycan upcyme eadignesse.
Riddle 60
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wæs be sonde, sæwealle neah,
æt merefaroþe, minum gewunade
frumstaþole fæst; fea ænig wæs
monna cynnes, þæt minne þær
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on anæde eard beheolde,
ac mec uhtna gehwam yð sio brune
lagufæðme beleolc. Lyt ic wende
þæt ic ær oþþe sið æfre sceolde
ofer meodubence muðleas sprecan,
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wordum wrixlan. þæt is wundres dæl,
on sefan searolic þam þe swylc ne conn,
hu mec seaxes ord ond seo swiþre hond,
eorles ingeþonc ond ord somod,
þingum geþydan, þæt ic wiþ þe sceolde
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for unc anum twam ærendspræce
abeodan bealdlice, swa hit beorna ma
uncre wordcwidas widdor ne mænden.
The Husband's Message
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nu ic onsundran þe secgan wille
...... treocyn ic tudre aweox;
in mec æld... sceal ellor londes
settan ...... sealte streamas
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...sse. Ful oft ic on bates
gesohte
þær mec mondryhten min ......
ofer heah hofu; eom nu her cumen
on ceolþele, ond nu cunnan scealt
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hu þu ymb modlufan mines frean
on hyge hycge. Ic gehatan dear
þæt þu þær tirfæste treowe findest.
Hwæt, þec þonne biddan het se þisne beam agrof
þæt þu sinchroden sylf gemunde
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on gewitlocan wordbeotunga,
þe git on ærdagum oft gespræcon,
þenden git moston on meoduburgum
eard weardigan, an lond bugan,
freondscype fremman. Hine fæhþo adraf
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of sigeþeode; heht nu sylfa þe
lustum læran, þæt þu lagu drefde,
siþþan þu gehyrde on hliþes oran
galan geomorne geac on bearwe.
Ne læt þu þec siþþan siþes getwæfan,
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lade gelettan lifgendne monn.
Ongin mere secan, mæwes eþel,
onsite sænacan, þæt þu suð heonan
ofer merelade monnan findest,
þær se þeoden is þin on wenum.
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Ne mæg him worulde willa gelimpan
mara on gemyndum, þæs þe he me sægde,
þonne inc geunne alwaldend god
...... ætsomne siþþan motan
secgum ond gesiþum s...
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næglede beagas; he genoh hafað
fædan goldes
...d elþeode eþel healde,
fægre foldan
...ra hæleþa, þeah þe her min wine...
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nyde gebæded, nacan ut aþrong,
ond on yþa geong ...... sceolde
faran on flotweg, forðsiþes georn,
mengan merestreamas. Nu se mon hafað
wean oferwunnen; nis him wilna gad,
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ne meara ne maðma ne meododreama,
ænges ofer eorþan eorlgestreona,
þeodnes dohtor, gif he þin beneah
ofer eald gebeot incer twega.
Gecyre ic ætsomne ᛋ ᚱ geador
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ᛠ ᚹ ond ᛞ aþe benemnan,
þæt he þa wære ond þa winetreowe
be him lifgendum læstan wolde,
þe git on ærdagum oft gespræconn.
The Ruin
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wrætlic is þes wealstan, wyrde gebræcon;
burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc.
Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras,
hrungeat berofen, hrim on lime,
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scearde scurbeorge scorene, gedrorene,
ældo undereotone. Eorðgrap hafað
waldend wyrhtan forweorone, geleorene,
heardgripe hrusan, oþ hund cnea
werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad
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ræghar ond readfah rice æfter oþrum,
ofstonden under stormum; steap geap gedreas.
Wonað giet se ...num geheapen,
fel on
grimme gegrunden
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scan heo...
...g orþonc ærsceaft
...g lamrindum beag
mod mo... ...yne swiftne gebrægd
hwætred in hringas, hygerof gebond
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weallwalan wirum wundrum togædre.
Beorht wæron burgræced, burnsele monige,
heah horngestreon, heresweg micel,
meodoheall monig ᛗ dreama full,
oþþæt þæt onwende wyrd seo swiþe.
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Crungon walo wide, cwoman woldagas,
swylt eall fornom secgrofra wera;
wurdon hyra wigsteal westen staþolas,
brosnade burgsteall. Betend crungon
hergas to hrusan. Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað,
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ond þæs teaforgeapa tigelum sceadeð
hrostbeages hrof. Hryre wong gecrong
gebrocen to beorgum, þær iu beorn monig
glædmod ond goldbeorht gleoma gefrætwed,
wlonc ond wingal wighyrstum scan;
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seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searogimmas,
on ead, on æht, on eorcanstan,
on þas beorhtan burg bradan rices.
Stanhofu stodan, stream hate wearp
widan wylme; weal eall befeng
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beorhtan bosme, þær þa baþu wæron,
hat on hreþre. þæt wæs hyðelic.
Leton þonne geotan
ofer harne stan hate streamas
un...
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...þþæt hringmere hate
þær þa baþu wæron.
þonne is
...re; þæt is cynelic þing,
huse ...... burg....
Riddle 61
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Oft mec fæste bileac freolicu meowle,
ides on earce, hwilum up ateah
folmum sinum ond frean sealde,
holdum þeodne, swa hio haten wæs.
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Siðþan me on hreþre heafod sticade,
nioþan upweardne, on nearo fegde.
Gif þæs ondfengan ellen dohte,
mec frætwedne fyllan sceolde
ruwes nathwæt. Ræd hwæt ic mæne.
Riddle 62
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic eom heard ond scearp, hingonges strong,
forðsiþes from, frean unforcuð,
wade under wambe ond me weg sylfa
ryhtne geryme. Rinc bið on ofeste,
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se mec on þyð æftanweardne,
hæleð mid hrægle; hwilum ut tyhð
of hole hatne, hwilum eft fareð
on nearo nathwær, nydeþ swiþe
suþerne secg. Saga hwæt ic hatte.
Riddle 63
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Oft ic secga seledreame sceal
fægre onþeon, þonne ic eom forð boren
glæd mid golde, þær guman drincað.
Hwilum mec on cofan cysseð muþe
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tillic esne, þær wit tu beoþ,
fæðme on folm... ...grum þyð,
wyrceð his willa... ...ð l...
fulre, þonne ic forð cyme
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Ne mæg ic þy miþan,
...an on leohte
...... swylce eac bið sona
...r... ...te getacnad, hwæt me to
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...leas rinc, þa unc geryde wæs.
Riddle 64
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah ᚹ ond ᛁ ofer wong faran,
beran ᛒ ᛖ; bæm wæs on siþþe
hæbbendes hyht ᚻ ond ᚪ
swylce þryþa dæl, ᚦ ond ᛖ.
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Gefeah ᛇ ond ᚫ fleah ofer ᛠ
ᛋ ond ᛈ sylfes þæs folces.
Riddle 65
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Cwico wæs ic, ne cwæð ic wiht, cwele ic efne seþeah.
ær ic wæs, eft ic cwom. æghwa mec reafað,
hafað mec on headre, ond min heafod scireþ,
biteð mec on bær lic, briceð mine wisan.
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Monnan ic ne bite, nympþe he me bite;
sindan þara monige þe mec bitað.
Riddle 66
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Ic eom mare þonne þes middangeard,
læsse þonne hondwyrm, leohtre þonne mona,
swiftre þonne sunne. Sæs me sind ealle
flodas on fæðmum ond þes foldan bearm,
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grene wongas. Grundum ic hrine,
helle underhnige, heofonas oferstige,
wuldres eþel, wide ræce
ofer engla eard, eorþan gefylle,
ealne middangeard ond merestreamas
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side mid me sylfum. Saga hwæt ic hatte.
Riddle 67
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic on þinge gefrægn þeodcyninges
wrætlice wiht, wordgaldra
...... snytt... hio symle deð
fira gehw...
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wisdome. Wundor me þæt
nænne muð hafað
fet ne
welan oft sacað,
cwiþeð cy... wearð
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leoda lareow. Forþon nu longe mæg
...... ealdre ece lifgan
missenlice, þenden menn bugað
eorþan sceatas. Ic þæt oft geseah
golde gegierwed, þær guman druncon,
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since ond seolfre. Secge se þe cunne,
wisfæstra hwylc, hwæt seo wiht sy.
Riddle 68
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þa wiht geseah on weg feran;
heo wæs wrætlice wundrum gegierwed.
Riddle 69
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wundor wearð on wege; wæter wearð to bane.
Riddle 70
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wiht is wrætlic þam þe hyre wisan ne conn.
Singeð þurh sidan. Is se sweora woh,
orþoncum geworht; hafaþ eaxle tua
scearp on gescyldrum. His gesceapo dreogeð
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þe swa wrætlice be wege stonde
heah ond hleortorht hæleþum to nytte.
Riddle 71
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic eom rices æht, reade bewæfed,
stið ond steapwong. Staþol wæs iu þa
wyrta wlitetorhtra; nu eom wraþra laf,
fyres ond feole, fæste genearwad,
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wire geweorþad. Wepeð hwilum
for minum gripe se þe gold wigeð,
þonne ic yþan sceal ...fe,
hringum gehyrsted. Me ...i...
...go... dryhtne min...
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...wlite bete.
Riddle 72
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Ic wæs lytel
fo...
...te geaf
...pe þe unc gemæne
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sweostor min,
fedde mec ...... oft ic feower teah
swæse broþor, þara onsundran gehwylc
dægtidum me drincan sealde
þurh þyrel þearle. Ic þæh on lust,
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oþþæt ic wæs yldra ond þæt an forlet
sweartum hyrde, siþade widdor,
mearcpaþas Walas træd, moras pæðde,
bunden under beame, beag hæfde on healse,
wean on laste weorc þrowade,
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earfoða dæl. Oft mec isern scod
sare on sidan; ic swigade,
næfre meldade monna ængum
gif me ordstæpe egle wæron.
Riddle 73
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic on wonge aweox, wunode þær mec feddon
hruse ond heofonwolcn, oþþæt me onhwyrfdon
gearum frodne, þa me grome wurdon,
of þære gecynde þe ic ær cwic beheold,
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onwendan mine wisan, wegedon mec of earde,
gedydon þæt ic sceolde wiþ gesceape minum
on bonan willan bugan hwilum.
Nu eom mines frean folme bysigo...
...dlan dæl, gif his ellen deag,
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oþþe æfter dome ...ri...
...an mæ... ...þa fremman,
wyrcan w...
...ec on þeode utan we...
...ipe
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ond to wrohtstæp...
...eorp, eaxle gegyrde,
wo...
ond swiora smæl, sidan fealwe
þonne mec heaþosigel
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scir bescineð ond mec ......
fægre feormað ond on fyrd wigeð
cræfte on hæfte. Cuð is wide
þæt ic þristra sum þeofes cræfte
under hrægnlocan
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hwilum eawunga eþelfæsten
forðweard brece, þæt ær frið hæfde.
Feringe from, he fus þonan
wendeð of þam wicum. Wiga se þe mine
wisan cunne, saga hwæt ic hatte.
Riddle 74
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wæs fæmne geong, feaxhar cwene,
ond ænlic rinc on ane tid;
fleah mid fuglum ond on flode swom,
deaf under yþe dead mid fiscum,
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ond on foldan stop, hæfde ferð cwicu.
Riddle 75
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Ic swiftne geseah on swaþe feran
ᛞ ᚾ ᛚ ᚻ.
Riddle 76
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic ane geseah idese sittan.
Riddle 77
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Sæ mec fedde, sundhelm þeahte,
ond mec yþa wrugon eorþan getenge
feþelease. Oft ic flode ongean
muð ontynde. Nu wile monna sum
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min flæsc fretan, felles ne recceð,
siþþan he me of sidan seaxes orde
hyd arypeð, ...ec hr... ...þe siþþan
iteð unsodene ea... ...d.
Riddle 78
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Oft ic flodas
...s cynn... minum
ond
...yde me to mos...
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swa ic him
ne æt ham gesæt
flote cwealde
þurh orþonc ...... yþum bewrigene.
Riddle 79
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Ic eom æþelinges æht ond willa.
Riddle 80
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic eom æþelinges eaxlgestealla,
fyrdrinces gefara, frean minum leof,
cyninges geselda. Cwen mec hwilum
hwitloccedu hond on legeð,
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eorles dohtor, þeah hio æþelu sy.
Hæbbe me on bosme þæt on bearwe geweox.
Hwilum ic on wloncum wicge ride
herges on ende; heard is min tunge.
Oft ic woðboran wordleana sum
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agyfe æfter giedde. Good is min wise
ond ic sylfa salo. Saga hwæt ic hatte.
Riddle 81
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Ic eom byledbreost, belcedsweora,
heafod hæbbe ond heane steort,
eagan ond earan ond ænne foot,
hrycg ond heardnebb, hneccan steapne
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ond sidan twa, sag on middum,
eard ofer ældum. Aglac dreoge,
þær mec wegeð se þe wudu hrereð,
ond mec stondende streamas beatað,
hægl se hearda, ond hrim þeceð,
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...orst ...eoseð, ond fealleð snaw
on þyrelwombne, ond ic þæt ...ol...
mæ... wonsceaft mine.
Riddle 82
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Wiht is
gongende, greate swilgeð,
...... fell ne flæsc, fotum gong...
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...eð,
sceal mæla gehwam
Riddle 83
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Frod wæs min fromcynn
biden in burgum, siþþan bæles weard
...... wera life bewunden,
fyre gefælsad. Nu me fah warað
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eorþan broþor, se me ærest wearð
gumena to gyrne. Ic ful gearwe gemon
hwa min fromcynn fruman agette
eall of earde; ic him yfle ne mot,
ac ic hæftnyd hwilum arære
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wide geond wongas. Hæbbe ic wundra fela,
middangeardes mægen unlytel,
ac ic miþan sceal monna gehwylcum
degolfulne dom dyran cræftes,
siðfæt minne. Saga hwæt ic hatte.
Riddle 84
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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An wiht is on eorþan wundrum acenned,
hreoh ond reþe, hafað ryne strongne,
grimme grymetað ond be grunde fareð.
Modor is monigra mærra wihta.
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Fæger ferende fundað æfre;
neol is nearograp. Nænig oþrum mæg
wlite ond wisan wordum gecyþan,
hu mislic biþ mægen þara cynna,
fyrn forðgesceaft; fæder ealle bewat
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or ond ende, swylce an sunu,
mære meotudes bearn, þurh ...ed,
ond þæt hyhste mæge... ...es gæ...
dyre cræft...
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...onne hy aweorp...
...þe ænig þara
...fter ne mæg
oþer cynn eorþan
þon ær wæs
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wlitig ond wynsum,
Biþ sio moddor mægene eacen,
wundrum bewreþed, wistum gehladen,
hordum gehroden, hæleþum dyre.
Mægen bið gemiclad, meaht gesweotlad,
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wlite biþ geweorþad wuldornyttingum,
wynsum wuldorgimm wloncum getenge,
clængeorn bið ond cystig, cræfte eacen;
hio biþ eadgum leof, earmum getæse,
freolic, sellic; fromast ond swiþost,
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gifrost ond grædgost grundbedd trideþ,
þæs þe under lyfte aloden wurde
ond ælda bearn eagum sawe,
swa þæt wuldor wifeð, worldbearna mægen,
þeah þe ferþum gleaw
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mon mode snottor mengo wundra.
Hrusan bið heardra, hæleþum frodra,
geofum bið gearora, gimmum deorra;
worulde wlitigað, wæstmum tydreð,
firene dwæsceð,
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oft utan beweorpeð anre þecene,
wundrum gewlitegad, geond werþeode,
þæt wafiað weras ofer eorþan,
þæt magon micle ...sceafte.
Biþ stanum bestreþed, stormum
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...len ...timbred weall,
þrym... ...ed,
hrusan hrineð, h...
...etenge,
oft searwum biþ
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deaðe ne feleð,
þeah þe
...du hreren, hrif wundigen,
...risse.
Hordword onhlid, hæleþum ge...
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...wreoh, wordum geopena,
hu mislic sy mægen þara cy....
Riddle 85
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nis min sele swige, ne ic sylfa hlud
ymb ...... unc dryhten scop
siþ ætsomne. Ic eom swiftre þonne he,
þragum strengra, he þreohtigra.
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Hwilum ic me reste; he sceal yrnan forð.
Ic him in wunige a þenden ic lifge;
gif wit unc gedælað, me bið deað witod.
Riddle 86
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wiht cwom gongan þær weras sæton
monige on mæðle, mode snottre;
hæfde an eage ond earan twa,
ond II fet, XII hund heafda,
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hrycg ond wombe ond honda twa,
earmas ond eaxle, anne sweoran
ond sidan twa. Saga hwæt ic hatte.
Riddle 87
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic seah wundorlice wiht; wombe hæfde micle,
þryþum geþrungne. þegn folgade
megenstrong ond mundrof; micel me þuhte
godlic gumrinc, grap on sona
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heofones toþe
bleowe on eage; hio borcade,
wancode willum. Hio wolde seþeah
niol...
Riddle 88
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic weox þær ic s...
ond sumor mi...
...me wæs min ti...
...... - 5
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...d ic on staðol...
...um geong, swa
seþeana
oft geond ...fgeaf,
ac ic uplong stod, þær ic ......
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ond min broþor; begen wæron hearde.
Eard wæs þy weorðra þe wit on stodan,
hyrstum þy hyrra. Ful oft unc holt wrugon,
wudubeama helm wonnum nihtum,
scildon wið scurum; unc gescop meotud.
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Nu unc mæran twam magas uncre
sculon æfter cuman, eard oðþringan
gingran broþor. Eom ic gumcynnes
anga ofer eorþan; is min agen bæc
wonn ond wundorlic. Ic on wuda stonde
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bordes on ende. Nis min broþor her,
ac ic sceal broþorleas bordes on ende
staþol weardian, stondan fæste;
ne wat hwær min broþor on wera æhtum
eorþan sceata eardian sceal,
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se me ær be healfe heah eardade.
Wit wæron gesome sæcce to fremmanne;
næfre uncer awþer his ellen cyðde,
swa wit þære beadwe begen ne onþungan.
Nu mec unsceafta innan slitað,
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wyrdaþ mec be wombe; ic gewendan ne mæg.
æt þam spore findeð sped se þe se...
sawle rædes.
Riddle 89
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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se wiht,
wombe hæfde
...tne, leþre wæs beg...
...on hindan.
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Grette wea...
listum worhte,
hwilum eft
þygan, him þoncade,
siþþan u...
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swæsendum swylce þrage.
Riddle 91
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Min heafod is homere geþuren,
searopila wund, sworfen feole.
Oft ic begine þæt me ongean sticað,
þonne ic hnitan sceal, hringum gyrded,
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hearde wið heardum, hindan þyrel,
forð ascufan þæt mines frean
mod ᚹ freoþað middelnihtum.
Hwilum ic under bæc bregde nebbe,
hyrde þæs hordes, þonne min hlaford wile
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lafe þicgan þara þe he of life het
wælcræfte awrecan willum sinum.
Riddle 92
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wæs brunra beot, beam on holte,
freolic feorhbora ond foldan wæstm,
weres wynnstaþol ond wifes sond,
gold on geardum. Nu eom guðwigan
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hyhtlic hildewæpen, hringe beg...
...e... byreð,
oþrum.
Riddle 93
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Frea min
...de willum sinum,
...... heah ond hyht...
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...rpne, hwilum
...wilum sohte
frea... ...s wod,
dægrime frod, deo... ...s ,
hwilum stealc hliþo stigan sceolde
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up in eþel, hwilum eft gewat
in deop dalu duguþe secan
strong on stæpe, stanwongas grof
hrimighearde, hwilum hara scoc
forst of feaxe. Ic on fusum rad
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oþþæt him þone gleawstol gingra broþor
min agnade ond mec of earde adraf.
Siþþan mec isern innanweardne
brun bennade; blod ut ne com,
heolfor of hreþre, þeah mec heard bite
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stiðecg style. No ic þa stunde bemearn,
ne for wunde weop, ne wrecan meahte
on wigan feore wonnsceaft mine,
ac ic aglæca ealle þolige,
þæt ...e bord biton. Nu ic blace swelge
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wuda ond wætre, w... ...b... befæðme
þæt mec on fealleð ufan þær ic stonde,
eorpes nathwæt; hæbbe anne fot.
Nu min hord warað hiþende feond,
se þe ær wide bær wulfes gehleþan;
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oft me of wombe bewaden fereð,
steppeð on stið bord,
deaþes d... þonne dægcondel,
sunne
...eorc eagum wliteð
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ond spe....
Riddle 94
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Smeþr... ...ad,
hyrre þonne heofon...
glædre þonne sunne,
...style,
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smeare þonne sealtry...
leofre þonne þis leoht eall, leohtre þon w...
Riddle 95
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic eom indryhten ond eorlum cuð,
ond reste oft; ricum ond heanum,
folcum gefræge fere wide,
ond me fremdes ær freondum stondeð
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hiþendra hyht, gif ic habban sceal
blæd in burgum oþþe beorhtne god.
Nu snottre men swiþast lufiaþ
midwist mine; ic monigum sceal
wisdom cyþan; no þær word sprecað
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ænig ofer eorðan. þeah nu ælda bearn
londbuendra lastas mine
swiþe secað, ic swaþe hwilum
mine bemiþe monna gehwylcum.
Beowulf
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
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monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra
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ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!
ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned,
geong in geardum, þone god sende
folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat
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þe hie ær drugon aldorlease
lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea,
wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf;
Beowulf wæs breme (blæd wide sprang),
Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.
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Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean,
fromum feohgiftum on fæder bearme,
þæt hine on ylde eft gewunigen
wilgesiþas, þonne wig cume,
leode gelæsten; lofdædum sceal
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in mægþa gehwære man geþeon.
Him ða Scyld gewat to gescæphwile
felahror feran on frean wære.
Hi hyne þa ætbæron to brimes faroðe,
swæse gesiþas, swa he selfa bæd,
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þenden wordum weold wine Scyldinga;
leof landfruma lange ahte.
þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna,
isig ond utfus, æþelinges fær.
Aledon þa leofne þeoden,
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beaga bryttan, on bearm scipes,
mærne be mæste. þær wæs madma fela
of feorwegum, frætwa, gelæded;
ne hyrde ic cymlicor ceol gegyrwan
hildewæpnum ond heaðowædum,
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billum ond byrnum; him on bearme læg
madma mænigo, þa him mid scoldon
on flodes æht feor gewitan.
Nalæs hi hine læssan lacum teodan,
þeodgestreonum, þon þa dydon
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þe hine æt frumsceafte forð onsendon
ænne ofer yðe umborwesende.
þa gyt hie him asetton segen geldenne
heah ofer heafod, leton holm beran,
geafon on garsecg; him wæs geomor sefa,
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murnende mod. Men ne cunnon
secgan to soðe, selerædende,
hæleð under heofenum, hwa þæm hlæste onfeng.
ða wæs on burgum Beowulf Scyldinga,
leof leodcyning, longe þrage
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folcum gefræge (fæder ellor hwearf,
aldor of earde), oþþæt him eft onwoc
heah Healfdene; heold þenden lifde,
gamol ond guðreouw, glæde Scyldingas.
ðæm feower bearn forð gerimed
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in worold wocun, weoroda ræswan,
Heorogar ond Hroðgar ond Halga til;
hyrde ic þæt wæs Onelan cwen,
Heaðoscilfingas healsgebedda.
þa wæs Hroðgare heresped gyfen,
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wiges weorðmynd, þæt him his winemagas
georne hyrdon, oðð þæt seo geogoð geweox,
magodriht micel. Him on mod bearn
þæt healreced hatan wolde,
medoærn micel, men gewyrcean
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þonne yldo bearn æfre gefrunon,
ond þær on innan eall gedælan
geongum ond ealdum, swylc him god sealde,
buton folcscare ond feorum gumena.
ða ic wide gefrægn weorc gebannan
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manigre mægþe geond þisne middangeard,
folcstede frætwan. Him on fyrste gelomp,
ædre mid yldum, þæt hit wearð ealgearo,
healærna mæst; scop him Heort naman
se þe his wordes geweald wide hæfde.
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He beot ne aleh, beagas dælde,
sinc æt symle. Sele hlifade,
heah ond horngeap, heaðowylma bad,
laðan liges; ne wæs hit lenge þa gen
þæt se ecghete aþumsweorum
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æfter wælniðe wæcnan scolde.
ða se ellengæst earfoðlice
þrage geþolode, se þe in þystrum bad,
þæt he dogora gehwam dream gehyrde
hludne in healle; þær wæs hearpan sweg,
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swutol sang scopes. Sægde se þe cuþe
frumsceaft fira feorran reccan,
cwæð þæt se ælmihtiga eorðan worhte,
wlitebeorhtne wang, swa wæter bebugeð,
gesette sigehreþig sunnan ond monan
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leoman to leohte landbuendum
ond gefrætwade foldan sceatas
leomum ond leafum, lif eac gesceop
cynna gehwylcum þara ðe cwice hwyrfaþ.
Swa ða drihtguman dreamum lifdon
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eadiglice, oððæt an ongan
fyrene fremman feond on helle.
Wæs se grimma gæst Grendel haten,
mære mearcstapa, se þe moras heold,
fen ond fæsten; fifelcynnes eard
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wonsæli wer weardode hwile,
siþðan him scyppend forscrifen hæfde
in Caines cynne. þone cwealm gewræc
ece drihten, þæs þe he Abel slog;
ne gefeah he þære fæhðe, ac he hine feor forwræc,
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metod for þy mane, mancynne fram.
þanon untydras ealle onwocon,
eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas,
swylce gigantas, þa wið gode wunnon
lange þrage; he him ðæs lean forgeald.
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Gewat ða neosian, syþðan niht becom,
hean huses, hu hit Hringdene
æfter beorþege gebun hæfdon.
Fand þa ðær inne æþelinga gedriht
swefan æfter symble; sorge ne cuðon,
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wonsceaft wera. Wiht unhælo,
grim ond grædig, gearo sona wæs,
reoc ond reþe, ond on ræste genam
þritig þegna, þanon eft gewat
huðe hremig to ham faran,
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mid þære wælfylle wica neosan.
ða wæs on uhtan mid ærdæge
Grendles guðcræft gumum undyrne;
þa wæs æfter wiste wop up ahafen,
micel morgensweg. Mære þeoden,
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æþeling ærgod, unbliðe sæt,
þolode ðryðswyð, þegnsorge dreah,
syðþan hie þæs laðan last sceawedon,
wergan gastes; wæs þæt gewin to strang,
lað ond longsum. Næs hit lengra fyrst,
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ac ymb ane niht eft gefremede
morðbeala mare ond no mearn fore,
fæhðe ond fyrene; wæs to fæst on þam.
þa wæs eaðfynde þe him elles hwær
gerumlicor ræste sohte,
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bed æfter burum, ða him gebeacnod wice sweotolan tacne
healðegnes hete; heold hyne syðþan
fyr ond fæstor se þæm feonde ætwand.
Swa rixode ond wið rihte wan,
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ana wið eallum, oðþæt idel stod
husa selest. Wæs seo hwil micel;
XII wintra tid torn geþolode
wine Scyldinga, weana gehwelcne,
sidra sorga. Forðam secgum wearð,
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ylda bearnum, undyrne cuð,
gyddum geomore, þætte Grendel wan
hwile wið Hroþgar, heteniðas wæg,
fyrene ond fæhðe fela missera,
singale sæce, sibbe ne wolde
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wið manna hwone mægenes Deniga,
feorhbealo feorran, fea þingian,
ne þær nænig witena wenan þorfte
beorhtre bote to banan folmum,
ac se æglæca ehtende wæs,
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deorc deaþscua, duguþe ond geogoþe,
seomade ond syrede, sinnihte heold
mistige moras; men ne cunnon
hwyder helrunan hwyrftum scriþað.
Swa fela fyrena feond mancynnes,
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atol angengea, oft gefremede,
heardra hynða. Heorot eardode,
sincfage sel sweartum nihtum;
no he þone gifstol gretan moste,
maþðum for metode, ne his myne wisse.
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þæt wæs wræc micel wine Scyldinga,
modes brecða. Monig oft gesæt
rice to rune; ræd eahtedon
hwæt swiðferhðum selest wære
wið færgryrum to gefremmanne.
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Hwilum hie geheton æt hærgtrafum
wigweorþunga, wordum bædon
þæt him gastbona geoce gefremede
wið þeodþreaum. Swylc wæs þeaw hyra,
hæþenra hyht; helle gemundon
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in modsefan, metod hie ne cuþon,
dæda demend, ne wiston hie drihten god,
ne hie huru heofena helm herian ne cuþon,
wuldres waldend. Wa bið þæm ðe sceal
þurh sliðne nið sawle bescufan
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in fyres fæþm, frofre ne wenan,
wihte gewendan; wel bið þæm þe mot
æfter deaðdæge drihten secean
ond to fæder fæþmum freoðo wilnian.
Swa ða mælceare maga Healfdenes
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singala seað, ne mihte snotor hæleð
wean onwendan; wæs þæt gewin to swyð,
laþ ond longsum, þe on ða leode becom,
nydwracu niþgrim, nihtbealwa mæst.
þæt fram ham gefrægn Higelaces þegn,
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god mid Geatum, Grendles dæda;
se wæs moncynnes mægenes strengest
on þæm dæge þysses lifes,
æþele ond eacen. Het him yðlidan
godne gegyrwan, cwæð, he guðcyning
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ofer swanrade secean wolde,
mærne þeoden, þa him wæs manna þearf.
ðone siðfæt him snotere ceorlas
lythwon logon, þeah he him leof wære;
hwetton higerofne, hæl sceawedon.
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Hæfde se goda Geata leoda
cempan gecorone þara þe he cenoste
findan mihte; XVna sum
sundwudu sohte; secg wisade,
lagucræftig mon, landgemyrcu.
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Fyrst forð gewat. Flota wæs on yðum,
bat under beorge. Beornas gearwe
on stefn stigon; streamas wundon,
sund wið sande; secgas bæron
on bearm nacan beorhte frætwe,
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guðsearo geatolic; guman ut scufon,
weras on wilsið, wudu bundenne.
Gewat þa ofer wægholm, winde gefysed,
flota famiheals fugle gelicost,
oðþæt ymb antid oþres dogores
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wundenstefna gewaden hæfde
þæt ða liðende land gesawon,
brimclifu blican, beorgas steape,
side sænæssas; þa wæs sund liden,
eoletes æt ende. þanon up hraðe
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Wedera leode on wang stigon,
sæwudu sældon (syrcan hrysedon,
guðgewædo), gode þancedon
þæs þe him yþlade eaðe wurdon.
þa of wealle geseah weard Scildinga,
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se þe holmclifu healdan scolde,
beran ofer bolcan beorhte randas,
fyrdsearu fuslicu; hine fyrwyt bræc
modgehygdum, hwæt þa men wæron.
Gewat him þa to waroðe wicge ridan
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þegn Hroðgares, þrymmum cwehte
mægenwudu mundum, meþelwordum frægn:
"Hwæt syndon ge searohæbbendra,
byrnum werede, þe þus brontne ceol
ofer lagustræte lædan cwomon,
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hider ofer holmas? ...le wæs
endesæta, ægwearde heold,
þe on land Dena laðra nænig
mid scipherge sceðþan ne meahte.
No her cuðlicor cuman ongunnon
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lindhæbbende; ne ge leafnesword
guðfremmendra gearwe ne wisson,
maga gemedu. Næfre ic maran geseah
eorla ofer eorþan ðonne is eower sum,
secg on searwum; nis þæt seldguma,
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wæpnum geweorðad, næfne him his wlite leoge,
ænlic ansyn. Nu ic eower sceal
frumcyn witan, ær ge fyr heonan,
leassceaweras, on land Dena
furþur feran. Nu ge feorbuend,
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mereliðende, minne gehyrað
anfealdne geþoht: Ofost is selest
to gecyðanne hwanan eowre cyme syndon."
Him se yldesta ondswarode,
werodes wisa, wordhord onleac:
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"We synt gumcynnes Geata leode
ond Higelaces heorðgeneatas.
Wæs min fæder folcum gecyþed,
æþele ordfruma, Ecgþeow haten.
Gebad wintra worn, ær he on weg hwurfe,
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gamol of geardum; hine gearwe geman
witena welhwylc wide geond eorþan.
We þurh holdne hige hlaford þinne,
sunu Healfdenes, secean cwomon,
leodgebyrgean; wes þu us larena god.
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Habbað we to þæm mæran micel ærende,
Deniga frean, ne sceal þær dyrne sum
wesan, þæs ic wene. þu wast (gif hit is
swa we soþlice secgan hyrdon)
þæt mid Scyldingum sceaðona ic nat hwylc,
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deogol dædhata, deorcum nihtum
eaweð þurh egsan uncuðne nið,
hynðu ond hrafyl. Ic þæs Hroðgar mæg
þurh rumne sefan ræd gelæran,
hu he frod ond god feond oferswyðeþ,
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gyf him edwendan æfre scolde
bealuwa bisigu, bot eft cuman,
ond þa cearwylmas colran wurðaþ;
oððe a syþðan earfoðþrage,
þreanyd þolað, þenden þær wunað
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on heahstede husa selest."
Weard maþelode, ðær on wicge sæt,
ombeht unforht: "æghwæþres sceal
scearp scyldwiga gescad witan,
worda ond worca, se þe wel þenceð.
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Ic þæt gehyre, þæt þis is hold weorod
frean Scyldinga. Gewitaþ forð beran
wæpen ond gewædu; ic eow wisige.
Swylce ic maguþegnas mine hate
wið feonda gehwone flotan eowerne,
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niwtyrwydne nacan on sande
arum healdan, oþðæt eft byreð
ofer lagustreamas leofne mannan
wudu wundenhals to Wedermearce,
godfremmendra swylcum gifeþe bið
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þæt þone hilderæs hal gedigeð."
Gewiton him þa feran. Flota stille bad,
seomode on sale sidfæþmed scip,
on ancre fæst. Eoforlic scionon
ofer hleorberan gehroden golde,
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fah ond fyrheard; ferhwearde heold
guþmod grimmon. Guman onetton,
sigon ætsomne, oþþæt hy sæl timbred,
geatolic ond goldfah, ongyton mihton;
þæt wæs foremærost foldbuendum
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receda under roderum, on þæm se rica bad;
lixte se leoma ofer landa fela.
Him þa hildedeor hof modigra
torht getæhte, þæt hie him to mihton
gegnum gangan; guðbeorna sum
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-
wicg gewende, word æfter cwæð:
"Mæl is me to feran; fæder alwalda
mid arstafum eowic gehealde
siða gesunde. Ic to sæ wille
wið wrað werod wearde healdan."
- 320
-
Stræt wæs stanfah, stig wisode
gumum ætgædere. Guðbyrne scan
heard hondlocen, hringiren scir
song in searwum, þa hie to sele furðum
in hyra gryregeatwum gangan cwomon.
- 325
-
Setton sæmeþe side scyldas,
rondas regnhearde, wið þæs recedes weal,
bugon þa to bence. Byrnan hringdon,
guðsearo gumena; garas stodon,
sæmanna searo, samod ætgædere,
- 330
-
æscholt ufan græg; wæs se irenþreat
wæpnum gewurþad. þa ðær wlonc hæleð
oretmecgas æfter æþelum frægn:
"Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas,
græge syrcan ond grimhelmas,
- 335
-
heresceafta heap? Ic eom Hroðgares
ar ond ombiht. Ne seah ic elþeodige
þus manige men modiglicran.
Wen ic þæt ge for wlenco, nalles for wræcsiðum,
ac for higeþrymmum Hroðgar sohton."
- 340
-
Him þa ellenrof andswarode,
wlanc Wedera leod, word æfter spræc,
heard under helme: "We synt Higelaces
beodgeneatas; Beowulf is min nama.
Wille ic asecgan sunu Healfdenes,
- 345
-
mærum þeodne, min ærende,
aldre þinum, gif he us geunnan wile
þæt we hine swa godne gretan moton."
Wulfgar maþelode (þæt wæs Wendla leod;
wæs his modsefa manegum gecyðed,
- 350
-
wig ond wisdom): "Ic þæs wine Deniga,
frean Scildinga, frinan wille,
beaga bryttan, swa þu bena eart,
þeoden mærne, ymb þinne sið,
ond þe þa ondsware ædre gecyðan
- 355
-
ðe me se goda agifan þenceð."
Hwearf þa hrædlice þær Hroðgar sæt
eald ond anhar mid his eorla gedriht;
eode ellenrof, þæt he for eaxlum gestod
Deniga frean; cuþe he duguðe þeaw.
- 360
-
Wulfgar maðelode to his winedrihtne:
"Her syndon geferede, feorran cumene
ofer geofenes begang Geata leode;
þone yldestan oretmecgas
Beowulf nemnað. Hy benan synt
- 365
-
þæt hie, þeoden min, wið þe moton
wordum wrixlan. No ðu him wearne geteoh
ðinra gegncwida, glædman Hroðgar.
Hy on wiggetawum wyrðe þinceað
eorla geæhtlan; huru se aldor deah,
- 370
-
se þæm heaðorincum hider wisade."
Hroðgar maþelode, helm Scyldinga:
"Ic hine cuðe cnihtwesende.
Wæs his ealdfæder Ecgþeo haten,
ðæm to ham forgeaf Hreþel Geata
- 375
-
angan dohtor; is his eafora nu
heard her cumen, sohte holdne wine.
ðonne sægdon þæt sæliþende,
þa ðe gifsceattas Geata fyredon
þyder to þance, þæt he XXXtiges
- 380
-
manna mægencræft on his mundgripe
heaþorof hæbbe. Hine halig god
for arstafum us onsende,
to Westdenum, þæs ic wen hæbbe,
wið Grendles gryre. Ic þæm godan sceal
- 385
-
for his modþræce madmas beodan.
Beo ðu on ofeste, hat in gan
seon sibbegedriht samod ætgædere;
gesaga him eac wordum þæt hie sint wilcuman
Deniga leodum."
- 390
-
word inne abead:
"Eow het secgan sigedrihten min,
aldor Eastdena, þæt he eower æþelu can,
ond ge him syndon ofer sæwylmas
heardhicgende hider wilcuman.
- 395
-
Nu ge moton gangan in eowrum guðgeatawum
under heregriman Hroðgar geseon;
lætað hildebord her onbidan,
wudu, wælsceaftas, worda geþinges."
Aras þa se rica, ymb hine rinc manig,
- 400
-
þryðlic þegna heap; sume þær bidon,
heaðoreaf heoldon, swa him se hearda bebead.
Snyredon ætsomne, þa secg wisode,
under Heorotes hrof
heard under helme, þæt he on heoðe gestod.
- 405
-
Beowulf maðelode (on him byrne scan,
searonet seowed smiþes orþancum):
"Wæs þu, Hroðgar, hal! Ic eom Higelaces
mæg ond magoðegn; hæbbe ic mærða fela
ongunnen on geogoþe. Me wearð Grendles þing
- 410
-
on minre eþeltyrf undyrne cuð;
secgað sæliðend þæt þæs sele stande,
reced selesta, rinca gehwylcum
idel ond unnyt, siððan æfenleoht
under heofenes hador beholen weorþeð.
- 415
-
þa me þæt gelærdon leode mine
þa selestan, snotere ceorlas,
þeoden Hroðgar, þæt ic þe sohte,
forþan hie mægenes cræft minne cuþon,
selfe ofersawon, ða ic of searwum cwom,
- 420
-
fah from feondum, þær ic fife geband,
yðde eotena cyn ond on yðum slog
niceras nihtes, nearoþearfe dreah,
wræc Wedera nið (wean ahsodon),
forgrand gramum, ond nu wið Grendel sceal,
- 425
-
wið þam aglæcan, ana gehegan
ðing wið þyrse. Ic þe nu ða,
brego Beorhtdena, biddan wille,
eodor Scyldinga, anre bene,
þæt ðu me ne forwyrne, wigendra hleo,
- 430
-
freowine folca, nu ic þus feorran com,
þæt ic mote ana ond minra eorla gedryht,
þes hearda heap, Heorot fælsian.
Hæbbe ic eac geahsod þæt se æglæca
for his wonhydum wæpna ne recceð.
- 435
-
Ic þæt þonne forhicge (swa me Higelac sie,
min mondrihten, modes bliðe),
þæt ic sweord bere oþðe sidne scyld,
geolorand to guþe, ac ic mid grape sceal
fon wið feonde ond ymb feorh sacan,
- 440
-
lað wið laþum; ðær gelyfan sceal
dryhtnes dome se þe hine deað nimeð.
Wen ic þæt he wille, gif he wealdan mot,
in þæm guðsele Geotena leode
etan unforhte, swa he oft dyde,
- 445
-
mægen Hreðmanna. Na þu minne þearft
hafalan hydan, ac he me habban wile
dreore fahne, gif mec deað nimeð.
Byreð blodig wæl, byrgean þenceð,
eteð angenga unmurnlice,
- 450
-
mearcað morhopu; no ðu ymb mines ne þearft
lices feorme leng sorgian.
Onsend Higelace, gif mec hild nime,
beaduscruda betst, þæt mine breost wereð,
hrægla selest; þæt is Hrædlan laf,
- 455
-
Welandes geweorc. Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel."
Hroðgar maþelode, helm Scyldinga:
"For gewyrhtum þu, wine min Beowulf,
ond for arstafum usic sohtest.
Gesloh þin fæder fæhðe mæste;
- 460
-
wearþ he Heaþolafe to handbonan
mid Wilfingum; ða hine Wedera cyn
for herebrogan habban ne mihte.
þanon he gesohte Suðdena folc
ofer yða gewealc, Arscyldinga.
- 465
-
ða ic furþum weold folce Deniga
ond on geogoðe heold ginne rice,
hordburh hæleþa; ða wæs Heregar dead,
min yldra mæg unlifigende,
bearn Healfdenes; se wæs betera ðonne ic.
- 470
-
Siððan þa fæhðe feo þingode;
sende ic Wylfingum ofer wæteres hrycg
ealde madmas; he me aþas swor.
Sorh is me to secganne on sefan minum
gumena ængum hwæt me Grendel hafað
- 475
-
hynðo on Heorote mid his heteþancum,
færniða gefremed. Is min fletwerod,
wigheap gewanod; hie wyrd forsweop
on Grendles gryre. God eaþe mæg
þone dolsceaðan dæda getwæfan.
- 480
-
Ful oft gebeotedon beore druncne
ofer ealowæge oretmecgas
þæt hie in beorsele bidan woldon
Grendles guþe mid gryrum ecga.
ðonne wæs þeos medoheal on morgentid,
- 485
-
drihtsele dreorfah, þonne dæg lixte,
eal bencþelu blode bestymed,
heall heorudreore; ahte ic holdra þy læs,
deorre duguðe, þe þa deað fornam.
Site nu to symle ond onsæl meoto,
- 490
-
sigehreð secgum, swa þin sefa hwette."
þa wæs Geatmæcgum geador ætsomne
on beorsele benc gerymed;
þær swiðferhþe sittan eodon,
þryðum dealle. þegn nytte beheold,
- 495
-
se þe on handa bær hroden ealowæge,
scencte scir wered. Scop hwilum sang
hador on Heorote. þær wæs hæleða dream,
duguð unlytel Dena ond Wedera.
Unferð maþelode, Ecglafes bearn,
- 500
-
þe æt fotum sæt frean Scyldinga,
onband beadurune (wæs him Beowulfes sið,
modges merefaran, micel æfþunca,
forþon þe he ne uþe þæt ænig oðer man
æfre mærða þon ma middangeardes
- 505
-
gehedde under heofenum þonne he sylfa):
"Eart þu se Beowulf, se þe wið Brecan wunne,
on sidne sæ ymb sund flite,
ðær git for wlence wada cunnedon
ond for dolgilpe on deop wæter
- 510
-
aldrum neþdon? Ne inc ænig mon,
ne leof ne lað, belean mihte
sorhfullne sið, þa git on sund reon.
þær git eagorstream earmum þehton,
mæton merestræta, mundum brugdon,
- 515
-
glidon ofer garsecg; geofon yþum weol,
wintrys wylmum. Git on wæteres æht
seofon niht swuncon; he þe æt sunde oferflat,
hæfde mare mægen. þa hine on morgentid
on Heaþoræmas holm up ætbær;
- 520
-
ðonon he gesohte swæsne ᛟ,
leof his leodum, lond Brondinga,
freoðoburh fægere, þær he folc ahte,
burh ond beagas. Beot eal wið þe
sunu Beanstanes soðe gelæste.
- 525
-
ðonne wene ic to þe wyrsan geþingea,
ðeah þu heaðoræsa gehwær dohte,
grimre guðe, gif þu Grendles dearst
nihtlongne fyrst nean bidan."
Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþeowes:
- 530
-
"Hwæt! þu worn fela, wine min Unferð,
beore druncen ymb Brecan spræce,
sægdest from his siðe. Soð ic talige,
þæt ic merestrengo maran ahte,
earfeþo on yþum, ðonne ænig oþer man.
- 535
-
Wit þæt gecwædon cnihtwesende
ond gebeotedon (wæron begen þa git
on geogoðfeore) þæt wit on garsecg ut
aldrum neðdon, ond þæt geæfndon swa.
Hæfdon swurd nacod, þa wit on sund reon,
- 540
-
heard on handa; wit unc wið hronfixas
werian þohton. No he wiht fram me
flodyþum feor fleotan meahte,
hraþor on holme; no ic fram him wolde.
ða wit ætsomne on sæ wæron
- 545
-
fif nihta fyrst, oþþæt unc flod todraf,
wado weallende, wedera cealdost,
nipende niht, ond norþanwind
heaðogrim ondhwearf; hreo wæron yþa.
Wæs merefixa mod onhrered;
- 550
-
þær me wið laðum licsyrce min,
heard, hondlocen, helpe gefremede,
beadohrægl broden on breostum læg
golde gegyrwed. Me to grunde teah
fah feondscaða, fæste hæfde
- 555
-
grim on grape; hwæþre me gyfeþe wearð
þæt ic aglæcan orde geræhte,
hildebille; heaþoræs fornam
mihtig meredeor þurh mine hand.
Swa mec gelome laðgeteonan
- 560
-
þreatedon þearle. Ic him þenode
deoran sweorde, swa hit gedefe wæs.
Næs hie ðære fylle gefean hæfdon,
manfordædlan, þæt hie me þegon,
symbel ymbsæton sægrunde neah;
- 565
-
ac on mergenne mecum wunde
be yðlafe uppe lægon,
sweordum aswefede, þæt syðþan na
ymb brontne ford brimliðende
lade ne letton. Leoht eastan com,
- 570
-
beorht beacen godes; brimu swaþredon,
þæt ic sænæssas geseon mihte,
windige weallas. Wyrd oft nereð
unfægne eorl, þonne his ellen deah.
Hwæþere me gesælde þæt ic mid sweorde ofsloh
- 575
-
niceras nigene. No ic on niht gefrægn
under heofones hwealf heardran feohtan,
ne on egstreamum earmran mannon;
hwaþere ic fara feng feore gedigde,
siþes werig. ða mec sæ oþbær,
- 580
-
flod æfter faroðe on Finna land,
wadu weallendu. No ic wiht fram þe
swylcra searoniða secgan hyrde,
billa brogan. Breca næfre git
æt heaðolace, ne gehwæþer incer,
- 585
-
swa deorlice dæd gefremede
fagum sweordum (no ic þæs fela gylpe),
þeah ðu þinum broðrum to banan wurde,
heafodmægum; þæs þu in helle scealt
werhðo dreogan, þeah þin wit duge.
- 590
-
Secge ic þe to soðe, sunu Ecglafes,
þæt næfre Grendel swa fela gryra gefremede,
atol æglæca, ealdre þinum,
hynðo on Heorote, gif þin hige wære,
sefa swa searogrim, swa þu self talast.
- 595
-
Ac he hafað onfunden þæt he þa fæhðe ne þearf,
atole ecgþræce eower leode
swiðe onsittan, Sigescyldinga;
nymeð nydbade, nænegum arað
leode Deniga, ac he lust wigeð,
- 600
-
swefeð ond sendeþ, secce ne weneþ
to Gardenum. Ac ic him Geata sceal
eafoð ond ellen ungeara nu,
guþe gebeodan. Gæþ eft se þe mot
to medo modig, siþþan morgenleoht
- 605
-
ofer ylda bearn oþres dogores,
sunne sweglwered suþan scineð."
þa wæs on salum sinces brytta,
gamolfeax ond guðrof; geoce gelyfde
brego Beorhtdena, gehyrde on Beowulfe
- 610
-
folces hyrde fæstrædne geþoht.
ðær wæs hæleþa hleahtor, hlyn swynsode,
word wæron wynsume. Eode Wealhþeow forð,
cwen Hroðgares, cynna gemyndig,
grette goldhroden guman on healle,
- 615
-
ond þa freolic wif ful gesealde
ærest Eastdena eþelwearde,
bæd hine bliðne æt þære beorþege,
leodum leofne. He on lust geþeah
symbel ond seleful, sigerof kyning.
- 620
-
Ymbeode þa ides Helminga
duguþe ond geogoþe dæl æghwylcne,
sincfato sealde, oþþæt sæl alamp
þæt hio Beowulfe, beaghroden cwen
mode geþungen, medoful ætbær;
- 625
-
grette Geata leod, gode þancode
wisfæst wordum þæs ðe hire se willa gelamp
þæt heo on ænigne eorl gelyfde
fyrena frofre. He þæt ful geþeah,
wælreow wiga, æt Wealhþeon,
- 630
-
ond þa gyddode guþe gefysed;
Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþeowes:
"Ic þæt hogode, þa ic on holm gestah,
sæbat gesæt mid minra secga gedriht,
þæt ic anunga eowra leoda
- 635
-
willan geworhte oþðe on wæl crunge,
feondgrapum fæst. Ic gefremman sceal
eorlic ellen, oþðe endedæg
on þisse meoduhealle minne gebidan."
ðam wife þa word wel licodon,
- 640
-
gilpcwide Geates; eode goldhroden
freolicu folccwen to hire frean sittan.
þa wæs eft swa ær inne on healle
þryðword sprecen, ðeod on sælum,
sigefolca sweg, oþþæt semninga
- 645
-
sunu Healfdenes secean wolde
æfenræste; wiste þæm ahlæcan
to þæm heahsele hilde geþinged,
siððan hie sunnan leoht geseon ne meahton,
oþðe nipende niht ofer ealle,
- 650
-
scaduhelma gesceapu scriðan cwoman,
wan under wolcnum. Werod eall aras.
Gegrette þa guma oþerne,
Hroðgar Beowulf, ond him hæl abead,
winærnes geweald, ond þæt word acwæð:
- 655
-
"Næfre ic ænegum men ær alyfde,
siþðan ic hond ond rond hebban mihte,
ðryþærn Dena buton þe nu ða.
Hafa nu ond geheald husa selest,
gemyne mærþo, mægenellen cyð,
- 660
-
waca wið wraþum. Ne bið þe wilna gad,
gif þu þæt ellenweorc aldre gedigest."
ða him Hroþgar gewat mid his hæleþa gedryht,
eodur Scyldinga, ut of healle;
wolde wigfruma Wealhþeo secan,
- 665
-
cwen to gebeddan. Hæfde kyningwuldor
Grendle togeanes, swa guman gefrungon,
seleweard aseted; sundornytte beheold
ymb aldor Dena, eotonweard abead.
Huru Geata leod georne truwode
- 670
-
modgan mægnes, metodes hyldo.
ða he him of dyde isernbyrnan,
helm of hafelan, sealde his hyrsted sweord,
irena cyst, ombihtþegne,
ond gehealdan het hildegeatwe.
- 675
-
Gespræc þa se goda gylpworda sum,
Beowulf Geata, ær he on bed stige:
"No ic me an herewæsmun hnagran talige,
guþgeweorca, þonne Grendel hine;
forþan ic hine sweorde swebban nelle,
- 680
-
aldre beneotan, þeah ic eal mæge.
Nat he þara goda þæt he me ongean slea,
rand geheawe, þeah ðe he rof sie
niþgeweorca; ac wit on niht sculon
secge ofersittan, gif he gesecean dear
- 685
-
wig ofer wæpen, ond siþðan witig god
on swa hwæþere hond, halig dryhten,
mærðo deme, swa him gemet þince."
Hylde hine þa heaþodeor, hleorbolster onfeng
eorles andwlitan, ond hine ymb monig
- 690
-
snellic særinc selereste gebeah.
Nænig heora þohte þæt he þanon scolde
eft eardlufan æfre gesecean,
folc oþðe freoburh, þær he afeded wæs;
ac hie hæfdon gefrunen þæt hie ær to fela micles
- 695
-
in þæm winsele wældeað fornam,
Denigea leode. Ac him dryhten forgeaf
wigspeda gewiofu, Wedera leodum,
frofor ond fultum, þæt hie feond heora
ðurh anes cræft ealle ofercomon,
- 700
-
selfes mihtum. Soð is gecyþed
þæt mihtig god manna cynnes
weold wideferhð. Com on wanre niht
scriðan sceadugenga. Sceotend swæfon,
þa þæt hornreced healdan scoldon,
- 705
-
ealle buton anum. þæt wæs yldum cuþ
þæt hie ne moste, þa metod nolde,
se scynscaþa under sceadu bregdan;
ac he wæccende wraþum on andan
bad bolgenmod beadwa geþinges.
- 710
-
ða com of more under misthleoþum
Grendel gongan, godes yrre bær;
mynte se manscaða manna cynnes
sumne besyrwan in sele þam hean.
Wod under wolcnum to þæs þe he winreced,
- 715
-
goldsele gumena, gearwost wisse,
fættum fahne. Ne wæs þæt forma sið
þæt he Hroþgares ham gesohte;
næfre he on aldordagum ær ne siþðan
heardran hæle, healðegnas fand.
- 720
-
Com þa to recede rinc siðian,
dreamum bedæled. Duru sona onarn,
fyrbendum fæst, syþðan he hire folmum æthran;
onbræd þa bealohydig, ða he gebolgen wæs,
recedes muþan. Raþe æfter þon
- 725
-
on fagne flor feond treddode,
eode yrremod; him of eagum stod
ligge gelicost leoht unfæger.
Geseah he in recede rinca manige,
swefan sibbegedriht samod ætgædere,
- 730
-
magorinca heap. þa his mod ahlog;
mynte þæt he gedælde, ærþon dæg cwome,
atol aglæca, anra gehwylces
lif wið lice, þa him alumpen wæs
wistfylle wen. Ne wæs þæt wyrd þa gen
- 735
-
þæt he ma moste manna cynnes
ðicgean ofer þa niht. þryðswyð beheold
mæg Higelaces, hu se manscaða
under færgripum gefaran wolde.
Ne þæt se aglæca yldan þohte,
- 740
-
ac he gefeng hraðe forman siðe
slæpendne rinc, slat unwearnum,
bat banlocan, blod edrum dranc,
synsnædum swealh; sona hæfde
unlyfigendes eal gefeormod,
- 745
-
fet ond folma. Forð near ætstop,
nam þa mid handa higeþihtigne
rinc on ræste, ræhte ongean
feond mid folme; he onfeng hraþe
inwitþancum ond wið earm gesæt.
- 750
-
Sona þæt onfunde fyrena hyrde
þæt he ne mette middangeardes,
eorþan sceata, on elran men
mundgripe maran. He on mode wearð
forht on ferhðe; no þy ær fram meahte.
- 755
-
Hyge wæs him hinfus, wolde on heolster fleon,
secan deofla gedræg; ne wæs his drohtoð þær
swylce he on ealderdagum ær gemette.
Gemunde þa se goda, mæg Higelaces,
æfenspræce, uplang astod
- 760
-
ond him fæste wiðfeng; fingras burston.
Eoten wæs utweard; eorl furþur stop.
Mynte se mæra, þær he meahte swa,
widre gewindan ond on weg þanon
fleon on fenhopu; wiste his fingra geweald
- 765
-
on grames grapum. þæt wæs geocor sið
þæt se hearmscaþa to Heorute ateah.
Dryhtsele dynede; Denum eallum wearð,
ceasterbuendum, cenra gehwylcum,
eorlum ealuscerwen. Yrre wæron begen,
- 770
-
reþe renweardas. Reced hlynsode.
þa wæs wundor micel þæt se winsele
wiðhæfde heaþodeorum, þæt he on hrusan ne feol,
fæger foldbold; ac he þæs fæste wæs
innan ond utan irenbendum
- 775
-
searoþoncum besmiþod. þær fram sylle abeag
medubenc monig, mine gefræge,
golde geregnad, þær þa graman wunnon.
þæs ne wendon ær witan Scyldinga
þæt hit a mid gemete manna ænig,
- 780
-
betlic ond banfag, tobrecan meahte,
listum tolucan, nymþe liges fæþm
swulge on swaþule. Sweg up astag
niwe geneahhe; Norðdenum stod
atelic egesa, anra gehwylcum
- 785
-
þara þe of wealle wop gehyrdon,
gryreleoð galan godes ondsacan,
sigeleasne sang, sar wanigean
helle hæfton. Heold hine fæste
se þe manna wæs mægene strengest
- 790
-
on þæm dæge þysses lifes.
Nolde eorla hleo ænige þinga
þone cwealmcuman cwicne forlætan,
ne his lifdagas leoda ænigum
nytte tealde. þær genehost brægd
- 795
-
eorl Beowulfes ealde lafe,
wolde freadrihtnes feorh ealgian,
mæres þeodnes, ðær hie meahton swa.
Hie þæt ne wiston, þa hie gewin drugon,
heardhicgende hildemecgas,
- 800
-
ond on healfa gehwone heawan þohton,
sawle secan, þone synscaðan
ænig ofer eorþan irenna cyst,
guðbilla nan, gretan nolde,
ac he sigewæpnum forsworen hæfde,
- 805
-
ecga gehwylcre. Scolde his aldorgedal
on ðæm dæge þysses lifes
earmlic wurðan, ond se ellorgast
on feonda geweald feor siðian.
ða þæt onfunde se þe fela æror
- 810
-
modes myrðe manna cynne,
fyrene gefremede (he wæs fag wið god),
þæt him se lichoma læstan nolde,
ac hine se modega mæg Hygelaces
hæfde be honda; wæs gehwæþer oðrum
- 815
-
lifigende lað. Licsar gebad
atol æglæca; him on eaxle wearð
syndolh sweotol, seonowe onsprungon,
burston banlocan. Beowulfe wearð
guðhreð gyfeþe; scolde Grendel þonan
- 820
-
feorhseoc fleon under fenhleoðu,
secean wynleas wic; wiste þe geornor
þæt his aldres wæs ende gegongen,
dogera dægrim. Denum eallum wearð
æfter þam wælræse willa gelumpen.
- 825
-
Hæfde þa gefælsod se þe ær feorran com,
snotor ond swyðferhð, sele Hroðgares,
genered wið niðe; nihtweorce gefeh,
ellenmærþum. Hæfde Eastdenum
Geatmecga leod gilp gelæsted,
- 830
-
swylce oncyþðe ealle gebette,
inwidsorge, þe hie ær drugon
ond for þreanydum þolian scoldon,
torn unlytel. þæt wæs tacen sweotol,
syþðan hildedeor hond alegde,
- 835
-
earm ond eaxle (þær wæs eal geador
Grendles grape) under geapne hrof.
ða wæs on morgen mine gefræge
ymb þa gifhealle guðrinc monig;
ferdon folctogan feorran ond nean
- 840
-
geond widwegas wundor sceawian,
laþes lastas. No his lifgedal
sarlic þuhte secga ænegum
þara þe tirleases trode sceawode,
hu he werigmod on weg þanon,
- 845
-
niða ofercumen, on nicera mere
fæge ond geflymed feorhlastas bær.
ðær wæs on blode brim weallende,
atol yða geswing eal gemenged
haton heolfre, heorodreore weol.
- 850
-
Deaðfæge deog, siððan dreama leas
in fenfreoðo feorh alegde,
hæþene sawle; þær him hel onfeng.
þanon eft gewiton ealdgesiðas,
swylce geong manig of gomenwaþe
- 855
-
fram mere modge mearum ridan,
beornas on blancum. ðær wæs Beowulfes
mærðo mæned; monig oft gecwæð
þætte suð ne norð be sæm tweonum
ofer eormengrund oþer nænig
- 860
-
under swegles begong selra nære
rondhæbbendra, rices wyrðra.
Ne hie huru winedrihten wiht ne logon,
glædne Hroðgar, ac þæt wæs god cyning.
Hwilum heaþorofe hleapan leton,
- 865
-
on geflit faran fealwe mearas
ðær him foldwegas fægere þuhton,
cystum cuðe. Hwilum cyninges þegn,
guma gilphlæden, gidda gemyndig,
se ðe ealfela ealdgesegena
- 870
-
worn gemunde, word oþer fand
soðe gebunden; secg eft ongan
sið Beowulfes snyttrum styrian
ond on sped wrecan spel gerade,
wordum wrixlan. Welhwylc gecwæð
- 875
-
þæt he fram Sigemundes secgan hyrde
ellendædum, uncuþes fela,
Wælsinges gewin, wide siðas,
þara þe gumena bearn gearwe ne wiston,
fæhðe ond fyrena, buton Fitela mid hine,
- 880
-
þonne he swulces hwæt secgan wolde,
eam his nefan, swa hie a wæron
æt niða gehwam nydgesteallan;
hæfdon ealfela eotena cynnes
sweordum gesæged. Sigemunde gesprong
- 885
-
æfter deaðdæge dom unlytel,
syþðan wiges heard wyrm acwealde,
hordes hyrde. He under harne stan,
æþelinges bearn, ana geneðde
frecne dæde, ne wæs him Fitela mid.
- 890
-
Hwæþre him gesælde ðæt þæt swurd þurhwod
wrætlicne wyrm, þæt hit on wealle ætstod,
dryhtlic iren; draca morðre swealt.
Hæfde aglæca elne gegongen
þæt he beahhordes brucan moste
- 895
-
selfes dome; sæbat gehleod,
bær on bearm scipes beorhte frætwa,
Wælses eafera. Wyrm hat gemealt.
Se wæs wreccena wide mærost
ofer werþeode, wigendra hleo,
- 900
-
ellendædum (he þæs ær onðah),
siððan Heremodes hild sweðrode,
eafoð ond ellen. He mid Eotenum wearð
on feonda geweald forð forlacen,
snude forsended. Hine sorhwylmas
- 905
-
lemede to lange; he his leodum wearð,
eallum æþellingum to aldorceare;
swylce oft bemearn ærran mælum
swiðferhþes sið snotor ceorl monig,
se þe him bealwa to bote gelyfde,
- 910
-
þæt þæt ðeodnes bearn geþeon scolde,
fæderæþelum onfon, folc gehealdan,
hord ond hleoburh, hæleþa rice,
ᛟ Scyldinga. He þær eallum wearð,
mæg Higelaces, manna cynne,
- 915
-
freondum gefægra; hine fyren onwod.
Hwilum flitende fealwe stræte
mearum mæton. ða wæs morgenleoht
scofen ond scynded. Eode scealc monig
swiðhicgende to sele þam hean
- 920
-
searowundor seon; swylce self cyning
of brydbure, beahhorda weard,
tryddode tirfæst getrume micle,
cystum gecyþed, ond his cwen mid him
medostigge mæt mægþa hose.
- 925
-
Hroðgar maþelode (he to healle geong,
stod on stapole, geseah steapne hrof,
golde fahne, ond Grendles hond):
"ðisse ansyne alwealdan þanc
lungre gelimpe! Fela ic laþes gebad,
- 930
-
grynna æt Grendle; a mæg god wyrcan
wunder æfter wundre, wuldres hyrde.
ðæt wæs ungeara þæt ic ænigra me
weana ne wende to widan feore
bote gebidan, þonne blode fah
- 935
-
husa selest heorodreorig stod,
wea widscofen witena gehwylcum
ðara þe ne wendon þæt hie wideferhð
leoda landgeweorc laþum beweredon
scuccum ond scinnum. Nu scealc hafað
- 940
-
þurh drihtnes miht dæd gefremede
ðe we ealle ær ne meahton
snyttrum besyrwan. Hwæt, þæt secgan mæg
efne swa hwylc mægþa swa ðone magan cende
æfter gumcynnum, gyf heo gyt lyfað,
- 945
-
þæt hyre ealdmetod este wære
bearngebyrdo. Nu ic, Beowulf, þec,
secg betsta, me for sunu wylle
freogan on ferhþe; heald forð tela
niwe sibbe. Ne bið þe nænigra gad
- 950
-
worolde wilna, þe ic geweald hæbbe.
Ful oft ic for læssan lean teohhode,
hordweorþunge hnahran rince,
sæmran æt sæcce. þu þe self hafast
dædum gefremed þæt þin dom lyfað
- 955
-
awa to aldre. Alwalda þec
gode forgylde, swa he nu gyt dyde!"
Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecþeowes:
"We þæt ellenweorc estum miclum,
feohtan fremedon, frecne geneðdon
- 960
-
eafoð uncuþes. Uþe ic swiþor
þæt ðu hine selfne geseon moste,
feond on frætewum fylwerigne.
Ic hine hrædlice heardan clammum
on wælbedde wriþan þohte,
- 965
-
þæt he for mundgripe minum scolde
licgean lifbysig, butan his lic swice.
Ic hine ne mihte, þa metod nolde,
ganges getwæman, no ic him þæs georne ætfealh,
feorhgeniðlan; wæs to foremihtig
- 970
-
feond on feþe. Hwæþere he his folme forlet
to lifwraþe last weardian,
earm ond eaxle. No þær ænige swa þeah
feasceaft guma frofre gebohte;
no þy leng leofað laðgeteona,
- 975
-
synnum geswenced, ac hyne sar hafað
mid nydgripe nearwe befongen,
balwon bendum. ðær abidan sceal
maga mane fah miclan domes,
hu him scir metod scrifan wille."
- 980
-
ða wæs swigra secg, sunu Eclafes,
on gylpspræce guðgeweorca,
siþðan æþelingas eorles cræfte
ofer heanne hrof hand sceawedon,
feondes fingras. Foran æghwylc wæs,
- 985
-
stiðra nægla gehwylc, style gelicost,
hæþenes handsporu hilderinces,
egl, unheoru. æghwylc gecwæð
þæt him heardra nan hrinan wolde
iren ærgod, þæt ðæs ahlæcan
- 990
-
blodge beadufolme onberan wolde.
ða wæs haten hreþe Heort innanweard
folmum gefrætwod. Fela þæra wæs,
wera ond wifa, þe þæt winreced,
gestsele gyredon. Goldfag scinon
- 995
-
web æfter wagum, wundorsiona fela
secga gehwylcum þara þe on swylc starað.
Wæs þæt beorhte bold tobrocen swiðe,
eal inneweard irenbendum fæst,
heorras tohlidene. Hrof ana genæs,
- 1000
-
ealles ansund, þe se aglæca,
fyrendædum fag, on fleam gewand,
aldres orwena. No þæt yðe byð
to befleonne, fremme se þe wille,
ac gesecan sceal sawlberendra,
- 1005
-
nyde genydde, niþða bearna,
grundbuendra gearwe stowe,
þær his lichoma legerbedde fæst
swefeþ æfter symle. þa wæs sæl ond mæl
þæt to healle gang Healfdenes sunu;
- 1010
-
wolde self cyning symbel þicgan.
Ne gefrægen ic þa mægþe maran weorode
ymb hyra sincgyfan sel gebæran.
Bugon þa to bence blædagande,
fylle gefægon; fægere geþægon
- 1015
-
medoful manig magas þara
swiðhicgende on sele þam hean,
Hroðgar ond Hroþulf. Heorot innan wæs
freondum afylled; nalles facenstafas
þeodscyldingas þenden fremedon.
- 1020
-
Forgeaf þa Beowulfe bearn Healfdenes
segen gyldenne sigores to leane;
hroden hildecumbor, helm ond byrnan,
mære maðþumsweord manige gesawon
beforan beorn beran. Beowulf geþah
- 1025
-
ful on flette; no he þære feohgyfte
for sceotendum scamigan ðorfte.
Ne gefrægn ic freondlicor feower madmas
golde gegyrede gummanna fela
in ealobence oðrum gesellan.
- 1030
-
Ymb þæs helmes hrof heafodbeorge
wirum bewunden walu utan heold,
þæt him fela laf frecne ne meahton
scurheard sceþðan, þonne scyldfreca
ongean gramum gangan scolde.
- 1035
-
Heht ða eorla hleo eahta mearas
fætedhleore on flet teon,
in under eoderas. þara anum stod
sadol searwum fah, since gewurþad;
þæt wæs hildesetl heahcyninges,
- 1040
-
ðonne sweorda gelac sunu Healfdenes
efnan wolde. Næfre on ore læg
widcuþes wig, ðonne walu feollon.
Ond ða Beowulfe bega gehwæþres
eodor Ingwina onweald geteah,
- 1045
-
wicga ond wæpna, het hine wel brucan.
Swa manlice mære þeoden,
hordweard hæleþa, heaþoræsas geald
mearum ond madmum, swa hy næfre man lyhð,
se þe secgan wile soð æfter rihte.
- 1050
-
ða gyt æghwylcum eorla drihten
þara þe mid Beowulfe brimlade teah
on þære medubence maþðum gesealde,
yrfelafe, ond þone ænne heht
golde forgyldan, þone ðe Grendel ær
- 1055
-
mane acwealde, swa he hyra ma wolde,
nefne him witig god wyrd forstode
ond ðæs mannes mod. Metod eallum weold
gumena cynnes, swa he nu git deð.
Forþan bið andgit æghwær selest,
- 1060
-
ferhðes foreþanc. Fela sceal gebidan
leofes ond laþes se þe longe her
on ðyssum windagum worolde bruceð.
þær wæs sang ond sweg samod ætgædere
fore Healfdenes hildewisan,
- 1065
-
gomenwudu greted, gid oft wrecen,
ðonne healgamen Hroþgares scop
æfter medobence mænan scolde
be Finnes eaferum, ða hie se fær begeat,
hæleð Healfdena, Hnæf Scyldinga,
- 1070
-
in Freswæle feallan scolde.
Ne huru Hildeburh herian þorfte
Eotena treowe; unsynnum wearð
beloren leofum æt þam lindplegan,
bearnum ond broðrum; hie on gebyrd hruron,
- 1075
-
gare wunde. þæt wæs geomuru ides!
Nalles holinga Hoces dohtor
meotodsceaft bemearn, syþðan morgen com,
ða heo under swegle geseon meahte
morþorbealo maga, þær heo ær mæste heold
- 1080
-
worolde wynne. Wig ealle fornam
Finnes þegnas nemne feaum anum,
þæt he ne mehte on þæm meðelstede
wig Hengeste wiht gefeohtan,
ne þa wealafe wige forþringan
- 1085
-
þeodnes ðegna; ac hig him geþingo budon,
þæt hie him oðer flet eal gerymdon,
healle ond heahsetl, þæt hie healfre geweald
wið Eotena bearn agan moston,
ond æt feohgyftum Folcwaldan sunu
- 1090
-
dogra gehwylce Dene weorþode,
Hengestes heap hringum wenede
efne swa swiðe sincgestreonum
fættan goldes, swa he Fresena cyn
on beorsele byldan wolde.
- 1095
-
ða hie getruwedon on twa healfa
fæste frioðuwære. Fin Hengeste
elne, unflitme aðum benemde
þæt he þa wealafe weotena dome
arum heolde, þæt ðær ænig mon
- 1100
-
wordum ne worcum wære ne bræce,
ne þurh inwitsearo æfre gemænden
ðeah hie hira beaggyfan banan folgedon
ðeodenlease, þa him swa geþearfod wæs;
gyf þonne Frysna hwylc frecnan spræce
- 1105
-
ðæs morþorhetes myndgiend wære,
þonne hit sweordes ecg seðan scolde.
Ad wæs geæfned ond icge gold
ahæfen of horde. Herescyldinga
betst beadorinca wæs on bæl gearu.
- 1110
-
æt þæm ade wæs eþgesyne
swatfah syrce, swyn ealgylden,
eofer irenheard, æþeling manig
wundum awyrded; sume on wæle crungon.
Het ða Hildeburh æt Hnæfes ade
- 1115
-
hire selfre sunu sweoloðe befæstan,
banfatu bærnan ond on bæl don
eame on eaxle. Ides gnornode,
geomrode giddum. Guðrinc astah.
Wand to wolcnum wælfyra mæst,
- 1120
-
hlynode for hlawe; hafelan multon,
bengeato burston, ðonne blod ætspranc,
laðbite lices. Lig ealle forswealg,
gæsta gifrost, þara ðe þær guð fornam
bega folces; wæs hira blæd scacen.
- 1125
-
Gewiton him ða wigend wica neosian,
freondum befeallen, Frysland geseon,
hamas ond heaburh. Hengest ða gyt
wælfagne winter wunode mid Finne
eal unhlitme. Eard gemunde,
- 1130
-
þeah þe he ne meahte on mere drifan
hringedstefnan; holm storme weol,
won wið winde, winter yþe beleac
isgebinde, oþðæt oþer com
gear in geardas, swa nu gyt deð,
- 1135
-
þa ðe syngales sele bewitiað,
wuldortorhtan weder. ða wæs winter scacen,
fæger foldan bearm. Fundode wrecca,
gist of geardum; he to gyrnwræce
swiðor þohte þonne to sælade,
- 1140
-
gif he torngemot þurhteon mihte
þæt he Eotena bearn inne gemunde.
Swa he ne forwyrnde woroldrædenne,
þonne him Hunlafing hildeleoman,
billa selest, on bearm dyde,
- 1145
-
þæs wæron mid Eotenum ecge cuðe.
Swylce ferhðfrecan Fin eft begeat
sweordbealo sliðen æt his selfes ham,
siþðan grimne gripe Guðlaf ond Oslaf
æfter sæsiðe, sorge, mændon,
- 1150
-
ætwiton weana dæl; ne meahte wæfre mod
forhabban in hreþre. ða wæs heal roden
feonda feorum, swilce Fin slægen,
cyning on corþre, ond seo cwen numen.
Sceotend Scyldinga to scypon feredon
- 1155
-
eal ingesteald eorðcyninges,
swylce hie æt Finnes ham findan meahton
sigla, searogimma. Hie on sælade
drihtlice wif to Denum feredon,
læddon to leodum. Leoð wæs asungen,
- 1160
-
gleomannes gyd. Gamen eft astah,
beorhtode bencsweg; byrelas sealdon
win of wunderfatum. þa cwom Wealhþeo forð
gan under gyldnum beage, þær þa godan twegen
sæton suhtergefæderan; þa gyt wæs hiera sib ætgædere,
- 1165
-
æghwylc oðrum trywe. Swylce þær Unferþ þyle
æt fotum sæt frean Scyldinga; gehwylc hiora his ferhþe treowde,
þæt he hæfde mod micel, þeah þe he his magum nære
arfæst æt ecga gelacum. Spræc ða ides Scyldinga:
"Onfoh þissum fulle, freodrihten min,
- 1170
-
sinces brytta! þu on sælum wes,
goldwine gumena, ond to Geatum spræc
mildum wordum, swa sceal man don.
Beo wið Geatas glæd, geofena gemyndig,
nean ond feorran þu nu hafast.
- 1175
-
Me man sægde þæt þu ðe for sunu wolde
hererinc habban. Heorot is gefælsod,
beahsele beorhta; bruc þenden þu mote
manigra medo, ond þinum magum læf
folc ond rice, þonne ðu forð scyle
- 1180
-
metodsceaft seon. Ic minne can
glædne Hroþulf, þæt he þa geogoðe wile
arum healdan, gyf þu ær þonne he,
wine Scildinga, worold oflætest;
wene ic þæt he mid gode gyldan wille
- 1185
-
uncran eaferan, gif he þæt eal gemon,
hwæt wit to willan ond to worðmyndum
umborwesendum ær arna gefremedon."
Hwearf þa bi bence þær hyre byre wæron,
Hreðric ond Hroðmund, ond hæleþa bearn,
- 1190
-
giogoð ætgædere; þær se goda sæt,
Beowulf Geata, be þæm gebroðrum twæm.
Him wæs ful boren ond freondlaþu
wordum bewægned, ond wunden gold
estum geeawed, earmreade twa,
- 1195
-
hrægl ond hringas, healsbeaga mæst
þara þe ic on foldan gefrægen hæbbe.
Nænigne ic under swegle selran hyrde
hordmaððum hæleþa, syþðan Hama ætwæg
to þære byrhtan byrig Brosinga mene,
- 1200
-
sigle ond sincfæt; searoniðas fleah
Eormenrices, geceas ecne ræd.
þone hring hæfde Higelac Geata,
nefa Swertinges, nyhstan siðe,
siðþan he under segne sinc ealgode,
- 1205
-
wælreaf werede; hyne wyrd fornam,
syþðan he for wlenco wean ahsode,
fæhðe to Frysum. He þa frætwe wæg,
eorclanstanas ofer yða ful,
rice þeoden; he under rande gecranc.
- 1210
-
Gehwearf þa in Francna fæþm feorh cyninges,
breostgewædu ond se beah somod;
wyrsan wigfrecan wæl reafedon
æfter guðsceare, Geata leode,
hreawic heoldon. Heal swege onfeng.
- 1215
-
Wealhðeo maþelode, heo fore þæm werede spræc:
"Bruc ðisses beages, Beowulf leofa,
hyse, mid hæle, ond þisses hrægles neot,
þeodgestreona, ond geþeoh tela,
cen þec mid cræfte ond þyssum cnyhtum wes
- 1220
-
lara liðe; ic þe þæs lean geman.
Hafast þu gefered þæt ðe feor ond neah
ealne wideferhþ weras ehtigað,
efne swa side swa sæ bebugeð,
windgeard, weallas. Wes þenden þu lifige,
- 1225
-
æþeling, eadig. Ic þe an tela
sincgestreona. Beo þu suna minum
dædum gedefe, dreamhealdende.
Her is æghwylc eorl oþrum getrywe,
modes milde, mandrihtne hold;
- 1230
-
þegnas syndon geþwære, þeod ealgearo,
druncne dryhtguman doð swa ic bidde."
Eode þa to setle. þær wæs symbla cyst;
druncon win weras. Wyrd ne cuþon,
geosceaft grimme, swa hit agangen wearð
- 1235
-
eorla manegum, syþðan æfen cwom
ond him Hroþgar gewat to hofe sinum,
rice to ræste. Reced weardode
unrim eorla, swa hie oft ær dydon.
Bencþelu beredon; hit geondbræded wearð
- 1240
-
beddum ond bolstrum. Beorscealca sum
fus ond fæge fletræste gebeag.
Setton him to heafdon hilderandas,
bordwudu beorhtan; þær on bence wæs
ofer æþelinge yþgesene
- 1245
-
heaþosteapa helm, hringed byrne,
þrecwudu þrymlic. Wæs þeaw hyra
þæt hie oft wæron an wig gearwe,
ge æt ham ge on herge, ge gehwæþer þara,
efne swylce mæla swylce hira mandryhtne
- 1250
-
þearf gesælde; wæs seo þeod tilu.
Sigon þa to slæpe. Sum sare angeald
æfenræste, swa him ful oft gelamp,
siþðan goldsele Grendel warode,
unriht æfnde, oþþæt ende becwom,
- 1255
-
swylt æfter synnum. þæt gesyne wearþ,
widcuþ werum, þætte wrecend þa gyt
lifde æfter laþum, lange þrage,
æfter guðceare. Grendles modor,
ides, aglæcwif, yrmþe gemunde,
- 1260
-
se þe wæteregesan wunian scolde,
cealde streamas, siþðan Cain wearð
to ecgbanan angan breþer,
fæderenmæge; he þa fag gewat,
morþre gemearcod, mandream fleon,
- 1265
-
westen warode. þanon woc fela
geosceaftgasta; wæs þæra Grendel sum,
heorowearh hetelic, se æt Heorote fand
wæccendne wer wiges bidan.
þær him aglæca ætgræpe wearð;
- 1270
-
hwæþre he gemunde mægenes strenge,
gimfæste gife ðe him god sealde,
ond him to anwaldan are gelyfde,
frofre ond fultum; ðy he þone feond ofercwom,
gehnægde helle gast. þa he hean gewat,
- 1275
-
dreame bedæled, deaþwic seon,
mancynnes feond, ond his modor þa gyt,
gifre ond galgmod, gegan wolde
sorhfulne sið, sunu deað wrecan.
Com þa to Heorote, ðær Hringdene
- 1280
-
geond þæt sæld swæfun. þa ðær sona wearð
edhwyrft eorlum, siþðan inne fealh
Grendles modor. Wæs se gryre læssa
efne swa micle swa bið mægþa cræft,
wiggryre wifes, be wæpnedmen,
- 1285
-
þonne heoru bunden, hamere geþuren,
sweord swate fah swin ofer helme
ecgum dyhttig andweard scireð.
þa wæs on healle heardecg togen
sweord ofer setlum, sidrand manig
- 1290
-
hafen handa fæst; helm ne gemunde,
byrnan side, þa hine se broga angeat.
Heo wæs on ofste, wolde ut þanon,
feore beorgan, þa heo onfunden wæs.
Hraðe heo æþelinga anne hæfde
- 1295
-
fæste befangen, þa heo to fenne gang.
Se wæs Hroþgare hæleþa leofost
on gesiðes had be sæm tweonum,
rice randwiga, þone ðe heo on ræste abreat,
blædfæstne beorn. Næs Beowulf ðær,
- 1300
-
ac wæs oþer in ær geteohhod
æfter maþðumgife mærum Geate.
Hream wearð in Heorote; heo under heolfre genam
cuþe folme; cearu wæs geniwod,
geworden in wicun. Ne wæs þæt gewrixle til,
- 1305
-
þæt hie on ba healfa bicgan scoldon
freonda feorum. þa wæs frod cyning,
har hilderinc, on hreon mode,
syðþan he aldorþegn unlyfigendne,
þone deorestan deadne wisse.
- 1310
-
Hraþe wæs to bure Beowulf fetod,
sigoreadig secg. Samod ærdæge
eode eorla sum, æþele cempa
self mid gesiðum þær se snotera bad,
hwæþer him alwalda æfre wille
- 1315
-
æfter weaspelle wyrpe gefremman.
Gang ða æfter flore fyrdwyrðe man
mid his handscale (healwudu dynede),
þæt he þone wisan wordum nægde
frean Ingwina, frægn gif him wære
- 1320
-
æfter neodlaðum niht getæse.
Hroðgar maþelode, helm Scyldinga:
"Ne frin þu æfter sælum! Sorh is geniwod
Denigea leodum. Dead is æschere,
Yrmenlafes yldra broþor,
- 1325
-
min runwita ond min rædbora,
eaxlgestealla, ðonne we on orlege
hafelan weredon, þonne hniton feþan,
eoferas cnysedan. Swylc scolde eorl wesan,
æþeling ærgod, swylc æschere wæs!
- 1330
-
Wearð him on Heorote to handbanan
wælgæst wæfre; ic ne wat hwæder
atol æse wlanc eftsiðas teah,
fylle gefægnod. Heo þa fæhðe wræc
þe þu gystran niht Grendel cwealdest
- 1335
-
þurh hæstne had heardum clammum,
forþan he to lange leode mine
wanode ond wyrde. He æt wige gecrang
ealdres scyldig, ond nu oþer cwom
mihtig manscaða, wolde hyre mæg wrecan,
- 1340
-
ge feor hafað fæhðe gestæled
(þæs þe þincean mæg þegne monegum,
se þe æfter sincgyfan on sefan greoteþ),
hreþerbealo hearde; nu seo hand ligeð,
se þe eow welhwylcra wilna dohte.
- 1345
-
Ic þæt londbuend, leode mine,
selerædende, secgan hyrde
þæt hie gesawon swylce twegen
micle mearcstapan moras healdan,
ellorgæstas. ðæra oðer wæs,
- 1350
-
þæs þe hie gewislicost gewitan meahton,
idese onlicnæs; oðer earmsceapen
on weres wæstmum wræclastas træd,
næfne he wæs mara þonne ænig man oðer;
þone on geardagum Grendel nemdon
- 1355
-
foldbuende. No hie fæder cunnon,
hwæþer him ænig wæs ær acenned
dyrnra gasta. Hie dygel lond
warigeað, wulfhleoþu, windige næssas,
frecne fengelad, ðær fyrgenstream
- 1360
-
under næssa genipu niþer gewiteð,
flod under foldan. Nis þæt feor heonon
milgemearces þæt se mere standeð;
ofer þæm hongiað hrinde bearwas,
wudu wyrtum fæst wæter oferhelmað.
- 1365
-
þær mæg nihta gehwæm niðwundor seon,
fyr on flode. No þæs frod leofað
gumena bearna, þæt þone grund wite;
ðeah þe hæðstapa hundum geswenced,
heorot hornum trum, holtwudu sece,
- 1370
-
feorran geflymed, ær he feorh seleð,
aldor on ofre, ær he in wille
hafelan hydan. Nis þæt heoru stow!
þonon yðgeblond up astigeð
won to wolcnum, þonne wind styreþ,
- 1375
-
lað gewidru, oðþæt lyft drysmaþ,
roderas reotað. Nu is se ræd gelang
eft æt þe anum. Eard git ne const,
frecne stowe, ðær þu findan miht
felasinnigne secg; sec gif þu dyrre.
- 1380
-
Ic þe þa fæhðe feo leanige,
ealdgestreonum, swa ic ær dyde,
wundnum golde, gyf þu on weg cymest."
Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþeowes:
"Ne sorga, snotor guma; selre bið æghwæm
- 1385
-
þæt he his freond wrece, þonne he fela murne.
Ure æghwylc sceal ende gebidan
worolde lifes; wyrce se þe mote
domes ær deaþe; þæt bið drihtguman
unlifgendum æfter selest.
- 1390
-
Aris, rices weard, uton raþe feran
Grendles magan gang sceawigan.
Ic hit þe gehate, no he on helm losaþ,
ne on foldan fæþm, ne on fyrgenholt,
ne on gyfenes grund, ga þær he wille.
- 1395
-
ðys dogor þu geþyld hafa
weana gehwylces, swa ic þe wene to."
Ahleop ða se gomela, gode þancode,
mihtigan drihtne, þæs se man gespræc.
þa wæs Hroðgare hors gebæted,
- 1400
-
wicg wundenfeax. Wisa fengel
geatolic gende; gumfeþa stop
lindhæbbendra. Lastas wæron
æfter waldswaþum wide gesyne,
gang ofer grundas, þær heo gegnum for
- 1405
-
ofer myrcan mor, magoþegna bær
þone selestan sawolleasne
þara þe mid Hroðgare ham eahtode.
Ofereode þa æþelinga bearn
steap stanhliðo, stige nearwe,
- 1410
-
enge anpaðas, uncuð gelad,
neowle næssas, nicorhusa fela.
He feara sum beforan gengde
wisra monna wong sceawian,
oþþæt he færinga fyrgenbeamas
- 1415
-
ofer harne stan hleonian funde,
wynleasne wudu; wæter under stod
dreorig ond gedrefed. Denum eallum wæs,
winum Scyldinga, weorce on mode
to geþolianne, ðegne monegum,
- 1420
-
oncyð eorla gehwæm, syðþan æscheres
on þam holmclife hafelan metton.
Flod blode weol (folc to sægon),
hatan heolfre. Horn stundum song
fuslic fyrdleoð. Feþa eal gesæt.
- 1425
-
Gesawon ða æfter wætere wyrmcynnes fela,
sellice sædracan, sund cunnian,
swylce on næshleoðum nicras licgean,
ða on undernmæl oft bewitigað
sorhfulne sið on seglrade,
- 1430
-
wyrmas ond wildeor; hie on weg hruron,
bitere ond gebolgne, bearhtm ongeaton,
guðhorn galan. Sumne Geata leod
of flanbogan feores getwæfde,
yðgewinnes, þæt him on aldre stod
- 1435
-
herestræl hearda; he on holme wæs
sundes þe sænra, ðe hyne swylt fornam.
Hræþe wearð on yðum mid eoferspreotum
heorohocyhtum hearde genearwod,
niða genæged, ond on næs togen,
- 1440
-
wundorlic wægbora; weras sceawedon
gryrelicne gist. Gyrede hine Beowulf
eorlgewædum, nalles for ealdre mearn.
Scolde herebyrne hondum gebroden,
sid ond searofah, sund cunnian,
- 1445
-
seo ðe bancofan beorgan cuþe,
þæt him hildegrap hreþre ne mihte,
eorres inwitfeng, aldre gesceþðan;
ac se hwita helm hafelan werede,
se þe meregrundas mengan scolde,
- 1450
-
secan sundgebland since geweorðad,
befongen freawrasnum, swa hine fyrndagum
worhte wæpna smið, wundrum teode,
besette swinlicum, þæt hine syðþan no
brond ne beadomecas bitan ne meahton.
- 1455
-
Næs þæt þonne mætost mægenfultuma
þæt him on ðearfe lah ðyle Hroðgares;
wæs þæm hæftmece Hrunting nama.
þæt wæs an foran ealdgestreona;
ecg wæs iren, atertanum fah,
- 1460
-
ahyrded heaþoswate; næfre hit æt hilde ne swac
manna ængum þara þe hit mid mundum bewand,
se ðe gryresiðas gegan dorste,
folcstede fara; næs þæt forma sið
þæt hit ellenweorc æfnan scolde.
- 1465
-
Huru ne gemunde mago Ecglafes,
eafoþes cræftig, þæt he ær gespræc
wine druncen, þa he þæs wæpnes onlah
selran sweordfrecan. Selfa ne dorste
under yða gewin aldre geneþan,
- 1470
-
drihtscype dreogan; þær he dome forleas,
ellenmærðum. Ne wæs þæm oðrum swa,
syðþan he hine to guðe gegyred hæfde.
Beowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgþeowes:
"Geþenc nu, se mæra maga Healfdenes,
- 1475
-
snottra fengel, nu ic eom siðes fus,
goldwine gumena, hwæt wit geo spræcon,
gif ic æt þearfe þinre scolde
aldre linnan, þæt ðu me a wære
forðgewitenum on fæder stæle.
- 1480
-
Wes þu mundbora minum magoþegnum,
hondgesellum, gif mec hild nime;
swylce þu ða madmas þe þu me sealdest,
Hroðgar leofa, Higelace onsend.
Mæg þonne on þæm golde ongitan Geata dryhten,
- 1485
-
geseon sunu Hrædles, þonne he on þæt sinc starað,
þæt ic gumcystum godne funde
beaga bryttan, breac þonne moste.
Ond þu Unferð læt ealde lafe,
wrætlic wægsweord, widcuðne man
- 1490
-
heardecg habban; ic me mid Hruntinge
dom gewyrce, oþðe mec deað nimeð."
æfter þæm wordum Wedergeata leod
efste mid elne, nalas ondsware
bidan wolde; brimwylm onfeng
- 1495
-
hilderince. ða wæs hwil dæges
ær he þone grundwong ongytan mehte.
Sona þæt onfunde se ðe floda begong
heorogifre beheold hund missera,
grim ond grædig, þæt þær gumena sum
- 1500
-
ælwihta eard ufan cunnode.
Grap þa togeanes, guðrinc gefeng
atolan clommum. No þy ær in gescod
halan lice; hring utan ymbbearh,
þæt heo þone fyrdhom ðurhfon ne mihte,
- 1505
-
locene leoðosyrcan laþan fingrum.
Bær þa seo brimwylf, þa heo to botme com,
hringa þengel to hofe sinum,
swa he ne mihte, no he þæs modig wæs,
wæpna gewealdan, ac hine wundra þæs fela
- 1510
-
swencte on sunde, sædeor monig
hildetuxum heresyrcan bræc,
ehton aglæcan. ða se eorl ongeat
þæt he in niðsele nathwylcum wæs,
þær him nænig wæter wihte ne sceþede,
- 1515
-
ne him for hrofsele hrinan ne mehte
færgripe flodes; fyrleoht geseah,
blacne leoman, beorhte scinan.
Ongeat þa se goda grundwyrgenne,
merewif mihtig; mægenræs forgeaf
- 1520
-
hildebille, hond sweng ne ofteah,
þæt hire on hafelan hringmæl agol
grædig guðleoð. ða se gist onfand
þæt se beadoleoma bitan nolde,
aldre sceþðan, ac seo ecg geswac
- 1525
-
ðeodne æt þearfe; ðolode ær fela
hondgemota, helm oft gescær,
fæges fyrdhrægl; ða wæs forma sið
deorum madme, þæt his dom alæg.
Eft wæs anræd, nalas elnes læt,
- 1530
-
mærða gemyndig mæg Hylaces.
Wearp ða wundenmæl wrættum gebunden
yrre oretta, þæt hit on eorðan læg,
stið ond stylecg; strenge getruwode,
mundgripe mægenes. Swa sceal man don,
- 1535
-
þonne he æt guðe gegan þenceð
longsumne lof, na ymb his lif cearað.
Gefeng þa be eaxle (nalas for fæhðe mearn)
Guðgeata leod Grendles modor;
brægd þa beadwe heard, þa he gebolgen wæs,
- 1540
-
feorhgeniðlan, þæt heo on flet gebeah.
Heo him eft hraþe andlean forgeald
grimman grapum ond him togeanes feng;
oferwearp þa werigmod wigena strengest,
feþecempa, þæt he on fylle wearð.
- 1545
-
Ofsæt þa þone selegyst ond hyre seax geteah,
brad ond brunecg, wolde hire bearn wrecan,
angan eaferan. Him on eaxle læg
breostnet broden; þæt gebearh feore,
wið ord ond wið ecge ingang forstod.
- 1550
-
Hæfde ða forsiðod sunu Ecgþeowes
under gynne grund, Geata cempa,
nemne him heaðobyrne helpe gefremede,
herenet hearde, ond halig god
geweold wigsigor; witig drihten,
- 1555
-
rodera rædend, hit on ryht gesced
yðelice, syþðan he eft astod.
Geseah ða on searwum sigeeadig bil,
eald sweord eotenisc, ecgum þyhtig,
wigena weorðmynd; þæt wæs wæpna cyst,
- 1560
-
buton hit wæs mare ðonne ænig mon oðer
to beadulace ætberan meahte,
god ond geatolic, giganta geweorc.
He gefeng þa fetelhilt, freca Scyldinga
hreoh ond heorogrim hringmæl gebrægd,
- 1565
-
aldres orwena, yrringa sloh,
þæt hire wið halse heard grapode,
banhringas bræc. Bil eal ðurhwod
fægne flæschoman; heo on flet gecrong.
Sweord wæs swatig, secg weorce gefeh.
- 1570
-
Lixte se leoma, leoht inne stod,
efne swa of hefene hadre scineð
rodores candel. He æfter recede wlat;
hwearf þa be wealle, wæpen hafenade
heard be hiltum Higelaces ðegn,
- 1575
-
yrre ond anræd. Næs seo ecg fracod
hilderince, ac he hraþe wolde
Grendle forgyldan guðræsa fela
ðara þe he geworhte to Westdenum
oftor micle ðonne on ænne sið,
- 1580
-
þonne he Hroðgares heorðgeneatas
sloh on sweofote, slæpende fræt
folces Denigea fyftyne men
ond oðer swylc ut offerede,
laðlicu lac. He him þæs lean forgeald,
- 1585
-
reþe cempa, to ðæs þe he on ræste geseah
guðwerigne Grendel licgan
aldorleasne, swa him ær gescod
hild æt Heorote. Hra wide sprong,
syþðan he æfter deaðe drepe þrowade,
- 1590
-
heorosweng heardne, ond hine þa heafde becearf.
Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
- 1595
-
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.
- 1600
-
ða com non dæges. Næs ofgeafon
hwate Scyldingas; gewat him ham þonon
goldwine gumena. Gistas setan
modes seoce ond on mere staredon,
wiston ond ne wendon þæt hie heora winedrihten
- 1605
-
selfne gesawon. þa þæt sweord ongan
æfter heaþoswate hildegicelum,
wigbil wanian. þæt wæs wundra sum,
þæt hit eal gemealt ise gelicost,
ðonne forstes bend fæder onlæteð,
- 1610
-
onwindeð wælrapas, se geweald hafað
sæla ond mæla; þæt is soð metod.
Ne nom he in þæm wicum, Wedergeata leod,
maðmæhta ma, þeh he þær monige geseah,
buton þone hafelan ond þa hilt somod
- 1615
-
since fage. Sweord ær gemealt,
forbarn brodenmæl; wæs þæt blod to þæs hat,
ættren ellorgæst se þær inne swealt.
Sona wæs on sunde se þe ær æt sæcce gebad
wighryre wraðra, wæter up þurhdeaf.
- 1620
-
Wæron yðgebland eal gefælsod,
eacne eardas, þa se ellorgast
oflet lifdagas ond þas lænan gesceaft.
Com þa to lande lidmanna helm
swiðmod swymman; sælace gefeah,
- 1625
-
mægenbyrþenne þara þe he him mid hæfde.
Eodon him þa togeanes, gode þancodon,
ðryðlic þegna heap, þeodnes gefegon,
þæs þe hi hyne gesundne geseon moston.
ða wæs of þæm hroran helm ond byrne
- 1630
-
lungre alysed. Lagu drusade,
wæter under wolcnum, wældreore fag.
Ferdon forð þonon feþelastum
ferhþum fægne, foldweg mæton,
cuþe stræte. Cyningbalde men
- 1635
-
from þæm holmclife hafelan bæron
earfoðlice heora æghwæþrum,
felamodigra; feower scoldon
on þæm wælstenge weorcum geferian
to þæm goldsele Grendles heafod,
- 1640
-
oþðæt semninga to sele comon
frome fyrdhwate feowertyne
Geata gongan; gumdryhten mid
modig on gemonge meodowongas træd.
ða com in gan ealdor ðegna,
- 1645
-
dædcene mon dome gewurþad,
hæle hildedeor, Hroðgar gretan.
þa wæs be feaxe on flet boren
Grendles heafod, þær guman druncon,
egeslic for eorlum ond þære idese mid,
- 1650
-
wliteseon wrætlic; weras on sawon.
Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþeowes:
"Hwæt! we þe þas sælac, sunu Healfdenes,
leod Scyldinga, lustum brohton
tires to tacne, þe þu her to locast.
- 1655
-
Ic þæt unsofte ealdre gedigde
wigge under wætere, weorc geneþde
earfoðlice; ætrihte wæs
guð getwæfed, nymðe mec god scylde.
Ne meahte ic æt hilde mid Hruntinge
- 1660
-
wiht gewyrcan, þeah þæt wæpen duge;
ac me geuðe ylda waldend
þæt ic on wage geseah wlitig hangian
eald sweord eacen (oftost wisode
winigea leasum), þæt ic ðy wæpne gebræd.
- 1665
-
Ofsloh ða æt þære sæcce, þa me sæl ageald,
huses hyrdas. þa þæt hildebil
forbarn brogdenmæl, swa þæt blod gesprang,
hatost heaþoswata. Ic þæt hilt þanan
feondum ætferede, fyrendæda wræc,
- 1670
-
deaðcwealm Denigea, swa hit gedefe wæs.
Ic hit þe þonne gehate, þæt þu on Heorote most
sorhleas swefan mid þinra secga gedryht
ond þegna gehwylc þinra leoda,
duguðe ond iogoþe, þæt þu him ondrædan ne þearft,
- 1675
-
þeoden Scyldinga, on þa healfe,
aldorbealu eorlum, swa þu ær dydest."
ða wæs gylden hilt gamelum rince,
harum hildfruman, on hand gyfen,
enta ærgeweorc; hit on æht gehwearf
- 1680
-
æfter deofla hryre Denigea frean,
wundorsmiþa geweorc, ond þa þas worold ofgeaf
gromheort guma, godes ondsaca,
morðres scyldig, ond his modor eac,
on geweald gehwearf woroldcyninga
- 1685
-
ðæm selestan be sæm tweonum
ðara þe on Scedenigge sceattas dælde.
Hroðgar maðelode, hylt sceawode,
ealde lafe, on ðæm wæs or writen
fyrngewinnes, syðþan flod ofsloh,
- 1690
-
gifen geotende, giganta cyn
(frecne geferdon); þæt wæs fremde þeod
ecean dryhtne; him þæs endelean
þurh wæteres wylm waldend sealde.
Swa wæs on ðæm scennum sciran goldes
- 1695
-
þurh runstafas rihte gemearcod,
geseted ond gesæd hwam þæt sweord geworht,
irena cyst, ærest wære,
wreoþenhilt ond wyrmfah. ða se wisa spræc
sunu Healfdenes (swigedon ealle):
- 1700
-
"þæt, la, mæg secgan se þe soð ond riht
fremeð on folce, feor eal gemon,
eald ᛟweard, þæt ðes eorl wære
geboren betera! Blæd is aræred
geond widwegas, wine min Beowulf,
- 1705
-
ðin ofer þeoda gehwylce. Eal þu hit geþyldum healdest,
mægen mid modes snyttrum. Ic þe sceal mine gelæstan
freode, swa wit furðum spræcon. ðu scealt to frofre weorþan
eal langtwidig leodum þinum,
hæleðum to helpe. Ne wearð Heremod swa
- 1710
-
eaforum Ecgwelan, Arscyldingum;
ne geweox he him to willan, ac to wælfealle
ond to deaðcwalum Deniga leodum;
breat bolgenmod beodgeneatas,
eaxlgesteallan, oþþæt he ana hwearf,
- 1715
-
mære þeoden, mondreamum from.
ðeah þe hine mihtig god mægenes wynnum,
eafeþum stepte, ofer ealle men
forð gefremede, hwæþere him on ferhþe greow
breosthord blodreow. Nallas beagas geaf
- 1720
-
Denum æfter dome; dreamleas gebad
þæt he þæs gewinnes weorc þrowade,
leodbealo longsum. ðu þe lær be þon,
gumcyste ongit; ic þis gid be þe
awræc wintrum frod. Wundor is to secganne
- 1725
-
hu mihtig god manna cynne
þurh sidne sefan snyttru bryttað,
eard ond eorlscipe; he ah ealra geweald.
Hwilum he on lufan læteð hworfan
monnes modgeþonc mæran cynnes,
- 1730
-
seleð him on eþle eorþan wynne
to healdanne, hleoburh wera,
gedeð him swa gewealdene worolde dælas,
side rice, þæt he his selfa ne mæg
for his unsnyttrum ende geþencean.
- 1735
-
Wunað he on wiste; no hine wiht dweleð
adl ne yldo, ne him inwitsorh
on sefan sweorceð, ne gesacu ohwær
ecghete eoweð, ac him eal worold
wendeð on willan (he þæt wyrse ne con),
- 1740
-
oðþæt him on innan oferhygda dæl
weaxeð ond wridað. þonne se weard swefeð,
sawele hyrde; bið se slæp to fæst,
bisgum gebunden, bona swiðe neah,
se þe of flanbogan fyrenum sceoteð.
- 1745
-
þonne bið on hreþre under helm drepen
biteran stræle (him bebeorgan ne con),
wom wundorbebodum wergan gastes;
þinceð him to lytel þæt he lange heold,
gytsað gromhydig, nallas on gylp seleð
- 1750
-
fædde beagas, ond he þa forðgesceaft
forgyteð ond forgymeð, þæs þe him ær god sealde,
wuldres waldend, weorðmynda dæl.
Hit on endestæf eft gelimpeð
þæt se lichoma læne gedreoseð,
- 1755
-
fæge gefealleð; fehð oþer to,
se þe unmurnlice madmas dæleþ,
eorles ærgestreon, egesan ne gymeð.
Bebeorh þe ðone bealonið, Beowulf leofa,
secg betsta, ond þe þæt selre geceos,
- 1760
-
ece rædas; oferhyda ne gym,
mære cempa. Nu is þines mægnes blæd
ane hwile. Eft sona bið
þæt þec adl oððe ecg eafoþes getwæfeð,
oððe fyres feng, oððe flodes wylm,
- 1765
-
oððe gripe meces, oððe gares fliht,
oððe atol yldo; oððe eagena bearhtm
forsiteð ond forsworceð; semninga bið
þæt ðec, dryhtguma, deað oferswyðeð.
Swa ic Hringdena hund missera
- 1770
-
weold under wolcnum ond hig wigge beleac
manigum mægþa geond þysne middangeard,
æscum ond ecgum, þæt ic me ænigne
under swegles begong gesacan ne tealde.
Hwæt, me þæs on eþle edwenden cwom,
- 1775
-
gyrn æfter gomene, seoþðan Grendel wearð,
ealdgewinna, ingenga min;
ic þære socne singales wæg
modceare micle. þæs sig metode þanc,
ecean dryhtne, þæs ðe ic on aldre gebad
- 1780
-
þæt ic on þone hafelan heorodreorigne
ofer ealdgewin eagum starige!
Ga nu to setle, symbelwynne dreoh
wigge weorþad; unc sceal worn fela
maþma gemænra, siþðan morgen bið."
- 1785
-
Geat wæs glædmod, geong sona to
setles neosan, swa se snottra heht.
þa wæs eft swa ær ellenrofum
fletsittendum fægere gereorded
niowan stefne. Nihthelm geswearc
- 1790
-
deorc ofer dryhtgumum. Duguð eal aras.
Wolde blondenfeax beddes neosan,
gamela Scylding. Geat unigmetes wel,
rofne randwigan, restan lyste;
sona him seleþegn siðes wergum,
- 1795
-
feorrancundum, forð wisade,
se for andrysnum ealle beweotede
þegnes þearfe, swylce þy dogore
heaþoliðende habban scoldon.
Reste hine þa rumheort; reced hliuade
- 1800
-
geap ond goldfah; gæst inne swæf
oþþæt hrefn blaca heofones wynne
bliðheort bodode. ða com beorht scacan
scaþan onetton,
wæron æþelingas eft to leodum
- 1805
-
fuse to farenne; wolde feor þanon
cuma collenferhð ceoles neosan.
Heht þa se hearda Hrunting beran
sunu Ecglafes, heht his sweord niman,
leoflic iren; sægde him þæs leanes þanc,
- 1810
-
cwæð, he þone guðwine godne tealde,
wigcræftigne, nales wordum log
meces ecge; þæt wæs modig secg.
Ond þa siðfrome, searwum gearwe
wigend wæron; eode weorð Denum
- 1815
-
æþeling to yppan, þær se oþer wæs,
hæle hildedeor Hroðgar grette.
Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþeowes:
"Nu we sæliðend secgan wyllað,
feorran cumene, þæt we fundiaþ
- 1820
-
Higelac secan. Wæron her tela
willum bewenede; þu us wel dohtest.
Gif ic þonne on eorþan owihte mæg
þinre modlufan maran tilian,
gumena dryhten, ðonne ic gyt dyde,
- 1825
-
guðgeweorca, ic beo gearo sona.
Gif ic þæt gefricge ofer floda begang,
þæt þec ymbsittend egesan þywað,
swa þec hetende hwilum dydon,
ic ðe þusenda þegna bringe,
- 1830
-
hæleþa to helpe. Ic on Higelac wat,
Geata dryhten, þeah ðe he geong sy,
folces hyrde, þæt he mec fremman wile
wordum ond worcum, þæt ic þe wel herige
ond þe to geoce garholt bere,
- 1835
-
mægenes fultum, þær ðe bið manna þearf.
Gif him þonne Hreþric to hofum Geata
geþingeð, þeodnes bearn, he mæg þær fela
freonda findan; feorcyþðe beoð
selran gesohte þæm þe him selfa deah."
- 1840
-
Hroðgar maþelode him on ondsware:
"þe þa wordcwydas wigtig drihten
on sefan sende; ne hyrde ic snotorlicor
on swa geongum feore guman þingian.
þu eart mægenes strang ond on mode frod,
- 1845
-
wis wordcwida. Wen ic talige,
gif þæt gegangeð, þæt ðe gar nymeð,
hild heorugrimme, Hreþles eaferan,
adl oþðe iren ealdor ðinne,
folces hyrde, ond þu þin feorh hafast,
- 1850
-
þæt þe Sægeatas selran næbben
to geceosenne cyning ænigne,
hordweard hæleþa, gyf þu healdan wylt
maga rice. Me þin modsefa
licað leng swa wel, leofa Beowulf.
- 1855
-
Hafast þu gefered þæt þam folcum sceal,
Geata leodum ond Gardenum,
sib gemæne, ond sacu restan,
inwitniþas, þe hie ær drugon,
wesan, þenden ic wealde widan rices,
- 1860
-
maþmas gemæne, manig oþerne
godum gegretan ofer ganotes bæð;
sceal hringnaca ofer heafu bringan
lac ond luftacen. Ic þa leode wat
ge wið feond ge wið freond fæste geworhte,
- 1865
-
æghwæs untæle ealde wisan."
ða git him eorla hleo inne gesealde,
mago Healfdenes, maþmas XII;
het hine mid þæm lacum leode swæse
secean on gesyntum, snude eft cuman.
- 1870
-
Gecyste þa cyning æþelum god,
þeoden Scyldinga, ðegn betstan
ond be healse genam; hruron him tearas,
blondenfeaxum. Him wæs bega wen,
ealdum infrodum, oþres swiðor,
- 1875
-
þæt hie seoððan no geseon moston,
modige on meþle. Wæs him se man to þon leof
þæt he þone breostwylm forberan ne mehte,
ac him on hreþre hygebendum fæst
æfter deorum men dyrne langað
- 1880
-
beorn wið blode. Him Beowulf þanan,
guðrinc goldwlanc, græsmoldan træd
since hremig; sægenga bad
agendfrean, se þe on ancre rad.
þa wæs on gange gifu Hroðgares
- 1885
-
oft geæhted; þæt wæs an cyning,
æghwæs orleahtre, oþþæt hine yldo benam
mægenes wynnum, se þe oft manegum scod.
Cwom þa to flode felamodigra,
hægstealdra heap, hringnet bæron,
- 1890
-
locene leoðosyrcan. Landweard onfand
eftsið eorla, swa he ær dyde;
no he mid hearme of hliðes nosan
gæstas grette, ac him togeanes rad,
cwæð þæt wilcuman Wedera leodum
- 1895
-
scaþan scirhame to scipe foron.
þa wæs on sande sægeap naca
hladen herewædum, hringedstefna,
mearum ond maðmum; mæst hlifade
ofer Hroðgares hordgestreonum.
- 1900
-
He þæm batwearde bunden golde
swurd gesealde, þæt he syðþan wæs
on meodubence maþme þy weorþra,
yrfelafe. Gewat him on naca
drefan deop wæter, Dena land ofgeaf.
- 1905
-
þa wæs be mæste merehrægla sum,
segl sale fæst; sundwudu þunede.
No þær wegflotan wind ofer yðum
siðes getwæfde; sægenga for,
fleat famigheals forð ofer yðe,
- 1910
-
bundenstefna ofer brimstreamas,
þæt hie Geata clifu ongitan meahton,
cuþe næssas. Ceol up geþrang
lyftgeswenced, on lande stod.
Hraþe wæs æt holme hyðweard geara,
- 1915
-
se þe ær lange tid leofra manna
fus æt faroðe feor wlatode;
sælde to sande sidfæþme scip,
oncerbendum fæst, þy læs hym yþa ðrym
wudu wynsuman forwrecan meahte.
- 1920
-
Het þa up beran æþelinga gestreon,
frætwe ond fætgold; næs him feor þanon
to gesecanne sinces bryttan,
Higelac Hreþling, þær æt ham wunað
selfa mid gesiðum sæwealle neah.
- 1925
-
Bold wæs betlic, bregorof cyning,
heah in healle, Hygd swiðe geong,
wis, welþungen, þeah ðe wintra lyt
under burhlocan gebiden hæbbe,
Hæreþes dohtor; næs hio hnah swa þeah,
- 1930
-
ne to gneað gifa Geata leodum,
maþmgestreona. Mod þryðo wæg,
fremu folces cwen, firen ondrysne.
Nænig þæt dorste deor geneþan
swæsra gesiða, nefne sinfrea,
- 1935
-
þæt hire an dæges eagum starede,
ac him wælbende weotode tealde
handgewriþene; hraþe seoþðan wæs
æfter mundgripe mece geþinged,
þæt hit sceadenmæl scyran moste,
- 1940
-
cwealmbealu cyðan. Ne bið swylc cwenlic þeaw
idese to efnanne, þeah ðe hio ænlicu sy,
þætte freoðuwebbe feores onsæce
æfter ligetorne leofne mannan.
Huru þæt onhohsnode Hemminges mæg;
- 1945
-
ealodrincende oðer sædan,
þæt hio leodbealewa læs gefremede,
inwitniða, syððan ærest wearð
gyfen goldhroden geongum cempan,
æðelum diore, syððan hio Offan flet
- 1950
-
ofer fealone flod be fæder lare
siðe gesohte; ðær hio syððan well
in gumstole, gode, mære,
lifgesceafta lifigende breac,
hiold heahlufan wið hæleþa brego,
- 1955
-
ealles moncynnes mine gefræge
þone selestan bi sæm tweonum,
eormencynnes. Forðam Offa wæs
geofum ond guðum, garcene man,
wide geweorðod, wisdome heold
- 1960
-
eðel sinne; þonon Eomer woc
hæleðum to helpe, Hemminges mæg,
nefa Garmundes, niða cræftig.
Gewat him ða se hearda mid his hondscole
sylf æfter sande sæwong tredan,
- 1965
-
wide waroðas. Woruldcandel scan,
sigel suðan fus. Hi sið drugon,
elne geeodon, to ðæs ðe eorla hleo,
bonan Ongenþeoes burgum in innan,
geongne guðcyning godne gefrunon
- 1970
-
hringas dælan. Higelace wæs
sið Beowulfes snude gecyðed,
þæt ðær on worðig wigendra hleo,
lindgestealla, lifigende cwom,
heaðolaces hal to hofe gongan.
- 1975
-
Hraðe wæs gerymed, swa se rica bebead,
feðegestum flet innanweard.
Gesæt þa wið sylfne se ða sæcce genæs,
mæg wið mæge, syððan mandryhten
þurh hleoðorcwyde holdne gegrette,
- 1980
-
meaglum wordum. Meoduscencum hwearf
geond þæt healreced Hæreðes dohtor,
lufode ða leode, liðwæge bær
hæleðum to handa. Higelac ongan
sinne geseldan in sele þam hean
- 1985
-
fægre fricgcean (hyne fyrwet bræc,
hwylce Sægeata siðas wæron):
"Hu lomp eow on lade, leofa Biowulf,
þa ðu færinga feorr gehogodest
sæcce secean ofer sealt wæter,
- 1990
-
hilde to Hiorote? Ac ðu Hroðgare
widcuðne wean wihte gebettest,
mærum ðeodne? Ic ðæs modceare
sorhwylmum seað, siðe ne truwode
leofes mannes; ic ðe lange bæd
- 1995
-
þæt ðu þone wælgæst wihte ne grette,
lete Suðdene sylfe geweorðan
guðe wið Grendel. Gode ic þanc secge
þæs ðe ic ðe gesundne geseon moste."
Biowulf maðelode, bearn Ecgðioes:
- 2000
-
"þæt is undyrne, dryhten Higelac,
micel gemeting, monegum fira,
hwylc orleghwil uncer Grendles
wearð on ðam wange, þær he worna fela
Sigescyldingum sorge gefremede,
- 2005
-
yrmðe to aldre. Ic ðæt eall gewræc,
swa begylpan ne þearf Grendeles maga
ænig ofer eorðan uhthlem þone,
se ðe lengest leofað laðan cynnes,
facne bifongen. Ic ðær furðum cwom
- 2010
-
to ðam hringsele Hroðgar gretan;
sona me se mæra mago Healfdenes,
syððan he modsefan minne cuðe,
wið his sylfes sunu setl getæhte.
Weorod wæs on wynne; ne seah ic widan feorh
- 2015
-
under heofones hwealf healsittendra
medudream maran. Hwilum mæru cwen,
friðusibb folca, flet eall geondhwearf,
bædde byre geonge; oft hio beahwriðan
secge sealde, ær hie to setle geong.
- 2020
-
Hwilum for duguðe dohtor Hroðgares
eorlum on ende ealuwæge bær;
þa ic Freaware fletsittende
nemnan hyrde, þær hio nægled sinc
hæleðum sealde. Sio gehaten is,
- 2025
-
geong, goldhroden, gladum suna Frodan;
hafað þæs geworden wine Scyldinga,
rices hyrde, ond þæt ræd talað,
þæt he mid ðy wife wælfæhða dæl,
sæcca gesette. Oft seldan hwær
- 2030
-
æfter leodhryre lytle hwile
bongar bugeð, þeah seo bryd duge!
Mæg þæs þonne ofþyncan ðeodne Heaðobeardna
ond þegna gehwam þara leoda,
þonne he mid fæmnan on flett gæð,
- 2035
-
dryhtbearn Dena, duguða biwenede;
on him gladiað gomelra lafe,
heard ond hringmæl Heaðabeardna gestreon
þenden hie ðam wæpnum wealdan moston,
oððæt hie forlæddan to ðam lindplegan
- 2040
-
swæse gesiðas ond hyra sylfra feorh.
þonne cwið æt beore se ðe beah gesyhð,
eald æscwiga, se ðe eall geman,
garcwealm gumena (him bið grim sefa),
onginneð geomormod geongum cempan
- 2045
-
þurh hreðra gehygd higes cunnian,
wigbealu weccean, ond þæt word acwyð:
'Meaht ðu, min wine, mece gecnawan
þone þin fæder to gefeohte bær
under heregriman hindeman siðe,
- 2050
-
dyre iren, þær hyne Dene slogon,
weoldon wælstowe, syððan Wiðergyld læg,
æfter hæleþa hryre, hwate Scyldungas?
Nu her þara banena byre nathwylces
frætwum hremig on flet gæð,
- 2055
-
morðres gylpeð, ond þone maðþum byreð,
þone þe ðu mid rihte rædan sceoldest.'
Manað swa ond myndgað mæla gehwylce
sarum wordum, oððæt sæl cymeð
þæt se fæmnan þegn fore fæder dædum
- 2060
-
æfter billes bite blodfag swefeð,
ealdres scyldig; him se oðer þonan
losað lifigende, con him land geare.
þonne bioð abrocene on ba healfe
aðsweord eorla; syððan Ingelde
- 2065
-
weallað wælniðas, ond him wiflufan
æfter cearwælmum colran weorðað.
þy ic Heaðobeardna hyldo ne telge,
dryhtsibbe dæl Denum unfæcne,
freondscipe fæstne. Ic sceal forð sprecan
- 2070
-
gen ymbe Grendel, þæt ðu geare cunne,
sinces brytta, to hwan syððan wearð
hondræs hæleða. Syððan heofones gim
glad ofer grundas, gæst yrre cwom,
eatol, æfengrom, user neosan,
- 2075
-
ðær we gesunde sæl weardodon.
þær wæs Hondscio hild onsæge,
feorhbealu fægum; he fyrmest læg,
gyrded cempa; him Grendel wearð,
mærum maguþegne to muðbonan,
- 2080
-
leofes mannes lic eall forswealg.
No ðy ær ut ða gen idelhende
bona blodigtoð, bealewa gemyndig,
of ðam goldsele gongan wolde,
ac he mægnes rof min costode,
- 2085
-
grapode gearofolm. Glof hangode
sid ond syllic, searobendum fæst;
sio wæs orðoncum eall gegyrwed
deofles cræftum ond dracan fellum.
He mec þær on innan unsynnigne,
- 2090
-
dior dædfruma, gedon wolde
manigra sumne; hyt ne mihte swa,
syððan ic on yrre uppriht astod.
To lang ys to reccenne hu ic ðam leodsceaðan
yfla gehwylces ondlean forgeald;
- 2095
-
þær ic, þeoden min, þine leode
weorðode weorcum. He on weg losade,
lytle hwile lifwynna breac;
hwæþre him sio swiðre swaðe weardade
hand on Hiorte, ond he hean ðonan
- 2100
-
modes geomor meregrund gefeoll.
Me þone wælræs wine Scildunga
fættan golde fela leanode,
manegum maðmum, syððan mergen com
ond we to symble geseten hæfdon.
- 2105
-
þær wæs gidd ond gleo. Gomela Scilding,
felafricgende, feorran rehte;
hwilum hildedeor hearpan wynne,
gomenwudu grette, hwilum gyd awræc
soð ond sarlic, hwilum syllic spell
- 2110
-
rehte æfter rihte rumheort cyning.
Hwilum eft ongan, eldo gebunden,
gomel guðwiga gioguðe cwiðan,
hildestrengo; hreðer inne weoll,
þonne he wintrum frod worn gemunde.
- 2115
-
Swa we þær inne ondlangne dæg
niode naman, oððæt niht becwom
oðer to yldum. þa wæs eft hraðe
gearo gyrnwræce Grendeles modor,
siðode sorhfull; sunu deað fornam,
- 2120
-
wighete Wedra. Wif unhyre
hyre bearn gewræc, beorn acwealde
ellenlice; þær wæs æschere,
frodan fyrnwitan, feorh uðgenge.
Noðer hy hine ne moston, syððan mergen cwom,
- 2125
-
deaðwerigne, Denia leode,
bronde forbærnan, ne on bæl hladan
leofne mannan; hio þæt lic ætbær
feondes fæðmum under firgenstream.
þæt wæs Hroðgare hreowa tornost
- 2130
-
þara þe leodfruman lange begeate.
þa se ðeoden mec ðine life
healsode hreohmod, þæt ic on holma geþring
eorlscipe efnde, ealdre geneðde,
mærðo fremede; he me mede gehet.
- 2135
-
Ic ða ðæs wælmes, þe is wide cuð,
grimne gryrelicne grundhyrde fond;
þær unc hwile wæs hand gemæne,
holm heolfre weoll, ond ic heafde becearf
in ðam guðsele Grendeles modor
- 2140
-
eacnum ecgum, unsofte þonan
feorh oðferede. Næs ic fæge þa gyt,
ac me eorla hleo eft gesealde
maðma menigeo, maga Healfdenes.
Swa se ðeodkyning þeawum lyfde.
- 2145
-
Nealles ic ðam leanum forloren hæfde,
mægnes mede, ac he me maðmas geaf,
sunu Healfdenes, on minne sylfes dom;
ða ic ðe, beorncyning, bringan wylle,
estum geywan. Gen is eall æt ðe
- 2150
-
lissa gelong; ic lyt hafo
heafodmaga nefne, Hygelac, ðec."
Het ða in beran eaforheafodsegn,
heaðosteapne helm, hare byrnan,
guðsweord geatolic, gyd æfter wræc:
- 2155
-
"Me ðis hildesceorp Hroðgar sealde,
snotra fengel, sume worde het
þæt ic his ærest ðe est gesægde;
cwæð þæt hyt hæfde Hiorogar cyning,
leod Scyldunga lange hwile;
- 2160
-
no ðy ær suna sinum syllan wolde,
hwatum Heorowearde, þeah he him hold wære,
breostgewædu. Bruc ealles well!"
Hyrde ic þæt þam frætwum feower mearas
lungre, gelice, last weardode,
- 2165
-
æppelfealuwe; he him est geteah
meara ond maðma. Swa sceal mæg don,
nealles inwitnet oðrum bregdon
dyrnum cræfte, deað renian
hondgesteallan. Hygelace wæs,
- 2170
-
niða heardum, nefa swyðe hold,
ond gehwæðer oðrum hroþra gemyndig.
Hyrde ic þæt he ðone healsbeah Hygde gesealde,
wrætlicne wundurmaððum, ðone þe him Wealhðeo geaf,
ðeodnes dohtor, þrio wicg somod
- 2175
-
swancor ond sadolbeorht; hyre syððan wæs
æfter beahðege breost geweorðod.
Swa bealdode bearn Ecgðeowes,
guma guðum cuð, godum dædum,
dreah æfter dome, nealles druncne slog
- 2180
-
heorðgeneatas; næs him hreoh sefa,
ac he mancynnes mæste cræfte
ginfæstan gife, þe him god sealde,
heold hildedeor. Hean wæs lange,
swa hyne Geata bearn godne ne tealdon,
- 2185
-
ne hyne on medobence micles wyrðne
drihten Wedera gedon wolde;
swyðe wendon þæt he sleac wære,
æðeling unfrom. Edwenden cwom
tireadigum menn torna gehwylces.
- 2190
-
Het ða eorla hleo in gefetian,
heaðorof cyning, Hreðles lafe
golde gegyrede; næs mid Geatum ða
sincmaðþum selra on sweordes had;
þæt he on Biowulfes bearm alegde
- 2195
-
ond him gesealde seofan þusendo,
bold ond bregostol. Him wæs bam samod
on ðam leodscipe lond gecynde,
eard, eðelriht, oðrum swiðor
side rice þam ðær selra wæs.
- 2200
-
Eft þæt geiode ufaran dogrum
hildehlæmmum, syððan Hygelac læg
ond Heardrede hildemeceas
under bordhreoðan to bonan wurdon,
ða hyne gesohtan on sigeþeode
- 2205
-
hearde hildefrecan, Heaðoscilfingas,
niða genægdan nefan Hererices,
syððan Beowulfe brade rice
on hand gehwearf; he geheold tela
fiftig wintra (wæs ða frod cyning,
- 2210
-
eald eþelweard), oððæt an ongan
deorcum nihtum draca ricsian,
se ðe on heaum hofe hord beweotode,
stanbeorh steapne; stig under læg,
eldum uncuð. þær on innan giong
- 2215
-
niða nathwylc, se ðe neh gefeng
hæðnum horde, hond ......,
since fahne. He þæt syððan ......,
þeah ðe he slæpende besyred wurde
þeofes cræfte; þæt sie ðiod onfand,
- 2220
-
bufolc beorna, þæt he gebolgen wæs.
Nealles mid gewealdum wyrmhord abræc
sylfes willum, se ðe him sare gesceod,
ac for þreanedlan þeow nathwylces
hæleða bearna heteswengeas fleah,
- 2225
-
ærnes þearfa, ond ðær inne fealh,
secg synbysig, sona onfunde
þæt þær ðam gyste gryrebroga stod;
hwæðre earmsceapen
...sceapen
- 2230
-
þa hyne se fær begeat.
Sincfæt ......; þær wæs swylcra fela
in ðam eorðhuse ærgestreona,
swa hy on geardagum gumena nathwylc,
eormenlafe æþelan cynnes,
- 2235
-
þanchycgende þær gehydde,
deore maðmas. Ealle hie deað fornam
ærran mælum, ond se an ða gen
leoda duguðe, se ðær lengest hwearf,
weard winegeomor, wende þæs ylcan,
- 2240
-
þæt he lytel fæc longgestreona
brucan moste. Beorh eallgearo
wunode on wonge wæteryðum neah,
niwe be næsse, nearocræftum fæst.
þær on innan bær eorlgestreona
- 2245
-
hringa hyrde hordwyrðne dæl,
fættan goldes, fea worda cwæð:
"Heald þu nu, hruse, nu hæleð ne moston,
eorla æhte! Hwæt, hyt ær on ðe
gode begeaton. Guðdeað fornam,
- 2250
-
feorhbealo frecne, fyra gehwylcne
leoda minra, þara ðe þis lif ofgeaf,
gesawon seledream. Ic nah hwa sweord wege
oððe feormie fæted wæge,
dryncfæt deore; duguð ellor sceoc.
- 2255
-
Sceal se hearda helm hyrsted golde
fætum befeallen; feormynd swefað,
þa ðe beadogriman bywan sceoldon,
ge swylce seo herepad, sio æt hilde gebad
ofer borda gebræc bite irena,
- 2260
-
brosnað æfter beorne. Ne mæg byrnan hring
æfter wigfruman wide feran,
hæleðum be healfe. Næs hearpan wyn,
gomen gleobeames, ne god hafoc
geond sæl swingeð, ne se swifta mearh
- 2265
-
burhstede beateð. Bealocwealm hafað
fela feorhcynna forð onsended!"
Swa giomormod giohðo mænde
an æfter eallum, unbliðe hwearf
dæges ond nihtes, oððæt deaðes wylm
- 2270
-
hran æt heortan. Hordwynne fond
eald uhtsceaða opene standan,
se ðe byrnende biorgas seceð,
nacod niðdraca, nihtes fleogeð
fyre befangen; hyne foldbuend
- 2275
-
swiðe ondrædað. He gesecean sceall
hord on hrusan, þær he hæðen gold
warað wintrum frod, ne byð him wihte ðy sel.
Swa se ðeodsceaða þreo hund wintra
heold on hrusan hordærna sum,
- 2280
-
eacencræftig, oððæt hyne an abealch
mon on mode; mandryhtne bær
fæted wæge, frioðowære bæd
hlaford sinne. ða wæs hord rasod,
onboren beaga hord, bene getiðad
- 2285
-
feasceaftum men. Frea sceawode
fira fyrngeweorc forman siðe.
þa se wyrm onwoc, wroht wæs geniwad;
stonc ða æfter stane, stearcheort onfand
feondes fotlast; he to forð gestop
- 2290
-
dyrnan cræfte dracan heafde neah.
Swa mæg unfæge eaðe gedigan
wean ond wræcsið, se ðe waldendes
hyldo gehealdeþ! Hordweard sohte
georne æfter grunde, wolde guman findan,
- 2295
-
þone þe him on sweofote sare geteode,
hat ond hreohmod hlæw oft ymbehwearf
ealne utanweardne, ne ðær ænig mon
on þære westenne; hwæðre wiges gefeh,
beaduwe weorces, hwilum on beorh æthwearf,
- 2300
-
sincfæt sohte. He þæt sona onfand
ðæt hæfde gumena sum goldes gefandod,
heahgestreona. Hordweard onbad
earfoðlice oððæt æfen cwom;
wæs ða gebolgen beorges hyrde,
- 2305
-
wolde se laða lige forgyldan
drincfæt dyre. þa wæs dæg sceacen
wyrme on willan; no on wealle læg,
bidan wolde, ac mid bæle for,
fyre gefysed. Wæs se fruma egeslic
- 2310
-
leodum on lande, swa hyt lungre wearð
on hyra sincgifan sare geendod.
ða se gæst ongan gledum spiwan,
beorht hofu bærnan; bryneleoma stod
eldum on andan. No ðær aht cwices
- 2315
-
lað lyftfloga læfan wolde.
Wæs þæs wyrmes wig wide gesyne,
nearofages nið nean ond feorran,
hu se guðsceaða Geata leode
hatode ond hynde; hord eft gesceat,
- 2320
-
dryhtsele dyrnne, ær dæges hwile.
Hæfde landwara lige befangen,
bæle ond bronde, beorges getruwode,
wiges ond wealles; him seo wen geleah.
þa wæs Biowulfe broga gecyðed
- 2325
-
snude to soðe, þæt his sylfes ham,
bolda selest, brynewylmum mealt,
gifstol Geata. þæt ðam godan wæs
hreow on hreðre, hygesorga mæst;
wende se wisa þæt he wealdende
- 2330
-
ofer ealde riht, ecean dryhtne,
bitre gebulge. Breost innan weoll
þeostrum geþoncum, swa him geþywe ne wæs.
Hæfde ligdraca leoda fæsten,
ealond utan, eorðweard ðone
- 2335
-
gledum forgrunden; him ðæs guðkyning,
Wedera þioden, wræce leornode.
Heht him þa gewyrcean wigendra hleo
eallirenne, eorla dryhten,
wigbord wrætlic; wisse he gearwe
- 2340
-
þæt him holtwudu helpan ne meahte,
lind wið lige. Sceolde lændaga
æþeling ærgod ende gebidan,
worulde lifes, ond se wyrm somod,
þeah ðe hordwelan heolde lange.
- 2345
-
Oferhogode ða hringa fengel
þæt he þone widflogan weorode gesohte,
sidan herge; no he him þa sæcce ondred,
ne him þæs wyrmes wig for wiht dyde,
eafoð ond ellen, forðon he ær fela
- 2350
-
nearo neðende niða gedigde,
hildehlemma, syððan he Hroðgares,
sigoreadig secg, sele fælsode
ond æt guðe forgrap Grendeles mægum
laðan cynnes. No þæt læsest wæs
- 2355
-
hondgemota, þær mon Hygelac sloh,
syððan Geata cyning guðe ræsum,
freawine folca Freslondum on,
Hreðles eafora hiorodryncum swealt,
bille gebeaten. þonan Biowulf com
- 2360
-
sylfes cræfte, sundnytte dreah;
hæfde him on earme ana XXX
hildegeatwa, þa he to holme beag.
Nealles Hetware hremge þorfton
feðewiges, þe him foran ongean
- 2365
-
linde bæron; lyt eft becwom
fram þam hildfrecan hames niosan.
Oferswam ða sioleða bigong sunu Ecgðeowes,
earm anhaga, eft to leodum;
þær him Hygd gebead hord ond rice,
- 2370
-
beagas ond bregostol, bearne ne truwode
þæt he wið ælfylcum eþelstolas
healdan cuðe, ða wæs Hygelac dead.
No ðy ær feasceafte findan meahton
æt ðam æðelinge ænige ðinga,
- 2375
-
þæt he Heardrede hlaford wære
oððe þone cynedom ciosan wolde;
hwæðre he him on folce freondlarum heold,
estum mid are, oððæt he yldra wearð,
Wedergeatum weold. Hyne wræcmæcgas
- 2380
-
ofer sæ sohtan, suna Ohteres;
hæfdon hy forhealden helm Scylfinga,
þone selestan sæcyninga
þara ðe in Swiorice sinc brytnade,
mærne þeoden. Him þæt to mearce wearð;
- 2385
-
he þær for feorme feorhwunde hleat
sweordes swengum, sunu Hygelaces,
ond him eft gewat Ongenðioes bearn
hames niosan, syððan Heardred læg,
let ðone bregostol Biowulf healdan,
- 2390
-
Geatum wealdan. þæt wæs god cyning!
Se ðæs leodhryres lean gemunde
uferan dogrum, Eadgilse wearð
feasceaftum freond, folce gestepte
ofer sæ side sunu Ohteres,
- 2395
-
wigum ond wæpnum; he gewræc syððan
cealdum cearsiðum, cyning ealdre bineat.
Swa he niða gehwane genesen hæfde,
sliðra geslyhta, sunu Ecgðiowes,
ellenweorca, oð ðone anne dæg
- 2400
-
þe he wið þam wyrme gewegan sceolde.
Gewat þa XIIa sum torne gebolgen
dryhten Geata dracan sceawian.
Hæfde þa gefrunen hwanan sio fæhð aras,
bealonið biorna; him to bearme cwom
- 2405
-
maðþumfæt mære þurh ðæs meldan hond.
Se wæs on ðam ðreate þreotteoða secg,
se ðæs orleges or onstealde,
hæft hygegiomor, sceolde hean ðonon
wong wisian. He ofer willan giong
- 2410
-
to ðæs ðe he eorðsele anne wisse,
hlæw under hrusan holmwylme neh,
yðgewinne; se wæs innan full
wrætta ond wira. Weard unhiore,
gearo guðfreca, goldmaðmas heold,
- 2415
-
eald under eorðan. Næs þæt yðe ceap
to gegangenne gumena ænigum!
Gesæt ða on næsse niðheard cyning,
þenden hælo abead heorðgeneatum,
goldwine Geata. Him wæs geomor sefa,
- 2420
-
wæfre ond wælfus, wyrd ungemete neah,
se ðone gomelan gretan sceolde,
secean sawle hord, sundur gedælan
lif wið lice, no þon lange wæs
feorh æþelinges flæsce bewunden.
- 2425
-
Biowulf maþelade, bearn Ecgðeowes:
"Fela ic on giogoðe guðræsa genæs,
orleghwila; ic þæt eall gemon.
Ic wæs syfanwintre, þa mec sinca baldor,
freawine folca, æt minum fæder genam;
- 2430
-
heold mec ond hæfde Hreðel cyning,
geaf me sinc ond symbel, sibbe gemunde.
Næs ic him to life laðra owihte,
beorn in burgum, þonne his bearna hwylc,
Herebeald ond Hæðcyn oððe Hygelac min.
- 2435
-
Wæs þam yldestan ungedefelice
mæges dædum morþorbed stred,
syððan hyne Hæðcyn of hornbogan,
his freawine, flane geswencte,
miste mercelses ond his mæg ofscet,
- 2440
-
broðor oðerne blodigan gare.
þæt wæs feohleas gefeoht, fyrenum gesyngad,
hreðre hygemeðe; sceolde hwæðre swa þeah
æðeling unwrecen ealdres linnan.
Swa bið geomorlic gomelum ceorle
- 2445
-
to gebidanne, þæt his byre ride
giong on galgan, þonne he gyd wrece,
sarigne sang, þonne his sunu hangað
hrefne to hroðre, ond he him helpe ne mæg,
eald ond infrod, ænige gefremman.
- 2450
-
Symble bið gemyndgad morna gehwylce
eaforan ellorsið; oðres ne gymeð
to gebidanne burgum in innan
yrfeweardas, þonne se an hafað
þurh deaðes nyd dæda gefondad.
- 2455
-
Gesyhð sorhcearig on his suna bure
winsele westne, windge reste
reote berofene. Ridend swefað,
hæleð in hoðman; nis þær hearpan sweg,
gomen in geardum, swylce ðær iu wæron.
- 2460
-
Gewiteð þonne on sealman, sorhleoð gæleð
an æfter anum; þuhte him eall to rum,
wongas ond wicstede. Swa Wedra helm
æfter Herebealde heortan sorge
weallende wæg. Wihte ne meahte
- 2465
-
on ðam feorhbonan fæghðe gebetan;
no ðy ær he þone heaðorinc hatian ne meahte
laðum dædum, þeah him leof ne wæs.
He ða mid þære sorhge, þe him swa sar belamp,
gumdream ofgeaf, godes leoht geceas,
- 2470
-
eaferum læfde, swa deð eadig mon,
lond ond leodbyrig, þa he of life gewat.
þa wæs synn ond sacu Sweona ond Geata
ofer wid wæter, wroht gemæne,
herenið hearda, syððan Hreðel swealt,
- 2475
-
oððe him Ongenðeowes eaferan wæran
frome, fyrdhwate, freode ne woldon
ofer heafo healdan, ac ymb Hreosnabeorh
eatolne inwitscear oft gefremedon.
þæt mægwine mine gewræcan,
- 2480
-
fæhðe ond fyrene, swa hyt gefræge wæs,
þeah ðe oðer his ealdre gebohte,
heardan ceape; Hæðcynne wearð,
Geata dryhtne, guð onsæge.
þa ic on morgne gefrægn mæg oðerne
- 2485
-
billes ecgum on bonan stælan,
þær Ongenþeow Eofores niosað.
Guðhelm toglad, gomela Scylfing
hreas hildeblac; hond gemunde
fæhðo genoge, feorhsweng ne ofteah.
- 2490
-
Ic him þa maðmas, þe he me sealde,
geald æt guðe, swa me gifeðe wæs,
leohtan sweorde; he me lond forgeaf,
eard, eðelwyn. Næs him ænig þearf
þæt he to Gifðum oððe to Gardenum
- 2495
-
oððe in Swiorice secean þurfe
wyrsan wigfrecan, weorðe gecypan.
Symle ic him on feðan beforan wolde,
ana on orde, ond swa to aldre sceall
sæcce fremman, þenden þis sweord þolað,
- 2500
-
þæt mec ær ond sið oft gelæste.
Syððan ic for dugeðum Dæghrefne wearð
to handbonan, Huga cempan;
nalles he ða frætwe Frescyninge,
breostweorðunge, bringan moste,
- 2505
-
ac in compe gecrong cumbles hyrde,
æþeling on elne; ne wæs ecg bona,
ac him hildegrap heortan wylmas,
banhus gebræc. Nu sceall billes ecg,
hond ond heard sweord, ymb hord wigan."
- 2510
-
Beowulf maðelode, beotwordum spræc
niehstan siðe: "Ic geneðde fela
guða on geogoðe; gyt ic wylle,
frod folces weard, fæhðe secan,
mærðu fremman, gif mec se mansceaða
- 2515
-
of eorðsele ut geseceð."
Gegrette ða gumena gehwylcne,
hwate helmberend, hindeman siðe,
swæse gesiðas: "Nolde ic sweord beran,
wæpen to wyrme, gif ic wiste hu
- 2520
-
wið ðam aglæcean elles meahte
gylpe wiðgripan, swa ic gio wið Grendle dyde.
Ac ic ðær heaðufyres hates wene,
oreðes ond attres; forðon ic me on hafu
bord ond byrnan. Nelle ic beorges weard
- 2525
-
forfleon fotes trem, ac unc furður sceal
weorðan æt wealle, swa unc wyrd geteoð,
metod manna gehwæs. Ic eom on mode from
þæt ic wið þone guðflogan gylp ofersitte.
Gebide ge on beorge byrnum werede,
- 2530
-
secgas on searwum, hwæðer sel mæge
æfter wælræse wunde gedygan
uncer twega. Nis þæt eower sið
ne gemet mannes, nefne min anes,
þæt he wið aglæcean eofoðo dæle,
- 2535
-
eorlscype efne. Ic mid elne sceall
gold gegangan, oððe guð nimeð,
feorhbealu frecne, frean eowerne!"
Aras ða bi ronde rof oretta,
heard under helme, hiorosercean bær
- 2540
-
under stancleofu, strengo getruwode
anes mannes. Ne bið swylc earges sið!
Geseah ða be wealle se ðe worna fela,
gumcystum god, guða gedigde,
hildehlemma, þonne hnitan feðan,
- 2545
-
stondan stanbogan, stream ut þonan
brecan of beorge. Wæs þære burnan wælm
heaðofyrum hat; ne meahte horde neah
unbyrnende ænige hwile
deop gedygan for dracan lege.
- 2550
-
Let ða of breostum, ða he gebolgen wæs,
Wedergeata leod word ut faran,
stearcheort styrmde; stefn in becom
heaðotorht hlynnan under harne stan.
Hete wæs onhrered, hordweard oncniow
- 2555
-
mannes reorde; næs ðær mara fyrst
freode to friclan. From ærest cwom
oruð aglæcean ut of stane,
hat hildeswat. Hruse dynede.
Biorn under beorge bordrand onswaf
- 2560
-
wið ðam gryregieste, Geata dryhten;
ða wæs hringbogan heorte gefysed
sæcce to seceanne. Sweord ær gebræd
god guðcyning, gomele lafe,
ecgum unslaw; æghwæðrum wæs
- 2565
-
bealohycgendra broga fram oðrum.
Stiðmod gestod wið steapne rond
winia bealdor, ða se wyrm gebeah
snude tosomne; he on searwum bad.
Gewat ða byrnende gebogen scriðan,
- 2570
-
to gescipe scyndan. Scyld wel gebearg
life ond lice læssan hwile
mærum þeodne þonne his myne sohte,
ðær he þy fyrste, forman dogore
wealdan moste swa him wyrd ne gescraf
- 2575
-
hreð æt hilde. Hond up abræd
Geata dryhten, gryrefahne sloh
incgelafe, þæt sio ecg gewac
brun on bane, bat unswiðor
þonne his ðiodcyning þearfe hæfde,
- 2580
-
bysigum gebæded. þa wæs beorges weard
æfter heaðuswenge on hreoum mode,
wearp wælfyre; wide sprungon
hildeleoman. Hreðsigora ne gealp
goldwine Geata; guðbill geswac,
- 2585
-
nacod æt niðe, swa hyt no sceolde,
iren ærgod. Ne wæs þæt eðe sið,
þæt se mæra maga Ecgðeowes
grundwong þone ofgyfan wolde;
sceolde ofer willan wic eardian
- 2590
-
elles hwergen, swa sceal æghwylc mon
alætan lændagas. Næs ða long to ðon
þæt ða aglæcean hy eft gemetton.
Hyrte hyne hordweard (hreðer æðme weoll)
niwan stefne; nearo ðrowode,
- 2595
-
fyre befongen, se ðe ær folce weold.
Nealles him on heape handgesteallan,
æðelinga bearn, ymbe gestodon
hildecystum, ac hy on holt bugon,
ealdre burgan. Hiora in anum weoll
- 2600
-
sefa wið sorgum; sibb æfre ne mæg
wiht onwendan þam ðe wel þenceð.
Wiglaf wæs haten Weoxstanes sunu,
leoflic lindwiga, leod Scylfinga,
mæg ælfheres; geseah his mondryhten
- 2605
-
under heregriman hat þrowian.
Gemunde ða ða are þe he him ær forgeaf,
wicstede weligne Wægmundinga,
folcrihta gehwylc, swa his fæder ahte.
Ne mihte ða forhabban; hond rond gefeng,
- 2610
-
geolwe linde, gomel swyrd geteah,
þæt wæs mid eldum Eanmundes laf,
suna Ohteres. þam æt sæcce wearð,
wræccan wineleasum, Weohstan bana
meces ecgum, ond his magum ætbær
- 2615
-
brunfagne helm, hringde byrnan,
eald sweord etonisc; þæt him Onela forgeaf,
his gædelinges guðgewædu,
fyrdsearo fuslic, no ymbe ða fæhðe spræc,
þeah ðe he his broðor bearn abredwade.
- 2620
-
He frætwe geheold fela missera,
bill ond byrnan, oððæt his byre mihte
eorlscipe efnan swa his ærfæder;
geaf him ða mid Geatum guðgewæda,
æghwæs unrim, þa he of ealdre gewat,
- 2625
-
frod on forðweg. þa wæs forma sið
geongan cempan, þæt he guðe ræs
mid his freodryhtne fremman sceolde.
Ne gemealt him se modsefa, ne his mæges laf
gewac æt wige; þæt se wyrm onfand,
- 2630
-
syððan hie togædre gegan hæfdon.
Wiglaf maðelode, wordrihta fela
sægde gesiðum (him wæs sefa geomor):
"Ic ðæt mæl geman, þær we medu þegun,
þonne we geheton ussum hlaforde
- 2635
-
in biorsele, ðe us ðas beagas geaf,
þæt we him ða guðgetawa gyldan woldon
gif him þyslicu þearf gelumpe,
helmas ond heard sweord. ðe he usic on herge geceas
to ðyssum siðfate sylfes willum,
- 2640
-
onmunde usic mærða, ond me þas maðmas geaf,
þe he usic garwigend gode tealde,
hwate helmberend, þeah ðe hlaford us
þis ellenweorc ana aðohte
to gefremmanne, folces hyrde,
- 2645
-
for ðam he manna mæst mærða gefremede,
dæda dollicra. Nu is se dæg cumen
þæt ure mandryhten mægenes behofað,
godra guðrinca; wutun gongan to,
helpan hildfruman, þenden hyt sy,
- 2650
-
gledegesa grim. God wat on mec
þæt me is micle leofre þæt minne lichaman
mid minne goldgyfan gled fæðmie.
Ne þynceð me gerysne þæt we rondas beren
eft to earde, nemne we æror mægen
- 2655
-
fane gefyllan, feorh ealgian
Wedra ðeodnes. Ic wat geare
þæt næron ealdgewyrht, þæt he ana scyle
Geata duguðe gnorn þrowian,
gesigan æt sæcce; urum sceal sweord ond helm,
- 2660
-
byrne ond beaduscrud, bam gemæne."
Wod þa þurh þone wælrec, wigheafolan bær
frean on fultum, fea worda cwæð:
"Leofa Biowulf, læst eall tela,
swa ðu on geoguðfeore geara gecwæde
- 2665
-
þæt ðu ne alæte be ðe lifigendum
dom gedreosan. Scealt nu dædum rof,
æðeling anhydig, ealle mægene
feorh ealgian; ic ðe fullæstu."
æfter ðam wordum wyrm yrre cwom,
- 2670
-
atol inwitgæst, oðre siðe
fyrwylmum fah fionda niosian,
laðra manna; ligyðum for.
Born bord wið rond, byrne ne meahte
geongum garwigan geoce gefremman,
- 2675
-
ac se maga geonga under his mæges scyld
elne geeode, þa his agen wæs
gledum forgrunden. þa gen guðcyning
mærða gemunde, mægenstrengo sloh
hildebille, þæt hyt on heafolan stod
- 2680
-
niþe genyded; Nægling forbærst,
geswac æt sæcce sweord Biowulfes,
gomol ond grægmæl. Him þæt gifeðe ne wæs
þæt him irenna ecge mihton
helpan æt hilde; wæs sio hond to strong,
- 2685
-
se ðe meca gehwane, mine gefræge,
swenge ofersohte, þonne he to sæcce bær
wæpen wundrum heard; næs him wihte ðe sel.
þa wæs þeodsceaða þriddan siðe,
frecne fyrdraca, fæhða gemyndig,
- 2690
-
ræsde on ðone rofan, þa him rum ageald,
hat ond heaðogrim, heals ealne ymbefeng
biteran banum; he geblodegod wearð
sawuldriore, swat yðum weoll.
ða ic æt þearfe gefrægn þeodcyninges
- 2695
-
andlongne eorl ellen cyðan,
cræft ond cenðu, swa him gecynde wæs.
Ne hedde he þæs heafolan, ac sio hand gebarn
modiges mannes, þær he his mæges healp,
þæt he þone niðgæst nioðor hwene sloh,
- 2700
-
secg on searwum, þæt ðæt sweord gedeaf,
fah ond fæted, þæt ðæt fyr ongon
sweðrian syððan. þa gen sylf cyning
geweold his gewitte, wællseaxe gebræd
biter ond beaduscearp, þæt he on byrnan wæg;
- 2705
-
forwrat Wedra helm wyrm on middan.
Feond gefyldan (ferh ellen wræc),
ond hi hyne þa begen abroten hæfdon,
sibæðelingas. Swylc sceolde secg wesan,
þegn æt ðearfe! þæt ðam þeodne wæs
- 2710
-
siðast sigehwila sylfes dædum,
worlde geweorces. ða sio wund ongon,
þe him se eorðdraca ær geworhte,
swelan ond swellan; he þæt sona onfand,
þæt him on breostum bealoniðe weoll
- 2715
-
attor on innan. ða se æðeling giong
þæt he bi wealle wishycgende
gesæt on sesse; seah on enta geweorc,
hu ða stanbogan stapulum fæste
ece eorðreced innan healde.
- 2720
-
Hyne þa mid handa heorodreorigne,
þeoden mærne, þegn ungemete till
winedryhten his wætere gelafede,
hilde sædne, ond his helm onspeon.
Biowulf maþelode (he ofer benne spræc,
- 2725
-
wunde wælbleate; wisse he gearwe
þæt he dæghwila gedrogen hæfde,
eorðan wynne; ða wæs eall sceacen
dogorgerimes, deað ungemete neah):
"Nu ic suna minum syllan wolde
- 2730
-
guðgewædu, þær me gifeðe swa
ænig yrfeweard æfter wurde
lice gelenge. Ic ðas leode heold
fiftig wintra; næs se folccyning,
ymbesittendra ænig ðara,
- 2735
-
þe mec guðwinum gretan dorste,
egesan ðeon. Ic on earde bad
mælgesceafta, heold min tela,
ne sohte searoniðas, ne me swor fela
aða on unriht. Ic ðæs ealles mæg
- 2740
-
feorhbennum seoc gefean habban;
for ðam me witan ne ðearf waldend fira
morðorbealo maga, þonne min sceaceð
lif of lice. Nu ðu lungre geong
hord sceawian under harne stan,
- 2745
-
Wiglaf leofa, nu se wyrm ligeð,
swefeð sare wund, since bereafod.
Bio nu on ofoste, þæt ic ærwelan,
goldæht ongite, gearo sceawige
swegle searogimmas, þæt ic ðy seft mæge
- 2750
-
æfter maððumwelan min alætan
lif ond leodscipe, þone ic longe heold."
ða ic snude gefrægn sunu Wihstanes
æfter wordcwydum wundum dryhtne
hyran heaðosiocum, hringnet beran,
- 2755
-
brogdne beadusercean under beorges hrof.
Geseah ða sigehreðig, þa he bi sesse geong,
magoþegn modig maððumsigla fealo,
gold glitinian grunde getenge,
wundur on wealle, ond þæs wyrmes denn,
- 2760
-
ealdes uhtflogan, orcas stondan,
fyrnmanna fatu feormendlease,
hyrstum behrorene; þær wæs helm monig
eald ond omig, earmbeaga fela
searwum gesæled. Sinc eaðe mæg,
- 2765
-
gold on grunde, gumcynnes gehwone
oferhigian, hyde se ðe wylle.
Swylce he siomian geseah segn eallgylden
heah ofer horde, hondwundra mæst,
gelocen leoðocræftum; of ðam leoma stod,
- 2770
-
þæt he þone grundwong ongitan meahte,
wræte giondwlitan. Næs ðæs wyrmes þær
onsyn ænig, ac hyne ecg fornam.
ða ic on hlæwe gefrægn hord reafian,
eald enta geweorc, anne mannan,
- 2775
-
him on bearm hladon bunan ond discas
sylfes dome; segn eac genom,
beacna beorhtost. Bill ær gescod
(ecg wæs iren) ealdhlafordes
þam ðara maðma mundbora wæs
- 2780
-
longe hwile, ligegesan wæg
hatne for horde, hioroweallende
middelnihtum, oðþæt he morðre swealt.
Ar wæs on ofoste, eftsiðes georn,
frætwum gefyrðred; hyne fyrwet bræc,
- 2785
-
hwæðer collenferð cwicne gemette
in ðam wongstede Wedra þeoden
ellensiocne, þær he hine ær forlet.
He ða mid þam maðmum mærne þioden,
dryhten sinne, driorigne fand
- 2790
-
ealdres æt ende; he hine eft ongon
wæteres weorpan, oðþæt wordes ord
breosthord þurhbræc.
gomel on giohðe (gold sceawode):
"Ic ðara frætwa frean ealles ðanc,
- 2795
-
wuldurcyninge, wordum secge,
ecum dryhtne, þe ic her on starie,
þæs ðe ic moste minum leodum
ær swyltdæge swylc gestrynan.
Nu ic on maðma hord mine bebohte
- 2800
-
frode feorhlege, fremmað gena
leoda þearfe; ne mæg ic her leng wesan.
Hatað heaðomære hlæw gewyrcean
beorhtne æfter bæle æt brimes nosan;
se scel to gemyndum minum leodum
- 2805
-
heah hlifian on Hronesnæsse,
þæt hit sæliðend syððan hatan
Biowulfes biorh, ða ðe brentingas
ofer floda genipu feorran drifað."
Dyde him of healse hring gyldenne
- 2810
-
þioden þristhydig, þegne gesealde,
geongum garwigan, goldfahne helm,
beah ond byrnan, het hyne brucan well:
"þu eart endelaf usses cynnes,
Wægmundinga. Ealle wyrd forsweop
- 2815
-
mine magas to metodsceafte,
eorlas on elne; ic him æfter sceal."
þæt wæs þam gomelan gingæste word
breostgehygdum, ær he bæl cure,
hate heaðowylmas; him of hreðre gewat
- 2820
-
sawol secean soðfæstra dom.
ða wæs gegongen guman unfrodum
earfoðlice, þæt he on eorðan geseah
þone leofestan lifes æt ende
bleate gebæran. Bona swylce læg,
- 2825
-
egeslic eorðdraca ealdre bereafod,
bealwe gebæded. Beahhordum leng
wyrm wohbogen wealdan ne moste,
ac hine irenna ecga fornamon,
hearde, heaðoscearde homera lafe,
- 2830
-
þæt se widfloga wundum stille
hreas on hrusan hordærne neah.
Nalles æfter lyfte lacende hwearf
middelnihtum, maðmæhta wlonc
ansyn ywde, ac he eorðan gefeoll
- 2835
-
for ðæs hildfruman hondgeweorce.
Huru þæt on lande lyt manna ðah,
mægenagendra, mine gefræge,
þeah ðe he dæda gehwæs dyrstig wære,
þæt he wið attorsceaðan oreðe geræsde,
- 2840
-
oððe hringsele hondum styrede,
gif he wæccende weard onfunde
buon on beorge. Biowulfe wearð
dryhtmaðma dæl deaðe forgolden;
hæfde æghwæðer ende gefered
- 2845
-
lænan lifes. Næs ða lang to ðon
þæt ða hildlatan holt ofgefan,
tydre treowlogan tyne ætsomne.
ða ne dorston ær dareðum lacan
on hyra mandryhtnes miclan þearfe,
- 2850
-
ac hy scamiende scyldas bæran,
guðgewædu, þær se gomela læg,
wlitan on Wilaf. He gewergad sæt,
feðecempa, frean eaxlum neah,
wehte hyne wætre; him wiht ne speow.
- 2855
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Ne meahte he on eorðan, ðeah he uðe wel,
on ðam frumgare feorh gehealdan,
ne ðæs wealdendes wiht oncirran;
wolde dom godes dædum rædan
gumena gehwylcum, swa he nu gen deð.
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þa wæs æt ðam geongan grim ondswaru
eðbegete þam ðe ær his elne forleas.
Wiglaf maðelode, Weohstanes sunu,
sec, sarigferð (seah on unleofe):
"þæt, la, mæg secgan se ðe wyle soð specan
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þæt se mondryhten se eow ða maðmas geaf,
eoredgeatwe, þe ge þær on standað,
þonne he on ealubence oft gesealde
healsittendum helm ond byrnan,
þeoden his þegnum, swylce he þrydlicost
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ower feor oððe neah findan meahte,
þæt he genunga guðgewædu
wraðe forwurpe, ða hyne wig beget.
Nealles folccyning fyrdgesteallum
gylpan þorfte; hwæðre him god uðe,
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sigora waldend, þæt he hyne sylfne gewræc
ana mid ecge, þa him wæs elnes þearf.
Ic him lifwraðe lytle meahte
ætgifan æt guðe, ond ongan swa þeah
ofer min gemet mæges helpan;
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symle wæs þy sæmra, þonne ic sweorde drep
ferhðgeniðlan, fyr unswiðor
weoll of gewitte. Wergendra to lyt
þrong ymbe þeoden, þa hyne sio þrag becwom.
Nu sceal sincþego ond swyrdgifu,
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eall eðelwyn eowrum cynne,
lufen alicgean; londrihtes mot
þære mægburge monna æghwylc
idel hweorfan, syððan æðelingas
feorran gefricgean fleam eowerne,
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domleasan dæd. Deað bið sella
eorla gehwylcum þonne edwitlif!"
Heht ða þæt heaðoweorc to hagan biodan
up ofer ecgclif, þær þæt eorlweorod
morgenlongne dæg modgiomor sæt,
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bordhæbbende, bega on wenum,
endedogores ond eftcymes
leofes monnes. Lyt swigode
niwra spella se ðe næs gerad,
ac he soðlice sægde ofer ealle:
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"Nu is wilgeofa Wedra leoda,
dryhten Geata, deaðbedde fæst,
wunað wælreste wyrmes dædum.
Him on efn ligeð ealdorgewinna
sexbennum seoc; sweorde ne meahte
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on ðam aglæcean ænige þinga
wunde gewyrcean. Wiglaf siteð
ofer Biowulfe, byre Wihstanes,
eorl ofer oðrum unlifigendum,
healdeð higemæðum heafodwearde
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leofes ond laðes. Nu ys leodum wen
orleghwile, syððan underne
Froncum ond Frysum fyll cyninges
wide weorðeð. Wæs sio wroht scepen
heard wið Hugas, syððan Higelac cwom
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faran flotherge on Fresna land,
þær hyne Hetware hilde genægdon,
elne geeodon mid ofermægene,
þæt se byrnwiga bugan sceolde,
feoll on feðan, nalles frætwe geaf
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ealdor dugoðe. Us wæs a syððan
Merewioingas milts ungyfeðe.
Ne ic to Sweoðeode sibbe oððe treowe
wihte ne wene, ac wæs wide cuð
þætte Ongenðio ealdre besnyðede
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Hæðcen Hreþling wið Hrefnawudu,
þa for onmedlan ærest gesohton
Geata leode Guðscilfingas.
Sona him se froda fæder Ohtheres,
eald ond egesfull, ondslyht ageaf,
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abreot brimwisan, bryd ahredde,
gomela iomeowlan golde berofene,
Onelan modor ond Ohtheres,
ond ða folgode feorhgeniðlan,
oððæt hi oðeodon earfoðlice
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in Hrefnesholt hlafordlease.
Besæt ða sinherge sweorda lafe,
wundum werge, wean oft gehet
earmre teohhe ondlonge niht,
cwæð, he on mergenne meces ecgum
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getan wolde, sum on galgtreowum
fuglum to gamene. Frofor eft gelamp
sarigmodum somod ærdæge,
syððan hie Hygelaces horn ond byman,
gealdor ongeaton, þa se goda com
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leoda dugoðe on last faran.
Wæs sio swatswaðu Sweona ond Geata,
wælræs weora wide gesyne,
hu ða folc mid him fæhðe towehton.
Gewat him ða se goda mid his gædelingum,
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frod, felageomor, fæsten secean,
eorl Ongenþio, ufor oncirde;
hæfde Higelaces hilde gefrunen,
wlonces wigcræft, wiðres ne truwode,
þæt he sæmannum onsacan mihte,
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heaðoliðendum hord forstandan,
bearn ond bryde; beah eft þonan
eald under eorðweall. þa wæs æht boden
Sweona leodum, segn Higelaces
freoðowong þone forð ofereodon,
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syððan Hreðlingas to hagan þrungon.
þær wearð Ongenðiow ecgum sweorda,
blondenfexa, on bid wrecen,
þæt se þeodcyning ðafian sceolde
Eafores anne dom. Hyne yrringa
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Wulf Wonreding wæpne geræhte,
þæt him for swenge swat ædrum sprong
forð under fexe. Næs he forht swa ðeh,
gomela Scilfing, ac forgeald hraðe
wyrsan wrixle wælhlem þone,
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syððan ðeodcyning þyder oncirde.
Ne meahte se snella sunu Wonredes
ealdum ceorle ondslyht giofan,
ac he him on heafde helm ær gescer,
þæt he blode fah bugan sceolde,
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feoll on foldan; næs he fæge þa git,
ac he hyne gewyrpte, þeah ðe him wund hrine.
Let se hearda Higelaces þegn
bradne mece, þa his broðor læg,
eald sweord eotonisc, entiscne helm
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brecan ofer bordweal; ða gebeah cyning,
folces hyrde, wæs in feorh dropen.
ða wæron monige þe his mæg wriðon,
ricone arærdon, ða him gerymed wearð
þæt hie wælstowe wealdan moston.
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þenden reafode rinc oðerne,
nam on Ongenðio irenbyrnan,
heard swyrd hilted ond his helm somod,
hares hyrste Higelace bær.
He ðam frætwum feng ond him fægre gehet
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leana mid leodum, ond gelæste swa;
geald þone guðræs Geata dryhten,
Hreðles eafora, þa he to ham becom,
Iofore ond Wulfe mid ofermaðmum,
sealde hiora gehwæðrum hund þusenda
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landes ond locenra beaga (ne ðorfte him ða lean oðwitan
mon on middangearde), syððan hie ða mærða geslogon,
ond ða Iofore forgeaf angan dohtor,
hamweorðunge, hyldo to wedde.
þæt ys sio fæhðo ond se feondscipe,
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wælnið wera, ðæs ðe ic wen hafo,
þe us seceað to Sweona leoda,
syððan hie gefricgeað frean userne
ealdorleasne, þone ðe ær geheold
wið hettendum hord ond rice
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æfter hæleða hryre, hwate Scildingas,
folcred fremede oððe furður gen
eorlscipe efnde. Nu is ofost betost
þæt we þeodcyning þær sceawian
ond þone gebringan, þe us beagas geaf,
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on adfære. Ne scel anes hwæt
meltan mid þam modigan, ac þær is maðma hord,
gold unrime grimme geceapod,
ond nu æt siðestan sylfes feore
beagas gebohte. þa sceall brond fretan,
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æled þeccean, nalles eorl wegan
maððum to gemyndum, ne mægð scyne
habban on healse hringweorðunge,
ac sceal geomormod, golde bereafod,
oft nalles æne elland tredan,
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nu se herewisa hleahtor alegde,
gamen ond gleodream. Forðon sceall gar wesan
monig, morgenceald, mundum bewunden,
hæfen on handa, nalles hearpan sweg
wigend weccean, ac se wonna hrefn
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fus ofer fægum fela reordian,
earne secgan hu him æt æte speow,
þenden he wið wulf wæl reafode."
Swa se secg hwata secggende wæs
laðra spella; he ne leag fela
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wyrda ne worda. Weorod eall aras;
eodon unbliðe under Earnanæs,
wollenteare wundur sceawian.
Fundon ða on sande sawulleasne
hlimbed healdan þone þe him hringas geaf
- 3035
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ærran mælum; þa wæs endedæg
godum gegongen, þæt se guðcyning,
Wedra þeoden, wundordeaðe swealt.
ær hi þær gesegan syllicran wiht,
wyrm on wonge wiðerræhtes þær
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laðne licgean; wæs se legdraca
grimlic, gryrefah, gledum beswæled.
Se wæs fiftiges fotgemearces
lang on legere, lyftwynne heold
nihtes hwilum, nyðer eft gewat
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dennes niosian; wæs ða deaðe fæst,
hæfde eorðscrafa ende genyttod.
Him big stodan bunan ond orcas,
discas lagon ond dyre swyrd,
omige, þurhetone, swa hie wið eorðan fæðm
- 3050
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þusend wintra þær eardodon.
þonne wæs þæt yrfe, eacencræftig,
iumonna gold galdre bewunden,
þæt ðam hringsele hrinan ne moste
gumena ænig, nefne god sylfa,
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sigora soðcyning, sealde þam ðe he wolde
(he is manna gehyld) hord openian,
efne swa hwylcum manna swa him gemet ðuhte.
þa wæs gesyne þæt se sið ne ðah
þam ðe unrihte inne gehydde
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wræte under wealle. Weard ær ofsloh
feara sumne; þa sio fæhð gewearð
gewrecen wraðlice. Wundur hwar þonne
eorl ellenrof ende gefere
lifgesceafta, þonne leng ne mæg
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mon mid his magum meduseld buan.
Swa wæs Biowulfe, þa he biorges weard
sohte, searoniðas; seolfa ne cuðe
þurh hwæt his worulde gedal weorðan sceolde.
Swa hit oð domes dæg diope benemdon
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þeodnas mære, þa ðæt þær dydon,
þæt se secg wære synnum scildig,
hergum geheaðerod, hellbendum fæst,
wommum gewitnad, se ðone wong strude,
næs he goldhwæte gearwor hæfde
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agendes est ær gesceawod.
Wiglaf maðelode, Wihstanes sunu:
"Oft sceall eorl monig anes willan
wræc adreogan, swa us geworden is.
Ne meahton we gelæran leofne þeoden,
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rices hyrde, ræd ænigne,
þæt he ne grette goldweard þone,
lete hyne licgean þær he longe wæs,
wicum wunian oð woruldende;
heold on heahgesceap. Hord ys gesceawod,
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grimme gegongen; wæs þæt gifeðe to swið
þe ðone þeodcyning þyder ontyhte.
Ic wæs þær inne ond þæt eall geondseh,
recedes geatwa, þa me gerymed wæs,
nealles swæslice sið alyfed
- 3090
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inn under eorðweall. Ic on ofoste gefeng
micle mid mundum mægenbyrðenne
hordgestreona, hider ut ætbær
cyninge minum. Cwico wæs þa gena,
wis ond gewittig; worn eall gespræc
- 3095
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gomol on gehðo ond eowic gretan het,
bæd þæt ge geworhton æfter wines dædum
in bælstede beorh þone hean,
micelne ond mærne, swa he manna wæs
wigend weorðfullost wide geond eorðan,
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þenden he burhwelan brucan moste.
Uton nu efstan oðre siðe,
seon ond secean searogimma geþræc,
wundur under wealle; ic eow wisige,
þæt ge genoge neon sceawiað
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beagas ond brad gold. Sie sio bær gearo,
ædre geæfned, þonne we ut cymen,
ond þonne geferian frean userne,
leofne mannan, þær he longe sceal
on ðæs waldendes wære geþolian."
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Het ða gebeodan byre Wihstanes,
hæle hildedior, hæleða monegum,
boldagendra, þæt hie bælwudu
feorran feredon, folcagende,
godum togenes: "Nu sceal gled fretan,
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weaxan wonna leg wigena strengel,
þone ðe oft gebad isernscure,
þonne stræla storm strengum gebæded
scoc ofer scildweall, sceft nytte heold,
feðergearwum fus flane fulleode."
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Huru se snotra sunu Wihstanes
acigde of corðre cyninges þegnas
syfone tosomne, þa selestan,
eode eahta sum under inwithrof
hilderinca; sum on handa bær
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æledleoman, se ðe on orde geong.
Næs ða on hlytme hwa þæt hord strude,
syððan orwearde ænigne dæl
secgas gesegon on sele wunian,
læne licgan; lyt ænig mearn
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þæt hi ofostlice ut geferedon
dyre maðmas. Dracan ec scufun,
wyrm ofer weallclif, leton weg niman,
flod fæðmian frætwa hyrde.
þa wæs wunden gold on wæn hladen,
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æghwæs unrim, æþeling boren,
har hilderinc to Hronesnæsse.
Him ða gegiredan Geata leode
ad on eorðan unwaclicne,
helmum behongen, hildebordum,
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beorhtum byrnum, swa he bena wæs;
alegdon ða tomiddes mærne þeoden
hæleð hiofende, hlaford leofne.
Ongunnon þa on beorge bælfyra mæst
wigend weccan; wudurec astah,
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sweart ofer swioðole, swogende leg
wope bewunden (windblond gelæg),
oðþæt he ða banhus gebrocen hæfde,
hat on hreðre. Higum unrote
modceare mændon, mondryhtnes cwealm;
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swylce giomorgyd Geatisc meowle
bundenheorde
song sorgcearig swiðe geneahhe
þæt hio hyre heofungdagas hearde ondrede,
wælfylla worn, werudes egesan,
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hynðo ond hæftnyd. Heofon rece swealg.
Geworhton ða Wedra leode
hleo on hoe, se wæs heah ond brad,
wægliðendum wide gesyne,
ond betimbredon on tyn dagum
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beadurofes becn, bronda lafe
wealle beworhton, swa hyt weorðlicost
foresnotre men findan mihton.
Hi on beorg dydon beg ond siglu,
eall swylce hyrsta, swylce on horde ær
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niðhedige men genumen hæfdon,
forleton eorla gestreon eorðan healdan,
gold on greote, þær hit nu gen lifað
eldum swa unnyt swa hit æror wæs.
þa ymbe hlæw riodan hildediore,
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æþelinga bearn, ealra twelfe,
woldon ceare cwiðan ond kyning mænan,
wordgyd wrecan ond ymb wer sprecan;
eahtodan eorlscipe ond his ellenweorc
duguðum demdon, swa hit gedefe bið
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þæt mon his winedryhten wordum herge,
ferhðum freoge, þonne he forð scile
of lichaman læded weorðan.
Swa begnornodon Geata leode
hlafordes hryre, heorðgeneatas,
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cwædon þæt he wære wyruldcyninga
manna mildust ond monðwærust,
leodum liðost ond lofgeornost.
Judith
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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tweode
gifena in ðys ginnan grunde. Heo ðar ða gearwe funde
mundbyrd æt ðam mæran þeodne, þa heo ahte mæste þearfe,
hyldo þæs hehstan deman, þæt he hie wið þæs hehstan brogan
- 5
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gefriðode, frymða waldend. Hyre ðæs fæder on roderum
torhtmod tiðe gefremede, þe heo ahte trumne geleafan
a to ðam ælmihtigan. Gefrægen ic ða Holofernus
winhatan wyrcean georne ond eallum wundrum þrymlic
girwan up swæsendo. To ðam het se gumena baldor
- 10
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ealle ða yldestan ðegnas; hie ðæt ofstum miclum
ræfndon, rondwiggende, comon to ðam rican þeodne
feran, folces ræswan. þæt wæs þy feorðan dogore
þæs ðe Iudith hyne, gleaw on geðonce,
ides ælfscinu, ærest gesohte.
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Hie ða to ðam symle sittan eodon,
wlance to wingedrince, ealle his weagesiðas,
bealde byrnwiggende. þær wæron bollan steape
boren æfter bencum gelome, swylce eac bunan ond orcas
fulle fletsittendum; hie þæt fæge þegon,
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rofe rondwiggende, þeah ðæs se rica ne wende,
egesful eorla dryhten. ða wearð Holofernus,
goldwine gumena, on gytesalum,
hloh ond hlydde, hlynede ond dynede,
þæt mihten fira bearn feorran gehyran
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hu se stiðmoda styrmde ond gylede,
modig ond medugal, manode geneahhe
bencsittende þæt hi gebærdon wel.
Swa se inwidda ofer ealne dæg
dryhtguman sine drencte mid wine,
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swiðmod sinces brytta, oðþæt hie on swiman lagon,
oferdrencte his duguðe ealle, swylce hie wæron deaðe geslegene,
agotene goda gehwylces. Swa het se gumena aldor
fylgan fletsittendum, oðþæt fira bearnum
nealæhte niht seo þystre. Het ða niða geblonden
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þa eadigan mægð ofstum fetigan
to his bedreste beagum gehlæste,
hringum gehrodene. Hie hraðe fremedon,
anbyhtscealcas, swa him heora ealdor bebead,
byrnwigena brego, bearhtme stopon
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to ðam gysterne, þær hie Iudithðe
fundon ferhðgleawe, ond ða fromlice
lindwiggende lædan ongunnon
þa torhtan mægð to træfe þam hean,
þær se rica hyne reste on symbel
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nihtes inne, nergende lað,
Holofernus. þær wæs eallgylden
fleohnet fæger ymbe þæs folctogan
bed ahongen, þæt se bealofulla
mihte wlitan þurh, wigena baldor,
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on æghwylcne þe ðær inne com
hæleða bearna, ond on hyne nænig
monna cynnes, nymðe se modiga hwæne
niðe rofra him þe near hete
rinca to rune gegangan. Hie ða on reste gebrohton
- 55
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snude ða snoteran idese; eodon ða stercedferhðe,
hæleð heora hearran cyðan þæt wæs seo halige meowle
gebroht on his burgetelde. þa wearð se brema on mode
bliðe, burga ealdor, þohte ða beorhtan idese
mid widle ond mid womme besmitan. Ne wolde þæt wuldres dema
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geðafian, þrymmes hyrde, ac he him þæs ðinges gestyrde,
dryhten, dugeða waldend. Gewat ða se deofulcunda,
galferhð gumena ðreate
bealofull his beddes neosan, þær he sceolde his blæd forleosan
ædre binnan anre nihte; hæfde ða his ende gebidenne
- 65
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on eorðan unswæslicne, swylcne he ær æfter worhte,
þearlmod ðeoden gumena, þenden he on ðysse worulde
wunode under wolcna hrofe. Gefeol ða wine swa druncen
se rica on his reste middan, swa he nyste ræda nanne
on gewitlocan. Wiggend stopon
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ut of ðam inne ofstum miclum,
weras winsade, þe ðone wærlogan,
laðne leodhatan, læddon to bedde
nehstan siðe. þa wæs nergendes
þeowen þrymful, þearle gemyndig
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hu heo þone atolan eaðost mihte
ealdre benæman ær se unsyfra,
womfull, onwoce. Genam ða wundenlocc
scyppendes mægð scearpne mece,
scurum heardne, ond of sceaðe abræd
- 80
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swiðran folme; ongan ða swegles weard
be naman nemnan, nergend ealra
woruldbuendra, ond þæt word acwæð:
"Ic ðe, frymða god ond frofre gæst,
bearn alwaldan, biddan wylle
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miltse þinre me þearfendre,
ðrynesse ðrym. þearle ys me nu ða
heorte onhæted ond hige geomor,
swyðe mid sorgum gedrefed. Forgif me, swegles ealdor,
sigor ond soðne geleafan, þæt ic mid þys sweorde mote
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geheawan þysne morðres bryttan; geunne me minra gesynta,
þearlmod þeoden gumena. Nahte ic þinre næfre
miltse þon maran þearfe. Gewrec nu, mihtig dryhten,
torhtmod tires brytta, þæt me ys þus torne on mode,
hate on hreðre minum." Hi ða se hehsta dema
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ædre mid elne onbryrde, swa he deð anra gehwylcne
herbuendra þe hyne him to helpe seceð
mid ræde ond mid rihte geleafan. þa wearð hyre rume on mode,
haligre hyht geniwod; genam ða þone hæðenan mannan
fæste be feaxe sinum, teah hyne folmum wið hyre weard
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bysmerlice, ond þone bealofullan
listum alede, laðne mannan,
swa heo ðæs unlædan eaðost mihte
wel gewealdan. Sloh ða wundenlocc
þone feondsceaðan fagum mece,
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heteþoncolne, þæt heo healfne forcearf
þone sweoran him, þæt he on swiman læg,
druncen ond dolhwund. Næs ða dead þa gyt,
ealles orsawle; sloh ða eornoste
ides ellenrof oðre siðe
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þone hæðenan hund, þæt him þæt heafod wand
forð on ða flore. Læg se fula leap
gesne beæftan, gæst ellor hwearf
under neowelne næs ond ðær genyðerad wæs,
susle gesæled syððan æfre,
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wyrmum bewunden, witum gebunden,
hearde gehæfted in hellebryne
æfter hinsiðe. Ne ðearf he hopian no,
þystrum forðylmed, þæt he ðonan mote
of ðam wyrmsele, ac ðær wunian sceal
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awa to aldre butan ende forð
in ðam heolstran ham, hyhtwynna leas.
Hæfde ða gefohten foremærne blæd
Iudith æt guðe, swa hyre god uðe,
swegles ealdor, þe hyre sigores onleah.
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þa seo snotere mægð snude gebrohte
þæs herewæðan heafod swa blodig
on ðam fætelse þe hyre foregenga,
blachleor ides, hyra begea nest,
ðeawum geðungen, þyder on lædde,
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ond hit þa swa heolfrig hyre on hond ageaf,
higeðoncolre, ham to berenne,
Iudith gingran sinre. Eodon ða gegnum þanonne
þa idesa ba ellenþriste,
oðþæt hie becomon, collenferhðe,
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eadhreðige mægð, ut of ðam herige,
þæt hie sweotollice geseon mihten
þære wlitegan byrig weallas blican,
Bethuliam. Hie ða beahhrodene
feðelaste forð onettan,
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oð hie glædmode gegan hæfdon
to ðam wealgate. Wiggend sæton,
weras wæccende wearde heoldon
in ðam fæstenne, swa ðam folce ær
geomormodum Iudith bebead,
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searoðoncol mægð, þa heo on sið gewat,
ides ellenrof. Wæs ða eft cumen
leof to leodum, ond ða lungre het
gleawhydig wif gumena sumne
of ðære ginnan byrig hyre togeanes gan,
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ond hi ofostlice in forleton
þurh ðæs wealles geat, ond þæt word acwæð
to ðam sigefolce: "Ic eow secgan mæg
þoncwyrðe þing, þæt ge ne þyrfen leng
murnan on mode. Eow ys metod bliðe,
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cyninga wuldor; þæt gecyðed wearð
geond woruld wide, þæt eow ys wuldorblæd
torhtlic toweard ond tir gifeðe
þara læðða þe ge lange drugon."
þa wurdon bliðe burhsittende,
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syððan hi gehyrdon hu seo halige spræc
ofer heanne weall. Here wæs on lustum.
Wið þæs fæstengeates folc onette,
weras wif somod, wornum ond heapum,
ðreatum ond ðrymmum þrungon ond urnon
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ongean ða þeodnes mægð þusendmælum,
ealde ge geonge. æghwylcum wearð
men on ðære medobyrig mod areted,
syððan hie ongeaton þæt wæs Iudith cumen
eft to eðle, ond ða ofostlice
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hie mid eaðmedum in forleton.
þa seo gleawe het, golde gefrætewod,
hyre ðinenne þancolmode
þæs herewæðan heafod onwriðan
ond hyt to behðe blodig ætywan
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þam burhleodum, hu hyre æt beaduwe gespeow.
Spræc ða seo æðele to eallum þam folce:
"Her ge magon sweotole, sigerofe hæleð,
leoda ræswan, on ðæs laðestan
hæðenes heaðorinces heafod starian,
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Holofernus unlyfigendes,
þe us monna mæst morðra gefremede,
sarra sorga, ond þæt swyðor gyt
ycan wolde, ac him ne uðe god
lengran lifes, þæt he mid læððum us
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eglan moste; ic him ealdor oðþrong
þurh godes fultum. Nu ic gumena gehwæne
þyssa burgleoda biddan wylle,
randwiggendra, þæt ge recene eow
fysan to gefeohte. Syððan frymða god,
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arfæst cyning, eastan sende
leohtne leoman, berað linde forð,
bord for breostum ond byrnhomas,
scire helmas in sceaðena gemong,
fyllan folctogan fagum sweordum,
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fæge frumgaras. Fynd syndon eowere
gedemed to deaðe, ond ge dom agon,
tir æt tohtan, swa eow getacnod hafað
mihtig dryhten þurh mine hand."
þa wearð snelra werod snude gegearewod,
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cenra to campe. Stopon cynerofe
secgas ond gesiðas, bæron sigeþufas,
foron to gefeohte forð on gerihte,
hæleð under helmum, of ðære haligan byrig
on ðæt dægred sylf. Dynedan scildas,
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hlude hlummon. þæs se hlanca gefeah
wulf in walde, ond se wanna hrefn,
wælgifre fugel. Wistan begen
þæt him ða þeodguman þohton tilian
fylle on fægum; ac him fleah on last
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earn ætes georn, urigfeðera,
salowigpada sang hildeleoð,
hyrnednebba. Stopon heaðorincas,
beornas to beadowe, bordum beðeahte,
hwealfum lindum, þa ðe hwile ær
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elðeodigra edwit þoledon,
hæðenra hosp. Him þæt hearde wearð
æt ðam æscplegan eallum forgolden,
Assyrium, syððan Ebreas
under guðfanum gegan hæfdon
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to ðam fyrdwicum. Hie ða fromlice
leton forð fleogan flana scuras,
hildenædran, of hornbogan,
strælas stedehearde; styrmdon hlude
grame guðfrecan, garas sendon
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in heardra gemang. Hæleð wæron yrre,
landbuende, laðum cynne,
stopon styrnmode, stercedferhðe,
wrehton unsofte ealdgeniðlan
medowerige; mundum brugdon
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scealcas of sceaðum scirmæled swyrd,
ecgum gecoste, slogon eornoste
Assiria oretmæcgas,
niðhycgende, nanne ne sparedon
þæs herefolces, heanne ne ricne,
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cwicera manna þe hie ofercuman mihton.
Swa ða magoþegnas on ða morgentid
ehton elðeoda ealle þrage,
oðþæt ongeaton ða ðe grame wæron,
ðæs herefolces heafodweardas,
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þæt him swyrdgeswing swiðlic eowdon
weras Ebrisce. Hie wordum þæt
þam yldestan ealdorþegnum
cyðan eodon, wrehton cumbolwigan
ond him forhtlice færspel bodedon,
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medowerigum morgencollan,
atolne ecgplegan. þa ic ædre gefrægn
slegefæge hæleð slæpe tobredon
ond wið þæs bealofullan burgeteldes
werigferhðe hwearfum þringan,
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Holofernus. Hogedon aninga
hyra hlaforde hilde bodian,
ærðon ðe him se egesa on ufan sæte,
mægen Ebrea. Mynton ealle
þæt se beorna brego ond seo beorhte mægð
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in ðam wlitegan træfe wæron ætsomne,
Iudith seo æðele ond se galmoda,
egesfull ond afor. Næs ðeah eorla nan
þe ðone wiggend aweccan dorste
oððe gecunnian hu ðone cumbolwigan
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wið ða halgan mægð hæfde geworden,
metodes meowlan. Mægen nealæhte,
folc Ebrea, fuhton þearle
heardum heoruwæpnum, hæfte guldon
hyra fyrngeflitu, fagum swyrdum,
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ealde æfðoncan; Assyria wearð
on ðam dægeweorce dom geswiðrod,
bælc forbiged. Beornas stodon
ymbe hyra þeodnes træf þearle gebylde,
sweorcendferhðe. Hi ða somod ealle
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ongunnon cohhetan, cirman hlude
ond gristbitian, gode orfeorme,
mid toðon torn þoligende. þa wæs hyra tires æt ende,
eades ond ellendæda. Hogedon þa eorlas aweccan
hyra winedryhten; him wiht ne speow.
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þa wearð sið ond late sum to ðam arod
þara beadorinca, þæt he in þæt burgeteld
niðheard neðde, swa hyne nyd fordraf.
Funde ða on bedde blacne licgan
his goldgifan gæstes gesne,
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lifes belidenne. He þa lungre gefeoll
freorig to foldan, ongan his feax teran,
hreoh on mode, ond his hrægl somod,
ond þæt word acwæð to ðam wiggendum
þe ðær unrote ute wæron:
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"Her ys geswutelod ure sylfra forwyrd,
toweard getacnod þæt þære tide ys
mid niðum neah geðrungen, þe we sculon nyde losian,
somod æt sæcce forweorðan. Her lið sweorde geheawen,
beheafdod healdend ure." Hi ða hreowigmode
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wurpon hyra wæpen of dune, gewitan him werigferhðe
on fleam sceacan. Him mon feaht on last,
mægeneacen folc, oð se mæsta dæl
þæs heriges læg hilde gesæged
on ðam sigewonge, sweordum geheawen,
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wulfum to willan ond eac wælgifrum
fuglum to frofre. Flugon ða ðe lyfdon,
laðra lindwerod. Him on laste for
sweot Ebrea sigore geweorðod,
dome gedyrsod; him feng dryhten god
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fægre on fultum, frea ælmihtig.
Hi ða fromlice fagum swyrdum,
hæleð higerofe, herpað worhton
þurh laðra gemong, linde heowon,
scildburh scæron. Sceotend wæron
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guðe gegremede, guman Ebrisce;
þegnas on ða tid þearle gelyste
gargewinnes. þær on greot gefeoll
se hyhsta dæl heafodgerimes
Assiria ealdorduguðe,
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laðan cynnes. Lythwon becom
cwicera to cyððe. Cirdon cynerofe,
wiggend on wiðertrod, wælscel on innan,
reocende hræw. Rum wæs to nimanne
londbuendum on ðam laðestan,
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hyra ealdfeondum unlyfigendum
heolfrig herereaf, hyrsta scyne,
bord ond bradswyrd, brune helmas,
dyre madmas. Hæfdon domlice
on ðam folcstede fynd oferwunnen
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eðelweardas, ealdhettende
swyrdum aswefede. Hie on swaðe reston,
þa ðe him to life laðost wæron
cwicera cynna. þa seo cneoris eall,
mægða mærost, anes monðes fyrst,
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wlanc, wundenlocc, wagon ond læddon
to ðære beorhtan byrig, Bethuliam,
helmas ond hupseax, hare byrnan,
guðsceorp gumena golde gefrætewod,
mærra madma þonne mon ænig
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asecgan mæge searoþoncelra;
eal þæt ða ðeodguman þrymme geeodon,
cene under cumblum on compwige
þurh Iudithe gleawe lare,
mægð modigre. Hi to mede hyre
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of ðam siðfate sylfre brohton,
eorlas æscrofe, Holofernes
sweord ond swatigne helm, swylce eac side byrnan
gerenode readum golde, ond eal þæt se rinca baldor
swiðmod sinces ahte oððe sundoryrfes,
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beaga ond beorhtra maðma, hi þæt þære beorhtan idese
ageafon gearoþoncolre. Ealles ðæs Iudith sægde
wuldor weroda dryhtne, þe hyre weorðmynde geaf,
mærðe on moldan rice, swylce eac mede on heofonum,
sigorlean in swegles wuldre, þæs þe heo ahte soðne geleafan
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to ðam ælmihtigan; huru æt þam ende ne tweode
þæs leanes þe heo lange gyrnde. ðæs sy ðam leofan drihtne
wuldor to widan aldre, þe gesceop wind ond lyfte,
roderas ond rume grundas, swylce eac reðe streamas
ond swegles dreamas, ðurh his sylfes miltse.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 51
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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fore ænigre egesan næfde,
ne him fultum þær fæstne gelyfde;
ac he on his welan spede wræste getruwode,
and on idel gylp ealra geornost.
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Ic þonne swa elebeam up weaxende
on godes huse ece gewene,
and on milde mod mines drihtnes,
and me þæt to worulde wat to helpe.
Ic þe andette awa to feore
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on þære worulde ðe þu geworhtest her;
forþan þu eart se gooda, gleaw on gesyhðe,
þe þinne held curan, þara haligra.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 52
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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On his heortan cwæð unhydig sum,
ungleawlice, þætte god nære;
heo onsceoniendlice syndon gewordene
and heora willan wraðe besmitene.
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Næs þa goddoend se þe god wiste,
ne an furðum ealra wære.
þa of heofenum beseah halig drihten
ofer manna bearn, hwæðer his mihta ða
andgyt ænig ealra hæfde,
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oððe god wolde georne secan.
Ealle heo on ane idelnesse
symle besegan; þa wæs soð nan mann
þe god wolde georne wyrcan;
ne an furþum ealra wære.
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Ac ge þæs ealle ne magon andgyt habban
þe unrihtes elne wyrceað
and min folc fretað swa fælne hlaf,
ne hio god wyllað georne ciegan;
þær hio forhtigað, frecnes egesan
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æniges ne þurfon.
Forþam manna ban mihtig drihten
liste tosceadeð, þa him liciað;
beoð þa gehyrwede þe forhycggeað god.
Hwylc Israela ece hælu
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syleð of Sione nymðe sylfa god,
þonne he his folc fægere alyseð
of hæftnyde, halig drihten?
þonne Iacob byð on glædum sælum
and Israelas ealle bliðe.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 53
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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On þinum þam haligan naman, gedo me halne, god;
alys me fram laðum þurh þin leofe mægen.
God, min gebed gearuwe gehyre,
and earum onfoh min agen word.
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Forþam me fremde oft facne gestodon,
sohtan mine sawle swiðe strange,
and na heom god setton gleawne on gesyhðe.
Efne me þonne god gleawe fultumeð,
is andfengea ece drihten
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sawle minre; he me swican ne wile.
Afyr me fæcne yfel feonda minra,
and hi soðfæst toweorp syððan wide.
Ic ðe lustum lace cweme,
and naman þinne niode swylce
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geara andette, forðon ic hine goodne wat.
Forþon þu me alysdest, lifes ealdor,
of earfoðum eallum symble,
ealle mine fynd eagum ofersawe.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 54
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
ne forseoh æfre sariges bene;
beheald me holdlice and gehyr me eac.
Grimme ic eom begangen; forðon ic gnornige
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and me forhtige feondes stefne
and fyrenfulra fæcne niðas.
Forðam me on sah unrihtes feala;
wurdon me þa on yrre yfele and hefige.
Ys me on hreðre heah heorte gedrefed
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and me fealleð on fyrhtu deaðes.
Egsa me and fyrhtu ealne forcwomon,
and me beþeahton þeostru niðgrim.
Ic þa on mode cwæð, hwa me sealde
to fleogenne fiðeru swa culfran,
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and ic þonne ricene reste syððan.
Efne ic feor gewite, fleame dæle,
and on westene wunode lange,
bide þæs beornes þe me bete eft
modes mindom and mægenes hreoh.
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Hat nu todælan, drihten usser,
heora geðeode geond þas woruld wide;
forðon ic þær on unriht oft locade,
and wiðercwyda wearn gehyrde;
drugon þæt on burgum dæges and nihtes.
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þunie him gewinnes wearn ofer wealles hrof
and heom on midle wese man and inwit
and unsoðfæstnys ealle wealde.
Næfre on his weorþige wea aspringe,
mearce mansceat, man inwides;
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forþon gif me min feond fæcne wyrgeð,
ic þæt abere bliðe mode.
þeah þe þa ealle ðe me a feodon,
wordum wyrigen and wearn sprecan,
ic me wið heora hete hyde sneome.
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þu eart se man þe me wære
on anmede, and æghwæs cuð
latteow lustum; and wyt gelome eac
æton swetne mete samed ætgædere,
and on godes huse gangan swylce
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mid geþeahtunge þine and mine.
Hi ofer cume unþinged deað,
astigon heo on helle heonan lifigende.
Forðam on heora gasthusum is gramlic inwit,
and on hiora midle man inwitstæf.
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Ic soðlice to sylfum drihtne
cleopode on corðre, and me cuðlice
gehyrde hælend drihten.
Ic on æfenne, eac on mergenne
and on midne dæg, mægene sæcge
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and bodie, þæt þu bliðe me
mine stefne stiðe gehyre.
A ðu symle sawle mine
lustum alyse, laðum wiðferige,
forðon me manige ymb mægene syrewað.
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þæt gehyreð god and hi gehyneð eac,
þe ær worulde wæs and nu wunað ece.
Nis him onwendednes on woruldlife,
ne him godes fyrhtu georne ondrædað.
Heo besmitað swylce his sylfes
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þa gewitnesse, þær hi woh fremedon;
forðon hi synt on yrre ut adælde,
ne hi sylfe wel geseon æfre,
forðon hit wæs his heortan gehygde neah.
Hi word hira wel gesmyredon
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ele anlicast; eft gewurdon
on gescotfeohta scearpe garas.
Sete on drihten þin soð gehygd;
he þe butan fracoðum fedeð syððan.
Ne syleð he soðfæstum syððan to feore
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þæt him yþende mod innan hreðre;
ðu arlease ealle gelædest
on soðe forwyrd seaðes deopes.
Se blodhreowa wer bealuinwites
fæcne gefylled ne fæger lif
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on middum feore gemeteð ahwær;
ic me on minne drihten deorne getreowige.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 55
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Miltsa me drihten, forðon me man tredeð,
and me ealne dæg mid unrihte
fynd onfeohtað þurh facensearu.
And me fæcne tredað feondas mine,
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doð þæt ealne dæg fram ærmergene.
Forðon monige synd ðe to me feohtað;
wene ic me wraðe to ðe, wuldres drihten.
Ic wealdend god wordum herige,
and on god swylce georne gelyfe,
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þæt minre spræce sped folgie
æghwæs ealne dæg; eac ic swylce
on god drihten gearewe gewene;
nis me ege mannes for ahwæðer.
Hwæt, me ealne dæg mine agen word
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sylfne socon, swyþe oncuðon,
and wiðer me wæran georne
on yfel heora geðeaht ealle onwende.
On eardiað, þa ðe swa þenceað
þæt heo gehyden hælun mine,
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swa min sawl bad þæt ðu swylce heo
for nahwæðer nowiht hæle;
on yrre þu folc eall geðreatast.
Ic nu leofum gode lif min secge,
sette on ðinre gesyhðe sarige tearas,
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swa ic ðe on gehate hæfde geneahhige.
þonne on hinderling hweorfað mine
feondas fæcne, ðonne ic me freoðu to ðe
wordum wilnige; ic wat and can,
þæt þu min god gleawe wære.
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Ic on god min word georne herige,
and on god swylce georne gelyfe,
and ic ealne dæg ecne drihten
wordum weorðige; ne me wiht an siteð
egesan awiht æniges mannes.
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On me synd, mihtig god, þæt ic þe min gehat
on herenesse hyldo gylde;
forþon ðu mine sawle of swyltdeaðes
laþum wiðlæddest, dydest lof stunde,
aweredest mine eagan wraðum tearum
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and mine fet fæle beweredest,
þæt ic gearewe gode licode
on lifigendra leohte eallum.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 56
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Miltsa min, god, and me milde weorð,
forþon min sawel on þe swyðe getryweð,
and ic on fægerum scuan fiðera ðinra
gewicie, oðþæt gewite forð
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and unriht me eall beglide.
Heonan ic cleopige to heahgode
and to wealdendgode, ðe me wel dyde.
He þa of heofenum hider onsende
þe me alysde, laþum wiðferede,
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sealde on edwit þe me ær trædan.
Sende mihtig god his milde gehigd
and his soðfæst mod samod ætgædere,
and mine sawle sona alysde
of leon hwelpum reðe gemanan;
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wæs ic slæpende sare gedrefed.
Synd me manna bearn mihtigum toðum
wæpenstrælas, þa me wundedon;
wæron hyra tungan getale teonan gehwylcre
and to yfele gehwam ungemet scearpe.
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Ahefe þe ofer heofenas, halig drihten;
is wuldur ðin wide and side
ofer ðas eorþan ealle mære.
Fotum heo minum fæcne grine
grame gearwodon, and geornlice
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mine sawle swyðe onbigdon.
Hi deopne seað dulfon widne,
þær ic eagum on locade,
and hi on ðone ylcan eft gefeollan.
Gearo is min heorte þæt ic gode cweme;
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gearo is min heorte þæt ic gode swylce
sealmas singe, soðword sprece.
Aris, wuldur min, wynpsalterium,
and ic on ærmergene eac arise
and min hearpe herige drihten.
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Ic þe on folcum frine drihten
ecne andete, eac geond þeode
sealmas singe swiðe geneahhige.
Forðon þin mildheortnes is mycel wið heofenas,
is ðin soðfæstnes swylce wið wolcnum.
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Ahafen þu eart ofer heofenas, halig drihten;
is ofer ealle eorðan swylce
þines wuldres wlite wide and side.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 57
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gif ge soð sprecan symble wyllen,
demað manna bearn domum rihtum.
Eft ge on heortan hogedon inwit,
worhton wraðe; forþan ðæs wite eft
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on eowre handa hefige geeode.
Ge firenfulle fremde wurdon,
syððan hi on worlde wæron acende
and heo on life lygeword spæcon.
Yrre heom becume anlic nædran,
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ða aspide ylde nemnað;
seo hi deafe deð, dytteð hyre earan,
þæt heo nele gehyran heahgaldor sum
þæt snotre men singað wið attrum.
God heora toðas grame gescæneð,
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þa hi on muðe mycle habbað;
tolyseð leona mægen lungre drihten.
Ac hi forweorðan wætere gelicost,
þonne hit yrnende eorðe forswelgeð;
swa his bogan bendeð, oðþæt bitere eft
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adl on seteð, swa his geearnuncg byð.
Swa weax melteð, gif hit byð wearmum neah
fyre gefæstnad, swa heo feallað on þæt;
hi sunnan ne geseoð syððan æfre.
ærðon eowre treowu telgum blowe,
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wæstmum weaxe, ær him wol becimeð,
þæt heo beoð on yrre ealle forswelgene.
Soðfæst blissað, þonne he sið ongan,
hu þa arleasan ealle forweorðað,
and his handa ðwehð on hæþenra
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and þæra fyrenfulra fæcnum blode.
And þonne man cweþeð on his modsefan:
"þis is wæstm wises and goodes,
þe his soðfæst weorc symble læste;"
hi on eorðan god ealle gedemeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 58
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ahrede me, halig god, hefiges niðes
feonda minra, ðe me feohtað to;
alys me fram laðum þe me lungre on
risan willað, nymðe þu me ræd geofe.
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Genere me fram niþe nahtfremmendra
þe her unrihtes ealle wyrceað,
and me wið blodhreowes weres bealuwe gehæle.
þi nu mine sawle swiþe bysige
feondas mine fæcne ofþryhtun,
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and me strange eac stundum ongunnon;
ne me unrihtes on awiht wistan,
ne ic firene eac fremde drihtne.
Gif ic on unriht bearn, ic þæs eft geswac;
on minne geanryne, aris ðu, drihten, nu,
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and ðu sylfa gesyhst, þæt ic swa dyde;
þu eart mægena god, mihtig drihten,
and Israela god æghwær æt þearfe.
Beheald holdlice, hu þu hraðe wylle
geneosian niða bearna
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ealra ðeoda æghwær landes;
ne þu hweðere on mode milde weorðest
eallum ðe unriht elne wyrceað.
Hi æt æfene eft in gecyrrað,
þonne hy heardne hungor þoliað,
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swa hundas ymbgað hwommas ceastre.
Efne hi habbað on muðe milde spræce,
is him on welerum wrað sweord and scearp.
þonne gehyreð hwylc, hwæt hyra hyge seceð?
And ðu hi, drihten, dest deope to bysmre;
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nafast þu for awiht ealle þeoda.
Ic mine strengðe on ðe strange gehealde,
forðon þu me god eart geara andfencgea,
and mildheortnes mines drihtnes
me fægere becom, þær me wæs freondes þearf.
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Min se goda god, ætyw me þin agen good
for minum feondum, þe me feale syndun;
ne do hy to deadan, þy læs hi dollice
þinre æ geban anforlæton.
Ac þu hi wide todrif þurh þines wordes mægen,
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and hi wraðe toweorp, wealdend min drihten.
Ys hyra muðes scyld manworda feala,
ða hi mid welerum wraðe aspræcan;
wærun hi on oferhygde ealle gescende,
þa hi on lige lange feredon;
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forðon hi on ende yrre forgripeð
and hi syþþan ne beoð samod ætgædere.
Syððan hi wisslice witon, þætte wealdeð god
ofer middangeard manna cynnes
and ealra eac eorðan gemæru.
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Hi on æfenne eft gecyrrað
and heardne eac hungor ðoliað,
swa hundas ymbgað hwommas ceastre.
Efne hi to æte ut gewitað,
þær hi towrecene wide hweorfað;
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gif hi fulle ne beoð, fela gnorniað.
Ic þonne ðine strengþu stundum singe
and ðin milde mod morgena gehwylce.
Forðon þu min andfengea æghwær wære
and ic helpe æt ðe hæfde symble,
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þonne me costunge cnysedon geneahhige;
þu eart fultum min, ic ðe fela singe.
Forðon þu me, god, eart geara andfengea
and mildheortnes, mihtig drihten.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 59
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu us todrife, drihten user,
and us towurpe geond werþeoda,
yrre us wurde and eft milde.
Eorðan ðu onhrerdest, ealle gedrefdest;
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hæl hyre wunde, nu heo ahrered is.
Feala ðu ætywdest folce ðinum
heardra wisan and hi hraþe æfter
mid wynsume wine drenctest.
þu becnuncge beorhte sealdest
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þam þe ege ðinne elne healdað,
þæt hi him gebeorgen bogan and stræle
and wæron alysede leofe þine.
Do me þin seo swyðre hand symle halne;
gehyr me, halig god. Hwæt, ðu holdlice
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on ðinre halignesse her aspræce:
"And ic blissie, ba gedæle
Sicimam et Conuallem, ða samod wæron
on Metiboris mihtum spedige.
Min is Galaad, gleaw Mannases
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and Effrem ys æðele strengþu
heafdes mines her on foldan.
Cyninc ys me Iuda cuð;
is me Moab mines hyhtes hwer,
and ic aðenige eac on Idumea,
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min gescy sende, and me syððan gedo
Allophilas ealle gewylde."
Hwylc gelædeð me leofran on ceastre
weallum beworhte? Hwa wyle swylce me
in Idumea eac gelædan?
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Ac ne eart þu se sylfa god, ðe us swa drife?
Ne ga ðu us on mægene, mihtig drihten.
Syle us nu on earfoðum æðelne fultum,
forðon hælu byð her on eorðan
manna gehwylces mægene idel.
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Us sceal mægenes gemet mihtig drihten
soðfæst syllan, and he sona mæg
ure fynd gedon fracoþe to nahte.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 60
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gehyr, halig god, hraþe mine bene,
beheald mine gebed holde mode.
Nu ic of eorðan utgemærum
cleopige to þe, nu me caru beateð
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heard æt heortan, help min nu þa;
ahefe me holdlice on halne stan.
þu me gelæddest mid lufan hyhte,
wære me se stranga tor stið wið feondum.
Ic eardige awa to feore
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on ðinum selegesceote; þær me softe byð,
þær ic beo fægere beþeaht fiðerum ðinum.
Forðon ðu gehyrdest, halig drihten,
hu min gebed to ðe beorhte eode;
yrfe þu sealdest anra gehwylcum,
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se þe naman ðinne þurh neod forhtað.
Dæg byð ofer dæge, þær byð gedefe cynincg;
beoð his winter eac wynnum iced,
oð þone dæg þe he on drihtnes sceal
on ansyne andweard gangan,
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and þær to worlde wunian ece.
Hwylc seceð þæt þe soðfæst byð?
Swa ic naman ðinum neode singe,
þæt ic min gehat her agylde
of dæge on dæg, swa hit gedefe wese.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 61
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic mine sawle symble wylle
full gleawlice gode underþeodan;
æt him is hælu min her eall gelancg.
Hwæt, he is god min and gearu hælend;
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is he fultum min, ic ne forhtige wiht.
ðonne ge mid mane men ongunnon,
ealle ge ða to deadan dædun sona,
swa ge awurpon wah of stofne.
Swa ge mine are ealle þohton
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wraðe toweorpan, wide urnon
þurstige muðe; þæne bletsadan
and ðone wyrgedan wraðe mid heortan.
Hwæðere ic me soðe sawle mine
to gode hæfde georne geðeoded;
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he minre geðylde þingum wealdeð.
Hwæt, he is god min and gleaw hælend
and fultum is; ne mæg ic hine ahwær befleon.
On gode standeð min gearu hælu
and wuldor min and wyn mycel;
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me is halig hyht on hine swylce.
Hycge him halig folc hælu to drihtne;
doð eowre heortan hige hale and clæne,
forðon eow god standeð georne on fultum.
Hwæðere ge, manna bearn, manes unlyt
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wyrceað on wægum and woh doð,
and eow beswicað sylfe oftast,
þær ge idel gylp on þam ilcan fremmað.
Nellað ge gewenan welan unrihte
oþþe to reaflace ræda þencean.
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þeah þe eow wealan to wearnum flowen,
nyllan ge eow on heortan þa hige staðelian;
æne ic god spræcan gearuwe gehyrde
and þæt treowe ongeat tidum gemeldad.
Miht is drihtnes ofer middangeard
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and him þæs to worlde wuldor stande
and mildheortness, þæt he manna gehwam
æfter his agenum earnungum demeð,
efne swa he wyrceð on worldlife.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 62
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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God min, god min, ic þe gearuwe to
æt leohte gehwam lustum wacie.
Min sawl on ðe swyðe þyrsteð
and min flæsc on ðe fæste getreoweð.
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On westene and on wege swylce
and on wæterflodum wene ic swiðe,
þæt ic ðe on halgum her ætywe,
þæt ic þin wuldur and mægen wis sceawige.
Ys þin milde mod micele betere
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þonne þis læne lif þe we lifiað on;
weleras ðe mine wynnum heriað.
Swa ic ðe on minum life lustum bletsige
and ic on naman þinum neode swylce
mine handa þwea halgum gelome.
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Ys sawl min swetes gefylled,
swa seo fætte gelynd, fægeres smeoruwes;
weleras mine wynnum swylce
þinne naman nu ða neode heriað.
Swa ic þin gemynd on modsefan
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on minre reste rihte begange,
and on ærmergen on ðe eac gewene,
forðon þu me on fultum fæste gestode.
Ic beo fægere beþeaht fiðerum þinum
and hiht on ðon hæbbe georne,
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forðon min sawl on ðe soðe getreoweþ;
me ðin seo swiðre onfencg symble æt ðearfe.
Forðon hi on idel ealle syððan
sohton synlice sawle mine,
and geond eorðscræfu eodon geneahhe;
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nu hi wæran geseald under sweordes hand,
syndon fracuðe nu foxes dælas.
Kynincg sceal on drihtne clæne blisse
hluttre habban, and hine heriað eac
ealle þa ðe on hine aðas sweriað;
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forþon synt gemyrde muðas ealle
þa unriht sprecað ahwær landes.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 63
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
nu me costunge cnyssað geneahhe,
and wið egesan yfeles feondes
mine sawle gescyld symle æt þearfe.
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þu me oft aweredest wyrigra gemotes
and fram þære menegeo þe man woldon
and unrihte æghwær fremman.
þa heora tungan teoð teonan gehwylce
sweorde efenscearpe and heora swiðne bogan,
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and unscyldige mid þy scotian þenceað.
Hi hine samnuncga scearpum strelum
on scotiað, egsan ne habbað,
ac hi mid wraðum wordum trymmað
and sare sprecað: Hwa gesyhð usic?
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Swa hi smeagað oft swiðost unriht
and on þam ilcan eft forweorðað,
þær hi mamriað man and unriht.
Gangeð man manig modig on heortan,
oðþæt hine ahefeð hælend drihten.
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Syndon hyra wita scytelum cilda
æghwæs onlicost; ne him awiht þon ma
heora tungan nu teonan on sittað.
Ealle synd gedrefede þe hi on sioð;
sceal him manna gehwylc man ondrædan
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and weorc godes wide mærsian
and his weorc ongitan mid wisdome.
Se soðfæsta symble on drihten
blissað baldlice, bote geweneð,
and hine heriað eac heortan clæne.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 64
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þe gedafenað, drihten user,
þæt þe man on Sion swyðe herige
and on Hierusalem gylde and gehate.
Gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
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for ðe sceal ælc flæsc forð siðian.
Synfulra word swyþe ofer usic
fræcne foran; þu gefultuma
urum misdædum, mihta wealdend.
He weorðeð eadig, se þe hine ece god
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cystum geceoseð and hine clæne hafað,
and on his earduncgstowum eardað syððan.
Ealle we ðin hus ecum godum
fægere fyllað; fæste is þin templ
ece and wræclic awa to feore.
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Gehyr us, hælend god, þu eart hyht ealra
þe on ðysse eorðan utan syndon
oþþe feor on sæ foldum wuniað.
þinre mihte sculon muntas hyran,
swylce þu gedrefest deope wælas
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þæt byð ormætum yþa hlude
and hi uneaðe mæg ænig aræfnan.
þeoda him ondrædað þinne egesan,
þe eard nymað utan landes;
for þinum wundrum forhte weorðað.
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ærmorgenes gancg wið æfentid
ealle þa deman drihten healdeð;
eorðan ðu gefyllest eceum wæstmum,
þæt heo welig weorþeð wera cneorissum.
Beoð godes streamas gode wætere
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fæste gefylde, þanan feorhnere
findað foldbuend, swa him fægere oft
gegearewadest, god lifigende.
Wæter yrnende wæstme tyddrað;
mænige on moldan manna cynnes
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on cneorisse cende weorðað,
and blissiað, blowað and growað
þurh dropunge deawes and renes.
þonne þu geares hring mid gyfe bletsast
and þine fremsumnesse wylt folcum dælan,
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þonne beoð þine feldas fylde mid wæstmum.
þonne on wæstmum weorðað mæsted,
and mid wynngrafe weaxað geswiru.
Hi beoð gegyrede godre wulle,
eowdesceapum; cumað eadilic
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wæstm on wangas weorðlic on hwætum;
þonne hi cynlice to ðe cleopiað sona,
and þe þonne lustum lofe þanciað.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 65
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ealle eorðbuend ecne drihten
wordum wislicum wide herian,
and his naman secgeað neode mid sealmum
and him wuldres lof wide syllað.
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And gode secgeað, hu his þa goodan weorc
syndon wundorlice wide geond eorðan,
and eac on menigeo mægenes þines
þine feondas þe fæcne leogað.
Geweorðie wuldres ealdor
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eall ðeos eorþe, ecne drihten;
and þe singe eac, secge geneahhie,
þæt þin nama is ofer eall niða bearn
se hehsta hæleþa cynnes.
Cumað nu and geseoð, hu cyme weorc
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drihten worhte; synt his domas eac
swiþe egeslice ofer eall ylda bearn.
He mæg onwendan wætera ðryðe,
þæt þas deopan sæ drige weorðað,
and þa strangan mæg streamas swylce
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gefeterian, þæt þu mid fote miht
on treddian eorðan gelice.
His mægen wealdeð ofer eall manna cyn
on ecnesse awa to feore,
and he ofer ealle þeode eagum wliteð;
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þa hine on yrre æghwær gebringað,
ne beoð þa on him sylfum syððan ahafene.
Bletsigen þeoda bliðe mode
ealle eorðbuend ecne drihten
and mid stefne lof strang asecgean.
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He mine sawle sette to life,
ne læteð mine fet laðe hreran.
Ure costade god clæne fyre
soðe dome, swa man seolfor deð,
þonne man hit aseoðeð swyðe mid fyre.
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þu us on grame swylce gryne gelæddest,
and us bealuwa fela on bæce standeð;
settest us mænige eac men ofer heafod.
We þuruh fyr farað and þuruh floda þrym,
and ðu us on colnesse clæne gelæddest.
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Ic on þin hus halig gange
and þær tidum þe tifer onsecge;
þær ic min gehat mid hyge gylde,
þæt mine weleras ær wise gedældan.
þas ic mid muðe aspræc mine æt þearfe,
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þær me costunge cnyssedan geneahhe,
þæt ic ðe on tifrum teala forgulde
ealle þa gehat, þe ic æfre her
mid minum welerum wis todælde.
Gehyrað me and her cumað;
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ic eow mid soþe secgean wylle,
gif ge godes egesan georne habbað,
hu mycel he dyde minre sawle.
þuruh his mihte ic muðe cleopige
oþþe mine tungan tidum blissade.
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Gif ic me unrihtes oncneow awiht on heortan,
ne wite me þæt, wealdend drihten.
Forðon me gehyrde hælend drihten,
and minre stefne beheold strange bene.
Drihten si gebletsad, þe he ne dyde æfre
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nymðe he mine bene bealde gehyrde,
ne his milde mod me dyde fremde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 66
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Miltsa us, mihtig drihten, and us on mode eac
gebletsa nu; beorhte leohte
þinne andwlitan, and us on mode weorð
þuruh þine mycelnesse milde and bliðe.
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And we þæs on eorðan andgyt habbað,
ure wegas wide geond þas werðeode
on þinre hælo healdan motan.
Folc þe andette; þu eart fæle god,
and þe andetten ealle þeoda.
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Hæbbe þæs gefean folca æghwylc
and blissien bealde þeoda,
þæs þe þu hi on rihtum rædum demest
and eorðbuende ealle healdest.
Folc þe andetten fælne drihten
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and þe andetten ealle þeoda.
Ge him eorðe syleð æþele wæstme;
gebletsige us bliðe drihten
and user god eac bletsige;
hæbbe his egesan eall eorþan gemæru.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 67
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Arise god, ricene weorðe
his feonda gehwylc fæste toworpen;
fleoð his ansyne, þa þe hine feodan ær.
Rece hi gelicast ricene geteoriað;
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swa fram fyre weax floweð and mylteð,
swa þa fyrenfullan frecne forweorðað;
habbað soðfæste symbel ece.
Hi ansyne ecean drihtnes
habbað beorhtlice blisse and sibbe.
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Singað soðum gode sealmas geneahhige,
and his naman swylce neode heriað;
doð siðfæt þæs seftne and rihtne,
þe he sylfa astah ofer sunnan up,
þam is to naman nemned drihten.
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Wesað ge on his gesyhþe symble bliðe,
and on his ansyne wesan ealle gedrefde,
þa þe wydewum syn wraðe æt dome
oþþe steopcildum wesen strange fæderas.
Drihten is on his stowe dema halig,
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se þe eardian deð anes modes
and on hiora huse healdeð blisse;
Se þe on his mægenes mihte gelædeð
þæt he þa gehæftan hæleð sniome,
and þa to yrre beoð ealle gecigde
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and eardiað on eorðscræfum.
þonne god gangeð for his þæt gleawe folc,
oððe geond westena wide ferað,
þanon eorðe byð eall onhrered.
For ansyne ecean drihtnes
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heofenas droppetað; hrusan forhtiað
for Israela godes egesan þrymme.
Wilsumne regn wolcen brincgeð,
and þonne ascadeð god sundoryrfe;
eall þu þa gefremest þurh þine fæste miht.
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þine wihte on þam wynnum lifiað;
þu þin swete good sealdest þearfum.
God gifeð gleaw word godspellendum,
syleð him modes mægen se þe is mihtig kynincg
and wlites wealdend; oft weorðlic reaf
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on huse men her gedælað.
Gif ge slæpað samod on clero,
fiðeru beoþ culfran fægeres seolfres
and hire bæc scineð beorhtan golde.
þonne hi se heofonlica kynincg her toscadeð,
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syþþan hi on Selmon snawe weorðað.
Gebeorh godes bringeð to genihte
wæstme weorðlice and wel þicce.
Forþon ge onfoð fægerum beorge,
þær ge to genihte geniomað wæstme;
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se is wealdendgode wel liciendlic,
on þam wið ende eardað drihten.
Wærun godes cræta gegearwedra
tyn þusendo geteled rime,
mænigfeald þusend modblissiendra.
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Drihten is on þam dædum spedig;
on heanesse astah, hæftned lædde,
þa on hæftnede hwile micele
lange lifdon, and wæs lacgeofa
ofer middangeard manna bearnum.
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Ne magon þær eard niman ungeleafe menn;
wese of dæge on dæg drihten user,
se goda god, georne gebletsad.
Sylle us gesundne siðfæt drihten;
ure hælend god helpe usser
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and us æt deaðe eac drihten gehealde.
Hwæðere wealdend god wiðhycgendra
heafdas feonda her gescæneð,
and he tofylleð feaxes scadan
þara þe her on scyldum swærum eodon.
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Of Basan, cwæð bealde drihten,
ic me on sæ deopre sniome onwende,
oþþæt þin fot weorðe fæste on blode.
Hundes tungan habbað feondas,
from þam þine gangas wæron gesewene;
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wærun godes mines gangas rihte,
soðes kynincges symble on halgum.
þyder ealdormen ofstum coman,
and gegaderade gleowe sungon
on þæra manna midle geongra
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on tympanis togenum strengum,
and on ciricean Crist, drihten god
bealde bletsige bearn Israela.
þær Benniamines synt bearn on geogoðe
and ealdormenn eac of Iudan,
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þe latteow wæs forð þara leoda,
and ealdras eac of Zabulone
and Neptalim niode swylce.
Bebeod þinum mægene; þu eart mihtig god;
and þin weorc on us mid wisdome
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getryme on þinum temple tidum gehalgod;
þæt ys on Hierusalem, þyder ðe gyfe lædað
of feorwegum foldan kynincgas.
On wuda þu wildeor wordum þreatast
and fearra gemot under folcum;
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ne beoð ut fram þe æfre atynde,
þa þe seolfres beoð since gecoste.
Toweorp þu þa ðeoda
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 68
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Do me halne, god, forþon hreoh wæter
to minum feore inn floweð and gangeð;
eom ic on lame oflegd, hafað lytle sped.
Com ic on sæs hricg, þær me sealt wæter
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hreoh and hopig holme besencte.
þær ic werigmod wann and cleopode,
þæt me grame syndan goman hase;
byð me æt þam earon eagon wiðgangen;
hwæðere ic on god minne gearewe gewene.
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Hiora is mycle ma þonne ic me hæbbe
on heafde nu hæra feaxes,
þe me earwunga ealle feogeað.
Ofer me syndon þa þe me ehton,
fæstum folmum forð gestrangad
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feondas mine, and ic forð agef
unrihtlice þa þe ic ne reafude ær.
þu wast, wuldres god, þæt ic eom unwis hyges,
ne wæren þe bemiðene mine scylde.
Ne sceolon æt me ænige habban
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sceame sceandlice þe þines siðes her
ful bealdlice bidað, drihten.
þu eart mægena god; ne sceal æt me
ænige unare ahwær findan,
þe ðe Israela god ahwær seceað.
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Forþon ic edwit for þe oft aræfnade
and me hleorsceame hearde becwoman,
and ic framþe wearð fæderenbroðrum,
wæs unmæge gyst modorcildum.
Forþon me þines huses heard ellenwod
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æt ormæte and me eac fela
þinra edwita on gefeollon.
þonne ic minum feore fæsten gesette,
eall hi me þæt on edwit eft oncyrdan.
Gif ic mine gewæda on witehrægl
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cyme cyrde, cwædan hi syþþan,
þæt ic him wæfersyn wære eallum.
Me wiðerwearde wæron ealle,
þa him sæton sundor on portum;
spræcon me wraðe, þa þe win druncon.
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Ic þonne min gebed to þe, mihtig drihten,
tidum sende teala liciendlic,
and þu me þonne on mænigeo miltsa þinra
gehyre me hlutre hælu þine.
Alys me of lame, þe læs ic weorþe lange fæst,
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and me feondum afyrr, frea ælmihtig;
ado me of deope deorces wæteres,
þe læs me besencen sealte flodas.
Ne me huru forswelge segrundes deop
ne me se seað supe mid muðe.
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Gehyr, drihten, me, forþon gedefe is
þin milde mod mannum fremsum,
and for mænigeo miltsa þinra
geseoh on me swylce, drihten.
Ne acyr þu æfre fram þinum cnihte þin clæne gesyhð,
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forþan me feondas to feohtað geneahhe;
gehyr me hrædlice and me help freme.
Beheald mine sawle and hi hrædlice
alys and wiðfere laþum feondum.
arscame;
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for þinre ansyne ealle syndon
þe feondas me fæcne wurdon.
Min heorte gebad hearmedwit feala
and yrmðu mænig eac aræfnede;
næfde eorla þæs ænig sorge;
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frefrend ic sohte, findan ic ne mihte.
Hi minne mete mengdan wið geallan
and þa gedrugadne drenctan mid ecede.
Wese heora beod fore him wended on grine
and on edlean yfel and on æwisce.
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Syn hiora eagan eac adimmad,
þæt hi geseon ne magon syþþan awiht;
weorðe heora bæc swylce abeged eac.
Ageot ofer hi þin þæt grame yrre,
and æbylignes eac yrres þines
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hi forgripe gramhicgende.
Wese wic heora weste and idel;
ne on heora eðele ne sy þinc oneardiendes.
Forþon hi ealra ehtan ongunnon,
ðe þu him earfoðu ænig geafe,
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and me wean ecton minra wunda sar.
Asete him þa unriht to þe hi geearnedan,
and mid unrihte ær geworhton,
and hi on þin soðfæst weorc syþþan ne gangan.
Syn hi adilgad of gedefra eac
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þæra lifigendra leofra bocum;
ne wesen hi mid soðfæstum syþþan awritene.
Ic me sylfa eam sarig þearfa,
and me andwlita onfeng ecean drihtnes,
se me holdlice hælde sona.
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Nu ic naman drihtnes neode herige
and hine mid lofsange læde swylce.
Ic þam leofan gode licie swyþor
þonne æðele cealf, þeah þe him upp aga
horn on heafde oððe hearde cleo.
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Geseoð þæt and gefeoð, sarie þearfan,
seceað drihten and eower sawl leofað.
Forþam þa þearfendan þriste drihten
gehyreð holdlice; nyle he gehæfte eac
on heora neode na forhycgan.
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Herige hine swylce heofen and eorðe,
side sæflodas and þa him syndon on.
Forþon Sione god symble hæleð;
beoð mænige byrig mid Iudeum
eft getimbrade, þær hi eard nimað.
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þær hi yrfestol eft gesittað
and hiora eþel begytað esnas drihtenes,
and his naman neode lufiað,
þær eardiað awa to feore.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 69
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wes, drihten god, deore fultum;
beheald, drihten, me, and me hraðe syþþan
gefultuma æt feorhþearfe.
þonne beoð gescende and scame dreogað,
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þa þe mine fynd fæcne wæron
and mine sawle sohton mid niðe.
Hi on hinderlincg hweorfað and cyrrað;
ealle hiora scamien, þe me yfel hogedon.
And heora æfstu eac ealle sceamien,
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þe me word cwædon: "Weg la, weg la!"
Habban þa mid wynne weorðe blisse,
þa þe secean symble drihten,
and symble cweðen: "Sy þin miht, drihten!"
and þine hælu holde lufigean.
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Ic eom wædla and worldþearfa;
gefultuma me, god, frea ælmihtig.
þu me fultum eart fæste, drihten,
eart alysend min; ne lata þu awiht.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 70
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic on þe, god drihten, gearuwe gewene;
ne weorðe ic on ealdre æfre gescended;
þu me sniome alys þuruh þine þa swiþeran miht.
Ahyld me þin eare to holde mode,
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and me lustum alys and me lungre weorð
on god drihten georne þeccend
and on trume stowe, þæt þu me teala hæle.
Forþon þu me, god, wære geara trymmend,
freoða fultumiend; alys me feondum nu,
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and me of folmum afere firenwyrcendra,
þe þine æ efnan nellað;
syndon unrihtes ealle wyrcende.
Forþon þu me eart fæle geþyld fæste, drihten
wære me on geoguðe hyht gleaw æt frymðe.
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Ic of modur hrife mundbyrd on þe
þriste hæfde; þu eart þeccend min;
on þe ic singge nu symble and geneahhie.
Ic eom swa forebeacen folce manegum,
and þu me eart fultum strang fæste æt þearfe.
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Sy min muð and min mod mægene gefylled,
þæt ic þin lof mæge lustum singan
and wuldur þin wide mærsian
and þe ealne dæg æghwær herian.
Ne aweorp þu me, wuldres ealdor,
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þonne me ylde tid on gesige;
þonne me mægen and mod mylte on hreðre,
ne forlæt þu me, lifiende god.
Oft me feala cwædon feondas yfele,
and sætendan sawle minre
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and on anre geþeaht eodan togædere.
Cweþað cuðlice: "Wuton cunnian,
hwænne hine god læte swa swa gymeleasne;
þonne we hine forgripen and his geara ehtan;
syþþan he ne hæbbe helpend ænne."
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Ne ofgif þu me huru, god ælmihtig;
beseoh þu me, soð god, symble on fultum.
Beoð gedrette, eac gescende,
þa mine sawle ær swyþust tældun;
byð þam scand and sceamu þe me syrwedan yfel.
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Ic me symble on god swiðost getreowige,
ofer eall þin lof lengest hihte.
Min muð sægeð þine mægenspede
and þin soðfæst weorc swyþust mæreð,
sægeð þe ealne dæg ece hælu.
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Forþon ic ne ongeat grame ceapunga,
ac ic on þine þa myclan mihte gange.
Ic þine soðfæstnesse geman symble, drihten;
þu me ara, god, ærest lærdest
of geoguðhade; nu ic eom gomel wintrum.
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A ic wundor þin weorþlic sægde,
and ic þæt wið oryldu awa fremme;
ne forlæt þu me, lifigende god,
Oððæt ic þines earmes eall asecge
stiþe strencðe þisse cneorisse,
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eallum þam teohhe, þe nu toweard ys,
þines mihtes þrym, and þæt mære soð,
þæt ðu on heofenum, god, heah geworhtest
wundur wræclicu; nis þe, wuldres cyning,
ænig æfre gelic, ece drihten.
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Oft þu me ætywdest earfoðes feala
on costunge cuðra manna,
and me yfela feala oft oncnyssedest;
þonne þu yrre þin eft oncyrdest
and me of neowelnesse eft neoðan alysdest
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þysse eorðan, þe we on buiað.
ðær þu þin soðfæst weorc sniome tobræddest,
þonne þu gehwyrfdest and hulpe min,
and me getrymedest þæt ic teala mihte;
forþon ic þe andette, ece drihten,
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and þe on sealmfatum singe be hearpan,
Israela god, ece and halig.
Mine weleras gefeoð, wynnum lofiað,
þonne ic þe singe, sigora wealdend,
and min sawl eac, þa þu sylf lysdest.
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Swylce min tunge tidum mærde
þin soðfæst weorc; scende wæron ealle
þe me yfel to ær gesohton.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 71
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Syle dom þinne, drihten, kyninge;
suna cynincges syle, þæt he soð healde.
Dem þu þin folc deore mid soðe,
heald þine þearfan holde mid dome.
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Onfon beorgas eac beorhtre sibbe
on þinum folce fægere blisse
and geswyru eac soþum dædum.
On his soðfæstnesse swylce demeð
on folce fyrhte þearfan,
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swylce he þearfena bearn þriste hæleð.
He þa hermcweðend hyneð and bygeð,
se mid sunnan wunað swylce mid monan,
þurh ealra worulda woruld wunað him ece.
He þonne astigeð, swa se stranga ren
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fealleð on flys her, and swa fæger dropa
þe on þas eorðan upon dreopað.
On his agenum dagum ypped weorðeþ
syb soðfæstnes swiðe genihtsum,
oþþæt byð ahafen hluttor mona.
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He þonne wealdeð wera cneorissum
be sæ tweonum, sidum ricum,
and fram streamracum styreð him eallum
oþ þysse eorðan utgemæru.
Hine Sigelwearas seceað ealle
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and his feondas foldan liccigeað.
Cumað of Tharsis tires eadige
and of ealandum utan kynincgas;
þa him eardgyfu æðele bringað
of Arabia, eac of Saba;
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ealle him leoda lacum cwemað.
Hine weorðiað worulde kyningas
þa on eorðwege ealle syndan;
ealle þeoda hine weorðiað georne.
Forþon he alyseð lungre þearfan,
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þæt him se welega ne mæg wiht onsittan,
and þæne wædlan, þe on worulde næfð
ahwær elles ænigne fultum.
He helpeð þearfan, swylce eac wædlan,
and he þearfigendra sawla gehæleð.
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He of mansceatte and of mane eac
sniome hiora sawle softe alysde;
ys his nama for him neode gebyrhted.
He lyfað leodum, him byð lungre seald;
of Arabia gold eorlas lædað;
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hine weorþiað wera cneoressa
and hine ealne dæg eac bletsiað.
þonne æðele getrym eorðan weardað,
bið se beorht ahafen ofer beorgas up;
ofer Libanum licgeað his yþa,
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and on burgum beoþ blostmum fægere
swa on eorðan heg ute on lande.
þonne byð his nama ofer eall niða bearn
and to widan feore weorðeð gebletsod;
ær sunnan his nama soðfæst standeð,
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byð his setl ær swylce þonne mona.
And him byð eorþan cynn eall gebletsad;
ealle hine þeoda þriste heriað.
Wese Israhela ece drihten
and hiora sylfra god symble gebletsad,
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se þe wundor mycel wyrceð ana;
si his mihta nama mode gebletsad
on ecnesse awa to worlde.
And þeos eorðe si eall gefylled,
þurh his wuldres miht. Wese swa, wese swa!
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 72
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hu god is ece god mid Israhelum,
þam þe mid heortan hycgeað rihte;
me fornean syndon losode nu ða
ealle on foldan fota gangas.
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Forþon ic fæstlice fyrenwyrcende
oft elnade; noldun earme mid him
sibbe secean, sohton fyrene.
Forþon hira deaðes byð deorc endestæf,
ne heora wites bið wislic trymnes.
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Ne synd hi on miclum manna gewinnum,
and hi mid manna ne beoð mægene beswungene.
Forþon hi oferhygd nam ungemete swyþe,
þurh þæt hira unriht wearð eall untyned.
þanon forð becom fæcne unriht,
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swa swa hit of gelynde lungre cwome,
and hi on heortan hogedon and þohton,
hu hi fyrmest facen and unriht
on hean huse hraðost acwædon.
Hwæt, hi on heofon setton hyge hyra muþes,
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and hira tungan tugon ofer eorðan.
Forþon min folc hider fægere hweorfeð,
þær hi fulle dagas findað sona.
And þonne cwædon: "Hu weorðeð þis cuð gode
oþþe þeos gewitness weorðeþ on heagum?"
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þi nu fyrenfulle foldan æhta
and þysse worulde welan wynnum namon.
þa ic on mode cwæð minum sona,
þeah þe ic on me ingcan ænne ne wiste,
hu ic mine heortan heolde mid soðe,
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and mine handa þwoh, þær ic hete nyste,
and ic wæs ealne dæg eac geswungen,
wæs me leawfinger be leohtne dæg.
Gif ic sylf cwæde and sæcge eac,
swa þe bearn weorðað geboren syþþan,
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þa ylcan ic ær foreteode.
Ic þæs wende, þæt ic mid wisdome
full gleawlice ongitan mihte,
hu þis gewinn wolde gangan,
oþþæt ic on his hus halig gange
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and ic þa nehstan ongite neode syþþan.
Hwæðere þu him for inwite yfel befæle,
awurpe hi wraðe, þa hi wendan ær,
þæt hi wæron alysde, laðum wiðferede.
Nu syndon hi gewordene wraðe tolysde,
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and semninga sneome forwurdon
for unrihte þe hi ær dydon,
swa fram slæpe hwylc swærum arise.
And hi on byrig drihtnes bealde habbað
hiora ansyne, and þu hi eaðe miht
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to nawihte forniman sneome.
Ys minre heortan hige hluttor and clæne,
wærun mine ædra ealle tolysde,
and ic to nawihte eom nyde gebiged,
swa ic þæt be owihte ær ne wiste.
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Ic eom anlic mid þe anum neate
and ic symble mid þe syþþan hwæðere.
þu mine swyþran hand sylfa gename,
and me mid þinon willan well gelæddest,
and me þa mid wuldres welan gename.
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Hwæt mæg me wiðerhabban on heofonrice?
Hwæt wolde ic fram þe wyrcean ofer eorþan?
Me is heorte and flæsc hearde geteorad;
ys me heortan gehygd hyldu drihtnes
and ece dæl awa to worulde.
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Forþan þa forweorþað, þe hira wynne to þe
habban noldan, ne heora hyge settan;
huru þu forleosest þa forhealdað þe.
Min is ætfele mihtigum drihtne;
good is swylce, þæt ic on god drihten
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minne hiht sette, healde fæste.
And ic eall þin lof eft asecge
Sione dohtrum on hire sylfre durum.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 73
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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For hwan þu us, ece god, æfre woldest
æt ende fram þe ahwær drifan?
Is þin yrre strang and egesa mycel
ofer þin agen eowde sceapa.
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Gemun þin mannweorod, þæt þu, mihtig god,
æt fruman ærest fægere geworhtest.
þu þines yrfes æþele gyrde
sylfa alysdest and Sione byrig,
on þam ilcan þu eard gename;
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hefe þu þine handa and hyn hiora oferhygd;
feala wyrgnessa wraðe feondas
þinum þam halgum hefige brohtan;
gylpað gramhydige, þa þin geo ehtan
and on þinra wica wuniað midle.
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Settan hiora tacen, soþe ne ongeaton,
swa hi on wege wyrcean sceoldon
wundorbeacen, swa hi on wudu dydan.
Hi mid æxum duru elne curfan,
and mid twyecgum teoledan georne
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þæt hi mid adesan ealle towurpan.
þa hi þæt þin fægere hus fyre forbærndan
and on eorðstede eac gewemdan,
þæt þinum naman gewearþ niode cenned.
Cwædan on heortan: "Wutan cuman ealle
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and ure magas mid us; wutun þyder gemot habban
and symbeldagas swylce drihtnes
on eorðwege ealle towurpan.
Ne we sweotul tacen us geseoð ænig,
ne we on ænige wisan witegan habbað,
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þæt us andgytes ma æfre secgen."
Wilt þu hu lange, wealdend drihten,
edwit þolian yfelum feondum
and naman þinne nu bysmriað
þa wiþerweardan wraþe wið ende?
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For hwan awendest þu wuldres ansyne
æfre fram us, eac þa swyðran hand
of þinum sceate sylfa wið ende?
Usser god kynincg, geara þu worhtest,
ær woruld wære, wise hælu
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on þisse eorþan efenmidre.
þu on þines mægenes mihte spedum
sæ gesettest, swylce gebræce
þæt dracan heafod deope wætere.
þu þæs myclan dracan mihtum forcome
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and his þæt hearde heafod gescændest,
sealdest Siglhearwum syððan to mose.
þu sylfa eac toslite wyllas
and hlynnende hlude streamas
on æthane ealle adrigdest.
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þu dæg settest and deorce niht,
swylce þu gesettest sunnan and monan;
ealle þu geworhtest eorðan gemæru,
sumor þu and lencten swylce geworhtest.
Wes þu gemyndig manna bearna,
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þæra gesceafta þe þu gesceope ðe;
fynd ætwitað fæcne drihtne,
unwis folc ne wat þinne wyrðne naman.
Ne syle þu unscyldigra sawla deorum
þe þe andettað earme þearfan;
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þara þu on ealdre ne forgit, ece drihten.
Geseoh þu nu sylfa, god, soð is gecyðed,
nu þin gewitnes ys wel gefylled,
hu deorce beoð dagas on eorðan
þam þe unrihtes æghwær wyrceað.
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Ne byð se eadmoda æfre gecyrred,
þeah þe wædla and þearfa he wyle
naman þinne neode herian.
Aris, drihten god, dem þine nu
ealde intingan; eac wes gemyndig,
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hu þe unwise edwita fela
þurh ealne dæg oft aspræcon.
Ne forgit huru godra manna
soðra stefna, þa þe seceað þe;
fyll þa oferhydigan, ða ðe feogeað þe,
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and eft to þe ealle stigað.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 74
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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We þe andettað, ecne drihten,
and þe andettað ealle þeoda
and naman þinne neode ciegen.
Ic þin wundur eall wræclic sæcge,
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swa ic fæstlicast mæg befon wordum,
and eac soð symble deme.
Eorðe is gemolten and hire eardend mid;
ic þonne hire swyre symble getrymme.
Ic to yflum cwæð oft nalæs seldan:
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"Nelle ge unriht ænig fremman
and agyltan, þæt hi ne gulpan þæs.
Ne ahebbað ge to hea eowre hygeþancas,
ne ge wið gode æfre gramword sprecan."
Forþon eastan ne cymeð gumena ænig,
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ne of westwegum wera cneorissa,
ne of þissum westum widum morum;
forþon him is dema drihten sylfa.
Sumne he gehyneð, sumne ahefeð sniome;
forþon se wines steap on waldendes handa
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fægere gefylled is; þæs onfehð þe he ann.
þonne he of þysum on þæt þonne oncerreð,
nyle he þa dærstan him don unbryce;
forþam sculon ealle drincan synfulle,
þa on þysse foldan fyrene wyrceað;
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ic þonne worulde gefean wynnum healde,
and Iacobes gode georne singe.
Ealra fyrenfulra fyhtehornas
ic bealdlice gebrece sniome;
swyþe beoð ahafene þa soðfæstan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 75
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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God wæs geara cuð mid Iudeum,
and his æþele nama mid Israelum.
Is on sibbe his stow soþe behealden,
and he on Sione swylce eardað.
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þær he hornbogan hearde gebendeð,
and sweord and sceld æt gescotfeohta.
þu wræclice wundrum onlyhtest
fram þam eceum hider æðelum beorgum;
ealle synt yrre, þa þe unwise
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heora heortan hige healdað mid dysige;
hi slæp hiora swæfun unmurne;
ne þær wiht fundan, þa þe welan sohtan,
þæs þe hi on handum hæfdan godes.
For þinre þrea þriste ongunnon,
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Iacobes god, georne slepan,
þa þe on horsum hwilon wæron;
is þin egesa mycel; hwylc mæg æfre þe,
gif þu yrre byst, ahwær wiðstandan?
þonne þu of heofenum dom hider on eorþan
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mid gescote sendest, þonne hio swyþe beofað;
ðonne to dome drihten ariseð,
þæt he on eorðan do ealle hale
þe he mildheorte meteð and findeð.
Forþon ðe mannes geþoht mægen andetteð,
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and þonne þa lafe lustum þence,
þæt ic þe symbeldæg sette and gyrwe.
Gehatað nu drihtne, and him hraðe gyldað
eowrum þam godan gode georne;
ealle þe on ymbhwyrfte ahwær syndan,
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him gyfe bringen gode and clæne.
To þam egsan sceal æghwylc habban,
þe wera gastum wealdeð and healdeð;
eorðcynincgum se ege standeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 76
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic mid stefne ongann styrman to drihtne,
and he me gehyrde and beheold sona.
Ic on earfoðdæge ecne drihten
sohte mid handum swyþe geneahhe,
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and ic on niht for him neode eode;
næs ic on þam siðe beswicen awiht.
And ic swiðe wiðsoc sawle minre
fælre frofre; þa ic fæste god
gemyndgade, þær ic hæfde mæstne hiht.
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Swyðe ic begangen wæs and min sylfes gast
wæs hwonlice ormod worden,
wæron eagan mine eac mid wæcceum
werded swyþe; ne spræc ic worda feala.
þa ic ealde dagas eft geþohte,
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hæfde me ece gear ealle on mode.
Ic þa mid heortan ongann hycggean nihtes;
wæs min gast on me georne gebysgad.
þa ic sylfa cwæð: "Ic to soðe wat,
nele þis ece god æfre toweorpan
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ne us witnian for his weldædum,
oððe wiþ ende æfre to worulde
his milde mod mannum afyrran
on woruldlife wera cneorissum.
Ne byð æfre god ungemyndig,
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þæt he miltsige manna cynne,
oþþe on yrre æfre wille
his milde mod mannum dyrnan."
And ic selfa cwæð: "Nu ic sona ongann
þas geunwendnes wenan ærest
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þara hean handa haligan drihtnes,
weorca wræclicra worda gemyndig,
þæt he æt fruman wundor fæger geworhte."
þa ic metegian ongan mænigra weorca,
hu ic me on eallum þam eaðust geheolde;
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on eallum þinum weorcum ic wæs smeagende,
swylce ic on þinum gehylde sylf begangen.
Ys weruda god on wege halgum;
hwylc is mihtig god butan ure se mæra god?
þu eart ana god, þe æghwylc miht
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wundor gewyrcean on woruldlife.
Eft þu þine mihte mænige cyðdest
folcum on foldan; þu wiðferedes eac
Israhela bearn of ægyptum.
Hwæt, þe, wuldres god, wæter sceawedon
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and þe gesawon sealte yþa;
forhte wurdan flodas gedrefde,
wæs sweg micel sealtera wætera.
Sealdon weorðlice wolcnas stefne
þurh þine stræle strange foran;
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wæs þunurradstefn strang on hweole.
þonne ligette lixan cwoman,
eall ymbhwyrft eorðan onhrerdan.
Wærun wegas þine on widne sæ
and þine stige ofer strang wæter;
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ne bið þær eþe þin spor on to findanne.
Folc þin ðu feredest swa fæle sceap
þurh Moyses mihtige handa
and Aarones ealle gesunde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 77
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Geheald þu, min folc, mine fæste æ;
ahyldað eowre earan, þæt ge holdlice
mines muðes word mihte gehyran.
Ic on anlicnessum ærest ontyne
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mines sylfes muð, secggean onginne,
þa on worldricum wæron æt frymðe.
Ealle þa we oncneowan, cuð ongeaton,
and ure fæderas us æror sægdon.
Noldan hi þa swiðe heora synna dyrnan,
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ac ylda gehwylc oðrum cyðde.
Sægdon lof symble leofum drihtne
and his þa myclan miht, mænigu wundur,
þa he geworhte wera cneorissum.
He aweahte gewitnesse
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on Iacobe goode and strange,
and Israhelum æ gesette.
þa he fæste bebead fæderum ussum,
þæt hi heora bearnum budun and sægdun,
and cinn oðrum cyðden and mærden.
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Gif bearn wære geboren þam fæder,
him sceolde se yldra eall gesæcgan,
þæt hi gleawne hiht to gode hæfdan,
and his weorðlicu weorc gemundon,
and godes bebodu georne heoldan.
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Ne wesen hi on facne fæderum gelice;
þæt wæs earfoðcynn yrre and reðe;
næfdon heora heortan hige gestaðelod;
nis to wenanne, þætte wolde god
hiora gasta mid him gyman awiht.
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Effremes bearn ærest ongunnan
of bogan stræle bitere sendan,
þæs hi on wiges dæge wendon æfter.
Ne heoldan hi halgan drihtnes
gewitnesse, ne his weorca æ
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awiht wislice woldan begangan.
Ealra goddæda hi forgiten hæfdon,
and þara wundra, þe he worhte ær,
þara heora yldran on locadan.
He on ægypta agenum lande
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him worhte fore wundur mære
and on Campotanea eac mid soðe.
He sæ toslat, sealte yþa
gefæstnade, and hi foran þurh.
Him wisode wolcen unlytel
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daga æghwylce, swa hit drihten het,
and him ealle niht oðer beacen
fyres leoma folcnede heold.
He on westene wide ædran
him of stane let, strange burnan.
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Of þam wæter cwoman weorude to helpe,
swyþe wynlice wætera þryðe.
þa hi hira firene furþur ehtan,
and hine on yrre eft gebrohtan,
heora heafodweard holdne on lande.
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Hi þa on heortan hogedon to niðe,
and geornlice godes costadan,
bædan hiora feorum foddur geafe,
and gramlice be gode spræcan:
"Ac we þæs ne wenað, þæt us witig god
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mæge bringan to beod gegearwod
on þisum westene widum and sidum,
þeah þe he of stane streamas lete
wæter on willan wynnum flowan,
Ne we hwæðere wenað, þæt he wihte mæge
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mid hlafe þis folc her afedan."
Syþþan þæt gehyrde halig drihten,
he ylde þa gyt and eft gespræc;
wæs gegleded fyr on Iacobe
and his yrre barn on Israhelas,
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Forþon þe hi ne woldon wordum drihtnes
lustum gelyfan, lare forhogedon.
Het he þa widan duru wolcen ontynan
hea of heofenum and hider rignan
manna to mose manna cynne,
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sealde him heofenes hlaf hider on foldan,
and engla hlaf æton mancynn,
and hwætenne hæfdon to genihte.
And awehte þa windas of heofenum,
Auster ærest and þa Affricum.
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Him þa eac feoll ufan flæsc to genihte;
swa sand sæs oððe þiss swearte dust
coman gefiðrade fugelas swylce.
And on middan þa wic manige feollan
and ymb hiora selegescotu swiðe geneahhe.
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Swiðe ætan and sade wurdan,
and hiora lusta lifdan hwile;
næron hi bescyrede sceattes willan.
þa gyt hi on muðe heora mete hæfdon,
þa him on becwom yrre drihtnes
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and heora mænige mane swultan,
æðele Israhela eac forwurdan.
In eallum hi þissum ihtan synne,
and noldan his wundrum wel gelyfan.
Hi heora dagena tid dædun idle
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and heora geara gancg eac unnytte.
þonne he hi sare sloh, þonne hi sohton hine,
and ær leohte to him lustum cwoman.
Syððan hi ongeaton, þæt wæs god heora
fæle fultum, freond æt þearfe;
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wæs hea god heora alysend,
Hi hine lufedan lease muðe,
ne þæs on heortan hogedan awiht.
Næs him on hreðre heorte clæne,
ne hi on gewitnesse wisne hæfdon,
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on hiora fyrhþe fæstne geleafan.
He þonne is mildheort and manðwære
hiora fyrendædum, nolde hi to flymum gedon.
He þa manige fram him mangewyrhtan
yrre awende, eall ne wolde
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þurh hatne hyge hæleðum cyþan.
And he gemunde þæt hi wæran moldan and flæsc
gast gangende, næs se geancyr eft.
Hi hine on westenne wordum and dædum
on yrre mod eft gebrohtan,
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aweahtan hine on eorðan oft butan wætere.
Oft hi grimlice godes costodan
and Israhela god eac abulgan.
Na gemynd hæfdan, hu his seo mycle hand
on gewindæge werede and ferede.
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He ægypti egesan geþywde
mid feala tacna and forebeacna
in Campotaneos; þæt wæs cuð werum.
þær he wæterstreamas wende to blode;
ne meahte wæter drincan wihta ænig.
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Sette him heard wite, hundes fleogan,
and hi ætan eac yfle tostan;
hæfdan hi eallunga ut aworpen.
Sealde erucan, yfelan wyrme,
let hiora wyrta wæstme forslitan,
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and hiora gram gewinn hæfdan gærshoppan.
Heora wingeardas wraþe hægle
nede fornamon; nænig moste
heora hrorra hrim æpla gedigean.
Sealde heora neat eac swylce hæglum,
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and heora æhta ealle fyre.
He æbyligðe on hi bitter and yrre,
sarlic sende oð sawlhord
and þæt wið yfele englas sende.
He him weg worhte wraðan yrres,
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ne he heora sawlum deað swiðe ne sparude
and heora neat niðcwealm forswealh.
He þa on þam folce frumbearna gehwylc
on ægiptum eall acwealde
and frumwæstme folce Chames.
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þa he his folc genam swa fæle sceap,
lædde geliccast leofe eowde
þurh westenas wegas uncuðe.
And he hi on hihte holdre lædde;
næs him on fyrhtu feondes egsa,
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ac ealle þa yþa fornamon.
He hi þa gelædde on leofre byrig
and haligre, ða his hand begeat.
And he manige for him mære þeode
awearp of wicum, sealde him weste land,
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þæt hi mid tane getugan rihte.
þa Israelas æhte gesætan
hrores folces, þa hi heanne god
gebysmredan, noldon his bebodu
fæste healdan.
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Hi awendan aweg, nalæs wel dydan,
swa heora fæderas beforan heoldan,
and on wiðermede wendan and cyrdan.
Swa hi his yrre oft aweahtan,
þonne hi oferhydig up ahofan,
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and him wohgodu worhtan and grofun.
þa þæt gehyrde halig drihten,
he hi forhogode, and hraðe syþþan
Israhela cynn egsan geðyde.
And he þa swa gelome wiðsoc snytruhuse,
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wæs his agen hus, þær he eard genam
ær mid mannum, mihtig hæfde.
He hi þa on hæftnyd hean gesealde
and heora fæger folc on feondes hand.
Sealde þa his swæs folc sweorde under ecge,
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and his yrfe eac eall forhogode.
Heora geoguðe eac grimme lige
fyr fæðmade; fæmnan ne wæran
geonge begrette, þeah ðe hi grame swultan.
Wæran sacerdas heora sweordum abrotene;
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ne þæt heora widwan wepan mostan.
þa wearð aweaht wealdend drihten,
swa he slæpende softe reste
oððe swa weorð man wine druncen.
He þa his feondas sloh and him ætfæste eac
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ece edwit awa to feore.
And he georne wiðsoc Iosepes huse,
ne þon ær geceas Effremes cynn,
ac he geceas Iudan him geswæs frumcynn
on Sione byrig, þær him wæs symble leof.
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He þa anhornan ealra gelicast
his halige hus her on eorðan
getimbrade; het ðæt teala syððan
on worldrice wunian ece.
And him ða Dauid geceas, deorne esne,
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and genam hine æt eowde ute be sceapum,
fostur feormade; he him onfencg hraðe.
He þonne fedeð folc Iacobes
and Israhela yrfelafe.
And he hi þonne butan facne fedeð syþþan,
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and his folmum syþþan hi forð lædeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 78
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Comon on ðin yrfe, ece drihten,
fremde þeode, þa þin fæle hus,
ealh haligne yfele gewemdan.
Settan Hierusalem samod anlicast
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swa in æppelbearu ane cytan;
swylce hi setton swylt þinum esnum,
sealdon flæsc heora fuglum to mose,
haligra lic hundum and deorum.
Hi þara bearna blod on byrig leton
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swa man gute wæter ymb Hierusalem;
blodige lagan, nahtan byrgendas.
We synd gewordene wera cneorissum
eallum edwitstæf ymbsittendum,
þe us ahwær neah nu ða syndon.
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Hu wilt þu, wuldres god, wrað yrre þin
on ende fram us æfre oncyrran?
Is nu onbærned biter þin yrre
on ðinum folce fyre hatre.
Ageot yrre þin on þæt rice
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and on cneowmagas þe ne cunnan ðe,
ne naman þinne neode cigeað.
Forþon hi Iacob geara ætan,
and his wicstede westan gelome.
Ne gemune þu to oft, mihta wealdend,
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ealdra unrihta þe we oft fremedon,
ac we hraðe begytan hyldo ðine,
forþon we ðearfende þearle syndon.
Gefultuma us, frea ælmihtig,
and alys us, lifigende god;
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weorð urum synnum sefte and milde
for naman þinum neode and aare.
þy læs æfre cweðan oðre þeoda,
hæðene herigeas, "Hwær com eower halig god?"
and us þæt on eagum oftust worpen,
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þær manna wese mæst ætgædere.
Wrec agen blod esna þinra,
þæt wæs sarlice agoten, þær þu gesawe to;
geonge for ðe gnornendra care
þara þe on feterum fæste wæran.
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æfter ðines earmes æðelum mægene
gegang þa deaða bearn þe hi demað nu.
Gyld nu gramhydigum, swa hi geearnedan,
on sceat hiora seofonfealde wrace,
forþon hi edwit on þe ealle hæfdon.
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We þin folc wærun and fæle sceap
eowdes þines; we ðe andettað,
and þe to worulde wuldur sæcgeað
and þe on worulda woruld wordum heriað.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 79
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu þe Israela æðelum cynne
reccest and rædest, ðu nu recene beheald,
þu ðe Ioseph swa sceap gramum wiðlæddest.
ðu ðe sylfa nu sittest ofer cherubin,
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æteow fore Effraim eac Mannasse
and Beniamin, nu we biddað þe.
Awece þine mihte and mid wuldre cum,
and us hale do her on eorðan.
Gehweorf us, mægena god, and us mildne æteow
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þinne andwlitan; ealle we beoð hale.
Eala ðu, mægena god, mære drihten,
hu lange yrsast þu on þines esnes gebed?
Tyhst us and fedest teara hlafe,
and us drincan gifest deorcum tearum
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manna gehwylcum on gemet rihtes.
þu us asettest on sarcwide
urum neahmannum; nu we cunnion,
hu us mid fraceðum fynd bysmriað.
Gehweorf us, mægena god, and us mildne æteow
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þinne andwlitan; ealle we beoð hale.
þu of ægyptum ut alæddest
wræstne wingeard, wurpe þeode
and þone ylcan ðær eft asettest.
þu him weg beforan worhtest rihtne,
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and his wyrtruman wræstne settest,
þanon eorðe wearð eall gefylled.
His se brada scua beorgas þeahte,
and his tanas astigun godes cedderbeam.
Ealle þa telgan ðe him of hlidað,
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þu æt sæstreamas sealte gebræddest,
and hi to flodas forð aweaxað.
Forhwan þu towurpe weallfæsten his?
Wealdeð his winbyrig eall þæt on wege færð.
Hine utan of wuda eoferas wrotað,
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and wilde deor westað and frettað.
Gehweorf nu, mægena god, milde and spedig
þine ansyne ufan of heofenum;
gewite and beseoh wingeard þisne,
þæt he mid rihte ræde gange,
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þæne ðin seo swiðre sette æt frymðe,
and ofer mannes sunu, þe þu his mihte ær
under ðe getrymedest, tires wealdend.
Fyr onbærneð, folm þurhdelfeð;
fram ansyne egsan ðines
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ealle þa on ealdre yfele forweorðað.
Si þin seo swiðre hand ofer soðne wer
and ofer mannes sunu; þu his mihta ðe
geagnadest, ealle getrymedest,
weoruda drihten; ne gewitað we fram ðe.
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Ac þu us wel cwica, wealdend mihtig;
we naman þinne neode cigeað.
Gehweorf us, mægena
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 80
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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gif þu, Israhel, a wylt elne gehyran.
Gif þu, Israhel, me anum gehyrst,
ne byð god on þe niwe gemeted,
ne þu fremedne god sylfa gebiddest.
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Ic eom þin god, ðe geara þe
of ægypta eorþan alædde.
Ontyn þinne muð and ic hine teala fylle;
nele min folc mine stefne æfre gehyran,
ne me Israhel behealdan holde mode.
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Ac hi lifian het lustum heortena
swa him leofust wæs, leode þeodum,
æfter hiora willum wynnum miclum.
þær min agen folc, Israhela cynn,
me mid gehygde hyran cuðan,
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oþþe on wegas mine woldan gangan,
þonne ic hiora fynd fylde and hynde,
and þæt mycle mægen minra handa
heora ehtendas ealle fornam.
Him fynd godes fæcne leogað;
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byð hiora yfele tid awa to feore.
He hi fedde mid fætre lynde,
hwæte and hunige, þæt him halig god
sealde of stane, oþþæt hi sæde wæron.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 81
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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God mihtig stod godum on gemange,
and he hi on midle mægene tosceadeð.
Hu lange deme ge domas unrihte,
and ge onfoð ansyna synnwyrcendra?
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Demað steopcildum domas soðe
and eadmedum eac þæt sylfe,
wædlum and ðearfum wel soðfæstum.
Ge of firenfulra fæcnum handum
þearfan and wædlan þriste alysað.
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Ne ongeatan hi ne geara wistan,
ac hi on ðystrum þrage eodan;
ealle abeofedan eorðan staþelas.
Ic ærest cwæð: "Ge synd uppe godu,
ealle uphea, and æðele bearn.
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Ge þonne sweltað samod mid mannum,
swa ealdormann an gefealleð."
Aris drihten, nu! Dem eorðware,
forþan þu eart erfeweard ealra ðeoda.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 82
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwylc is þe gelic, ece drihten?
Ne swiga ðu, ne þe sylfne bewere.
Forþon þine feond fæcne forwurdan,
þa ðe fæste ær feodan, drihten,
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and heora heafod wið þe hofan swiðe.
Hi on ðinum folce him facengeswipere
syredan and feredan, and to swice hogedon,
and ehtunga ealle hæfdon,
hu hi þine halgan her yfeladan.
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Cwædan cuðlice: "Wutun cuman ealle
and hi towyrpan geond werþeoda,
þæt ne sy gemyndig manna ænig,
hu Israhela naman ænig nemne."
Forþon hi an geþeaht ealle ymbsætan,
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and gewitnesse wið þe wise gesettan.
Selegesceotu synd onsægd in Idumea
and Ismæhelita, eac synt Moabes,
Ammon and Ammalech, Agareni,
swylce Gebal and grame manige
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fremde þeoda mid eardiendum folce on Tyrum.
Cwom samod mid ðam swylce Assur;
ealle on wegum æghwær syndon
on leodstefnum Loðes bearnum.
Do him nu swa ðu dydest dagum Madiane
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and Sisare, swylce Iabin;
ealle þa namon ændor wylle
and Cisone clæne hlimme;
wurdan þa earme eorþan to meohxe.
Sete heora ealdormenn swa ðu Oreb dydest,
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Zeb and Zebee and Salmanaa,
and heora ealdrum eallum swylce;
ealle þa on an ær gecwædon,
þæt hi halignesse godes her gesettan.
Sete hi nu, min god, samod anlice
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swa se wægnes hweol oþþe windes healm,
and swa færincga fyr wudu byrneð,
oððe swa lig freteð lungre morhæð,
Swa þu hi on yrre ehtest and drefest,
þæt hi on hrernesse hraþe forweorðað.
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Gedo þæt hiora ansyn awa sceamige,
þonne hi naman þinne neode seceað.
Ealle beoð georette, eac gescende,
and on weoruldlife weorþað gedrefde,
þonne hi naman þinne neode seceað.
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þu ana eart ofer ealle heah
eorðbuende, ece drihten.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 83
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Synd me wic þine weorðe and leofe,
mægena drihten; a ic on mode þæs
willum hæfde, þet ic him wunude onn.
Heorte min and flæsc hyhtað georne
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on þone lifigendan leofan drihten;
him eac spedlice spearuwa hus begyteð,
and tidlice turtle nistlað,
þær hio afedeð fugelas geonge.
Wærun wigbedu þin, weoruda drihten;
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þu eart drihten min and deore cynincg.
Eadige weorðað, þa þe eardiað
on þinum husum, halig drihten,
and þe on worulda woruld, wealdend, heriað.
þæt byð eadig wer, se þe him oðerne
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fultum ne seceð nymþe fælne god,
and þæt on heortan hige healdeð fæste,
geseteð him þæt sylfe on ðisse sargan dene,
þær hi teara teonan cnyssað
on þam sylfan stede þe þu him settest her.
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Brohte him bletsunge se ðe him beorhte æ
soðe sette; syþþan eodan
of mægene on mægen; þær wæs miht gesawen
on Sionbeorge soðes drihtnes.
Gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
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þu eart mære god, mildum earum,
and Iacobes god se mæra.
Beseoh drihten nu, scyldend usser;
oncnaw onsyne cristes þines.
Betere is micle to gebidanne
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anne dæg mid þe þonne oðera
on þeodstefnum þusend mæla.
Ic me þæs wyrce and wel ceose,
þæt ic hean gange on hus godes,
þonne ic on fyrenfulra folce eardige.
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Forþon god lufað geornast ealles,
þæt man si mildheort mode soðfæst,
þonne him god gyfeð gyfe and wuldur.
Nele god æfre gode bedælan,
þa ðe heortan gehygd healdað clæne;
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þæt bið eadig mann, se þe him ecean godes
to mundbyrde miht gestreoneð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 84
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu bletsadest, bliðe drihten,
foldan fæle, and afyrdest eac
of Iacobe þa graman hæftned.
Unriht þu forlete eallum þinum folce,
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and heora fyrene fæste hæle.
Eall þu þin yrre eðre gedydest,
na ðu ure gyltas egsan gewræce.
Gehweorf us hraðe, hælend drihten,
and þin yrre fram us eac oncyrre,
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þæt ðu us ne weorðe wrað on mode.
Ne wrec þu þin yrre wraðe mode
of cynne on cynn and on cneorisse;
gecyr us georne to ðe, Crist ælmihtig,
and ðin folc on ðe gefeo swiðe.
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æteow us milde mod, mihtig drihten,
and us þine hæle syle her to genihte.
Syþþan ic gehyre, hwæt me halig god
on minum modsefan mælan wille;
sybbe he his folces seceð geornast,
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and swiðust to þam þe hine seceað.
Hwæðere he is mid soðe forswiðe neah
þam þe egsan his elne healdað,
hæleð mid hyldo, and him her syleð
ure eorðan æðele wuldor.
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Him gangað ongean gleawe cræftas,
mildheortnesse mod and mihte soð,
and hine sybbe lufu swylce clyppeð.
Up of eorðan cwom æþelast soða,
beseah soðfæstnes samod of heofenum.
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Syleð us fremsum god fægere drihten,
þonne us eorðe syleð æðele wæstmas.
Hine soðfæstnes symble foregangeð
and on weg setteð wise gangas.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 85
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ahyld me þin eare, halig drihten;
forðon ic eom wædla, þu me wel gehyr,
and ic sylfa eom sorhfull þearfa.
Geheald mine sawle, forðon ic halig eom;
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hæl þinne scealc, forþon ic ðe hihte to.
Miltsa me drihten, þonne ic mægene to ðe
þurh ealne dæg elne cleopade;
do þines scealces sawle bliðe,
forðon ic hi to ðe hebbe genehhige.
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Forðon þu eart wynsum, wealdend drihten;
is þin milde mod mycel and genihtsum
eallum þam þe þe elne cigeað.
þu mid earum onfoh, ece drihten,
min agen gebed, and eac beheald,
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hu ic stefne to ðe stundum cleopige.
þonne me on dæge deorc earfoðe
carelice cnyssedan, þonne ic cleopode to ðe;
forþon þu me gehyrdest holde mode.
Nis þe goda ænig on gumrice
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ahwær efne gelic, ece drihten,
ne ðe weorc magon wyrcean anlic.
Ealle þu geworhtest wera cneorissa,
þa þe weorðiað, wuldres aldor,
and naman drihtnes neode cigeað.
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Forðan ðu eart se mycla mihtiga drihten,
þe wundor miht wyrcean ana.
Gelæd, drihten, me on þinne leofne weg,
and ic on þinum soðe syþþan gancge.
Heorte min ahlyhheð, þonne ic ðinne halgan naman
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forhtige me on ferhðe, forð andette
mid ealre heortan hyge, þæt þu eart, halig god,
nemned drihten, and we naman þinne
on ecnesse a weorðien.
Ys þin mildheortnes mycel ofer me, drihten,
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and þu mine sawle swylce alysdest
of helwarena hinderþeostrum.
God min se leofa, gramhydige me
mid unrihte oft onginnað,
and gesamnincge swiðmihtigra
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sohton mine sawle swyþe geneahhe;
ne doð him for awiht egsan drihtnes.
Hwæt, þu eart, min drihten god, dædum mildheort,
þenden geðyldig, þearle soðfæst.
Beseoh nu on me, and me syþþan weorð
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milde on mode, mihtig drihten;
geteoh hrore meaht hysse þinum;
do þinre þeowan sunu, drihten, halne.
Do gedefe mid me, drihten, tacen,
and þæt god ongitan, þa me georne ær
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fæste feodan, habban forð sceame.
Forþon þu me wære fultum fæste, drihten,
and me frefredest, frea ælmihtig.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 86
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Healdað his staðelas halige beorgas;
lufude Sione duru symble drihten
ofer Iacobes wic goode ealle.
Wærun wuldurlice wið þe wel acweðene,
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þæt þu si cymast ceastra drihtnes;
eac ic gemyndige þa mæran Raab
and Babilonis begea gehwæðeres.
Efne fremde cynn foran of Tyrum,
folc Sigelwara naman þær fæstne eard.
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Modor Sion "man" cwæð ærest,
and hire mære gewearð mann on innan,
and he hi þa hehstan her staðelade.
Drihten þæt on gewritum dema sægde
þam þe frumsprecend folces wæron,
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eallum swylce, þe hire on wæron.
Swa ure ealra bliss eardhæbbendra
on anum þe ece standeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 87
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu eart me, drihten god, dyre hælend;
ic on dæge to ðe dygle cleopode,
and on niht fore þe neode swylce.
Gange min ingebed on þin gleawe gesihð;
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ahyld eare þin and gehyr min gebed.
Forðon is sawl min sares and yfeles
fæste gefylled; is min feorh swylce
to helldore hylded geneahhe.
Wenað þæs sume, þæt ic on wraðne seað
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mid fyrenwyrhtum feallan sceolde;
ic eom men gelic mære geworden,
þe mid deadum bið betweox deaðe freo.
Swa gewundade wraðe slæpe
syn þonne geworpene on widne hlæw,
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þær hiora gymynde men ne wænan,
swa hi syn fram þinre handa heane adrifene.
Hi me asetton on seað hinder,
þær wæs deorc þeostru and deaþes scua.
þær me wæs yrre þin on acyþed,
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and þu me oferhige on ealle gelæddest.
Feor ðu me dydest freondas cuþe;
settan me symble, þær me unswæsost wæs;
eam ic swære geseald, þær ic ut swican ne mæg.
Eagan me syndon unhale nu
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geworden for wædle; ic me to wuldres gode
þuruh ealne dæg elne clypige
and mine handa to þe hebbe and ðenige.
Ne huru wundur wyrceað deade,
oþþe hi listum læceas weccean
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and hi andettan þe ealle syþþan.
Ne on ðeostrum ne mæg þances gehygdum
ænig wislicu wundur oncnawan,
oððe þin soðfæstnes si on þam lande
þe ofergytnes on eardige.
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Cwist þu, oncnawað hi wundru ðine
on ðam dimmum deorcan ðystrum,
oððe ðine rihtwisnesse recene gemeteð
on ofergyttolnesse manna ænig?
Ic me to ðe, ece drihten,
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mid modgehygde mægene clypade,
and min gebed morgena gehwylce
fore sylfne þe soðfæst becume.
Forhwan ðu min gebed æfre woldest,
soð god, wiðsacan, oððe þinre gesihðe me
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on þissum ealdre æfre wyrnan?
Wædla ic eom on gewinne, worhte swa on geoguðe;
ahafen ic wæs and gehyned, hwæðere næs gescended.
Oft me þines yrres egsa geðeowde,
and me broga þin bitere gedrefde.
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Hi me ealne dæg utan ymbsealdan,
swa wæterflodas wæron ætsomne.
þu me afyrdest frynd þa nehstan
and mine cuðe eac cwicu geyrmdest.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 88
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Mildheortnesse þine, mihtig drihten,
ic on ecnesse awa singe;
fram cynne on cynn and on cneorisse
ic þine soðfæstnesse secge geneahhe
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on minum muþe manna cynne.
Forþon þa ðu cwæde cuðe worde,
þæt on ecnesse awa wære
þin milde mod micel getimbrad
heah on heofenum hæleða bearnum
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and þin soðfestnes symble gearwad.
Ic minum gecorenum cuðe gesette,
hu min gewitnes wolde gangan;
ic Dauide dyrum esne
on aðsware ær benemde,
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þæt ic his cynne and cneowmagum
on ecnesse a geworhte
ful sefte seld, þæt hi sæton on.
Heofenas andettað, halig drihten,
hu wundor þin wræclic standeð,
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and þa halgan eac hergeað on cyricean
þine soðfæstnesse, secgeað geneahhige.
Nis under wolcnum, weoroda drihten,
ænig anlic, ne ðe ænig byð
betweox godes bearnum gyt gelicra.
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þu bist gewuldrad god, þær bið wisra geðeaht
and haligra heah gemetincg,
micel and egeslic ofer eall manna bearn,
ða ðe on ymbhwyrfte ahwær syndon.
þu eart mægena god, mihtig drihten;
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nis þe ealra gelic ahwær on spedum,
is þin soðfæstnes symble æghwær.
þu wide sæs wealdest mihtum;
þu his yþum miht ana gesteoran,
ðonne hi on wæge wind onhrereð.
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þu miht oferhydige eaðe mid wunde
heane gehnægean; hafast ðu heah mægen
þines earmes sped wið ealle fynd.
Heofonas þu wealdest, hrusan swylce;
eorðan ymbehwyrft eall þu gesettest.
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þu norðdæl and sæ niode gesceope,
Tabor et Hermon on naman ðinum;
hi mid strencgðe eac upp ahebbað
þinne swiþran earm swylce, drihten.
Wesan hea mihte handa þinre
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ahafen ofer hæleðas; halig seo swyðre is,
þines setles dom soð gegearwod.
Mildheortnes and soðfæstnes mægene forgangað
þinne andwlitan; þæt bið eadig folc
þe can naman ðinne neode herigean.
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þa on ðinum leohte lifigeað and gangað
þe him ansyn þin ær onlihte,
and on naman þinum neode swylce
beoð ealne dæg eac on blisse
and þine soðfæstnesse symble æghwær.
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Forþon þu heora mægenes eart mærost wuldor,
and we þinum weldædum wurdan ahafene.
Us an nimeð ece drihten
and Israhela cyning eac se halga.
þonne ðu ofer ealle undearnunga
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þine bearn sprecest and bealde cwyst:
"Ic me on þyssum folce fultum sette
ofermihtigne, þone ic me ær geceas.
Ic me deorne scealc Dauid gemette
and hine halige ele handum smyrede.
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Heo him fultumeð and min fæle earm,
and hine mid mycle mægene geswyðeð.
Ne mæg him ænig facen feond æteglan,
ne unrihtes bearn ænig sceððan.
Of his ansyne ealle ic aceorfe,
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þa ðe him feondas fæcne syndon,
and his ehtendas ealle geflyme.
Hine soðfæstnes min samod ætgædere
and mildheortnes min mægene healdeð,
and on naman minum neode swylce
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his horn bið ahafen, heane on mihtum.
And ic his swiðran hand settan þence,
þæt he sæstreamum syþþan wealde.
He me him to fælum fæder gecygde:
'Wæs me andfencge, god, ecere hælu.'
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And ic þonne frumbearn forð asette
ofer eorðcyningas ealra heahstne.
Ic him to widan feore wille gehealdan
min milde mod and him miht syllan,
mine gewitnesse weorðe and getreowe.
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Ic to widan feore wyrce syððan
þin heahsetl hror and weorðlic
swa heofones dagas her mid mannum.
Gif mine bearn nellað mine bebodu efnan
ne mine domas dædum healdan,
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Gif hi mine rihtwisnessa fracoðe gewemmað
and hi mine bebodu bliðe ne healdað,
þonne ic heora unriht gewrece egsan gyrde
and hiora synne swinglum forgylde.
Ne ic him mildheortnesse mine wille
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fægere afyrran, ac him forð swa þeah
mine soðfæstnesse syllan þence.
Ic æne swor að on halgum,
þæt ic Dauide dæda ne leoge,
þæt on ecnesse his agen cynn
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wunað on wicum; bið him weorðlic setl
on minre gesihðe sunnan anlic
and swa mona meahte on heofenum,
þe is ece gewita æhwær getreowe."
þu þonne wiðsoce soþum criste
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and hine forhogodest, hwile yldest
and awendest fram him gewitnesse
esnes þines; ealle gewemdest
his halignesse her on eorðan.
Ealle þu his weallas wide todældest,
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towurpe fæsten his for folcegsan.
Hine þa towurpon wegferende,
and he on edwit wearð ymbsittendum.
Handa þu ahofe heah ehtendra,
gebrohtest his feondas fæcne on blisse.
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Fultum þu him afyrdest fagan sweordes,
nafað æt gefeohte fælne helpend.
þu hine of clænnesse clæne alysdest,
setl his gesettest sorglic on eorðan.
þu his dagena tid deorce gescyrtest
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and mid sarlicre sceame onmettest.
Wilt þu hu lange, wealdend drihten,
yrre þin acyðan swa onæled fyr?
Gemune, mære god, hwæt si min lytle sped;
ne huru ðu manna bearn on middangeard
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to idelnesse æfre geworhtest.
Hwylc is manna, þæt feores neote,
and hwæþere on ende deað ne gesceawige;
oððe hwylc manna is, þæt his agene
fram helle locum sawle generige?
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Hwær is seo ealde nu, ece drihten,
micel mildheortness, þe þu mancynne
and Dauide deope aðe
þurh þines sylfes soð benemdest?
Gemune þinra esna edwitspræce,
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þa him fracuðlice fremde þeode
utan ætywað, oðre mægðe.
Cweþað him þæt edwit, ece drihten,
feondas þine, fæste ætwitað
and þæt þinum criste becweþað swiðe.
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A sy gebletsad ece drihten
to widan feore. Wese swa, wese swa!
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 89
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu eart friðstol us fæste, drihten,
of cynne on cynne and on cneorisse.
ærðon munta gesceaft ofer middangeard
oððe ymbhwyrft eorðan wære
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oþþe world wære, þu eart, wuldres god.
Ne ahwyrf þu fram mænn heah eadmedu;
and þu cuðlice cwæde sylfa:
"Ic manna bearnum mod onwende."
For þinum eagum, ece drihten,
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þusend wintra bið þon anlicast,
swa geostran dæg gegan wære;
And swa hi on niht hyrdnesse neode begangað,
ne heora winterrim for wiht ne doð.
Morgen gewiteð swa gemolsnad wyrt;
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oðre morgene eft gebloweð
and geefneð swa, oþþæt æfen cymeð,
þonne forwisnað, weorðeð to duste.
Forþon we on þinum yrre ealle forwurdon,
wæron on þinum hathige hearde gedrefde.
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þu ure unriht eall asettest,
þær þu sylfa to eagum locadest,
and ure worulde þu eac gestaðelodest
on alihtincge andwlitan þines.
Forþam ðe ure dagas ealle geteorudun,
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and we on þinum yrre synt swiðe gewæhte.
Wæran anlicast ure winter
geongewifran, þonne hio geornast bið,
þæt heo afære fleogan on nette;
beoð ure geardagas gnornscendende,
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þeah þe heora hundred seo samod ætgædere.
Gif on mihtigum mannum geweorðeð,
þæt hi hundehtatig ylda gebiden,
ealle þe þær ofer beoð æfre getealde
wintra on worulde, þa beoð gewinn and sar.
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Us manðwærnes becwom micel ofer ealle
and we on þam gefean forhte gewurdan.
Hwa ðæs soð me cann sæcgean ænig,
hu þines yrres egsa standeð
and seo micle miht? Nis þæt mann ænig
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þe þa ariman rihte cunne.
Do us þa þine swiðran hand, drihten, cuðe,
þam þe on snytrum syn swyðe getyde,
and þa heora heortan healdað clæne.
Gehweorf us hwæthwiga, halig drihten;
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wes þinum scealcum wel eaðbede.
We synd gefyllede fægere on mergenne
þinre mildheortnesse; þæs we on mode nu
habbað ealle dagas æþele blisse.
We gefeoð swylce for þon fægerum dagum,
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on þam þu us to eadmedum ealle gebrohtest,
and for ðam gearum þe we on gesawon yfela feala.
Beseoh on þine scealcas swæsum eagum
and on þin agen weorc, ece drihten,
and heora bearn gerece bliðe mode.
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Wese us beorhtnes ofer bliðan drihtnes,
ures þæs godan godes georne ofer ealle;
gerece ure handgeweorc heah ofer usic.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 90
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Me eardað æt æþele fultum
þæs hehstan heofonrices weard,
þe me æt wunað awa to feore.
Ic to drihtne cwæð: "þu me dyre eart
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fæle fultum; hæbbe ic freond on him,
min se goda god, and ic on ðe geare hycge."
Forðon he me alysde of laðum grine,
huntum unholdum, hearmum worde.
He me mid his gesculdrum sceade beþeahte;
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forþon ic under fiðrum fæle hihte.
Hwæt, me soðfæstnes min scylde wið feondum,
ne ðu þe nihtegsan nede ondrædest.
Ne forhtast þu ðe on dæge flan on lyfte,
þæt þe þurhgangan garas on ðeostrum,
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oððe on midne dæg mære deoful.
Fealleð þe on þa wynstran wergra þusend,
and eac geteledra tyn þusendo
on þine þa swiðran, and þe ne sceaðeð ænig.
Hwæðere þu ðæs eagan eall sceawadest,
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gesege fyrenfulra frecne wite.
þu me eart se hehsta hyht, halig drihten;
þu me friðstol on ðe fæstne settest.
Ne mæg þe ænig yfel egle weorðan,
ne heard sweopu huse þinum
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on neaweste nahwær sceþþan.
Forþon he his englum bebead, þæt hi mid earmum þe
on heora handum heoldan georne,
þæt þu wilwega wealdan mostest.
And þe on folmum feredan swylce,
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þe læs þu fræcne on stan fote spurne.
þu ofer aspide miht eaðe gangan,
and bealde nu basiliscan tredan,
and leon and dracan liste gebygean.
Forðon he hyhte to me, ic hine hraðe lyse,
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niode hine scylde, nu he cuðe naman minne.
He cigde me, and ic hine cuðlice
hold gehyrde, and hine hraðe syþþan
of earfoþum ut alysde.
Ic hine generige and his naman swylce
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gewuldrige geond ealle werðeoda,
and him lifdagas lange sylle,
swylce him mine hælu holde ætywe.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 91
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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God is, þæt man drihtne geara andette
and neodlice his naman asinge,
þone heahestan hæleða cynnes;
And þonne on morgene mægene sæcge,
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hu he milde wearð manna cynne,
and his soðe sæcge nihtes.
Hwæt, ic on tyn strengum getogen hæfde,
hu ic þe on psalterio singan mihte
oððe þe mid hearpan hlyste cweman,
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forðon þu me on þinum weorcum wisum lufadest;
hihte ic to þinra handa halgum dædum.
Hu micle synt þine mægenweorc, mihtig drihten;
wærun þine geðancas þearle deope.
Wonhydig wer þæs wiht ne cann,
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ne þæs andgit hafað ænig dysigra.
þonne forð cumað fyrenfulra ðreat,
heap synnigra hige onlic;
ealle þær ætywað, þa ðe unrihtes
on weoruldlife worhtan geornast,
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þæt hi forwordene weorðen syþþan
on worulda woruld and to widan feore.
þu on ecnesse awa, drihten,
heahesta bist, heofonrices weard.
þi nu ðine feond fæcne, drihten,
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on eorðwege ealle forweorþað,
and weorðað towrecene wide ealle,
þa þe unrihtes æror worhtan.
þonne anhorna ealra gelicost,
min horn weorðeð ahafen swiðe
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and mine yldo beoð æghwær genihtsum.
And eage þin eac sceawode,
hwær fynd mine fæcne wæran,
and mine wergend wraðe gehyrde
efne þin agen eare swylce.
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Se soðfæsta samed anlicast
beorht on blædum bloweð swa palma,
and swa Libanes beorh lideð and groweð.
Settað nu georne on godes huse,
þæt ge on his wicum wel geblowan.
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Nu gyt syndan manige manna swylce,
þe hiom yldo gebidan ær to genihte,
and þa mid geþylde þenden sægdan,
Cwædon, þæt wære soðfæst sylfa drihten
and hine unrihtes awyht ne heolde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 92
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Drihten hine gegyrede gode strengðe,
and hine þa mid micle mægene begyrde.
Drihten rixað, dema usser,
and hine mid weorðlice wlite gegyrede.
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And þa ymbhwyrft eorþan getrymede,
swa folde stod fæste syþþan.
Gearu is þin setl, and þu, ece god,
ær worulde fruman, wunast butan ende.
Hofan heora stefne streamas, drihten,
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hofan and hlynsadan hludan reorde
fram wæterstefnum widra manigra.
Wræclice syndon wægea gangas,
þonne sæstreamas swiðust flowað;
swa is wundorlic wealdend usser
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halig drihten on heanessum.
þin gewitnes is weorcum geleafsum,
and mid soðe is swiðe getreowed.
Huse þinum halig gedafenað,
drihten usser, and dagas lange.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 93
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu eart wracena god, and þu miht wrecan swylce,
ana gefreogan æghwylcne mann.
Ahefe þe on ellen, eorþan dema,
gyld oferhydigum, swa hi ær grame worhton.
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Hu lange fyrenwyrhtan foldan wealdað
oþþe manwyrhtan morðre gylpað?
Hi oftust sprecað, unnyt sæcgeað
and woh meldiað, wyrceað unriht.
Folc hi þin, drihten, fæcne gehyndan,
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and yrfe þin eall forcoman.
ælðeodige men, earme wydewan,
steopcilda feala stundum acwealdon.
Sægdan and cwædan, þæt ne gesawe
drihten æfre, dyde swa he wolde,
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ne þæt Iacobes god ongitan cuðe.
Onfindað þæt and ongeotað þe on folce nu
unwiseste ealra syndon;
dysige hwæthwygu deope þæt oncnawan.
Se ðe ærest ealdum earan worhte,
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hu se oferhleoður æfre wurde?
And him eagena gesyhð eallum sealde
and he scearpe ne mæge gesceawian?
And se þe ege healdeð eallum þeodum,
and his þrea ne si þær for awiht,
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se þe men læreð micelne wisdom?
God ealle cann guman geðancas
eorðbuendra, forðon hi idle synt.
þæt bið eadig mann, þe þu hine, ece god,
on þinre soðre æ sylfa getyhtest
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and hine þeodscipe ðinne lærest
and him yfele dagas ealle gebeorgest,
oðþæt bið frecne seað þam fyrenfullan
deop adolfen deorc and ðystre.
Næfre wiðdrifeð drihten ure
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his agen folc, ne his yrfe þon ma
on ealdre wile æfre forlætan.
Hwylc þonne gena gehwyrfed byð,
þæt he on unriht eft ne cyrre;
oððe hwylc nymeð me, þæt ic man fleo
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and mid rihtheortum rædes þence?
Hwylc ariseð mid me, þæt ic riht fremme
and wið awyrgedum winne and stande,
þe unrihtes ealle wyrceað?
Nymðe me drihten, dema usser,
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gefultumede fægere æt þearfe,
wenincga min sawl sohte helle.
Gif ic þæs sægde, þæt min sylfes fot
ful sarlice asliden wære,
þa me mildheortnes mihtigan drihtnes
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gefultumede, þæt ic feorh ahte.
æfter þære menigeo minra sara
þe me ær on ferhðe fæste gestodan,
þa me þine frofre fægere, drihten,
gesibbedan sawle mine.
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Ne ætfyligeð þe ahwær facen ne unriht;
ðu gefæstnast facen sares;
hi soðfæste sneome gehæftað
and heora sawle ofslean þenceað,
blod soðfæstra bitere ageotan.
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Forðon me is geworden wealdend drihten
to friðstole fæst and gestaðelad;
is me fultum his fæst on drihtne.
þonne him gyldeð god ælmihtig
ealle þa unriht ðe hi geearnedan,
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and on heora facne fæste todrifeð
drihten eallmihtig, dema soðfæst.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 94
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Cumað nu togædere, wutun cweman gode,
wynnum drihten wealdend herigean,
urum hælende hyldo gebeodan.
Wutun his ansyne ærest secean,
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þæt we andettan ure fyrene
and we sealmas him singan mid wynne.
Forðon is se micla god mihtig drihten
and se micla cynincg ofer eall manna godu.
Forðon ne wiðdrifeð drihten usser
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his agen folc æfre æt þearfe;
he þas heahbeorgas healdeð swylce.
Eac he sæs wealdeð and he sette þone;
worhte his folme eac foldan drige.
Cumað him fore and cneow bigeað
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on ansyne ures drihtnes,
and him wepan fore ðe us worhte ær.
Forðon he is drihten god, dema usser;
wærun we his fæle folc and his fægere sceap,
þa he on his edisce ær afedde.
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Gif ge to dæge drihtnes stefne
holde gehyran, næfre ge heortan geþanc
deorce forhyrden drihtnes willan.
Swa on grimnesse fyrn geara dydan
on þam wraðan dæge and on westenne,
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þær min ðurh facen fæderas eowre
þisse cneorisse cunnedan georne,
þær hi cunnedan, cuð ongeaton
and min sylfes weorc gesawon mid eagum.
Nu ic feowertig folce þyssum
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wintra rimes wunade neah,
aa and symble cwæð and eac swa oncneow,
þæt hi on heortan hyge dysegedan.
Hi wegas mine wihte ne oncneowan,
þæt ic ær on yrre aðe benemde,
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gif hi on mine reste ricene eodon.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 95
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Singað nu drihtne sangas neowe;
singe þeos eorðe eall eceum drihtne.
Singað nu drihtne, and his soðne naman
bealde bletsiað; beornas sæcgeað
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fram dæge to dæge drihtnes hælu.
Secgeað his wuldor geond sigeþeode,
and on eallum folcum his fægere wundor.
He is se mycla god; forþon hine mæn sculon
elne herian; he is egeslic god
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ofer ealle godu eorðbuendra.
Syndon ealle hæþenu godu hildedeoful;
heofonas þænne worhte halig drihten.
Ys on þinre gesihðe soð andetnes,
fæger halignes fæste gebletsad
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and weorðlic wlite wuldres þines.
Bringað nu drihtne bu ætsomne
wlite and are, wuldor ðridde,
and þæt of hiora eðele don ealle þeode,
þæt hi naman drihtenes neode herigean.
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Genimað eow arlice lac and in gangað
on his wictunas; weorðiað drihten
on his þære halgan healle geneahhige.
For his ansyne sceal eorðe beofian;
secgað nu on cynnum and on cneorissum,
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þæt from treowe becwom tirfæst rice
drihten ure; dome he syþþan
eorðan ymbhwyrft ealle gesette.
He ferhtlic riht folcum demeð
and on his yrre ealle þeode.
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Heofenas blissiað, hrusan swylce
gefeoð fæstlice, and floda þrym;
sealte sæstreamas sælðe habbað.
Habbað feldas eac fægere blisse
and ealle þa þe on him eard weardiað;
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wærun wudubearuwas on wyndagum
for andwlitan ecean drihtnes,
forþon he cwom on cyneðrymme,
þæt he þas eorðan ealle demde.
þonne he ymbhwyrft eorðan folca
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soðe and rihte syþþan demeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 96
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Rixað nu mid rihte rice drihten;
is eorðe nu eac on blisse,
and þæs fægerne gefean habbað
ealanda mænig ut on garsæcge.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 97
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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stundum onginnað
fægnian mid folmum on gefean ælcne;
beorgas blissiað, beacen oncnawað,
for ansyne ecean drihtnes;
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forþon he eadig com eorþan to demanne.
He ymbhwyrft eorþan demeð
soðe and rihte, and his syndrig folc
on rihtnesse ræde gebringeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 98
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Rixað drihten, and he reðe folc
healdeð on yrre ungemete swiðe;
sitteð ofer cherubin, se þe sona mæg
ana eorðware ealle onstyrian.
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Drihten is on Sion, dema se mæsta,
heah and mære ofer eall hæleða folc.
We andetað þinum þam ecean naman,
þæt he mid mannum is mycel and egeslic,
halig on helpe hæleþa bearnum,
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aare cyninges dom æghwær lufade.
þu gegearwadest geara ærest,
þæt þu recene, god, rihte beeodest;
þu on Iacobe gode domas
æt fruman worlde fægere settest.
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Ahebbað haligne heofena drihten,
usserne god ellencræfte,
and his fota sceamul forð weorþiað;
forþon he halig is hæleða bearnum.
Moyses et Aaron mære gebroðor,
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soðe sacerdas, Samuhel ðridda,
þa gode his naman neode cigdan.
Hi cymlice cigdon drihten,
and he hi gehyrde holde mode,
spræc him wordum to þurh wolcnes swyr.
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Hi þa gewitnesse wel geheoldon
and his bebodu beorhte efnedan,
þa he him sealde and sylfa bebead.
þu gehyrdest hig, halig drihten,
and him, meahtig god, milde wurde,
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and heora æfþancan ealle gewræce.
Hebbað urne god, hælend drihten,
and hine on halgum her weorðiað
mærum beorge; forðon his meahte synt
and halig is heofonrices weard.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 99
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nu ge mycle gefean mihtigum drihtne
eall þeos eorðe elne hyre,
and blisse gode bealde þeowie.
Gangað on ansyne ealle bliðe;
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witað wislice þæt he is wealdend god;
he us geworhte and we his syndon.
We his folc syndan and his fæle sceap,
ða he on his edisce ealle afedde;
gað nu on his doru, god andettað,
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and hine weorðiað on wictunum
mid lofsangum lustum myclum.
Heriað naman drihtnes, forþon he is niðum swæs;
is þin milde mod ofer manna bearn.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 100
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Mildheortnesse and dom mihtigan drihtnes
singe and secge, and soð ongyte
on unwemmum wege, hwænne þu me wylle to.
Ic mid unbealuwe ealre heortan
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þurh ðin hus middan halig eode.
Ne sette ic me fore eagum yfele wisan;
ealle ic feode facnes wyrcend,
næs me wyngesið wiðerweard heorte.
Ic awyrgde fram me wende and cyrde;
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nolde ic hiora andgit ænig habban,
þe tælnessa teonan geneahhige
wið heora þam nehstan nið ahofan;
þara ic ehte ealra mid niðe.
Oferhydegum eagum, unsædre heortan,
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nolde ic mid þæm men minne mete ðicgean.
Ofer geleaffulle eorðbugende
eagan mine georne sceawedun,
hwær ic tirfæste treowe funde,
þa me symble mid sæton and eodon;
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he me holdlice her ðegnade.
Ne eardað on midle mines huses,
þe oferhygd up ahebbe
oþþe unriht cweþan elne wille.
Ic on morgenne ofslea manes wyrhtan
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ealle þe unriht elne worhtan
and fyrena fela gefremed habbað;
ealle ic þa of drihtnes drife ceastre.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 101
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ðu min gebed, mære drihten,
gehyr, heofenes weard, and gehlyde min
to ðe becume, þeoda reccend.
Na þu andwlitan æfre þinne
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awend fram me, wuldres ealdor;
gif ic geswenced sy, þu swæs to me
þin eare onhyld and me ofestlice
gehyr, heofenes weard, helpys benan.
Forðon dagas mine gedroren syndan
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smece gelice, and forspyrcende synd
mine mearhcofan, þæs þe me þinceð,
swylce hi on cocerpannan cocas gehyrstan.
Ic eom hege gelic, þam þe hraðe weornað,
ðonne hit byð amawyn mannes folmum;
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is min heorte eac hearde geswenced,
forðon ic ær forgeat, þæt ic etan sceolde
minne swetne hlaf; forðon me is swære stefn
hefig gnorniende heortan getenge,
ætfeolen eac min ban flæsce minum.
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Ic geworden eom pellicane gelic,
se on westene wunað; wat ic eac swiðe geare,
þæt ic genemned eam nihthrefne gelic,
þe on scræfe eardað, and ic spearuwan swa some
gelice gewearð, anlicum fugele.
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Hwæt, me ealne dæg edwitspræce on
mine feondas fæste brohtan,
and ða me heredan; hi me hraþe æfter
full swyþe eft swerigean ongunnon.
Forðon ic anlic ætt æscean hlafe,
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and ic minne drinc mengde wið tearum,
For andwlitan yrres þines;
feor þu me ahofe and gehnæctest eft.
Dagas mine gedruran swa se deorca scua,
and ic hege gelic, swa hit hraðe weornað.
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þu on ecnysse wunast awa, drihten;
wunað þin gemynd, þenden woruld standeð.
Aris nu, mihtig god, miltsa Sione;
nu is hire helpe heahsæl cumen.
Forþon þæs þancunga þine scealcas
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ambyhtmæcgas ealle hæfdan,
forðon þe þu stiðlice stanum and eorðan
eallum ætgædere ær miltsadest.
Forþon neodlice on naman ðinum
ealle eorðbuend egsan habbað,
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and þin wuldor ongitað wise cyningas.
Eft timbrade ece drihten
and gesette Sion þurh his sylfes miht,
ðær wæs gesyne his seo soðe sped.
Oft he þearfendra bene ðance gehyrde,
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and he ne forhogode heora hold gebed.
ða wislice awriten standað
and on cneoressum cyðed syndan,
þæt he folc gesceop; fægere drihten
herað holdlice hrore geþance.
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Forðon he fæstlice forð locade
of his þam hean halgan setle;
drihten geseah of heofenum her on eorðan.
He þa gehyrde heahgnornunge
þæra ðe gebundene bitere wæron,
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and ða bealdlice bearn alysde
þara ðe ofslegene sliþe wæran.
þonne byð on Sione sægd soð nama drihtnes,
and his lof swylce, leoda bearnum,
on Hierusalem gleawast and mærust.
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Cumað folc syððan feorran togædere
and ricu eac, þæt hraðe drihtne
ful holdlice hyran syþþan.
He him andwyrdeð eallum sona
on wege worulde, þær his gewis mægen
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fæste standeð: "Ic þe feawe dagas
minra mættra mode secge,
þæt þu me meaht on midle minra dagena
sona gecigean, gif þu sylfa wylt."
Earon þines anes gear awa to feore.
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æt fruman þu, drihten, geworhtest
eorþan frætwe and upheofen;
þæt is heahgeweorc handa þinra.
Sweotule þa forweorðað and ðu sylf wunast;
eall forwisnað wædum anlice,
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and ðu hi onwendest, swa man wrigels deð,
and hi beoð to worulde wended syþþan.
þu þonne byst se ilca, se þu ær wære;
ne beoð winter þin wiht ðe sæmran.
Bearn þinra scealca her bu namon,
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and þær eardedan ealle þrage,
and heora sylfra cynn syððan to feore
on worulda woruld well gerehtest.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 102
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Bletsa, mine sawle, bliðe drihten,
and eall min inneran his þæne ecean naman.
Bletsige, mine sawle, bealde dryhten,
ne wylt þu ofergeottul æfre weorðan
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ealra goda, þe he þe ær dyde.
He þinum mandædum miltsade eallum
and þine adle ealle gehælde.
He alysde þin lif leof of forwyrde,
fylde þinne willan fægere mid gode.
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He þe gesigefæste soðre miltse
and ðe mildheorte mode getrymede;
eart þu edneowe earne gelicast
on geogoðe nu gleawe geworden.
Hafast þu milde mod, mihta strange,
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drihten, domas eallum þe deope her
and ful treaflice teonan þolian.
He his wegas dyde wise and cuðe
Moyse þam mæran on mænige tid,
swylce his willan eac werum Israhela.
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Mildheort þu eart and mihtig, mode geþyldig,
ece drihten, swa þu a wære;
is þin milde mod mannum cyðed.
Nelle þu oð ende yrre habban,
ne on ecnesse ðe awa belgan.
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Na þu be gewyrhtum, wealdend, urum
wommum wyrhtum woldest us don,
ne æfter urum unryhte ahwær gyldan.
Forðon þu æfter heahweorce heofenes þines
mildheortnysse, mihtig drihten,
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lustum cyðdest, þam þe lufedan þe.
Swa þas foldan fæðme bewindeð
þes eastrodor and æfter west,
he betweonan þam teonan and unriht
us fram afyrde æghwær symble.
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Swa fæder ðenceð fægere his bearnum
milde weorðan, swa us mihtig god,
þam þe hine lufiað, liðe weorðeð,
forðan he ealle can ure þearfe.
Gemune, mihtig god, þæt we synt moldan and dust;
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beoð mannes dagas mawenum hege
æghwær anlice, eorðan blostman,
swa his lifdagas læne syndan.
þonne he gast ofgifeð, syþþan hine gærsbedd sceal
wunian widefyrh, ne him man syððan wat
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ahwær elles ænige stowe.
þin mildheortnes, mihtig drihten,
þurh ealra worulda woruld wislic standeð,
deorust and gedefust ofer ealle þa þe ondrædað him.
Swa his soðfæstnyss swylce standeð
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ofer þara bearna bearn þe his bebodu healdað,
and þæs gemynde mycle habbað,
þæt heo his wisfæst word wynnum efnan.
On heofenhame halig drihten
his heahsetl hror timbrade,
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þanon he eorðricum eallum wealdeð.
Ealle his englas ecne drihten
bletsian bealde, heora bliðne frean,
mægyn and mihta, þa his mære word
habbað and healdað and hyge fremmað.
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Bletsian drihten eall his bearna mægen
and his ðegna ðreat, þe þæt þence nu,
þæt hi his willan wyrcean georne.
Eall his agen geweorc ecne drihten
on his agenum stede eac bletsige,
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þær him his egsa, anweald, standeð;
bletsige min sawl bliðe drihten.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 103
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Bletsa, mine sawle, bliþe drihten;
þu eart, min drihten god, dædum swyþe,
meahtum mære ofer manna bearn.
þu þe weorðlice wliteandette
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gode gegyredest; eart nu gleawlice
swa limwædum leohte gegyrwed.
Heofen þu aðenedest hyde gelice,
þone weardiað ufan wætra ðryðe.
He wolcen eac worhte and sette,
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þæt he mihte eaðe upp astigan,
se fotum tredeð fiðru winda.
He his englas deð æðele gastas
and his frome ðegnas fyr byrnende.
He gefæstnude foldan staðelas,
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eorðan eardas; ne seo æfre nu
on worulda world weorðeð ahylded.
He nywolnessa neoðan swa swa ryfte
him to gewæde woruhte swylce;
standað ofer mannum muntas on wæterum.
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þa him þrea þine þearle ondrædað,
fleoð forhtlice þunres brogan
þinre stefne strangne egsan.
Beorgas and feldas ba astigað
on þæne stede þe þu gestaðeludest him,
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and on ðære stowe standað fæste;
ne magon hi ofer gemære mare gegangan,
þæt hi ðysse eorþan awyht habban.
Oft of denum yrnað deope wyllan,
and of midle munta swylce
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wæter awealleð, wide floweð.
Of þam eorðan deor ealle drincað,
bidað assan eac on þurste;
ofer þan heofonfugelas healdað eardas,
sendað of þam stanum stefne mycle.
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Beorgas onfoð blædum and wæstmum,
ufan eorðwæstme ealle growað,
swylce of wæstmum weorca þinra
eall eorðan cið ufan byð gefylled.
Swylce þu of foldan fodder neatum
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lætest alædan, on þæm hi lif healdað;
wyrta þu geworhtest to wraðe manna.
Eac þu him of eorþan ut alæddest
hlaf to helpe; heortan manna
must and windrinc myclum blissað.
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Ele andwlitan eac gescyrpeð
and hlaf trymeð heortan mannes.
Swylce þu gefyllest fægrum blædum
telgum treowwæstme; tydrað ealle,
þa on Libanes lædað on beorge
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cwice cederbeamas, þa ðu cuðlice
sylfa gesettest; on þam swylce nu
mid heora spedum spearwan nystlað.
Uphebbean hus hiora agen is
latteow on lande; oft laðne beorh
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on hean muntum heortas wuniað;
erinaces fleoð oft on stanas.
Monan he geworhte on þa mæran tid;
sunne hire setlgang sweotule healdeð.
þystru ðu gesettest on þearle niht,
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on þære ealle wildeor wide toeornað.
And leon hwelpas lange swylce
grymetigað gnorne; georne secað,
þæt him grædigum æt god gedeme.
Syþþan up cumeð æðele sunne,
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hi of siðum eft gesamniað
and hi on holum hydað hi georne.
Mægenweorc on morgen man onginneð
and þæt geendað on æfynne.
Mycel wærun þine weorc, mihtig drihten,
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ealle þa þu mid snyteru sylfa worhtest;
is þeos eorðe eac eall gefylled
þinra gesceafta, scyppend mære.
His is mycel sæ and on gemærum wid,
þær is unrim on ealra cwycra
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mycelra and mætra; ofer ðæne mægene oft
scipu scriðende scrinde fleotað.
Dracan þu þysne dædum ðinum
geheowadest, hete syððan
his bysmere brade healdan;
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ealle to ðe, ece drihten,
ætes on eorðan eac wilniað.
And him gesomnadum swylce wylle
þine þa halgan hand ontynan,
ealle hi gefyllan fægere gode.
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Gif þu þine ansyne fram him æfre awendest,
þonne hi gedrefde deope weorðað,
and him gast weorðeð georne afyrred;
swylce teonlice geteoriað,
on heora agen dust æfter hweorfað.
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Onsend þines sylfes gast, sona weorþað
geedniwad, and þu eac scyppest
eorðan ansyne ealle swylce.
Wuldor si wide weruda drihtne
and on worulda woruld wunie syððan,
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blissie on his weorcum bealde drihten.
He on ðas eorðan ealle locað,
deð hi for his egsan ealle beofian;
gif he mid his mihte muntas hrineð,
hi ful ricene reocað sona.
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Ic on minum life lustum drihtne
singe soðlice and secge eac,
þenden ic wunige on worulddreamum.
Wese him herenes min æt heortan weðe,
ic minne drihten deorne lufige.
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And þa fyrenfullan frecne forweorðaþ,
þa on ðysse eorðan synt, ealle sniome,
þæt hio ne wunian on worldlife.
Bletsa, mine sawle, bliðe drihten.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 104
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Andetað drihtne and his ecne naman
cegað cymlice, and cwyce secgeað
his wundorweorc ofer ealle werðeode.
Singað him swylce and salletað,
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secgað his wundor eall wide mæru.
Hergeað his naman niode swylce;
heorte hygeclæne hlutre blissað
þam þe soðlice secað dryhten.
Secað ge drihten, and ge syððan beoð
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teonan gehwylce ful trume æghwær;
secað his ansyne symble georne.
Gemunað ge on mode, hu he mænig wundor
worhte wræclice, wundur unlytel,
and his muþes eac mære domas.
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Hwæt, he Abrahames cynn, þe his esne wæs,
geweorðude ofer werþeoda,
and Iacobes bearn, þone he geara geceas.
He is ure drihten dædum spedig;
earun his domas deore and mære
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geond þisse eorðan æghwylcne dæl.
He þæs on worulde wearð gemyndig,
þæt he worde gecwæð on gewitnesse,
þæt heo on þusende þæt sceoldan healdan,
þære cneorisse cwyc se þe lifde.
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þæt he mid aðsware to Abrahame
and to Isaace eac gesohte,
and gleawlice Iacobe bead,
þæt awa to feore Israheles cyn
his gewitnesse wel geheolde.
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And him þa mid soðe sægde cweðende:
"Ic eowrum cynne Khananea land
on agene æht yrfe gesylle."
Næs þæt mære cynn mycel on rime,
ac on þam folce feawe wæran ænige,
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oððæt bigengum beornas onwocan;
cynn æfter cynne cende wæran,
oðþæt hio oðer folc egsan geðiwdan.
Ne let he him manna mihte sceððan
and he þearle for him þrea geaf kyningum.
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Ne sceolon ge mine þa halgan hrinan ne gretan
ne on mine witigan wergðe settan.
Cwom þa ofer eorðan ermðu and hungor,
wurdon wide menn wædlan hlafes.
He him snoterne beforan sende æryst
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ful wisne wer to scealce,
and þa bebohtan bearn Iacobes
Ioseph on geoguðe; þær hine grame æryst
hæfdon to hæfte, oþþæt hine halig god
þurh his worda wisdom ahof.
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Sende him soð cyning sweotule are,
alysde hine lungre and hine þam leodum þa
to ealdormen eallum sette.
He sette hine on his huse to hlafwearde,
ealra him his æhta anweald betæhte,
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þæt he his ealdormen ealle lærde,
swa he his sylfes mod geseted hæfde,
and þa yldestan ealle lærde,
þæt heo wisdomes word oncneowan.
þær Israhel becwom on Egypta,
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and se goda Iacob syþþan
eft eardude eorðan Khanaan.
He þæt eadige folc ehte swyðe,
and hio ofer heora feond fæste getrymede.
Hiora heortan he ongan hwyrfan æryst,
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þæt heo his folc feodan swyðe
and his esnum eac inwit fremedan.
þa he him þone mæran Moyses sende,
his sylfes scealc, samod ætgædere
and Aaron eac, þone he ær geceas.
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He sette on hi sylfe soðne wisdom
worda and weorca wundortacna
and forebeacna, þæt hio fromlice
cyðdan cneomagum cystum godum,
oðþæt heo geforan folc Khananea.
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He hi mid þystrum ongan þrean æt frymþe,
forðon hio word heora wel ne oncneowan.
And heora wæter swylce wende to blode,
on ðam heora fisceas frecne forwurdan.
Sende on heora eorþan ealle swylce
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toscean teonlice, þa teolum husum
on cyninga cofum cwyce eardedan.
He sylfa cwæð; sona cwoman
mysci manige, mid wæran gnættas,
fleohcynnes feala flugan on gemæru.
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Sette him regnas reþe swylce,
hate of heofenum hagol byrnende,
se lige forgeaf land Egypta.
Syððan forwurdan heora wingeardas
and ficbeamas; furþor ne mihton
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blæda bringan ne bearwa treow.
He þa syþþan cwæð; sona cwoman
gangan gærshoppan and grame ceaferas;
ne mihte þa on moldan man geriman,
þe þær on foldan fræton wæstmas.
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Syþþan he æfter sloh æghwylc frumbearn
þe on Egyptum wæs ahwær acenned,
and frumcynnes heora frean swylce.
And his þæt gode folc golde and seolfre
geweorþade and hi wislice
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leofe lædde; næs þæra leoda ða
ænig untrum yldra ne gingra.
Wurdon him Egyptas æfter bliðe,
syððan hi on fore folc sceawedan,
forðon him þær egesa angryslic stod.
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He hi wolcne bewreah, wraðum ahredde,
het him neode nihta gehwylce
fyrenne beam beforan wisian.
Flæsces hi bædon, fuglas coman,
of garsecge ganetas fleogan,
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and hi heofonhlafe halige gefylde.
Het him of stane streamas flowan,
wæter on willan; na him gewættan fot,
þa hi on Iordane gengdan æfter.
Ac he wæs þæra worda wel gemyndig,
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halig heofenes weard, þe he hleoðrade
to Abrahame, his agenum hysse.
And his folc lædde fægere on blisse
and his þone gecorenan heap clæne on wynne.
Sealde þam leodum landes anweald
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on agene æht oðre þeode
and hi folca gewinn fremdra gesæton.
þær hi heoldan halige domas
and his soðfæst word swylce georne,
and his æbebod awa to feore.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 105
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic andette ecum drihtne,
georne ðam gleawan, forðan ic hine godne wat;
forþon he his mildheortnysse mannum cyðde,
on ðysse worulde wis gestandeð.
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Hwylc mæg æfre mihta drihtnes
asprecan and aspyrian, oððe spedlice
eall his lofmægen leode gehyran
and his gehyrnesse her oncnawan?
Eadige beoð æghwær, þa ðe a wyllað
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soðe domas sylfe efnan,
on ealle tid æghwæs healdan
heora soðfæstnysse symble mid dædum.
Gemune us, drihten, on modsefan
forð hycgende folces þines,
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and us mid hælo her geneosa.
And us tidlice teala sceawige,
ceose mid gecorenum, þenden we cwice lifgen,
þæt we mid þinre ðeode þær blissian
and þæt yrfe þin æghwær herige.
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We gefyrnedan mid urum fæderum ær,
and we unsoðfæste ealle wæron
and unrihtes æghwær worhtan.
Fæderas ure fæste ne oncneowan
ealle þa wundor þe ðu on Egyptum
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worhtest wræclice, wundor unlytel;
næron hi gemyndige miltsa þinra,
þa ðu him on ðære mægðe manige cyðdest.
Hi bysmredan, þa hi on brad wæter
on þone readan sæ randas bæron,
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þær ðu hi alysdest, lifes ealdor,
and hi generedest on naman þinum,
þa ðu þine miht mycle cyðdest.
þær ðu readne sæ ricene geðywdest,
and þær wæron þa wareðas drige,
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and hi betweonum wætera weallas læddest,
swa hi on westenne wæron on drigum.
Swa hi alysde lifes ealdor
of heora feonda fæcnum handum,
and of feogendra folmum swylce,
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and heora feondas flod adrencte,
þæt þæra æfre ne com an spellboda.
Syððan hi his wordon wel gelyfdan
and him lofsangum lustum cwemdan,
and þæs eft hraðe ealle forgeaton,
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weorca wræclicra; na hi wel syþþan
his geæhtunge ahwær heoldan.
Hi on westenne wraðe ongunnan
gitsunge began and gramlice
heora godes þær geare costedan.
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He him been sniome brohte and sealde,
sende on heora muþas mete to genihte.
Ongunnon hi on þam wicum wraðe swylce
mærne Moyses ma bysmrian
and Aaron mid eac þone halgan.
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þa eorðe togaan and eall forswealh
on deope forwyrd Dathanes weorod
and Abirones eall ætgædere.
þær fyr abarn frecne swylce
on heora gemetinge, and þær maansceaðan
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þa synfullan sniome forbærnde.
Hi on Choreb swylce cealf ongunnan
him to godgylde georne wyrcean,
onwendan heora wuldor on þæne wyrsan had
hæðenstyrces hig etendes.
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Godes hi forgeaton, þe hi of gramra ær
feonda folmum frecne generede,
þe on Egyptum æðele wundur
and on Chananea cymu worhte
and recene wundur on þam readan sæ.
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þa hi wolde toweorpan wuldres aldor,
þær heora Moyses mægene ne hulpe;
he þæt folc forstod feonda mægene;
forðon he him his yrre of acyrde,
þæt he hi ne towurpe geond werþeoda.
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Ne hi for awyht eorþan cyste
þa selestan geseon woldan,
ne his wordum eac woldan gelyfan;
ac hi granedan and grame spræcan,
noldan his wordum wel gehyran.
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He his handa ahof and hi hraðe wolde
on þam westenne wide todrifan
and heora swæs cynn sendan on wid land.
Hi Belphegor bædon are,
æton deadra lac, swa hit gedefe ne wæs.
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And hi bysmredon bealde drihten
on heora gemetincge mægene ealle,
and þær healicne on hryre gefremedan.
Hi þæs feondætes Finees awerede,
þa he on þam folce feondgyld gebræc;
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he þæs hæl gehleat and helpe fand
of cynna gehwam and on cneorisse.
Eac hi gefremedan oðer bysmer,
þær hi wiðercwyde wæteres hæfdon;
þær Moyses wearð mægene gebysgad
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for heora yfelum, swa he oftor wæs,
on his gaste gram; ne mihte him godes willan
mid his welerum wisne getæcean.
Noldan hi toworpan wraðe þeode,
swa him drihten ær dema sægde,
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ac hi wið manfullum mengdan þeode
and leornedan lað weorc gode
and sceuccgyldum swyþe guldan;
him þæt eall gewearð to æswyce.
Ongunnan heora bearn blotan feondum,
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sceuccum onsæcgean suna and dohter;
agutan blod swylce bearna feala,
þa unscyldige ealle wærun,
syðþan hi gecuran Chananea god.
þanon eorþe wearð eall mid blode
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mane gemenged, misdædum fah.
Eall hi forheoldan heahweorc godes;
forðan him yrre wearð ece drihten
and he his yrfe eall forhogode.
He hi on handgeweald hæðenum sealde
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and heora weoldan, þa him wyrrest ær
on feondscipe fæste gestodon.
Heora costedan cuþe feondas
and under handum hynþe þoledan;
hi alysde oft lifes ealdor.
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Hi hine on geþeahte oft abylgdan;
wæron on unrihtum oft gehynde.
Swa he furðum oncneow, þæt heora fynd ehtan,
he heora bene bealde gehyrde.
þonne he his wordgebeot well gemunde;
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hreaw hine sona, þonne hi hynþa drugan,
æfter his miltsa menigu godes.
Syððan he him sealde sona miltse,
þær hi on gesawon ealle ætgædere,
þe ehtend him ær gestodan.
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Do us hale nu, halig drihten,
and us, se goda god, georne gesamna
of widwegum, þær we wean dreogað,
þæt we þinne naman nede motan
þone halgestan her andettan
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and we on lofe þinum lungre weorðan
ofer werðeode wuldre geherede.
Wese Israhela god aa gebletsad
on worulda woruld, wealdend drihten,
and þæt fægere becweðe folca æghwylc;
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wese swa, wese swa þurh eall wide ferhð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 106
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic andette ecne drihten,
þæne goodan god, forðan ic hine gleawne wat;
is his mildheortnes mycel to worulde.
Secge þæt nu ða, þæt hi sylfa god
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alysde, lifes weard, laðum of handa,
and hi of sidfolcum gesamnade.
Fram uppgange æryst sunnan
oþþæt heo gewiteð on westrodur
and fram sæ norðan swycedan geond westen;
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ne meahton ceastre weg cuðne mittan,
þe hi eardunge on genaman.
Hæfde hi hungor and þurst heard gewyrded,
þæt him frecne on feorh aðolude.
And hi þa on þære costunge cleopedan to dryhtne,
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and he hi of þam earfeðum eallum alysde.
Hi þa gelædde lifes ealdor,
þær hi on rihtne weg ricene eodan,
oðþæt hi cuðlice on becwoman
to hiora cestre eardungstowe.
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Forðon hi mildheortnesse mihtigan drihtnes
ealle andettað, and eac sæcgeað
mycel wundur hys manna bearnum.
Forðon he gesedeð sawle idle,
and þa hungrian her mid godum
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fæste gefylleð to feore syþþan,
þa þe her on ðystrum þrage sæton
and on deaðes scuan deorcum lifdan,
gebundene bealuwe feterum
on wædle wrace and on iserne.
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Forðon hi dydan drihtnes spræce
æghwæs ægype, and his geðeaht swylce
þæs heahstan him hæfdan on bysmer.
Hiora heorte wæs hean on gewinnum
and untrume ealle wæran,
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næfdan þa on foldan fultum ænne.
Hi on costunge cleopedan to drihtne,
and he hi of þam earfoðum eallum alysde.
And he hi of þam þystrum þanon alædde
and of deaðes scuan deorcum generede
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and heora bendas towearp bitre sneome.
Forðan hi mildheort mod mihtigan drihtnes
ealle andettan, and eac cweþan
mycel wundur his ofer manna bearn.
Forðon he æren dor eaðe gescæneð
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and iserne steng ana gebigeð.
He hi of unrihtum ealle swylce
þam wraðan wege wis alædeð,
þær hi wæron on woo ær wraðe besmitene.
Hi onhysctan æghwylcne mete,
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mode mægen heora, oð unmihte,
þæt hy wið deaða duru drencyde wæran.
þa hi on costunge cleopedan to drihtne,
and he hi of þam earfoþum eallum alysde.
He him wisfæstlic word onsende,
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þurh þæt hi hrædlice hælde wæron
and of heora forwyrde wurdan generede.
Forðon hi nu andettan ecum drihtne,
þæt he milde wearð manna cynne;
mycel ys his wundur ofer manna bearn.
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Hi him sculon laces lof lustum bringan,
and his weorc wynsum wide sæcgean.
þa þe sæ seceað, mid scipe liðað,
wyrceað weorc mænig on wæterðryþum.
Hi drihtnes weorc digul gesawon
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and his wundra wearn on wætergrundum.
Gif he sylfa cwyð, sona ætstandað
ystige gastas ofer egewylmum,
beoð heora yþa up astigene.
þa to heofenum up heah astigað,
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nyþer gefeallað under neowulne grund;
oft þa on yfele eft aþindað.
Gedrefede þa deope syndan,
hearde onhrerede her anlicast,
hu druncen hwylc gedwæs spyrige;
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ealle heora snytru beoð yfele forglendred.
Hi on costunge cleopedan to drihtne,
and he hi of earfeðum eallum alysde.
He yste mæg eaðe oncyrran,
þæt him windes hweoðu weorðeð smylte,
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and þa yðe eft swygiað,
bliþe weorðað, þa þe brimu weþað.
And he hi on hælo hyþe gelædde,
swa he hira willan wyste fyrmest,
and he hig of earfoðum eallum alysde.
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Hi andettan ealle drihtne,
hu he milde wearð manna cynne;
mære synd his wundur ofer manna bearn.
Forðon hine on cyrcean cristenes folces
hean ahebbað, and him hælu and lof
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on sotelum soðfæstra secgean to worulde.
He on westenne wynne streamas
soðfæst sette, þær he sarig folc
geðewde þurste þa blissade.
He ða weaxendan wende eorðan
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on sealtne mersc for synndædum
þara eardendra, þe hire on lifdan.
Westen he geworhte on widne mere,
and swylce eorðan eac butan wætre
on utgange æþelast burnan.
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þær he hungrium ham staðelude,
and þær gesetton swylce ceastre,
þær hi eard namon awa syþþan.
Hi wingeardas wyrcean ongunnon,
sæde seowan, syþþan growan
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lungre land heora aloden wæstmum.
þa he bletsade, and hi brade þa
weoxan weorðlice, wide greowan;
næs heora neata nan geyfelad.
Oft hi fea wurdan feondum geswencte
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fram þære costunge þe him becwom æfter,
sares and yfeles, þe hi syþþan begeat.
Syððan hi forhogedan halige lare;
hiora ealdormen ealle wæron
sare beswicene, swicedan oftust
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and on wegas werige wendan hwilum of.
þær he þearfendra þa miltsude,
and hi of wædle wean alysde,
sette heora staðol sceapum anlice.
Syþþan þæt soðfæste geseoð, sniome æfter
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bliðe weorðað, beot geþenceað,
þæt unrihta gehwylc eft oncyrreð
and his sylfes muð symble hemneð.
Hwylc is wisra nu wel snotera,
þe þas mid gehygde healdan cunne,
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and milde mod mihtigan drihtnes
full gleawlice ongite syþþan?
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 107
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ys min heorte gearu, halig drihten,
gearu is min heorte, þæt ic gode cweme,
sealmas singe soþum drihtne.
Aris nu, wuldur min, þæt ic wynlice
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on psalterio þe singan mote,
and ic ðe on hleoðre hearpan swylce
on ærmergen eac gecweme.
Ic þe andette, ece drihten,
on folca gehwam fægrum wordum,
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and ic þe on ðeodum on þanc mote
sealmas singan swyþe geneahhe.
Is þin mildheort mod mycel oð heofenas
ahafen healice ofer hæleða bearn;
ys þin soðfæstnes seted oþ wolcen.
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Ahafen þu eart ofer heofenas, halig drihten;
is wuldur ðin wide swylce
ofer þas eorðan ealle mære,
and þine þa gecorenan wesan clæne and alysde.
Do me þin swyðre hand swylce halne
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and me gehyre, hælynd drihten,
þe on halgum spreceð her on eorðan:
"And ic blissige, bu gedæle,
þa selegesceotu, þa on Sycimam nu
and on Metibor mære standað.
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Min is Galaad, gearwe Mannases,
is Effrem his agen broður
efne heah strengðu heafdes mines.
Ic me to cyninge cenne Iudas,
syndan me Moabitingas magas swylce;
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ic Idumea ealle cenne
and min gescy þyder sendan þence;
syndan me fremde cynn fæste underþeoded."
Hwylc gelædeð me on lifes byrig
fæste getrymede, þæt ic forð þanon
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on Idumea wese eft gelæded?
Hwæt, þu eart se sylfa god, þe us synnige iu
adrife fram dome; ne do þu æfre swa,
þæt þu of urum mægene mod acyrre.
Syle us on earfoðum æþelne fultum;
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forþon hælu byð her on eorðan
manna gehwylces mægene idel.
Us sceal mægenes gemet mihtig drihten
soðfæst syllan, and he sona mæg
ure feond gedon fracuþe to nawihte.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 108
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nelle ic lofes þines, lifigende god,
geswigian, þeah þe me synfulra
inwitfulra muðas on ganian.
Hio þa innwit feala ywdan on tungan,
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and me wraðra wearn worda spræcon,
fæcne firenlicu, and afuhtan me
ealle earwunga ungemete swyðe.
Hi me wið lufan laþum dædum
torne telnysse teodan mænige;
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ic him a gebæd ungemete georne.
Hi me yfel settan a wið goode
and feounge for minre lufan.
Gesete him synnfulle symble to ealdrum,
stande him on þa swyþeran hand swylce deoful.
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Gange of dome gehwam deope gehyned,
and him his gebed hweorfe to fyrenum.
Gewurðe him weste eall his onwunung
and on hys eardungstowe næfre gewurþe
þæt þær on gewunige awiht lifigendes.
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Wesan him dagas deorce and dimme and feawe,
and his bisceophad brucan feondas.
Weorðan his agene bearn ealle steopcild
and his wif wyrðe wydewe hreowlic.
Syn his bearn swylce toboren wide,
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and he ut weorpe earme þearfan,
þonne hi to his huse hleowes wilnian.
Ealle his æhta unholde fynd
rice reðemann rycene gedæle,
and his feoh onfon fremde handa.
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Ne him ahwær wese ænig fultum,
ne his steopcildum stande to helpe.
Gangan ealle his bearn on ece forwyrd,
and on anum cneowe eall gewyrðe
his nama nyhsta nede adilgad.
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Eall þæt unriht þe his ealdras ær
manes gefremedan, on gemynd cume
and on ansyne ures drihtnes;
ne adilgode wesan deorce fyrene,
þa his modur ær mane fremede.
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Wesan hi wið drihtne dædum swylce,
and hine adilgie dome ealne
of ðysse eorðan awa to feore.
Næs him milde gemynd on modsefan,
and he þearfendra ðriste ehte;
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symble þæt on heortan hogode geornust,
hu he mid searuwe swylce acwealde.
He wolde wergðu wyrcean georne,
and hine seo ylce on eft gesette;
nolde he bletsunge biddan ne tilian,
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forðon hio him wæs afyrred of ferhðcofan.
He hine gegyrede mid grame wyrgðu,
swa he hine wædum wræstum geteode,
and sio his innað ywde swylce
wan wætere gelic and wynele,
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se þe banes byrst beteð and hæleð.
Wese he hrægle gelic þe her hraðe ealdað,
and gyrdelse, ðe hine man gelome gyrt.
þis is weorc þara þe oft wraðe me
trage tældan; tyne hine dryhten
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þam þe sar sprece sawle minre.
And þu, min drihten god, do me þine nu
mycle mildheortnesse for þinum þam mæran naman,
swa ðu oft þin milde mod manegum cyðdest.
Alys me, lifes weard, forþan ic eom lama þearfa;
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is me heorte on hearde gedrefed.
Ic eom scuan gelic swyþe ahylded,
oðlæded godum swa se gærshoppa.
Me synt cneowu swylce cwicu unhale
for fæstenum; is min flæsc swylce
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for fægrum ele frecne onwended;
eom ic to edwitstæfe eallum geworden.
Swa hi me gesawon, sona hig wegdan,
hrerdan heora heafod; help min, drihten god,
and me halne gedo, hælynde Crist,
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for þinre þære myclan mildheortnysse.
þæt hi soð witan, þæt si þin sylfes hand
and þu þas gedydest, drihten usser.
Weorðan þa awyrgde, wes þu gebletsad;
and þa þe me mid unryhte ænige styrian,
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and hi þær sceande sylfe agon;
wese þin esne on þe ungemete bliðe.
Syn ða butan are ealle gegyrede
þe me tælnysse teonan ætfæstan,
and him si abrogden swa of brechrægle
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hiora sylfra sceamu swyþust ealra.
Ic on minum muðe mihta drihtnes
ealle andette, and eac swylce
hine on midle manna herige.
He sylfa gestod on ða swyðran hand,
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þær he þearfendra þinga teolode;
he mine sawle swylce gehealde
wið ehtendra egsan griman.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 109
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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hefige gefylleð;
heafod he gebreceð hæleða mæniges
and swa geweorðeð wide geond eorðan.
þa þe on wege weorðað, wætres æt hlimman
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deopes ondrincað; beoð þy dædfromran,
and forðon hiora heafod hebbað syþþan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 110
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic andytte þe, ece drihten,
mid hyge ealle heortan minre
for gesamnuncge þæra soðfæstra
and on gemetingum mycel drihtnes weorc.
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Swylce ic his willan wylle georne
swyþe secean, samed andettan,
hu his mægenþrymnes mycellic standeð
and his soðfæstnyss wunað symble ece.
He gemynd dyde mærra wundra;
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mildheort he is and modig; mihtig drihten
syleð eallum mete þam þe his ege habbað.
And he on worulde wearð gemyndig
his gewitnesse, þe he wel swylce
myhtum miclum and mærweorcum
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fægrum gefylde and to his folce cwæð,
þæt he him wolde yrfe ellþeodigra
on agene æht eall gesyllan.
Ys his handgeweorc hyge soðfæstra,
ryhte domas, þa he ræran wyle;
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wærun his bebodu ealle treowfæste,
on ealra weorulda weoruld wurdan soðfæste
and on rihtnysse ræda getrymede.
He alysinge leofum folce
soðe onsende and him swylce bebead,
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þæt hi on ecnysse a syððan
his gewitnesse well geheoldan
and his þone halgan naman hæfdan mid egsan.
þæt byð secga gehwam snytru on frymðe,
þæt he godes egesan gleawe healde,
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and þæt byð andgit good eallum swylce
þe hine wyllað well wyrcean and healdan.
Herenes drihtnes her sceal wunian,
on worulda woruld wynnum standan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 111
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eadig byð se wer se þe him ege drihtnes
on ferhðcleofan fæste gestandeð,
and his bebod healdeð bealde mid willan.
He on eorðan byð eadig and spedig,
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and his cneorisse byð cyn gebletsad.
Him wuldur and wela wunað æt huse,
byð his soþfæstnys swylce mære,
þenden þysse worulde wunaþ ænig dæl.
Leoht wæs on leodum leofum acyðed,
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þam þe on ðystrum þrage lifdan
and hiora heortan heoldan mid rihte;
milde is on mode mihtig dryhten,
and he ys soðfæst symble æt þearfe.
Glæd man gleawhydig, god and mildheort,
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seteð soðne dom þurh his sylfes word,
se on ecnysse eadig standeð.
Byð on eceum gemynde æghwylc þæra
þe his soðe and riht symble healdeð,
ne him on hlyste mycelum ondrædeð
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awiht on ealdre yfeles syððan.
Byð his heorte gearo hyhte to drihtne
getrymed and getyhted, þæt him teonan ne mæg
fæcne ætfæstan feonda ænig,
ac he ealle forsyhð æghwær georne.
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Se þe his æhta ealle tostredeð
and þearfendum þa gedæleð,
his soðfæstnyss wunað symble oð ende;
byð his horn wended her on wuldur.
Swa þæt synfull gesyhð, sona yrsað,
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toþum torn þolað, teonum grimetað,
þearle þindeð, oþþæt þonne byð,
þæt fyrenfulra lust fæcne forweorðeð.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 112
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Herigean nu cnihtas hælynd drihten,
and naman dryhtnes neode herigan.
Wese nama dryhtnes neode gebletsad
of ðyssan forð awa to worulde.
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Fram upgange æryst sunnan
oðþæt heo wende on westrodur
ge sculon dryhtnes naman dædum herigean.
He is ofer ealle ingeþeode
se heahsta hæleða cynnes,
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is ofer heofenas eac ahafen his wuldur.
Hwylc ys anlic urum dryhtne,
þam halgan gode, þe on heofonrice
eadig eardað, ofer ealle gesyhð,
þa eadmedu æghwær begangæð
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on eorðwege, up on heofenum?
He of eorðan mæg þone unagan
weccan to willan, and of woruftorde
þone þearfendan þriste areccan,
And hine on ealdordom upp asettan
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his folces fruman on fæger lif.
Se þe eard seteð unwæstmbærre
on modor hus manigra bearna;
hio ofer hire suna symblað and blissað.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 113
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þa ut eode Israheles cynn
and of ægyptum ealle foran
Iacobes hus of gramum folce,
þa elreordige ealle wæron.
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þa wæs geworden werude Iudea,
þæt heo hæl gehlutan haliges syþþan;
hæfdan ealdurdom ofer Israhelas,
mihta mære and mycel rice.
Swa heo sæ geseah, he hio sniome fleah,
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for him Iordanen gengde on hinder.
Hæfdan þær beorgas bliðe sæle
and rammum þa restan gelice;
wæron geswyru swyðe on blisse,
swa on sceapum beoð sceone lambru.
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Hwæt wæs þe, sæ swiþa? Forhwan fluge þu swa?
Oððe þu, Iordanen, for hwi gengdest on bæcling?
Beorgas wæron bliðe, gebærdon swa rammas;
wurdan gesweoru on seledreame,
swa on sceapum beoð sceone lambru.
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For ansyne ecan dryhtnes
þeos eorþe sceal eall abifigan
and for Iacobes gode geara forhtigean.
He wendeð stan on widne mere,
and clifu cyrreð on cwicu swylce
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wæteres wellan mid his gewealdendre hand.
Nalæs us, nalæs us, nergend dryhten,
ac we naman þinum neode secgeað
wuldur wide geond woruldricu,
For ðinre þære myclan mildheortnysse
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and for þinre soðfæstnysse samed ætgædere,
þy læs þæt æfre cweðan oðre þeode:
"Hwær is heora agen god ahwær nu ða?"
Ys ure se halga god on heofondreame
uppe mid englum, and he eall gedeð,
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swa his willa byð, on woruldrice.
þa wæron deofulgild deorce hæþenra
golde and seolfre, þa her geara menn
worhtan wigsmiðas wræste mid folmum.
þa muð habbað, and ne magon hwæþere
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wiht hleoðrian ne word sprecan;
beoð onforan eagan, ne magon feor geseon.
Earan habbað swylce and opene nose,
ne magon eþian, awyht gehyran.
Handa hi habbað, ne hio hwæðere magon
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gegrapian godes awiht,
and fet habbað, ne magon feala gangan.
Ne cleopigað hi care, þeah þe hi ceolan habban,
ne him hluttur gast on hracan eardað.
Ac heo wæron þam wyrcendum wel gelice
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and æghwylcum, þe him on treowað.
Israhela hus ærest on drihten
helpe gehogedan, holdne begeaton
fælne fultum; he hi wið feondum geheold.
Aarones hus eac on dryhten
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leofne gelyfdan; he him liðe wearð
and him fultum gestod fæste æt þearfe.
þa ðe a wegen egsan dryhtnes,
hio hyht heora habban on drihten,
he him fultum fæste gestandeð
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and him scyldend byð symble æt þearfe.
Weorð þu ure gemyndig, mihtig dryhten,
and þine bletsunge bring ofer us;
þu gebletsudest bearn Israheles,
Aarones hus eac gebletsadest;
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þu gebletsadest bliðe mode
ealle þa þe on ðe egsan hæfdan,
mycle and mæte ofer middangeard.
Gemænigfealdige þis mihtig dryhten
ofer eow ealle and ofer agene bearn.
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Wesað ge fram gode geara gebletsade,
þam þe heofon worhte, hrusan swylce;
heofonas healdeð halig dryhten,
sealde þas moldan manna bearnum.
Næfre þe, dryhten, deade heriað,
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ne ealle þa þe heonan helle seceað.
Ac we lifigende leofne dryhten
balde bletsigað, ne þæs blinnað nu
of ðyssan forð awa to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 114
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic lufie þe, leofa drihten,
forþan þu mines gebedes bene gehyrdest.
And þu þin eare to me eadmodlice
hold ahyldest and gehyrdest me,
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þa ic þe on dagum minum dyrne cigde.
þar me ymbsealde swylde deaðes,
and me frecne ætfeah fyrhtu helle.
Me costung and sar cnyssedan geneahhe,
þonne ic naman drihtnes nyde cigde.
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Eala þu leofa god, alys mine nu
sawle on gesyntum; ic to soþan wat,
þæt þu wære mildheort, mihtig dryhten,
and ure god æghwæs soðfæst;
mihta us þine milde weorðan.
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Drihten gehealdeð dome þa lytlan;
ic hean gewearð, he me hraðe lysde.
Gecyr mine sawle clæne on þine
rædæs reste, rice drihten;
þu me wel dydest on woruldlife.
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Forþon þu mine sawle sylfa generedyst,
and hig of deopum deaþe gelæddest;
eagan mine wið tearum æghwær geheolde
and fet mine wið færslide;
ic gelicie leofum drihtne
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on lifigendra lande nu ða.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 115
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þæt gelyfde, forþon ic lyt sprece;
ic eom eadmede ungemete swiðe.
Swylce ic sylfa cwæð, þa me swa ðuhte
on modseofan minum geþancum,
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þæt wæron ealle menn ungemete lease.
Hwæt mæg ic to gode gyldan dryhtne
for eallum þam godum þe he me ærur dyde?
Ic her hælu calic hæbbe befangen,
and naman dryhtnes neode cige.
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Beorht ys and fæger beacen dryhtne
on his gesyhðe swylt haligra.
Eala, ic eom þin agen esne, dryhten,
and þin swylce eom scealc ombehte
and þinre þeowan sunu on ðe acenned.
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þu me tobræce bendas grimme,
þæt ic þe laces lof lustum secge.
Ic min gehat halgum dryhtne
on his getynum tidum gylde,
þe ymb dryhtnes hus deore syndan,
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þær hit eagum folc eall sceawiað,
and on Hierusalem georne midre.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 116
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ealle þeode ecne drihten
mid hygecræfte herigan wordum,
and hine eall folc on efn æðelne herigan.
Forþon his mildheortnyss is mycel ofer us
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torhtlice getrymed, til mancynne,
and soðfæstnys swylce dryhtnes
wunað ece awa to feore.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 117
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic andette ecum dryhtne
þam godan gode; ic hine gleawne wat;
ys his mildheortnys mycel to worulde.
þæt Israela cwæðan ealle nu ða,
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þe he is se goda god, and gearu standeð
his mildheortnys mære to worulde.
Cweðe Aarones hus eac þæt sylfe;
he ys se goda god, and gearu standeð
his mildheortnys mære to worulde.
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Cweðan ealle þæt unforcuðe,
þe him on standeð egsa dryhtnes;
forðon he ys se goda god, and gearu standeð
his mildheortnys mære on worulde.
Ic on costunge cigde to dryhtne,
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and he me gehyrde on heare brædu.
Nu me fultum is fæle dryhten,
nis me ege mannes for ahwæðer.
Nu me fultum ys fæle dryhten,
ic fracuþe forseo feondas mine.
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God ys on dryhten georne to þenceanne,
þonne on mannan wese mod to treowianne.
God ys on dryhten georne to hyhtanne,
þonne on ealdormen ahwær to treowianne.
Ealle me ymbsealdon side þeode,
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and ic wæs on dryhtnes naman deorum gehæled.
Me ymbstodan strange manige,
and me godes nama on him georne gehælde.
þa hi me ymbsealdon samod anlice
swa beon bitere, oððe þu bærne eac
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þornas þyre þicce fyre,
þær me nama dryhtnes neode scylde.
Ic wæs hearde cnyssed and ic me helpe fand,
þæt ic fæste ne feoll, ac ic me frofre begeat,
þa me dryhten onfeng, swa hit gedefe wæs.
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Me wæs strengðu strang stiþ on dryhtne
and herenes heah, and he me eac
ys a to worulde worden on hælu.
A byð blisse stefn beorht gehyred
on soðfæstra swæsum muðe.
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Dyde gedefe mægen dryhtnes swyðre,
and me seo swyðre swylce drihtnes
ahof hrædlice æt heahþearfe.
Ne swelte ic mid sare, ac ic gesund lifige
and weorc godes wide secge.
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Se clænsude, se þe him clæne wæs;
dryhten ælmihtig nolde to deaðe me
on ecnysse æfre gesyllan.
Undoð me sniome duru soðfæstra eac,
þær ic gange inn, gode andette;
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soðfæste on þa duru seceað inngang.
Ic þe andette, ece dryhten,
forðon þu me gehyrdest æt heahþearfe
and me þa gewurde wis on hælu.
þone sylfan stan þe hine swyðe ær
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wyrhtan awurpan, nu se geworden is
hwommona heagost; halig dryhten
to wealles wraðe wis teofrade;
þæt is urum eagum eall wundorlic.
þis ys se dæg þe hine drihten us
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wisfæst geworhte wera cneorissum,
eallum eorðtudrum eadgum to blisse.
Eala þu dryhten god, do me halne;
eala þu dryhten min, do us gesunde.
Gebletsad is, se þe com ofer bearna gehwylc
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on dryhtnes naman dædum mærum;
we eow æt godes huse gearwe bletsiað,
nu us drihten god deore onlyhte.
Wutan us to symbeldæge settan georne,
and ðone gelome lustum healdan
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oð wigbedes wræste hornas.
þu eart min dryhten god, and ic dædum þe
ecne andette;
þu eart min hælend god, and ic herige ðe.
Ic ðe andette ecne dryhten,
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forðon þu me gehyrdest æt heahþearfe,
and þa wurde me wis to hælu.
Eac ic andette eceum dryhtne,
forðon he ys se goda god, and ic ful geare wat,
þæt þin mildheortnyss ys mycel to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 118
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eadige beoð on wege, þa þe unwemme
on hiora dryhtnes æ deore gangað.
Eadige beoð swylce, þa þe a wyllað
his gewitnesse wise smeagan,
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and hine mid ealle innancundum
heortan hordcofan helpe biddað.
Ne magon manwyrhtan mægene feran
on his mærne weg, mihtigan drihtnes.
þu þine bebodu bealde hete
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ealle eorðbuend elne haldan.
Ic þæs la wisce, þæt wegas mine
on ðinum willan weorþan gereahte,
þæt ic þin agen bebod elne healde.
Ne beo ic þonne on ealdre æfre gescynded,
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gif ic on ealle þine bebodu elne locie.
Ic þe andette, ece dryhten,
mid minre heortan holde geþance
on þan þe ic geleornode and gelæstan mæg,
þæt ic þine domas dædum healde.
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And ic þine soðfæstnysse swylce mote
on hyge healdan, þæt þu huru me
on ðyssum ealdre ænne ne forlæte.
On hwan mæg se iunga on godne weg
rihtran þe rædran ræd gemittan,
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þonne he þine wisan word gehealde?
Ic þe mid ealre innancundre
heortan sece; ne þu huru me
fram þinum bebodum feor adrife.
Forðon ic on minre heortan hydde georne,
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þæt ic þinre spræce sped gehealde,
þy læs ðe ic gefremme fyrene ænige.
þu eart gebletsud, bliþe dryhten;
lær me mid lufan, hu ic læste well
and ic þine soðfæstnysse sweotule cunne.
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Ic on minum welerum wordum secge
ealles þines muðes meahte domas.
And ic on wege swylce wynnum gange,
þær ic ðine gewitnesse wat ful clæne,
swa ic ealra welena willum bruce.
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Swa ic on þine soðfæstnysse soðe getreowe,
þæt ic ne weorðe worda þinra
ealra ofergittul awa to feore.
Ic on þinre soðfæstnysse symble meteode,
þæt ic þine wislicu word geheolde.
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Gild þinum esne gode dæde;
ic on lifdagum lustum healde
þinra worda waru mid wisdome.
Onwreoh þu mine eagan, þæt ic wel mæge
on þinre æ eall sceawian
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wundur wræclicu, þa þu worhtyst ær.
Ic eom on eorðan earm bigenga;
ne do þu me dyrne þine þa deoran bebodu.
þæt sawul min symble wilnað,
þæt ic þin soðfæst word gesund mote
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on ealle tid elne healdan.
þu oferhydige ealle þreadest,
þa þu awyrgde wistest gearuwe
and þine bebodu efnan noldan.
Afyr þu fram me facen and edwit,
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oððe ic oferhydige awiht wylle;
forðan ic þine gewitnesse wylle secan.
Ac nu ealdormenn ealle ætgædere
sæton on seldum, swyþe spræcon,
and wið me wraðum wordum scirdan;
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hwæþere þin esne elnes teolode,
þæt he þine soðe word snotur beeode.
Me wæs þin gewitnys wyrð and getreowe,
and ic hi on mode metegie georne
and me to frofre wat, þæt ic forð heonun
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his soðfæstnysse sece georne.
ætfealh min sawul flore geneahhige;
do me æfter þinum wordum wel gecwician.
Ic þe wegas mine wise secge,
and þu me gehyrdest holde mode;
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lær me on life, hu ic lengest mæge
þine soðfæstnysse selest gehealdan.
þu me soðfæstnysse weg swylce getacna,
þæt ic on þinum wundrum me wel begange.
Min sawl aslep, þa me sorh begeat
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for langunga; læt me nu þa
on þinum wordum weorðan trumne.
Afyr fram me unryhte wegas,
and me on þinre æ geweorþ ealles milde.
Ic me wise geceas wegas soðfæste;
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ne weorðe ic þinra doma gedweled æfre.
Swa ic fæste ætfealh, þæt ic forð heonun
þine gewitnysse wel geheolde;
ne wylt þu me on ealdre æfre gescyndan.
Nu ic on wisne weg worda þinra
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reðne rinne, and þu rice nu
mine heortan geheald on hyge brade.
æ þu me sete, ece dryhten,
þæt ic on soðfæste wegas symble gange
and ic þa secan symble mote.
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Syle me andgit eac, þæt ic æ þine
smeage mid soðe, swylce healde
on ealre minre heortan holde mode.
Gelæd me on stige, þær ic stæpe mine
on þinum bebodum bryce hæbbe,
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forðan ic hy mid soðe symble wolde.
Ahyld mine heortan, þæt ic halige nu
on þine gewitnysse wise gecyrre;
nalæs me gitsung forniman mote.
Gewend þu mine eagan, þy læs ic weorc idel
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gese þurh synne, ac me on soðne weg
þinne þone leofan læde cwiculice.
Sete ðinum esne oðer swylce,
þæt he þine spræce sped leornige
and þa on ege þinum ealle healde.
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þu me scealt edwitt min of awyrpan,
þæt me to incan ahwær gangeð;
forþon ic eom on þinum domum gedefe glæd.
Efne ic þine bebodu bealde wolde
wis wylle gegan; wene ic swylce,
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þæt þu me on rihtes ræd gecwycige.
And me ofer cume, ece dryhten,
þæt milde mod, mære hælu
æfter þinre spræce spowendlice.
And ic andwyrde þam þe me edwitstafas
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wordum wrað cweþað, þæt ic gewene on ðe
and on þinum wordum wære hæbbe.
Ne afyr þu me æfre fæle spræce,
þa ic me on muðe mægene hæbbe,
and ic soðfæst word on sylfan healde,
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þæt ic on ðinra doma dæde getreowige.
And ic æ þine efne and healde,
and to worulde on ðære wunian mote
and on ecnysse efnan and healdan.
And ic on bealde brædu gange,
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forðan ic þine gewitnysse wel getrymede.
And ic þæt fore cyningum cyðan mote,
þær hig eagum on locian,
hu me þin gewitnyss ys weorð and getreowe,
and on ðam ne beon æfre gescynded.
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And ic on þinum bebodum bealde mote
gemetegian swyþe mærne ræd,
forþan ic hi on lufan minre lange hæfde.
And ic mine handa hof gelome,
þær ic þine bebodu bryce lufade,
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þa ic mid ðysse þeode þearle begange,
and on ðine soðcwydas symble ic getreowige.
Gemun nu, dryhten, þines wordes,
on þam þu me þinum þeowe hyht gesealdest.
þas ic me on frofre fæste hæbbe
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on minum eaðmedum ungemete swyðe,
forðon me þin spræc spedum cwycade.
Oftust ofermodige unriht fremmað,
oþþæt hi on eorðan ealle forweorðað;
ic þinre æ a folgode.
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Ic wæs gemyndig mærra doma
þinra geþancol, ðeoden dryhten,
þæt ic on worulde æt ðe wurde afrefred.
Me wearð gemolten mod on hreðre
for fyrenfulra facendædum,
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þa hi æ þine anforleton.
Ac me to sange symble hæfde,
hu ic þine soðfæstnysse selest heolde,
þær ic on elelande ahte stowe.
Nede ic þæt gemunde nihta gehwylcre,
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þæt ic naman þinne nemde, dryhten,
and ic æ þine elne heolde.
þas me andweardum ealle gewurdan,
forþon ic þine soðfæstnysse sohte georne.
Me ys on dæle, dryhten user,
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cwide cynlice, þæt ic cwic wylle
þine æ healdan elne mycle.
Ic bidde þinre ansyne ungemete georne
mid ealre gehygde heortan minre,
þæt þu me on mode milde weorðe
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æfter þinre spræce spowendlice.
Swa ic wegas þine wise þence
to ferenne fotum minum,
þæt ic on þinre gewitnysse wel gefere.
Gearo ic eom symble, nalæs grames modes,
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þæt ic betst cunne þine bebodu healdan.
Me fyrenfulra fæcne rapas
ungemet geneahhie oft beclyptan;
næs ic ofergittul, þæt ic æ þine
mid hygecræfte heolde and læste.
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Ic æt midre niht mæla gehwylce
ricene arise, and hraðe gange
þær ic ðe andette eall ætgædere,
secge þine domas dædum rihte.
Ic eom dælneomend þe heom ondrædað þe,
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and þine halige bebodu healdað georne.
þeos eorðe is eall gefylled
þinre mildheortnesse, mihtig drihten;
þine soðfæstnesse þu me swylce lær.
þu ymb þinne esne æghwær dydest
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wel weorðlice; wene ic, drihten,
þæt þu þin word wylle wis gehealdan.
þu me þeodscipe lær þinne tilne
and wisdomes word to genihte,
forðon ic þin bebod þriste gelyfde.
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ærþon ic gehened hean gewurde,
ic agylte ungemetum swiðe;
hwæðere ic þine spræce geheold sped on mode.
God þu eart, drihten, and me god swylce
on þinum tile gelær, þæt ic teala cunne
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þin soðfæst weorc symble healdan.
Ys nu mænigfeald ofer me man and unriht
oferhydigra; ic nu mid ealre
minre heortan hige hycge swiðe,
þæt ic þin bebod beorht atredde.
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Ys heora heorte nu her anlicast
swa meoluc wese mægene gerunnen;
ic æ þine ungemete georne
on modsefan minum healde.
Selre me wæs and seftre, þæt þu sylfa me
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heane gehnægdest, and ic hraðe syþþan
þin soðfæst weorc wel leornade.
Me is micle betere, þæt ic bebodu healde,
ðines muðes gemet, þonne mon me geofe
geara ðusende goldes and seolfres.
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Handa me ðine holde geworhton
and gehiwedan mid higecræfte;
syle me nu andgyt, þæt ic eall mæge
þine bliðe bebodu beorhte leornian.
þa ðe on feore forhtigað, þa me on fægere geseoð
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and blissiað, bu geðenceað,
þæt ic þinum wordum wel getreowde.
Ic þæt, dryhten, ongeat, domas þine
reðe rihtwise, and ðu ricene me
on ðinre soðfæstnesse dydest samed eadmedne.
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Wese þin milde mod mihtum geswiðed,
and me to frofre fæste gestande,
swa ðu on þinre spræce sped gehete
þinum agenum esne æt þearfe.
Cumen me ðine miltsa mihtum geswyþede,
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and ic lange on þam lifian mote;
forðon me is metegung on modsefan,
hu ic æ þine efnast healde.
Beon þa oferhydegan ealle gescende,
þe me unrihte ahwær gretan;
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ic þine bebodu bealde gegange.
Gehweorfen to me, þa þe hyldu to ðe
egsan ahtan, and ealle þa
ðe þine gewitnesse wise cuðan.
Wese heorte min on hige clæne
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and ic on þin soðfæst word symble getreowige,
þæt ic on ealdre ne wese æfre gescended.
Min saul gewearð swancur on mode,
þær ic on þinre hælu hogode and sohte,
hu ic on þinum wordum wel getrywade.
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Eagan me swylce eac teoredon,
þær on þinre spræce spede eodan;
cwædon cynlice: "Hwa cwicenne me
on ðysum ealdre eft frefrade?"
Ic eom nu geworden werum anlicast,
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swa þu on hrime setest hlance cylle;
ne eom ic ofergyttol, þæt ic ealle nu
þine soðfæste weorc smicere healde.
Hwæt synt þinum esne ealra dagena,
þe þu mine ehtend for me ealle gedeme?
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Me manwyrhtan manige on spellum
sægdon soðlice; na ic hit swa oncneow,
swa hit þin æ hafað, ece dryhten.
Wærun þine ealle gebann æðele and soðfæst;
min ehtan oft unrihtwyrhtan;
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gefultuma me fægere, drihten.
Hio me lytle læs laþe woldan
ðisses eorðweges ende gescrifan;
ic þin gebod þa ne wolde
on þysum ealdre anforlætan.
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æfter ðinre þære myclan mildheortnesse
weorð me, mihtig god, milde and bliðe;
and ic gewitnesse wel gehealde
muþes þines, þe þu men lærdest.
On ecnesse awa, drihten,
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þin word wunað weorð on heofenum.
And on worulda woruld wunað ece forð
þin soðfæstnes swylce, dryhten.
ðu þas eorðan ealle worhtest,
swa heo nu to worulde wunian ðenceað;
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þurh þinra dæda sped dagas her gewuniað,
forðon ðu ealles anweald hafast.
þær me þin æ an ne hulpe,
ðe ic on mode minum hæfde,
þonne ic wende on woruldlife,
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þæt ic on minum eadmedum eall forwurde.
Ne mæg ic þæs æfre forgytan on ecnesse,
nymðe ic soð word symble gehealde;
forþon ic cuðlice on ðæm her nu cwicu lifige.
Ic eom þin hold scealc; do ðu halne me,
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forðon ic þin soð weorc sece geneahhe.
Me fyrenfulle fæcne seceað,
wyllað me laðe lifes asecean;
ic ðine gewitnesse wat and sohte.
Ic soð geseah and swylce wat,
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ealre þysse worulde wurðeð ende;
brad is þin gebann and beorht swyðe.
Hu ic æ þine, ece drihten,
lustum lufode; ic þæt lange dyde,
þæt ic þa on mode metegade georne.
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þu me snoterne gedydest swylce ofer mine
feondas on foldan fæcne ealle;
forðon ic beorhtlice þine bebodu læste.
Ofer ealle þa þe me ær lærdon,
ic þæs hæfde andgyt æghwær gleawast,
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þæt ic þine gewitnesse wise sohte.
Ic þæt ofer yldran oncneow and þæt a geheold,
þæt ic þine bebodu bliðe geheolde.
Ic minum fotum fæcne siðas
þa wraþan wegas werede georne,
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þæt ic þine word mihte wel gehealdan.
Na ic fram þinum domum dædum swicade,
forðon þu me æbebod ærest settest.
Me is on gomum god and swete
þin agen word, ece drihten;
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hit is halwende, hunige mycle
and beobreade betere and swetre.
On bebodum ðinum ic me betst oncneow,
þæt ic unrihte wegas ealle ofeode,
forðon þu me æ þine ær gesettest.
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þæt is fæle blacern fotum minum,
þæt ic þin word, drihten, wel gehealde,
and þæt ys þæt strange leoht stige minre.
Ic aðas swor and eac hycge,
þæt ic soðne dom symble healde.
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And ic eadmedu ungemetum georne
efnan þence; forgif me, ece god,
þæt ic æfter ðinum wordum weorðe bliðe.
Mines muðes me modes willa
on heahsælum hraðe gebringe,
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and me þine domas alær, drihten, swylce.
Is sawl min symble on ðinum
holdum handum, ne ic þine þa halgan æ
on ðysum ealdre forgitan æfre þence.
Me firenfulle fæcne gyrene
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awriþan wraðe, and ne wolde ic
fram þinum bebodum feor geswican.
Ic me eowde begeat, æðele hæbbe
þine gewitnesse wel getreowe
on ecnesse awa to feore;
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þæt byð heahbliss heortan minre.
Ahylde ic mine heortan holde mode,
þæt ic þin soðfæst weorc symble worhte;
forðon ic ðæs ece edlean hæbbe.
And ic synfulle symble feode,
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and ic æ þine elne lufade.
þu me fultumian scealt, fæle gestandan
and andfenga æghwær æt ðearfe,
and ic on þin word wel getreowe.
Gewitað fram me, þe awyrgede synt,
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þenden ic godes bebodu georne smeage.
Onfoh me freondlice, fæle drihten,
æfter þam þe þu sylfa sægdest and cwæde,
þæt ic sceolde lifigan lange ðrage;
ne gescend me on siðe, nu ic þin swa onbad.
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Gefultuma me fæste; ðonne beo ic fægere hal,
and ic þine soðfæstnysse symble þence.
Ealle ðu forhogodest, ða ðe unrihtes
wæran wyrhtan; wat ic gearewe,
þæt heo on unriht ealle þohtan.
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Ic oferhylmend ealle getealde,
þa on eorðan her yfele wæron,
forðon ic þine gewitnesse wyrðe lufade.
Gefæstna þinne egsan flæsce minum,
þæt ic me ondræde domas ðine.
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Ic soðne dom symble worhte;
ne syle þu me ehtendum æfre minum.
Onfoh þu þinum esne fægere mid gode,
þæt me oferhydige æfre ne motan
hearmcwyddian; hyldo ne gymað.
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Hwæt, me eagan mine atule gewurdan,
þær ic on ðinre hælo hyldo sohte
and on þinre spræce sped soðfæste.
Do þinum agenum esne swylce
mycel milde mod, and me mægene eac
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þin soðfæst word sylfa lære.
Ic eom esne þin; syle andgit, þæt ic
þine gewitnesse wel leornige.
þis is wynne tid, þæt man eac wel do,
drihten ure; ne læt ðu dole æfre
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þin æbebod ahwær toweorpan.
Forðon ic þin bebod beorhte lufode,
ða me georne synd golde deorran,
topazion þæra teala gimma.
Forðon ic eall þin bebod elne healde,
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and ic unrihte wegas ealle feoge.
Wundorlic is ðin gewitnes, wealdend dryhten;
forðon heo min sawl smeað and seceð georne.
Worda me þinra wise onleohteð,
beorhtnesse blæcern, and þu bealde sylest
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andgit eallum eorðbuendum.
Muð ic ontynde minne wide,
þæt me min oroð ut afæmde,
þær ic ðin bebod efnede mid willan.
Beseoh þu on me, and me syððan hraðe
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mære gemiltsa, swa ðu manegum dydest,
þe naman þinne nyde lufedon.
Gerece ðu me swylce, þæt ic on rihtne weg
æfter þinre spræce spedum gange,
þy læs min ænig unriht ahwær wealde.
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Ahrede me hearmcwidum heanra manna,
þæt ic ðine bebodu bealde healde.
Do þine ansyne esne þinum
leohte and leofe; lær me syþþan,
hu ic ðin soðfæst word selest gehealde.
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Eagan mine gesawon, hu yða gelaac,
wid gang wætera, wundrum gangeð;
swa ðam ilcum byð, þe ær nellað
þinre æ bebod elne healdan.
Drihten is soðfæst; synd his domas eac
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reðe mid ræde rihte gecyðde.
Hwæt, ðu soðfæst weorc symble hete
on þinre gewitnesse wel gehealdan;
ealles forgeaton, þa me grame wæron,
worda þinra and me wa dydan.
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Me heard ehtnes huses þines
on bearme me gebrohte oft,
ða þin word noldan wel gehealdan,
þa me feondas ær fæste wæron.
Is þin agen spræc innan fyren,
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sylf swiþe hat, and symble ða
þin esne her ealle lufade.
Ic wæs on geoguðe, grame me forhogedon;
næs ic ofergittol æfre hwæðere,
þæt ic þin soð weorc symble heolde.
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Is þin soðfæstnes symble, drihten,
seo soðfæste, and seo symble bið
on ecnesse awa to feore;
is þin swylce æðelnes and æ soðfæst.
Me costunga cnysdan geneahhe,
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and nearonessa naman gelome;
ac ic þine bebodu efnde and læste,
eac on minum mode hi metegade georne.
Ys me þin gewitnes weorðast and rihtast,
and ða me on ece andgyt hæbbe;
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syle me ða to soðe, and ic syþþan lifige.
Ic mid ealle ongann inngehygde
heortan minre hige to drihtne
ceare cleopian; he me cynlice
hraðe gehyrde, hyldo cuðe,
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þæt ic his soðfæstnesse sohte geneahhe.
Ic cleopode to ðe; do me cuðlice
halne, heahcyning, heofona wealdend,
hælende Crist; ic þæt hicge nu,
þæt ic ðine bebodu bliðe gehealde.
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And ic ðe on ripe forecom, and hraðe swylce
ceare cleopode; þu me cynlice
wel onfencge, wistest gearwe,
þæt ic on ðinum wordum wel getruwade.
þe eagan mine eac forecoman;
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on ærmergen ic elne ongann
þine spræce spyrian georne.
Gehyr mine stefne, halig drihten,
æfter ðinre þære myclan mildheortnesse,
and æfter þinum domum do me halne.
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Me syndon eahtend ungemete neah aa
and ða synfullan; syndan ealle hi
fram æ þinre unneah gewiten.
Wes me swiðe neah, wuldres drihten;
synt ealle þine wegas wise and cuðe.
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Ic gewitnesse wise þine
ongeat gleawlice, þæt þu geara hi
on ecnesse ær staþelodest.
Ac min eaðmedu geseoh eall ful georne,
genere niode, nu me ned belæg;
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forþon ic wolde æ þine elne healdan.
Dem minne dom and me deore alys;
for þinre spræce, do me spedlice
and cuðlice cwicne nu ða.
Wærun fyrenfulle feor fælre hælu;
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forðon hi þine soðfæstnesse secean noldan.
Miltsa synt þine, mihtig drihten;
æfter þinum domum do me cwicne.
Ic manige geseah, þe min ehton;
nolde ic cwic æfre swa þeah hwæðere
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þine gewitnesse wræste forlætan.
Ic manige geseah men þa þe noldan
heora friðowære fæste healdan,
and ic þand wið þan þe hi teala noldan
þinre spræce sped gehealdan.
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Swylce ic sylf geseah, þæt ic þin soð bebod
lustum lufige, leofa drihten;
on þinre mildheortnesse me scealt acwician.
þæt is weorðlic fruma worda þinra,
þæt þær byð soð symble meted,
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and on ecnesse awa to feore
ealle þine domas synt dædum geseðde.
Min earwunga ehtan ongunnon
ealdurmanna gehwylc ungemete swiðe;
wearð me heorte forht, þær ic þin halig word
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on þinum egesan ærest æðelu tredde.
Ic blissige bealde mode
ofer ðinre spræce spede þa myclan,
swa se bið bliðe, se þe beorna reaf
manige meteð, þær hit mannum losað.
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And ic unrihta gehwylc elne feode
and onhyscte æghwær georne;
wolde ic æ þine elne lufian.
Swa ic þe seofon siþum symble wolde
leofum lustlice lofsang cweðan
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daga æghwylce, forþon ic þine domas wat
on soð fæste smicere gefylde.
þam bið sib mycel þe him þenceð,
þæt hi naman þinne neode lufien;
ne bið him æswic on þon æfre to feore.
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Ic þinre hælu bad, halig drihten,
and þine bebodu bealde lufode.
Hafað sawl min soð gehealden
þinre gewitnesse worda æghwylc,
and ic þa lustum lufade swiðe.
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Heold ic þine bebodu holde mode
and þine gewitnesse wordum trymede;
forðon ealle mine wegas wise syndan
on þinre gesihðe soðe, drihten.
Nu genealæceð neode minum
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gebedum bealde, þæt ic bidde nu
on þinre gesihðe symble, drihten;
æfter þinre spræce syle me spedlice,
þæt þu me generige niða gehwylces.
Ingange min ben, ece drihten,
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on þinre gesihðe symble æt þearfe;
æfter þinre spræce do spedlice,
ðæt ðu me generige niða gehwylces.
Nu mine weleras ðe wordum belcettað
ymnas elne, gif þu me ærest wylt
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þine soðfæstnesse sylfa læran.
Hwæt, tunge min teala foresægde,
hu þinre spræce spede eodan;
wærun eall þin bebodu æghwær rihtwis.
Syn me þine handa on hælu nu,
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and þæt domlice gedon weorðe;
forðon ic þine bebodu geceas bealde æt þearfe.
Ic þinre hælu her wilnade,
drihten ælmihtig; do me symble,
þæt ic æ þine elne metige.
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Leofað sawl min and þe lustum hereð,
and me þine domas dædum fultumiað.
Ic gedwelede swa þæt dysige scep,
þætte forweorðan wolde huru;
la, sece þinne esne elne, drihten;
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forðon ic þinra beboda ne forgeat beorhtra æfre.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 119
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic me to drihtne deorum cleopode,
þonne me costunga cnysdon geneahhe,
and he me gehyrde holde mode.
Alys mine sawle, lifes drihten,
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of þam welerum þe wom cweðen,
and from þære tungan þe teosu wylle.
Hwæt bið þe ealles seald oþþe eced swa
from þære inwitfullan yflan tungan?
Strele beoð scearpe, strange and mihtige,
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syððan of gledon wesað gearwe ahyrde.
Wa me þære wyrde, þæt min wynn alæg
and min bigengea gewat bryce on feorweg;
sceal ic eard niman, swa me eðe nis,
mid Cedaringum; nis min cyð þær,
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þe mine sawle swiðe beeode.
Mid þam þe hi sibbe swyþost feodan,
ic sibbe mid him soðe hæfde;
þonne ic him spedlice to spræce and hi lærde,
ðonne me earwunga ealle onfuhtan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 120
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hof ic mine eagan to þam hean beorge,
þær ic fultum fand fælne æt þearfe.
Is min fultum eac fæger æt drihtne,
se ðe heofon worhte, hrusan swylce.
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Ne sylle he þinne fot on feondes geweald,
ne hycge to slæpe se ðe healdeð þe.
Efne se on hygde huru ne slæpeð
ne swefeð swyðe, se þe sceal healdan nu
Israela folc utan wið feondum.
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Gehealde þe halig drihten,
and þin mundbora mihtig weorðe
ofer þa swiðran hand symble æt þearfe.
Ne þe sunne on dæge sol ne gebærne
ne þe mona on niht min ne geweorðe,
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ac þe gehealde halig drihten
wyð yfela gehwam æghwær georne
and ðine sawle swylce gehealde.
Utgang þinne and ingang ece drihten,
sawla soðcynincg, symble gehealde
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of þisson forð awa to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 121
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic on ðyssum eom eallum bliðe,
þæt me cuðlice to acweden syndon,
and on godes hus gange syððan.
Wæron fæststealle fotas mine
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on þinum cafertunum, þær ure cyðð wæs,
on Hierusalem geara ærest.
Hierusalem, geara ðu wære
swa swa cymlic ceaster getimbred,
þær syndon dælas on sylfre hire.
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þær cneorisse cende wæron
cynn æfter cynne; cuðan þa drihten
and on þære gewitnesse wæran Israelas,
þe his naman neode sceoldon
him andetnes æghwær habban.
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Oft hi þær on seldon sæton æt domum;
þu eart ðonne dema, Dauides hus,
þæt on heofenum siteþ heah gestaðelod.
Biddað eow bealde beorhtere sibbe,
ða ðe on Hierusalem gode syndan;
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and geniht agun, þa þe neode þe
on heora lufun lustum healdað.
Si þe on þinum mægene sib mæst and fyrmest,
and on þinum torrum wese tidum genihtsum.
For mine broðru ic bidde nu,
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and mine þa neahstan nemne swylce,
þæt we sibbe on ðe symble habbon.
And ic for mines godes huse georne þingie,
and to minum drihtne deorum sece,
þæt ic god æt him begitan mote.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 122
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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To þe ic mine eagan hof, ece drihten,
þu þe heofonhamas healdest and wealdest.
Efne mine eagan synt ealra gelicast
þonne esne bið, þonne ondrysnum
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his hlaforde hereð and cwemeð.
And swa eagan gað earmre þeowenan,
þonne heo on hire hlæfdigean handa locað,
swa us synt eagan to ðe, ece drihten,
urum þam godan gode; geare lociað,
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oþþæt us miltsige mihta wealdend.
Miltsa us nu ða, mihtig drihten,
miltsa us swylce, forþon we manegum synt
forhogednessum hearde gefylde.
And we manegum synd manna wordum
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ure sawl swiðe gefylled
mid edwite, oft and geneahhe,
and us oferhydige forseoð oft and gelome.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 123
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nymþe us on wese ece drihten,
cweþað Israhelas ealle nu ða,
nymþe us eardige on awa drihten,
þonne us manfulle menn onginnað;
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wen is, þæt hi us lifigende lungre wyllen
sniome forsweolgan, gif hi swa magon.
þonne us ðara manna mod yrsade,
and us wiðerwearde wæron geneahhe;
wen is, þæt hi us woldan wætre gelice
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sona gesupan, gif hit swa wolde.
Oft ure sawl swyþe frecne
hlimman gedegde hludes wæteres;
wene ic forþon, þæt heo wel mæge
þæt swyðre mægen, sawel usser,
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wæteres wenan ðæs wel gedegean.
Drihten si gebletsad, þe þæt ne dyde æfre,
þæt us on hearde hæftnyd sealde
þam þe us mid toðum toteon woldan.
Wærun ure sawla samod anlice
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niþa generede, swa swa neodspearuwa
of grames huntan gryne losige.
Grin bið on sadan grame torænded,
and we synd alysde lifes wyrðe;
we us naman drihtnes neode habbað
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on fultume fæstne and strangne,
þæs þe heofon worhte, hrusan swylce.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 124
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þa þe on drihten heora dædum getreowað,
hi beoð on Sionbeorge swyþe gelice;
ne mæg hine on ealdre ænig onhreran
þe eardfæst byð on Hierusalem.
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Hi synd mundbeorgas micle ymbutan;
haldeð heora ymbhwyrft ece drihten
of ðisson nu awa to worulde.
Næfre forlæteð lifes drihten
firenfulra tan furðor gangan,
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þonne he soðfæstra settan wylle.
Ne he soðfæste swylce læteð,
þæt hi to unrihte ahwær willen
handum ræcean, ac he him hraþe gyldeð;
do þu, drihten, wel þam þe gedefe her
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hiora heortan riht healdað mid gode.
þa ðe gearwe beoð to gramum bendum,
eft hi gelædeð ece drihten
mid þæm þe unriht æghwær wyrceað;
sibb si Israhelum symble ofer ealle.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 125
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þonne drihten wyle gedon æfter,
þæt he of Sione swære ahweorfe
hæftned hefige, syððan we hraðe weorðað
afrefrede fægere ealle.
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Sona beoð gefylde mid gefean syþþan
muðas ure, and we ma sprecað,
beoð ure tungan teala wynsume.
þonne hi geond þeode cweðað þriste;
æghwær hi gemiclade mihtig drihten,
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þa he him wundur mid worhte seldlic;
gemicla ðe swylce, mihtig drihten,
þæt þu wundur mid us wyrce mære,
and we bealde on þam bliðe weorðan.
Gehweorf ure hæftned, halig drihten,
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swa suðhealde swiþe hlimman.
þa her on tornlicum tearum sawað,
hi eft fægerum gefean sniðað;
gangende and ferende georne wepað
and heora sylfra sæd sniðað æfter.
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Cumað þonne mid cumendum cuðe mid blisse
and on heora sceafas berað, swa hi gesamnedon.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 126
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nymþe hus timbrige halig drihten,
on idel gylp oðre winnað
þe þæs huses hrof staðeliað.
Nymðe gehealde eac halig drihten
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ceastre mid cynnum, ne mæg hi cynlice
wæccende weard gehealdan.
Forhwan ge mid idelnesse ealle arisað,
ærðon leoht cume leoda bearnum?
Arisað nu ricene, and hraðe sittað,
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þa ðe sares hlaf swiðe æton.
þonne he slæp syleð swiðe leofum;
þæt is yrfe eac ecean drihtnes
and herde bearn, þa her mannum beoð
of innaðe ærest cende.
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Swa seo stræle byð strangum and mihtigum
hrorum on handa heard ascyrped,
swa lyðra bearn lungre gewitað.
þæt bið eadig wer, se ðe a þenceð,
þæt he his lust on ðon leofne gefylle;
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ne bið he on ealdre ealre æfre gescended,
þonne he on gaton greteð his grame feondas.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 127
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eadige syndon ealle þe him ecne god
drihten ondrædað, and his gedefne weg
on hyra lifes tid lustum gangað.
þonne þu þines gewinnes wæstme byrgest,
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etest oretes, and þu eadig leofast,
and þe wel weorðeð on wynburgum.
Beoð þines wifes welan gelice,
swa on wingearde weaxen berigean,
and on þines huses hwommum genihtsum.
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Synd þine bearn swylce samed anlicast,
swa elebeamas æþele weaxen,
ymb þinne beod utan blæda standen.
Efne swa bið gebletsad beorna æghwylc
mann on moldan þe him metodes ege
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on his dædum drihten forhtað.
þe of Sionbeorge swylce drihten
bealde bletsige, and þu bruce eac
on Hierusalem goda gehwylces
ealle lange dagas lifes þines.
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And þu þinra bearna bearn sceawige,
geseo samed gangan sibb ofer Israhel.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 128
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Oft me fuhtan to fynd on geoguðe,
cweðan Israhelas nu eac þæt sylfe;
oft me fuhtan to fynd on geoguþe,
ne mihton hi awiht æt me æfre gewyrcean.
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Ofer minum bæce bitere ongunnon
þa firenfullan facen timbrian,
and heora unriht eft gelengdon.
Drihten is soðfæst, and gedeð sniome,
þæt he firenfullra fæcne geðancas
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wis toweorpeð; weorðað gescende
and hiora scamiað swiþust ealles,
þa to Sione hete swiðost hæfdon.
Wesen hi hige her gelicast
þam þe on huses þæce heah aweaxeð,
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þæt bið forwisnad wraðe sona,
ær hit afohten foldan losige.
Of þam he ne gefylleð folme æfre,
þeah þe he hit mawe micle elne;
ne mid his sceafe ne mæg sceat afyllan,
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þeah þe he samnige swiðe georne.
And þæt ne cweðan, þa his cwide weoldan
on ofergeate æghwær hæbben:
"Us gebletsige bealde drihten
and ofer eow wese eac his bletsung;
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we eow neodlice on naman drihtnes
swylce bletsiað bliðe mode."
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 129
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic of grundum to þe geomur cleopode;
drihten, drihten, do þu nu ða,
þæt þu mines gebedes bene gehyre.
Wesan þine earan eac gehyrende
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and beheldende mid hige swylce
on eall gebedd esnes þines.
Gif þu ure unriht wilt eall behealdan,
drihten, drihten, hwa gedeð æfre,
þæt he þæt geefne eall mid rihte?
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Ys seo mildheortnes mid þe, mihta wealdend,
and ic for ðinre æ, ece drihten,
þas oþer eall eaðe aræfnige.
Hwæt, þæt sawl min symble aræfnede,
þæt ic on þinum wordum me wel getreowde;
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forðon min sawl on þe symble getreoweð.
Fram þære mæran mergentide
oðþæt æfen cume ylda bearnum,
Israhelas on drihten a getreowen.
Forðon is mildheortnesse miht on drihtne
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and he alyseð lustum ealle,
þa ðe hiht on hine habbað fæste.
He Israhelas ealle alyseð
of unrihte æghwær symble.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 130
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nis min heorte wið þe ahafen, drihten,
ne mine eagan wið þe on oferhygde.
Ne ic on mægene miclum gange
ne wundur ofer me wuniað ænig.
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Ac ic mid eaðmedum eall geþafige;
is min sawl on ðon swyþe gefeonde.
Swa man æt meder bið miclum feded,
swa þu minre sawle symble gyldest.
Israhelas on drihten a getreowigen
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of ðyssum nu awa to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 131
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gemune þu, drihten, mærne Dauid
and ealle his mannþwærnesse micle and goode.
Swa ic æt frymðe geswor ferhðe wið drihten
and gehat gehet, he geheold teala
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wið Iacobes god þone mæran.
þeah þe ic on mines huses hyld gegange
oþþe selegesceot þænne swæs wese
oððe on min restbedd ricene gestige,
Gif ic minum eagum unne slæpes,
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oþþe minum breawum beode hnappunga,
oþþe ic on þunwange þriste gereste,
Oþþæt ic gemete mære stowe
drihtne gecorene, dyre selegesceot
Iacobes gode georne gecweme.
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Efne we þas eall on Eufraten
sæcgean gehyrdon, syððan gemitton
forwel manegu on wudufeldum.
We on his selegesceot swylce gangað,
and þære stowe stede ariað
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þær his fotas ær fæste gestodan.
Aris on þinre reste recene, drihten;
þu earce eart eallhaligra.
Synd þine sacerdas on soðfæstnesse
gode gegierede, and gleawe nu
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þine þa halgan her blissiað.
For þinum agenum esne swylce,
deorum Dauide, þu ne do æfre,
þæt þu andwlitan ut oncyrre
þines þæs halgan her on eorðan.
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þæs deopne að drihten aswor
and þone mid soðe swylce getrymede,
þæt he hine for hole ær ne aswore,
gehet Dauide, swa he him dyde syþþan,
þæt he weorðlicne wæstm gesette
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þe of his innaðe agenum cwome,
ofer þin heahsetl; gif nu healdað well
þines sylfes bearn soðe treowa
and þa gewitnesse, þe ic hig wel lære,
þonne hiora suna swylce motan
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a þysse worulde wynnum brucan
and on þinum setle sittan geneahhe.
Forðon him Sione geceas sylfa drihten,
and him to earde geceas ærest æt frymðe.
þis is min rest, þe ic recene nu
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on worulda woruld wunian þence,
þær ic eard nime, forðon ic hi ær geceas.
His wuduan ic wordum bletsige
and gesegnade, sylle geneahhe
heora hungrium hlaf to fylle.
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Ec his sacerdas swylce mid hælu
georne gegyrwe, and gode eac
his þa halgan her habbað blisse.
þær ic Dauides horn deorne bringe,
forð gelæde, fægre gearuwe
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byrnende blacern, bere for minum
criste gecorenum, þe ic hine cuðne wat.
Ic his feondas eac facne gegyrwe
mid scame swiðust; ofer hine scir cymeð
minra segnunga soðfæst blostma.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 132
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Efne hu glædlic bið and god swylce,
þætte broður on an begen hicgen,
þær hig ænne sculan eard weardian.
Swa unguentum mæg æðele wyrtcynn
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heafde healdan hrore stence,
mid þy Aaron his beard oftast smyrede.
Seo niðer astah on his reafæs fnæd
swa æþele deaw on Hermone,
se ofer Sionbeorge sneome astigeð.
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Forþon her bebead halig drihten
lifes bletsunga lange to feore
of þisson nu awa to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 133
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Efne bletsien nu bliðe drihten
ealle his agene onbyhtscealcas.
Ge þe on godes huse gearwe standað,
and on cafertunum Cristes huses
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ures þæs halgan godes held begangað.
Hebbað neodlice nihta gehwylcere
eowre handa on halig lof
and bletsiað balde drihten.
Ge bletsige bliðe drihten
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of Sionbeorge symble æt þearfe,
se þe heofon worhte, hrusan swylce.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 134
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Heriað naman drihtenes, neode swylce
herigen hine his scealcas swiðe ealle.
Ge þe on godes huse gleawe standað
and on cafertunum Cristes huses
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þæs godan godes gearwe syndan,
Lofiað ge drihten, forþon he lungre is
fæstræd and fremsum fira æghwam;
weorðiað his naman, forþon he wyrðe is.
Forðon him godne geceas Iacob drihten
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and on agene æht Israeles cynn.
Ic þæt gearwe ongeat, þæt is god and mycel
drihten ure; forþon him dom standeð
ofer ealle godu eorðbuendra.
Ealle þa þe wolde, worhte drihten
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on heofonrice and her on eorðan,
on sidum sæ swylce on eallum,
þær he dyrne wat deorce grundas.
And he fram þysse eorðan ende lædeð
wolcen wræclicu, wind and liget,
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and þa to regne recene wyrceð,
þe forð lædeð fægere windas
of his goldhordum godra manegum;
se ægipta sloh æðele frumbearn
æghwylc ealra oð þa nytenu.
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He sigetacen sende manegum
forebeacn fæle folce ægipta,
and þa Pharaones folce gecyðde
and his scealcum samed ætgædere.
Se sloh þeode folc þearle manige,
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and eac acwealde cyningas strange.
Wæs Seon efne sum þara kynincga,
and Og kyning, se þe æror wæs
on Basane breme and mære.
Sealde heora eardland eall Israhelum
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and heora yrfe eac his folce.
Ys þin nama, drihten, nemned ece,
and þin gemynd, mihtig drihten,
on ealra worulda woruld wynnum standeð.
Forþon his folc demeð fægere drihten,
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and he bið on his esnum agenum frefriend.
Beoð deofolgyld dysigra þeoda
gold and seolfur, þe her geotað menn,
and mid heora folmum fægere wyrceað.
þa muð habbað, and ne meldiað wiht,
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fægere eagan, ne magon feor geseon.
Earan habbað, ne hi awiht magon
holdes gehyran, þeah ðe him hleoðrige,
and nose habbað, nawiht gestincað.
Handa hi habbað, ne hi hwæðere magon
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gegrapian godes awiht;
habbað fet swylce, ne magon feala gangan.
Ne hi on hracan awiht hlude ne cleopiað,
ne him gast warað gomum on muðe.
Synt anlice þæm þe hi ær worhtan,
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and ealle þa ðe on hi æfre getreowað.
Hus Israela holdne drihten
bletsien bealde, biddan swylce
þæt Aarones hus ecne drihten
bliðe bletsien; beornas ealle,
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þa on lifes hus leof eardiað,
bletsien drihten bliðe mode.
þa þe him ondræden drihtnes egsan,
bletsien drihten beornas ealle;
se drihten is deore gebletsad
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of Sion sniome, þe soðfæst ær
on Hierusalem god eardode.
Ic andette ecum drihtne,
forðon he god is, and ic ful gearwe wat,
þæt he to worulde byð wis and mildheort.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 135
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eac ic andette þam þe ece is
ealra godena god, forðon ic hine godne wat.
Andette ic swylce þam þe ealra is
drihtna drihten dædum spedigast,
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forðon he god is, and ic gearwe wat,
þæt his mildheortnes is mycel to worulde.
He wundur dyde weorþlic ana.
Se heofon worhte, hæleða andgit.
He eorðan æfter wæter ærest sette.
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He leohtfatu leodum ana
micel geworhte manna bearnum,
Sette on miht dæges mære sunnan,
On miht nihte monan and steorran.
He ægyptas sloh and eall heora frumbearn,
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And he Israhelas ealle oðlædde
of ægyptum ealle gesunde,
On mihtigre mære handa
and on eallmihte earmes swylce.
He readne sæ recene todælde,
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Lædde Israhelas ealle þurh midne.
þær Pharaon gefeol, and his fæge werud
on þam readan sæ recene forwurdan.
He gewealdendlice þuruh westen eft
his þæt leofe folc lædde swylce.
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He of stanclife stearce burnan
leodum lædde on leofne þanc.
Swylce he acwealde cyningas mycle.
And he eac ofsloh æðele cyningas,
weras wræclice, þa þe weoruld heoldan.
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þær Seon cyning swylt dreorig fornam,
þe Amorrea anweald hæfde,
And Og swylce, þe æror wæs
swyþe breme cyning on Basane.
Sealde heora eorþan on yrfeland,
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And þæt yrfe on Israele,
þe his esnas agene wæron.
Forþon ure eaðmedu ece drihten
gemyndgade, and us mycel sealde.
And he us aferede feondum of handa,
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þa ðe wraðe wæron ealle.
He eac afedeð flæscea æghwylc.
Andetað nu ealle þam ecean gode,
þe on heofonum is heah eardiende.
And ge ealra godena gode geara andettað,
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forþan his mildheortnes is mycel to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 136
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ofer Babilone bradum streame,
þær we sittað and sare wepað,
þonne we Sion gemunan swiðe georne.
On salig we sarige swiðe gelome
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ure organan up ahengan.
Forþon us þær frunon fæcnum wordum,
woh meldedan, ða us on weg læddan:
"Singað us ymnum ealdra sanga
þe ge on Sione sungan geneahhige."
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Hu magon we singan sangas drihtne
on þære foldan þe us fremde is?
Gif ic þin, Hierusalem, forgyten hæbbe,
forgyte min seo swyðre symble æt þearfe;
ætfeole min tunge fæste gomum,
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gif ic ofergittol þin æfre weorðe,
Gif ic ne forsette þe symble æt frymðe;
ac ic on Hierusalem georne blissie.
Gemune þu, drihten, manigra bearna,
þe on Edom synt eal lifigende,
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þonne þu Hierusalem gegodie;
þa nu oft cweðað: "Wutun hi idle gedon,
oðþæt hi heora eard geceosan."
Hwæt, þu eart Babilone bitere ætfæsted
ænge and yfele, hire earm dohter;
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eadig byð hwæðere se þe eft gyldeð
þa þu him on ealdre ær forgeafe
and us eallum eac gesealdest.
Eadig byð se þe nimeð and eac seteð
his agen bearn on þone æþelan stan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 137
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þe andette, ecne drihten,
on minre gehygde heortan ealre;
forðon þu ealle mine word earum gehyrdest,
þa ic mid muðe and mid mode cweðe,
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and on þinra engla ealra gesihðe
ic þe singe swiðe geneahhige.
Eac ic þin tempel tidum weorðige,
þæt halige hus, holde mode,
and þær þinne naman on neod secge.
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Ofer þine þa miclan mildheortnesse
and soðfæstnesse samed ætgædere,
þu þinne þone halgan naman neode gedydest,
ofer us ealle æghwær micelne.
Swa hwylce daga ic þe deorne cige,
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gehyr me hwætlice, and me hraðe gedo
micle mine sawle on þines mægenes sped.
Ealle þe andettan eorðan kyningas,
forðon þe hi gehyrdon hlude reorde
þines muðes þa mæran word;
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þa on sangum singan drihtne.
Forþon þin wuldur is wide geond eorðan
micel and mære, ofer middaneard
eart þu healice ahafen, drihten;
þu eadmodra ealra locast
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on heofonhame her on eorðan.
þeah þe ic on midle manes gange,
þær me costunga cnysdan geneahhe,
a þu me weredest wraþum feondum
þe me woldan yrre on acyðan;
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þu me geræhtest recene mid handa
and me þin swyðre sneome hælde.
Drihten for me dome gylde,
is his mildheortnes mycel on worulde;
ne forseoh æfre, þæt þu sylfa ær
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mid þinum handum her geworhtest.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 138
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þu min costadest cynnum, drihten,
and me ongeate gleawe mode;
þu min setl swylce oncneowe,
and minne ærist æfter gecyðdest.
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And mine geðohtas eac þriste oncneowe,
feorran ongeate fore mine,
and mine gangas gearwe atreddest
and ealle mine wegas wel foresawe,
forþan me inwit næs ahwær on tungan.
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Efne þu, drihten, eall oncneowe
þa ærestan, eac þa nehstan;
þu me gehiwadest handa þinre,
me ofer heafod holde gesettest.
Wundorlic is geworden þin wisdom eall,
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se is beutan me eac gestrangod;
ne mæg ic him on neode a neah cuman.
Hwider mæg ic fram þinum gaste gangan ahwær,
oþþe þinne andwlitan befleon eorðan dæles?
Gif ic on heofenas up hea astige,
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þu me þær on efn andweard sittest;
gif ic on helle gedo hwyrft ænigne,
þu me æt byst efne rihte.
Gif ic mine fiðeru gefo, fleoge ær leohte,
oþþæt ic beutan wese eallum sæwum,
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Hwæt, me þin hand þyder ofer holma begang
lædeð lustum, and me lungre eft
þin seo swiðre þær gehendeð.
Ic on mode cwæð minum swylce:
"Wen is, þæt me þystru ðearle forgripen
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and me on nihte neode onlihte,
þæt ic minum bleom bregde neahhige."
Ne beoð þeostru deorc butan þinre miht;
þurh þa onlihtest niht, þæt heo byð dæge gelic.
Swa þragum gæð þeostru wið leohte,
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forþon þu hi settest swylce, drihten;
canst mine ædre ealle gearuwe,
onfenge me fægere, swa ic furðum wæs
of modur hrife minre acenned.
Ic þe andette, ece drihten,
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forþon þu mid egesan eart eall gewuldrad,
and þine weorc wæron wræclice swyþe,
þa min saul oncneow sona georne.
Nis min ban wið þe deope behyded,
þæt þu wislice worhtest on diglum,
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þeh min lichama lytle ðrage
on niðerdælum eorðan wunige.
Eagan þine gesawon þæt ic ealles wæs
unfrom on ferhþe; eall þæt forð heonan
on þinum wisbocum awriten standeð.
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Dagas syndon trymede, swa hi drihten gesceop,
ne mæg ænig on þam awa lifigean;
me synd arwyrðe ealle swiðe,
þe þine frynd wærun fæste, drihten,
is heora ealdordom ungemete swiðe
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on cneorissum cuð gestrangod.
Gif ic hi recene nu riman onginne,
hi beoð ofer sandcorn sniome manige;
syþþan ic arise and recene nu gyt
mid þe sylfum eom, gif þu syþþan wylt
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þa firenfullan fyllan mid deaðe.
Blodhreowe weras, ge bebugað me,
þe þæt on geþohtum þenceað cweðende:
"Wutun þurh idel searu ealle tiligean,
þæt we heora burh tobrecan moton."
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Ealle þa þe feodan þurh facen god,
ic hi feode nu fæste mid niðe,
and ofer þine feondas beo facne gebolgen.
Swa ic hi mid rihte recene feoge,
forþon hi me feondas fæcne wurdan.
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Costa min, god, swa hit cyn wese,
and minre heortan gehygd her gesceawa,
þone fælan geþanc; frine me syþþan
and mine stige ongit gestaðelode.
And þu sylfa geseoh, gif ic on swiculne weg
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oþþe on unrihte ahwær eode;
gelæd me þonne, lifes ealdor,
þæt ic on ecne weg æghwær gange.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 139
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Genere me wið niþe on naman þinum
fram yfelum menn, ece drihten,
and fram þam were, þe wom fremme.
þa ealne dæg inwit and facen
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hycgeað on heortan þurh hearme geþoht,
hi þæt to gefeohte georne gefremed habbað.
And heora tungan torncwidum
neode serwað, swa oft nædran doð,
and him aspidas, ætrene wyrmas,
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under welerum is gewunad fæste.
Geheald þu me, drihten, wið heteniðas
and wið firenfulles folmum swylce,
and fram þam mannum þe man fremmen,
alys þu me lungre, lifes ealdur.
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þa on hyge þohtan, þæt hi ahyltan me
and minne gang georne swylce,
forhyddan oferhygde me inwitgyrene,
wraðan wealsadan wundnum rapum;
woldan mine fotas gefæstnian,
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settan me swyce, þær ic siþade.
Ic þa to drihtne cwæð: "þu me eart dyre god;
gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
nu ic stefne to þe styrme hlude."
Drihten, drihten, þu eart gedefe mægen
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hælo minre, and þu min heafod scealt
on gefeohtdæge feondum awergean.
Ne alyf þu me æfre ofer lust minne
on fyrenfulra fæcne geðancas,
þa wiðerwearde me wraðe hycgeað;
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ne forlæt þu me on lifdagum,
þy læs hi ahafene ofer me hwile weorðen.
Him ymb heafod hefegast gewinna,
þæt hi mid welerum geworht habbað,
him þæt ilce sceal on gesittan.
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Eac hi feallað on fyres glede,
and þu hi mid fyre facnes gehnegest,
þæt hi þam yrmðum a ne wiðstanden.
Se getynga wer on teosuspræce,
ne bið se ofer eorþan gereaht ahwær;
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unsoðfæstne wer yfel gecnysseð,
oþþe he on eorðan eall forweorðeð.
Ic þæt gearuwe ongeat, þæt gode deð
drihten domas, þe on dagum þyssum
wædlum weorðað, wreceð þearfendra.
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Soð is hwæðere, soðfæste nu
þinne naman willað þuruh neod herigean;
scylan eard niman on þinre ansyne,
þa mid ræde her rihte lifigeað.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 140
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þe, drihten, to dyrum clypige;
gehyr me hrædlice holdre stefne,
þonne ic bene to þe bidde ceare full.
Sy on þinre gesihþe mines sylfes gebed
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ful recene gereht, swa ricels byð,
þonne hit gifre gleda bærnað.
Swylce is ahafenes handa minra,
þonne ic þe æfenlac estum secge.
Sete swæse geheald swylce, drihten,
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muðe minum, ne læt man sprecan,
and æþele dor ymbstandende,
þæt on welerum wisdom healde.
Ne hyld þu mine heortan, þæt ic hearme word
þuruh inwitstæf ut forlæte,
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and ic lædend wese laðra firena.
Ne ic æfre mid mannum manfremmendum
gemænnesse micle hæbbe,
ne on heora gecorenesse becume æfre.
Ac me soðfæst symble gerecce
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and mildheorte mode þreage;
ele synfulra æfre ne mote
heafde minum hrinan ahwær.
Forþon min gebed nu gyt becnum standeð,
þæt him on wisum is wel lycendlice;
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syndon hi æt strangum stane forswolgene;
noldan heora deman mine gedefe word
earan gehyran, eft ne mihton.
Swa unefne is eorþe þicce,
syndon þas moras myclum asprotene,
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swa ure ban syndon bitere toworpene
be helwarena hæfteneodum.
Forþon ic, drihten, on þe dædum minum
eagum and mode æghwær gelyfe;
ne ascuf þu fram me sawle mine.
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Geheald me wið þare gryne þe me grame setton,
þæt me ne beswice synwyrcende,
þa þe unrihtes æghwær þenceað.
Feallað firenfulle on heora fengnettum;
ic me syndrig eom, oþþæt ic swa fere.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 141
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Min stefn to þe styrmeð, drihten,
and ic mid strangere stefne swylce
eam biddende bealde drihten.
Ic mine bene bealde swylce
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on his gesihðe symble ageote,
and mine earfeþu ealle full georne
fore him sylfum sæcge geneahhe,
Gif mine grame þenceað gast teorian,
and þu mine stige strange ongeate.
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On þyssum grenan wege, þe ic gange on,
me oferhydige æghwær setton
gearwe grine; geara ic sceawade,
geseah on þa swyðran, ne me sylfne þær
ænig mid gode ongitan wolde.
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ða me eac frecne fram fleam gedydan,
næs þa þe mine sawle secean wolde,
þa ic to þe, drihten, digle cleopode
and sona cwæð: "þu eart min se soða hiht;
eart þu on lifigendra lande swylce
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se gedefa dæl, drihten, æghwær."
Beheald mine sawle, hæleþa wealdend,
forþon ic geeadmeded eom ungemete swiðe.
Alys me fram laþum; hi me lungre synt
ealle ofer me ungemete strange.
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Alæd me of carcernes cluse swylce
mine sawle, þæt ic syþþan forð
þinne naman mote neode sæcgean.
Min soðfæste snotere bidað,
oþþæt þu me edlean eft forgylde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 142
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Drihten, min gebed deore gehyre,
and mid earum onfoh ungemetum georne
mine halsunge; heald me syððan
on þinre soðfæstnesse and me on soðe gehyr.
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Ne ga þu mid þinum esne in to dome,
forþon on þinre gesihðe ne bið soðfæst ænig
þe on ðisse foldan feorhlif bereð.
Forþon mine sawle swiðe feondas
ealle ehtan ungemete strange,
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habbað me gehnæged heanne to eorðan
and min lif swylce gelytlad is.
Hi me on digle deorce stowe
settan sarlice samed anlice,
swa þu worulddeade wrige mid foldan;
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is me ænge gast innan hreðres,
and me is heorte on hearde gedrefed.
þonne ic on mode gemyndgade,
hu me ærran dagas oft alumpan,
metegade on mode ealle þine mæran weorc
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and ymbe þine handgeweorc hogode georne.
þonne ic mine handa to þe holde þenede
and mine sawle sette mid mode,
swa eorðan bið ansyn wæteres;
gehyr me hrædlice, hæl me syþþan.
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Nu me deope is, drihten leofa,
min sylfes gast swær geworden,
ne awend fram me, wuldres ealdur,
þine ansyne; wese ic earmum gelic
þe on sweartne grund syþþan astigað.
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Gedo þæt ic gehyre holde on morgene
þine mildheortnesse, mihtig drihten,
forþon ic hycge to ðe, helpe gelyfe.
Do me wegas wise, þæt ic wite gearwe
on hwylcne ic gange gleawe mode;
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nu ic to drihtnes dome wille
mine sawle settan geornast.
Afyrr me, frea drihten, feondum minum;
nu ic helpe to þe holde gelyfe;
lær me, hu ic þinne willan wyrce and fremme,
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forþon þu min god eart, þu me god dydest.
Me þin se goda gast gleawe lædde,
þæt ic on rihtne weg reðne ferde;
for naman þines neodweorðunge,
drihten usser, do me halne,
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þæt ic on ðinum rihte rædfæst lifige.
And þu of costunge clæne alæddest
sawle mine, þær heo syððan forð
on þinre mildheortnesse mote wunian;
and þu mine feondas fæcne todrife,
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and eac forleose laðra gehwylcne
þe mine sawle synne ætfæsten,
forþon ic þin esne eom agen symble.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 143
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Drihten is gebletsad, min se deora god,
þe mine handa to hilde teah
and mine fingras to gefeohtanne.
He is mildheortnes min æt þearfe,
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frið and fultum, fæst andfengea
and alysend is lifes mines.
Min þu mære eart mihtig scyldend;
ic hiht on ðe hæbbe fæste,
þæt þu me folc mænig fægere underþeoddest.
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Hwæt is se manna, mihtig drihten,
þe þu him cuðlice cyþan woldest,
oððe mannes sunu, þæt hit gemet wære,
þæt þu him aht wið æfre hæfdest?
Man byð merwe gesceaft, mihtum idel;
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beoð his dagas swylce demde gelice,
swa þu on scimiendre sceade locige.
Ahyld þine heofenas, halig drihten,
onhrin þissum muntum, and hi hraðe reocað.
þine ligetta leohtað and beorhtað,
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and þu hi toweorpest wide æfter;
synd þine strele strange swylce,
and ðu hi gedrefed hafast deope syþþan.
Onsend þine handa of heanessum,
alys me and genere wið lagustreamum
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manegum wæterum and wið manfolmum
fremdra bearna and frecenra.
þara muðas sprecað manidel word,
bið hyra seo swiðre symble abysgod,
þæt hi unrihtes elne tiligeað.
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Ic niwlice niwne cantic
þam godan gode gleawne singe
on psalterio, þe him swynsað oft
mid tyn strengum getogen hearpe,
on þære þe ic þe singe swiþe geneahhe.
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þu healdest and sylest hælu cyningum;
þu alysdest eac leofne Dauid,
þinne agenne ombihtmæcg,
of þam awyrgedan wraðan sweorde.
Alys me and oðlæd laþum wætrum,
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manegum merestreamum, mærum handum,
þa me fremde bearn fæcne syndan.
þara muðas sprecað manidel word,
byð hyra seo swiðre symble abysgad,
þæt hi unrihtes awa tiligean.
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þara bearn swylce bogum æþelum
settum beamum samed anlice,
standað on staðule stiðe wið geoguðe.
Wærun heora dohtru deore gesette
and ymb frætwum utan gegyrede,
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efne anlicast æþelum temple.
Heora frumwæstme fulle syndon,
þæt hi rumlice roccettað swiðe,
of þissan on þæt þonne wendað.
Heora sceap wærun swylce tydred
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and on siðfatum swiþe genihtsum,
heora oxan eac ungemete fætte.
Ne hreosað hi to hrusan hearde gebiged,
ne þær fernes is folca mænegum,
ne care micle cleopiað on worðum.
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Eadig bið þæt folc, oðre hatað,
þe him swa on foldan fægre limpeð;
eadig bið þæt folc þe ælmihtig wile
drihten god dema weorðan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 144
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic me heahne god hæbbe to kyninge,
and ic naman þinne neode herige
on ecnesse awa to worulde.
þuruh syndrige dagas symble ic ðe bletsige,
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and naman þinne neode herige
on ecnesse awa to worulde.
Mycel is drihten, hine man mægene sceal
holde mode herian swiðe;
nis his micelmodes mægenes ende.
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Cneorissa kynn cwidum symble
þin weorc herigen wordum georne,
and þine mihte eac micle sæcgeon.
Mycel mod and strang þines mægenðrymmes
and þine halignesse holdes modes
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wise wordum sprecað, weredum secggeað
eall þin wundur wide mære.
And hi mægen swylce mære and egeslic
þinra wundra wislic sæcgen
and þine mægenstrengðu mærsien wide.
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Gemune þines modes þa miclan geniht,
þinre weðnesse wise sæcgenum
roccette and ræd sprece,
and þine soðfæstnesse sæcge geneahhe.
Mildheort is drihten and mannþwære
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and geþyldig eac, þearle mildheort.
Swylce eallum is ure drihten
manna cynne milde and bliðe;
syndan his miltsa ofer us mære weorc
eall yldum cuð awa to feore.
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Andetten þe, drihten, ealle þine weorc
and þe þine þa halgan her bletsien.
And hi þine mihte manna bearnum
cyþan mid cynnum and mid cneorissum,
þines mægenþrymmes mære wuldur
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riht and reðe rices þines.
þæt þu cuð gedydest ofer cneorisse,
þær synd manna bearn manig ætsomne,
and þæt þin miht is ofer middaneard
and þines rices rædfæst wuldur.
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Rice is þin, drihten, ræde gefæstnod,
and þu woruldricum wealdest eallum;
is þin anweald eac ofer eorðware
of cynne on cynn and on cneorissum.
Drihten is on wordum dædum getreowe
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and on eallum his weorcum wis and halig.
Ahefeð halig god þa ðe hreosað ær,
and he ealle areceð earme gebrocene.
Eagan on þe ealra, drihten,
wisra gewenað wiste to genihte,
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and þu him mete sylest mæla gehwylce
and þæs tidlice tid gemearcast.
Onhlidest ðu þine handa and hi hraðe fyllest,
ealra wihta gehwam wis bletsunga.
Soðfæst is drihten on his sylfes wegum
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eallum on eorðan, and he æfter þan
on his weorcum is wis and halig.
Neah is drihten niþum eallum
þe hine mid soðe hige seceað and ciegað
and his willan her wyrceað georne
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and his ege swylce elne ræfnað;
he heora bene bealde gehyreð
and hi hrædlice gedeð hale sona.
Ealle gehealdeð halig drihten
þe lufan wið hine lustum healdeð,
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and he synfulle swylce todrifeð
geond widwegas wearnum ealle.
Sceal lof drihtnes on lust sprecan
min muð mannum mæla gehwylce,
and flæsca gehwylc þurh fæle word
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his þone haligan naman her bletsian
on ecnesse awa to feore.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 145
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Herige min sawl hælend drihten,
and ic on minum life lustum drihten
herige haligne and holdum gode
sealmas singe, þenden ic sylf lifige.
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Nelle ge on ealdurmenn ane getreowian,
ne on manna bearn; nis þær mycel hælu.
Heora gast gangeð, gearwe onwendeð
on þa eorðan þe hi of comon;
of þam sylfan dæge syðþan forweorðað
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ealle þa geþohtas þe hi þohtan ær.
þonne bið eadig þe him æror wæs
Iacobes god geara fultumiend,
and ær his hiht on god hæfde fæste,
Se þe heofon worhte, hrusan swylce
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and sidne sæ samed ætgædere,
and ealle þa þe him on ahwær syndon.
He his soðfæst word swylce gehealdeð,
and on worulde his wise domas
deð gedefe þe her deorce ær
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teonan manige torne geþoledan;
syleð mete swylce þe her murcne ær
hungur heaðugrimne heardne geþoledan.
Wreceð to ræde rice drihten
þara manna bearn þe ær man gebræc,
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swylce þa gefetredan fægre drihten
lungre alyseð and him lif geofeð,
and blinde eac bealde drihten
on heora eagum eft onleohteð;
soðfæste drihten swylce lufade.
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þa elðeodigan ealle drihten
lustum healdeð, and lif geofeð
weodewum wencelum; he hiom wel onfehð,
fyrenfulra weg frecne toweorpeð.
Rixað mid ræde rice drihten
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on ecnesse awa to feore,
and þin, Sione, god symble to worulde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 146
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Heriað drihten, he is heah and good;
singað him sealmas swiðe geneahhe
and hine wlitegum wordum herigeað.
Eft Hierusalem georne drihten
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timbreð tidum, and to somnað
þa þe ut gewitan of Israhelum.
Se hæleð eac heortan geðræste
and heora unrotnesse ealle gewriðeð.
He recene mæg riman steorran
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and þa neodlice be naman sona
full cuðlice cigean ealle.
Micel is ure mihtig drihten,
and his mægen is micel and mihtum strang;
ne his snytru mæg secgean ænig,
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on þyssum ealdre æfre ariman.
Milde mode and manþwære
he onfehð fægere, and fyrenfulle
wið eorðan niþer ealle gehnegeð.
Onginnað ge drihtne geare andettan,
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singað gode urum gleawe be hearpan,
Se þe heofen þeceð hadrum wolcnum
and regn þanon recene sendeð
þe þeos eorðe fram æfter groweð.
He of beorgum ut blæde lædeð,
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hig to helpe hæleða bearnum,
Se þe mete syleð manegum neatum,
hrefnes briddum, þonne heo hropende
him cigeað to, cuðes æses.
Nafast ðu to manna mægene willan,
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ne þe on þinum selegescotum swiðe licað,
þeah þe weras wyrcean wræst on eorðan.
Ac wel licað wuldres drihtne,
þa þe hine him ondrædað dædum and wordum,
and on his milde mod mægene gewenað.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 147
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Herige Hierusalem georne drihten,
here þu, Sion, swylce þinne soðne god.
Forþon he getrymede wið teonhete,
þæt þu þine doru mihtest bedon fæste,
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and gebletsade bearna æghwylc
þe on innan þe ahwær wæren.
He þine gemæru gemiclade,
þu on utlandum ahtest sibbe,
and þe gesadade mid þy selestan
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hwætecynnes holde lynde.
He his spræce hider spowendlice
on þas eorðan ærest sendeð,
and his word yrneð wundrum sniome.
He snaw sendeð samed anlice
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swa þu wulle flys wolcnum bringe,
and þone toweorpeð wide swa æscean.
He his cristallum cynnum sendeð
swylc swa hlafgebrece of heofonwolcnum;
for andwlitan celes þær ænig ne mæg
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him standan stiðe mode.
He his word sendeð þuruh windes gast;
blaweð beorhtlice, burnan floweð
and to wætere weorðeð sniome.
He his word eac ær mid wisdome
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godum Iacobe geara foresægde,
and Israhele eac his domas.
Ne dyde he ahwær swa eldran cynne,
þæt he him his domas digle gecydde.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 148
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Heriað ge on heofenum hælend drihten,
heriað hlude on heanessum.
Heriað hine ealle engla ðreatas,
lofige hine swylce eall his leodmægen.
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Herigen hine swylce sunna and mona,
æghwylc steorra and þæt æðele leoht.
Heofenas hine heofena herian georne,
and þa wæter swylce ðe ofer wolcnum synt
on heofenhame, herigen drihten.
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Forðon he sylfa cwæð, sona wærun
wræclice geworht wætera ðryþe,
and gesceapene wærun, þa he sylfa het.
þa he on ecnesse eall staðelade
and on worulda woruld wolde healdan;
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he sette bebod, syþþan heo þæt heoldon.
Herigen dracan swylce drihten of eorðan,
and ealle neowelnessa herian naman drihtnes.
Fyr, forst, hægel and gefeallen snaw,
is and yste, ealra gastas
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þe his word willað wyrcean georne,
Muntas and geswyru, micle beamas,
þa þe mæst and wæstm mannum bringað,
and on eallum cedrum ciið alæded,
Deor and neat, do þæt sniome;
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nifle nædran cynn be naman ealle,
and fugla cynn fiðerum gescyrped,
Eorðcyningas eac ealle swylce
þe folcum her fore wisien
and ealdormen ahwær syndan,
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and ealle þe þas eorþan ahwær demeð.
Beon ge, hægestealdas and glade fæmnan,
ealde and geonge ealle ætsamne;
herian naman drihtnes mid neodlofe.
Forþon his anes nama ofer ealle is
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ahafen healice hæleða ealra;
is upp ahafen his andetness
heah ofer myclum heofone and eorðan.
He horn hefeð holdes folces,
he lofe leohteð leofe þa halgan;
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wese awa frið on Israhela
fælum folce, and hi forð heonan
on his neaweste neode wunian.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 149
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Singað samheorte sangas drihtne
and him neowne sang nu ða singað;
wese his herenes on haligra
clænre cyricean cyðed geneahhe.
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Israhelas on hine eac blissien,
and Sione bearn symble hihtan
swiðust ealra.
Herigen his naman neode on ðreatum,
on timpano tidum heriað
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and on psalterio singað georne.
Forðon on his folce is fægere drihtne
wel licendlic, and he wynlice
þam manþwærum syleð mære hælu.
þonne on wuldre gefeoð wel þa halgan,
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beoð on heora husum bliðe gedreme.
Him on gomum bið godes oft gemynd;
heo þæs wislice wynnum brucað,
and sweord habbaþ swylce on folmum.
Mid þy hi wrecan þenceað wraðum cynnum
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and ðrea þearle þeodum eawan.
And hio bindan balde þenceað
cyningas on campum, and cuðlice
heora æðelingas don on isene bendas,
þæt hio dom on him deopne gecyðan
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and þæt mid wuldre awriten stande:
þis is haligra wuldor her on eorðan.
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 150
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Heriað on þam halgum his holdne drihten,
heriað hine on his mægenes mære hælu.
Heriað hine swylce on his heahmihtum,
heriað hine æfter mode his mægenþrymmes.
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Heriað hine on hleoðre holdre beman
The Meters of Boethius: Proem
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ðus ælfred us ealdspell reahte,
cyning Westsexna, cræft meldode,
leoðwyrhta list. Him wæs lust micel
ðæt he ðiossum leodum leoð spellode,
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monnum myrgen, mislice cwidas,
þy læs ælinge ut adrife
selflicne secg, þonne he swelces lyt
gymð for his gilpe. Ic sceal giet sprecan,
fon on fitte, folccuðne ræd
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hæleðum secgean. Hliste se þe wille!
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 1
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hit wæs geara iu ðætte Gotan eastan
of Sciððia sceldas læddon,
þreate geþrungon þeodlond monig,
setton suðweardes sigeþeoda twa;
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Gotena rice gearmælum weox.
Hæfdan him gecynde cyningas twegen,
Rædgod and Aleric; rice geþungon.
þa wæs ofer Muntgiop monig atyhted
Gota gylpes full, guðe gelysted,
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folcgewinnes. Fana hwearfode
scir on sceafte. Sceotend þohton
Italia ealle gegongan,
lindwigende. Hi gelæstan swua
efne from Muntgiop oð þone mæran wearoð
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þær Sicilia sæstreamum in,
eglond micel, eðel mærsað.
ða wæs Romana rice gewunnen,
abrocen burga cyst, beadurincum wæs
Rom gerymed. Rædgot and Aleric
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foron on ðæt fæsten; fleah casere
mid þam æþelingum ut on Grecas.
Ne meahte þa seo wealaf wige forstandan
Gotan mid guðe; giomonna gestrion
sealdon unwillum eþelweardas,
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halige aðas. Wæs gehwæðeres waa.
þeah wæs magorinca mod mid Grecum,
gif hi leodfruman læstan dorsten.
Stod þrage on ðam. þeod wæs gewunnen
wintra mænigo, oðþæt wyrd gescraf
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þæt þe ðeodrice þegnas and eorlas
heran sceoldan. Wæs se heretema
Criste gecnoden, cyning selfa onfeng
fulluhtþeawum. Fægnodon ealle
Romwara bearn and him recene to
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friðes wilnedon. He him fæste gehet
þæt hy ealdrihta ælces mosten
wyrðe gewunigen on þære welegan byrig,
ðenden god wuolde þæt he Gotena geweald
agan moste. He þæt eall aleag.
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Wæs þæm æþelinge Arrianes
gedwola leofre þonne drihtnes æ.
Het Iohannes, godne papan,
heafde beheawon; næs ðæt hærlic dæd.
Eac þam wæs unrim oðres manes
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þæt se Gota fremede godra gehwilcum.
ða wæs ricra sum on Rome byrig
ahefen heretoga, hlaforde leof,
þenden cynestole Creacas wioldon.
þæt wæs rihtwis rinc, næs mid Romwarum
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sincgeofa sella siððan longe.
He wæs for weorulde wis, weorðmynða georn,
beorn boca gleaw; Boitius
se hæle hatte se þone hlisan geþah.
Wæs him on gemynde mæla gehwilce
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yfel and edwit þæt him elðeodge
kyningas cyðdon. Wæs on Greacas hold,
gemunde þara ara and ealdrihta
þe his eldran mid him ahton longe,
lufan and lissa. Angan þa listum ymbe
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ðencean þearflice, hu he ðider meahte
Crecas oncerran, þæt se casere eft
anwald ofer hi agan moste.
Sende ærendgewrit ealdhlafordum
degelice, and hi for drihtne bæd
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ealdum treowum, ðæt hi æft to him
comen on þa ceastre, lete Greca witan
rædan Romwarum, rihtes wyrðe
lete þone leodscipe. ða þa lare ongeat
ðeodric Amuling, and þone þegn oferfeng,
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heht fæstlice folcgesiðas
healdon þone hererinc. Wæs him hreoh sefa,
ege from ðam eorle. He hine inne heht
on carcernes cluster belucan.
þa wæs modsefa miclum gedrefed
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Boetius. Breac longe ær
wlencea under wolcnum; he þy wyrs meahte
þolian þa þrage, þa hio swa þearl becom.
Wæs þa ormod eorl, are ne wende,
ne on þam fæstene frofre gemunde,
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ac he neowol astreaht niðer of dune
feol on þa flore, fela worda spræc,
forþoht ðearle; ne wende þonan æfre
cuman of ðæm clammum. Cleopode to drihtne
geomran stemne, gyddode þus:
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 2
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt, ic lioða fela lustlice geo
sanc on sælum, nu sceal siofigende,
wope gewæged, wreccea giomor,
singan sarcwidas. Me þios siccetung hafað
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agæled, ðes geocsa, þæt ic þa ged ne mæg
gefegean swa fægre, þeah ic fela gio þa
sette soðcwida, þonne ic on sælum wæs.
Oft ic nu miscyrre cuðe spræce,
and þeah uncuðre ær hwilum fond.
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Me þas woruldsælða welhwæs blindne
on ðis dimme hol dysine forlæddon,
and me þa berypton rædes and frofre
for heora untreowum, þe ic him æfre betst
truwian sceolde. Hi me to wendon
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heora bacu bitere, and heora blisse from.
Forhwam wolde ge, weoruldfrynd mine,
secgan oððe singan þæt ic gesællic mon
wære on weorulde? Ne synt þa word soð,
nu þa gesælða ne magon simle gewunigan.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 3
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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æala, on hu grimmum and hu grundleasum
seaðe swinceð þæt sweorcende mod,
þonne hit þa strongan stormas beatað
weoruldbisgunga, þonne hit winnende
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his agen leoht an forlæteð,
and mid uua forgit þone ecan gefean,
ðringð on þa ðiostro ðisse worulde,
sorgum geswenced. Swa is þissum nu
mode gelumpen, nu hit mare ne wat
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for gode godes buton gnornunge
fremdre worulde. Him is frofre ðearf.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 4
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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æala, ðu scippend scirra tungla,
hefones and eorðan! ðu on heahsetle
ecum ricsast, and ðu ealne hræðe
hefon ymbhwearfest, and ðurh ðine halige miht
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tunglu genedest þæt hi ðe to herað.
Swylce seo sunne sweartra nihta
ðiostro adwæsceð ðurh ðine meht.
Blacum leohte beorhte steorran
mona gemetgað ðurh ðinra meahta sped,
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hwilum eac þa sunnan sines bereafað
beorhtan leohtes, þonne hit gebyrigan mæg
þæt swa geneahsne nede weorðað.
Swelce þone mæran morgensteorran,
þe we oðre naman æfensteorra
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nemnan herað, ðu genedest þone
þæt he þære sunnan sið bewitige;
geara gehwelce he gongan sceal
beforan feran. Hwæt, ðu, fæder, wercest
sumurlange dagas swiðe hate,
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þæm winterdagum wundrum sceorta
tida getiohhast. ðu þæm treowum selest
suðan and westan, þa ær se swearta storm
norðan and eastan benumen hæfde
leafa gehwelces ðurh þone laðran wind.
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Eala hwæt, on eorðan ealla gesceafta
hyrað ðinre hæse, doð on heofonum swa some
mode and mægne, butan men anum,
se wið ðinum willan wyrceð oftost.
Wel la, ðu eca and ðu ælmihtiga,
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ealra gesceafta sceppend and reccend,
ara ðinum earmum eorðan tudre,
monna cynne, ðurh ðinra mehta sped.
Hwi ðu, ece god, æfre wolde
þæt sio wyrd on gewill wendan sceolde
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yflum monnum ealles swa swiðe?
Hio ful oft dereð unscyldegum.
Sittað yfele men giond eorðricu
on heahsetlum, halige þriccað
under heora fotum; firum uncuð
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hwi sio wyrd swa wo wendan sceolde.
Swa sint gehydde her on worulde
geond burga fela beorhte cræftas.
Unrihtwise eallum tidum
habbað on hospe ða þe him sindon
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rihtes wisran, rices wyrðran;
bið þæt lease lot lange hwile
bewrigen mid wrencum. Nu on worulde her
monnum ne deriað mane aðas.
Gif ðu nu, waldend, ne wilt wirde steoran,
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ac on selfwille sigan lætest,
þonne ic wat þætte wile woruldmen tweogan
geond foldan sceat buton fea ane.
Eala, min dryhten, ðu þe ealle ofersihst
worulde gesceafta, wlit nu on moncyn
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mildum eagum, nu hi on monegum her
worulde yðum wynnað and swincað,
earme eorðwaran; ara him nu ða.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 5
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ðu meaht be ðære sunnan sweotole geþencean
and be æghwelcum oðrum steorran
þara þe æfter burgum beorhtost scineð.
Gif him wan fore wolcen hangað,
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ne mægen hi swa leohtne leoman ansendan,
ær se þicca mist þynra weorðe.
Swa oft smylte sæ suðerne wind
græge glashlutre grimme gedrefeð,
þonne hie gemengað micla ysta,
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onhrerað hronmere; hrioh bið þonne
seo þe ær gladu onsiene wæs.
Swa oft æspringe ut awealleð
of clife harum col and hlutor,
and gereclice rihte floweð,
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irneð wið his eardes, oð him on innan felð
muntes mægenstan, and him on middan geligeð,
atrendlod of ðæm torre. He on tu siððan
tosceaden wyrð, scir bið gedrefed,
burna geblonden, broc bið onwended
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of his rihtryne, ryðum toflowen.
Swa nu þa þiostro þinre heortan
willað minre leohtan lare wiðstondan
and ðin modgeþonc miclum gedrefan.
Ac gif ðu nu wilnast, þæt ðu wel mæge,
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þæt soðe leoht sweotole oncnawan,
leohte geleafan, ðu forlætan scealt
idle ofersælða, unnytne gefean.
þu scealt eac yfelne ege an forlætan,
woruldearfoða, ne most ðu wesan for ðæm
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ealles to ormod, ne ðu ðe æfre ne læt
wlenca gewæcan, þe læs þu weorðe for him
mid ofermettum eft gescended,
and to up ahafen for orsorgum
woruldgesælðum, ne eft to waclice
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geortreowe æniges godes,
þonne þe for worulde wiðerwearda mæsð
þinga þreage and þu ðe selfum
swiðost onsitte. Forðæm simle bið
se modsefa miclum gebunden
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mid gedrefnesse, gif hine dreccean mot
þissa yfla hwæðer, innan swencan.
Forðæm þa twegen tregan teoð tosomne
wið þæt mod foran mistes dwoleman,
þæt hit seo ece ne mot innan geondscinan
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sunne for ðæm sweartum mistum, ærðæm hi geswiðrad weorðen.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 6
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ða se wisdom eft wordhord onleac,
sang soðcwidas, and þus selfa cwæð:
ðonne sio sunne sweotolost scineð,
hadrost of hefone, hræðe bioð aðistrod
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ealle ofir eorðan oðre steorran,
forðæm hiora birhtu ne bið auht
to gesettane wið þære sunnan leoht.
ðonne smolte blæwð suðan and westan
wind under wolcnum. þonne weaxeð hraðe
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feldes blostman, fægen þæt hi moton.
Ac se stearca storm, þonne he strong cymð
norðan and eastan, he genimeð hraðe
þære rosan wlite, and eac þa ruman sæ
norðerne yst nede gebædeð,
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þæt hio strange geondstyred on staðu beateð.
Eala, þæt on eorðan auht fæstlices
weorces on worulde ne wunað æfre!
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 7
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ða ongon se wisdom his gewunan fylgan,
gliowordum gol, gyd æfter spelle,
song soðcwida sumne þa geta,
cwæð þæt he ne herde þæt on heane munt
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monna ænig meahte asettan
healle hroffæste. Ne þearf eac hæleða nan
wenan þæs weorces, þæt he wisdom mæge
wið ofermetta æfre gemengan.
Herdes þu æfre þætte ænig mon
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on sondbeorgas settan meahte
fæste healle? Ne mæg eac fira nan
wisdom timbran þær ðær woruldgitsung
beorg oferbrædeð. Baru sond willað
ren forswelgan; swa deð ricra nu
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grundleas gitsung gilpes and æhta,
gedrinceð to dryggum dreosendne welan,
and þeah þæs þearfan ne bið þurst aceled.
Ne mæg hæleþa gehwæm hus on munte
lange gelæstan, forðæm him lungre on
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swift wind swapeð. Ne bið sond þon ma
wið micelne ren manna ængum
huses hirde, ac hit hreosan wile,
sigan sond æfter rene. Swa bioð anra gehwæs
monna modsefan miclum awegede,
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of hiora stede styrede, þonne hi strong dreceð
wind under wolcnum woruldearfoða,
oþþe hi eft se reða ren onhrereð
sumes ymbhogan, ungemet gemen.
Ac se ðe þa ecan agan wille
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soðan gesælða, he sceal swiðe flion
ðisse worulde wlite, wyrce him siððan
his modes hus, þær he mæge findan
eaðmetta stan unigmet fæstne,
grundweal gearone; se toglidan ne þearf,
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þeah hit wecge wind woruldearfoða
oððe ymbhogena ormete ren,
forþæm on þære dene drihten selfa
þara eadmetta eardfæst wunigað,
þær se wisdom a wunað on gemyndum.
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Forðon orsorg lif ealnig lædað
woruldmen wise buton wendinge.
þonne he eall forsihð eorðlicu good,
and eac þara yfela orsorh wunað,
hopað to þæm ecum þe þær æfter cumað,
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hine þonne æghwonan ælmihtig good
singallice simle gehealdeð
anwunigendne his agenum
modes gesælðum þurh metodes gife,
þeah hine se wind woruldearfoða
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swiðe swence, and hine singale
gemen gæle, þonne him grimme on
woruldsælða wind wraðe blaweð,
þeah þe hine ealneg se ymbhoga
ðyssa woruldsælða wraðe drecce.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 8
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Sona swa se wisdom þas word hæfde
swetole areahte, he þa siððan ongan
singan soðcwidas, and þus selfa cwæð:
Hwæt, sio forme eld foldbuendum
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geond eorðan sceat æghwam dohte,
þa þa anra gehwæm on eorðwæstmum
genoh ðuhte. Nis hit nu ða swelc!
Næron þa geond weorulde welige hamas,
ne mislice mettas ne drincas,
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ne hi þara hrægla huru ne gemdon
þe nu drihtguman diorost lætað.
Forðæm hiora nænig næs þa gieta,
ne hi ne gesawon sundbuende,
ne ymbutan hi awer ne herdon.
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Hwæt, hi firenlusta frece ne wæron,
buton swa hi meahton gemetlicost
ða gecynd began þe him Crist gesceop,
and hi æne on dæge æton symle
on æfentid eorðan wæstmas,
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wudes and wyrta, nalles win druncon
scir of steape. Næs þa scealca nan
þe mete oððe drinc mængan cuðe,
wæter wið hunige, ne heora wæda þon ma
sioloce siowian, ne hi siarocræftum
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godweb giredon, ne hi gimreced
setton searolice, ac hi simle him
eallum tidum ute slepon
under beamsceade, druncon burnan wæter,
calde wyllan. Nænig cepa ne seah
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ofer eargeblond ellendne wearod,
ne huru ymbe sciphergas scealcas ne herdon,
ne furðum fira nan ymb gefeoht sprecan.
Næs ðeos eorðe besmiten awer þa geta
beornes blode þe hine bill rude,
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ne furðum wundne wer weoruldbuende
gesawan under sunnan. Nænig siððan wæs
weorð on weorulde, gif mon his willan ongeat
yfelne mid eldum; he wæs æghwæm lað.
Eala, þær hit wurde oððe wolde god
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þæt on eorðan nu ussa tida
geond þas widan weoruld wæren æghwæs
swelce under sunnan. Ac hit is sæmre nu,
þæt ðeos gitsunc hafað gumena gehwelces
mod amerred, þæt he maran ne recð,
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ac hit on witte weallende byrnð.
Efne sio gitsung þe nænne grund hafað
swearte swæfeð sumes onlice
efne þam munte þe nu monna bearn
Etne hatað. Se on iglonde
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Sicilia swefle byrneð,
þæt mon helle fyr hateð wide,
forþæm hit symle bið sinbyrnende,
and ymbutan hit oðra stowa
blate forbærnð biteran lege.
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Eala, hwæt se forma feohgitsere
wære on worulde, se þas wongstedas
grof æfter golde and æfter gimcynnum.
Hwæt, he frecnu gestreon funde mænegum
bewrigen on weorulde, wætere oððe eorðan.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 9
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt, we ealle witon hwelce ærleste
ge neah ge feor Neron worhte,
Romwara cyning, þa his rice wæs
hehst under heofonum, to hryre monegum.
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Wælhreowes gewed wæs ful wide cuð,
unrihthæmed, arleasta fela,
man and morðor, misdæda worn,
unrihtwises inwidþoncas.
He het him to gamene geara forbærnan
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Romana burig, sio his rices wæs
ealles eðelstol. He for unsnyttrum
wolde fandian gif þæt fyr meahte
lixan swa leohte and swa longe eac,
read rasettan, swa he Romane
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secgan geherde þæt on sume tide
Troia burg ofertogen hæfde
lega leohtost, lengest burne
hama under hefonum. Næs þæt herlic dæd,
þæt hine swelces gamenes gilpan lyste,
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þa he ne earnade elles wuhte,
buton þæt he wolde ofer werðiode
his anes huru anwald cyðan.
Eac hit gesælde æt sumum cierre
ðæt se ilca het ealle acwellan
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þa ricostan Romana witan
and þa æþelestan eorlgebyrdum
þe he on þæm folce gefrigen hæfde,
and on uppan agene broðor
and his modor mid meca ecgum,
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billum ofbeatan. He his bryde ofslog
self mid sweorde, and he symle wæs
micle þe bliðra on breostcofan
þonne he swylces morðres mæst gefremede.
Nalles sorgode hwæðer siððan a
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mihtig drihten ametan wolde
wrece be gewyrhtum wohfremmendum,
ac he on ferðe fægn facnes and searuwa
wælriow wunode. Wiold emne swa þeah
ealles þisses mæran middangeardes,
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swa swa lyft and lagu land ymbclyppað,
garsecg embegyrt gumena rice,
secgea sitlu, suð, east and west,
oð ða norðmestan næssan on eorðan;
eall þæt Nerone nede oððe lustum,
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heaðorinca gehwilc, heran sceolde.
He hæfde him to gamene, þonne he on gylp astag,
hu he eorðcyningas yrmde and cwelmde.
Wenst ðu þæt se anwald eaðe ne meahte
godes ælmihtiges þone gelpscaðan
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rice berædan and bereafian
his anwaldes ðurh þa ecan meaht,
oððe him his yfeles elles gestioran?
Eala, gif he wolde, ðæt he wel meahte,
þæt unriht him eaðe forbiodan!
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Eawla, þæt se hlaford hefig gioc slepte
sware on þa swyran sinra ðegena,
ealra ðara hæleða þe on his tidum
geond þas lænan worold liban sceoldon.
He on unscyldgum eorla blode
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his sweord selede swiðe gelome;
ðær wæs swiðe sweotol, þæt we sædon oft,
þæt se anwald ne deð awiht godes
gif se wel nele þe his geweald hafað.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 10
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gif nu hæleða hwone hlisan lyste,
unnytne gelp agan wille,
þonne ic hine wolde wordum biddan
þæt he hine æghwonon utan ymbeþohte,
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sweotole ymbsawe, suð, east and west,
hu widgil sint wolcnum ymbutan
heofones hwealfe. Higesnotrum mæg
eaðe ðincan þæt þeos eorðe sie
eall for ðæt oðer unigmet lytel;
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þeah hio unwisum widgel þince,
on stede stronglic steorleasum men,
þeah mæg þone wisan on gewitlocan
þære gitsunge gelpes scamian,
ðonne hine þæs hlisan heardost lysteð,
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and he þeah ne mæg þone tobredan
ofer ðas nearowan nænige ðinga
eorðan sceatas; is ðæt unnet gelp!
Eala, ofermodan, hwi eow a lyste
mid eowrum swiran selfra willum
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þæt swære gioc symle underlutan?
Hwy ge ymb ðæt unnet ealnig swincen,
þæt ge þone hlisan habban tiliað
ofer ðioda ma þonne eow þearf sie?
þeah eow nu gesæle þæt eow suð oððe norð
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þa ytmestan eorðbuende
on monig ðiodisc miclum herien,
ðeah hwa æðele sie eorlgebyrdum,
welum geweorðad, and on wlencum ðio,
duguðum diore, deað þæs ne scrifeð,
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þonne him rum forlæt rodora waldend,
ac he þone welegan wædlum gelice
efnmærne gedeð ælces þinges.
Hwær sint nu þæs wisan Welandes ban,
þæs goldsmiðes, þe wæs geo mærost?
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Forþy ic cwæð þæs wisan Welandes ban,
forðy ængum ne mæg eorðbuendra
se cræft losian þe him Crist onlænð.
Ne mæg mon æfre þy eð ænne wræccan
his cræftes beniman, þe mon oncerran mæg
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sunnan onswifan, and ðisne swiftan rodor
of his rihtryne rinca ænig.
Hwa wat nu þæs wisan Welandes ban,
on hwelcum hi hlæwa hrusan þeccen?
Hwær is nu se rica Romana wita,
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and se aroda, þe we ymb sprecað,
hiora heretoga, se gehaten wæs
mid þæm burgwarum Brutus nemned?
Hwær is eac se wisa and se weorðgeorna
and se fæstræda folces hyrde,
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se wæs uðwita ælces ðinges,
cene and cræftig, ðæm wæs Caton nama?
Hi wæron gefyrn forðgewitene;
nat nænig mon hwær hi nu sindon.
Hwæt is hiora here buton se hlisa an?
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Se is eac to lytel swelcra lariowa,
forðæm þa magorincas maran wyrðe
wæron on worulde. Ac hit is wyrse nu,
þæt geond þas eorðan æghwær sindon
hiora gelican hwon ymbspræce,
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sume openlice ealle forgitene,
þæt hi se hlisa hiwcuðe ne mæg
foremære weras forð gebrengan.
þeah ge nu wenen and wilnigen
þæt ge lange tid libban moten,
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hwæt iow æfre þy bet bio oððe þince?
Forðæm þe nane forlet, þeah hit lang ðince,
deað æfter dogorrime, þonne he hæfð drihtnes leafe.
Hwæt þonne hæbbe hæleþa ænig,
guma æt þæm gilpe, gif hine gegripan mot
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se eca deað æfter þissum worulde?
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 11
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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An sceppend is butan ælcum tweon.
Se is eac wealdend woruldgesceafta,
heofones and eorðan and heare sæ
and ealra þara þe ðær in wuniað,
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ungesæwenlicra, and eac swa same
ðara ðe we eagum on lociað,
ealra gesceafta. Se is ælmihtig,
þæm oleccað ealle gesceafte
þe þæs ambehtes awuht cunnon,
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ge eac swa same þa ðæs auht nyton
þæt hi þæs ðeodnes þeowas sindon.
Se us gesette sido and þeawas,
eallum gesceaftum unawendende,
singallice sibbe gecynde,
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þa þa he wolde, þæt þæt he wolde,
swa lange swa he wolde þæt hit wesan sceolde.
Swa hit eac to worulde sceal wunian forð,
forþæm æfre ne magon þa unstillan
woruldgesceafta weorðan gestilde,
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of ðæm ryne onwend ðe him rodera weard
endebyrdes eallum gesette.
Hæfð se alwealda ealle gesceafta
gebæt mid his bridle, hafað butu gedon,
ealle gemanode and eac getogen,
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þæt hi ne moten ofer metodes est
æfre gestillan, ne eft eallunga
swiðor stirian, þonne him sigora weard
his gewealdleðer wille onlæten.
He hafað þe bridle butu befangen
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heofon and eorðan and eall holma begong.
Swa hæfð geheaðærod hefonrices weard
mid his anwealde ealle gesceafta,
þæt hiora æghwilc wið oðer winð,
and þeah winnende wreðiað fæste,
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æghwilc oðer utan ymbclyppeð,
þy læs hi toswifen. Forðæm hi symle sculon
ðone ilcan ryne eft gecyrran
þe æt frymðe fæder getiode,
and swa edniwe eft gewiorðan.
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Swa hit nu fagað, frean ealdgeweorc,
þætte winnende wiðerweard gesceaft
fæste sibbe forð anhealdað.
Swa nu fyr and wæter, folde and lagustream,
manigu oðru gesceaft efnswiðe him
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giond þas widan worulde winnað betweox him,
and swa þeah magon hiora þegnunga
and geferscipe fæste gehealdan.
Nis hit no þæt an þæt swa eaðe mæg
wiðerweard gesceaft wesan ætgædere
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symbel geferan, ac hit is sellicre
þæt hiora ænig ne mæg butan oþrum bion.
Ac sceal wuhta gehwilc wiðerweardes hwæthwugu
habban under heofonum, þæt his hige durre
gemetgian, ær hit to micel weorðe.
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Hæfð se ælmihtiga eallum gesceaftum
ðæt gewrixle geset þe nu wunian sceal,
wyrta growan, leaf grenian,
þæt on hærfest eft hrest and wealuwað.
Winter bringeð weder ungemet cald,
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swifte windas. Sumor æfter cymeð,
wearm gewideru. Hwæt, þa wonnan niht
mona onlihteð, oððæt monnum dæg
sunne bringeð giond þas sidan gesceaft.
Hæfð se ilca god eorðan and wætere
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mearce gesette. Merestream ne dear
ofer eorðan sceat eard gebrædan
fisca cynne butan frean leafe,
ne hio æfre ne mot eorðan þyrscwold
up ofersteppan, ne ða ebban þon ma
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foldes mearce oferfaran moton.
þa gesetnessa sigora wealdend,
lifes leohtfruma, læt þenden he wile
geond þas mæran gesceaft mearce healden.
Ac þonne se eca and se ælmihtiga
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þa gewealdleðeru wile onlætan
efne þara bridla þe he gebætte mid
his agen weorc eall æt frymðe,
(þæt is wiðerweardnes wuhte gehwelcre
þe we mid þæm bridle becnan tiliað);
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gif se ðioden læt þa toslupan,
sona hi forlætað lufan and sibbe,
ðæs geferscipes freondrædenne;
tilaþ anra gehwilc agnes willan,
woruldgesceafta winnað betweox him,
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oððæt ðios eorðe eall forweorðeð,
and eac swa same oðra gesceafta
weorðað him selfe siððan to nauhte.
Ac se ilca god, se þæt eall metgað,
se gefehð fela folca tosomne,
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and mid freondscipe fæste gegadrað,
gesamnað sinscipas, sibbe gemengeð,
clænlice lufe. Swa se cræftga eac
geferscipas fæste gesamnað,
þæt hi hiora freondscipe forð on symbel
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untweofealde treowa gehealdað,
sibbe samrade. Eala, sigora god,
wære þis moncyn miclum gesælig,
gif hiora modsefa meahte weorðan
staðolfæst gereaht þurh þa strongan meaht,
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and geendebyrd, swa swa oðra sint
woruldgesceafta. Wære hit, la, þonne
murge mid monnum, gif hit meahte swa.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 12
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Se þe wille wyrcan wæstmbære lond,
atio of ðæm æcere ærest sona
fearn and þornas and fyrsas swa same,
wiod þa þe willað welhwær derian
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clænum hwæte, þy læs he ciða leas
licge on ðæm lande. Is leoda gehwæm
ðios oðru bysen efnbehefu,
þæt is, þætte ðynceð þegna gehwelcum
huniges bibread healfe þy swetre,
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gif he hwene ær huniges teare
bitres onbyrgeð. Bið eac swa same
monna æghwilc micle þy fægenra
liðes weðres, gif hine lytle ær
stormas gestondað and se stearca wind
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norðan and eastan. Nænegum þuhte
dæg on þonce, gif sio dimme niht
ær ofer eldum egesan ne brohte.
Swa þincð anra gehwæm eorðbuendra
sio soðe gesælð symle ðe betere
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and þy wynsumre, þe he wita ma,
heardra henða, her adreogeð.
þu meaht eac mycle þy eð on modsefan
soða gesælða sweotolor gecnawan,
and to heora cyððe becuman siððan,
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gif þu up atyhsð ærest sona
and ðu awyrtwalast of gewitlocan
leasa gesælða, swa swa londes ceorl
of his æcere lycð yfel weod monig.
Siððan ic ðe secge þæt þu sweotole meaht
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soða gesælða sona oncnawan,
and þu æfre ne recst æniges ðinges
ofer þa ane, gif þu hi ealles ongitst.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 13
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wille mid giddum get gecyðan
hu se ælmihtga ealla gesceafta
bryrð mid his bridlum, begð ðider he wile
mid his anwalde, ge endebyrd
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wundorlice wel gemetgað.
Hafað swa geheaðorad heofona wealdend,
utan befangen ealla gesceafta,
geræped mid his racentan, þæt hi aredian ne magon
þæt hi hi æfre him of aslepen;
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and þeah wuhta gehwilc wrigað toheald
sidra gesceafta, swiðe onhelded
wið þæs gecyndes þe him cyning engla,
fæder æt frymðe, fæste getiode.
Swa nu þinga gehwilc ðiderweard fundað
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sidra gesceafta, buton sumum englum
and moncynne, þara micles to feola
woroldwuniendra winð wið gecynde.
þeah nu on londe leon gemete,
wynsume wiht wel atemede,
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hire magister miclum lufige,
and eac ondræde dogora gehwelce,
gif hit æfre gesælð þæt hio æniges
blodes onbyrgeð, ne ðearf beorna nan
wenan þære wyrde þæt hio wel siððan
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hire taman healde, ac ic tiohhie
þæt hio ðæs niwan taman nauht ne gehicgge,
ac ðone wildan gewunan wille geþencan
hire eldrena; onginð eorneste
racentan slitan, ryn, grymetigan,
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and ærest abit hire agenes
huses hirde, and hraðe siððan
hæleða gehwilcne þe hio gehentan mæg.
Nele hio forlætan libbendes wuht,
neata ne monna, nimð eall þæt hio fint.
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Swa doð wudufuglas; þeah hi wel sien,
tela atemede, gif hi on treowum weorðað
holte tomiddes, hræðe bioð forsewene
heora lareowas, þe hi lange ær
tydon and temedon. Hi on treowum wilde
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ealdgecynde a forð siððan
willum wuniað, þeah him wolde hwilc
heora lareowa listum beodan
þone ilcan mete þe he hi æror mid
tame getede. Him þa twigu þincað
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emne swa merge þæt hi þæs metes ne recð,
ðincð him to ðon wynsum þæt him se weald oncwyð;
þonne hi geherað hleoðrum brægdan
oðre fugelas, hi heora agne
stefne styriað; stunað eal geador
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welwynsum sanc, wudu eallum oncwyð.
Swa bið eallum treowum þe him on æðele bið
þæt hit on holte hyhst geweaxe;
þeah ðu hwilcne boh byge wið eorðan,
he bið upweardes, swa ðu an forlætst
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widu on willan, went on gecynde.
Swa deð eac sio sunne, þonne hio on sige weorðeð,
ofer midne dæg, merecondel scyfð
on ofdæle, uncuðne weg
nihtes geneðeð, norð eft and east;
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eldum oteweð, brencð eorðwarum
morgen meretorhtne. Hio ofer moncyn stihð
a upweardes, oð hio eft cymeð
þær hire yfemesð bið eard gecynde.
Swa swa ælc gesceaft ealle mægene
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geond ðas widan woruld wrigað and higað,
ealle mægene eft symle onlyt,
wið his gecyndes cymð to, ðonne hit mæg.
Nis nu ofer eorðan ænegu gesceaft
þe ne wilnie þæt hio wolde cuman
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to þam earde þe hio of becom;
þæt is orsorgnes and ecu rest,
þæt is openlice ælmihti god.
Nis nu ofer eorðan ænegu gesceaft
þe ne hwearfige, swa swa hweol deð,
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on hire selfre. Forðon hio swa hwearfað,
þæt hio eft cume þær hio æror wæs;
þonne hio ærest sie utan behwerfed,
þonne hio ealles wyrð utan becerred,
hio sceal eft don þæt hio ær dyde,
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and eac wesan þæt hio æror wæs.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 14
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt bið ðæm welegan woruldgitsere
on his mode ðe bet, þeah he micel age
goldes and gimma and gooda gehwæs,
æhta unrim, and him mon erigen scyle
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æghwelce dæg æcera ðusend,
ðeah ðes middangeard and þis manna cyn
sy under sunnan suð, west and east
his anwalde eall underðieded?
Ne mot he þara hyrsta hionane lædan
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of ðisse worulde wuhte þon mare,
hordgestreona, ðonne he hiðer brohte.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 15
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
ðeah hine nu se yfela unrihtwisa
Neron cynincg niwan gescerpte
wlitegum wædum wundorlice,
golde geglengde and gimcynnum,
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þeah he wæs on worulde witena gehwelcum
on his lifdagum lað and unweorð,
fierenfull. Hwæt, se feond swa ðeah
his diorlingas duguðum stepte.
Ne mæg ic þeah gehycgan hwy him on hige þorfte
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a ðy sæl wesan; þeah hi sume hwile
gecure butan cræftum cyninga dysegast,
næron hy ðy weorðran witena ænegum.
ðeah hine se dysega do to cyninge,
hu mæg þæt gesceadwis scealc gereccan
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þæt he him ðy selra sie oððe þince?
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 16
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Se þe wille anwald agon, ðonne sceal he ærest tilian
þæt he his selfes on sefan age
anwald innan, þy læs he æfre sie
his unþeawum eall underðyded,
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ado of his mode mislicra fela
þara ymbhogona þe him unnet sie,
læte sume hwile siofunga ana
ermða sinra. þeah him eall sie
þes middangeard, swa swa merestreamas
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utan belicgað, on æht gifen,
efne swa wide swa swa westmest nu
an iglond ligð ut on garsecg,
þær nængu bið niht on sumera
ne wuhte þon ma on wintra dæg
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toteled tidum, þæt is Tile haten;
þeah nu anra hwa ealles wealde
þæs iglandes, and eac þonan
oð Indeas eastewearde;
þeah he nu þæt eall agan mote,
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hwy bið his anwald auhte ðy mara,
gif he siððan nah his selfes geweald
ingeðances, and hine eorneste
wel ne bewarenað wordum and dædum
wið ða unþeawas þe we ymb sprecað?
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 17
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt, eorðwaran ealle hæfden,
foldbuende, fruman gelicne;
hi of anum twæm ealle comon,
were and wife, on woruld innan,
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and hi eac nu get ealle gelice
on woruld cumað, wlance and heane.
Nis þæt nan wundor, forðæm witan ealle
þæt an god is ealra gesceafta,
frea moncynnes, fæder and scippend.
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Se ðære sunnan leoht seleð of heofonum,
monan and þyssum mærum steorrum.
Se milda metod gesceop men on eorðan,
and gesamnade sawle to lice
æt fruman ærest, folc under wolcnum
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emnæðele gesceop æghwilcne mon.
Hwy ge þonne æfre ofer oðre men
ofermodigen buton andweorce,
nu ge unæðelne nænigne metað?
Hwy ge eow for æþelum up ahebben,
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nu on þæm mode bið monna gehwilcum
þa rihtæþelo þe ic ðe recce ymb,
nales on ðæm flæsce foldbuendra?
Ac nu æghwilc mon þe mid ealle bið
his unþeawum underðieded,
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he forlæt ærest lifes frumsceaft
and his agene æþelo swa selfe,
and eac þone fæder þe hine æt fruman gesceop.
Forðæm hine anæþelað ælmihtig god,
þæt he unæþele a forð þanan
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wyrð on weorulde, to wuldre ne cymð.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 18
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eala ðæt se yfla unrihta gedeð
wraða willa wohhæmetes,
þæt he mid ealle gedræfð anra gehwylces
monna cynnes mod fulneah ðon.
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Hwæt, sio wilde beo, þeah wis sie,
anunga sceal eall forweorðan
gif hio yrringa awuht stingeð.
Swa sceal sawla gehwilc siððan losian,
gif se lichoma forlegen weorðeð
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unrihthæmede, bute him ær cume
hreow to heortan, ær he hionan wende.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 19
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eala, þæt is hefig dysig, hygeð ymbe se ðe wile,
and frecenlic fira gehwilcum
þæt ða earman men mid ealle gedwæleð,
of ðæm rihtan wege recene alæded.
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Hwæðer ge willen on wuda secan
gold ðæt reade on grenum triowum?
Ic wat swa ðeah þæt hit witena nan
þider ne seceð, forðæm hit þær ne wexð,
ne on wingeardum wlitige gimmas.
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Hwy ge nu ne settan on sume dune
fiscnet eowru, þonne eow fon lysteð
leax oððe cyperan? Me gelicost ðincð
þætte ealle witen eorðbuende
þoncolmode ðæt hi þær ne sint.
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Hwæþer ge nu willen wæþan mid hundum
on sealtne sæ, þonne eow secan lyst
heorotas and hinda? þu gehicgan meaht
þæt ge willað ða on wuda secan
oftor micle þonne ut on sæ.
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Is ðæt wundorlic, þæt we witan ealle,
þæt mon secan sceal be sæwaroðe
and be eaofrum æþele gimmas,
hwite and reade and hiwa gehwæs.
Hwæt, hi eac witon hwær hi eafiscas
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secan þurfan, and swylcra fela
weoruldwelena; hi þæt wel doð,
geornfulle men, geara gehwilce.
Ac ðæt is earmlicost ealra þinga
þæt þa dysegan sint on gedwolan wordene,
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efne swa blinde þæt hi on breostum ne magon
eaðe gecnawan hwær þa ecan good,
soða gesælða, sindon gehydda.
Forþæm hi æfre ne lyst æfter spyrian,
secan þa gesælða. Wenað samwise
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þæt hi on ðis lænan mægen life findan
soða gesælða, þæt is selfa god.
Ic nat hu ic mæge nænige ðinga
ealles swa swiðe on sefan minum
hiora dysig tælan swa hit me don lysteð,
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ne ic þe swa sweotole gesecgan ne mæg,
forðæm hi sint earmran and eac dysegran,
ungesæligran, þonne ic þe secgan mæge.
Hi wilniað welan and æhta
and weorðscipes to gewinnanne;
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þonne hi habbað þæt hiora hige seceð,
wenað þonne swa gewitlease
ðæt hi þa soðan gesælða hæbben.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 20
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Eala, min drihten, þæt þu eart ælmihtig,
micel, modilic, mærþum gefræge,
and wundorlic witena gehwylcum.
Hwæt, ðu, ece god, ealra gesceafta
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wundorlice wel gesceope,
ungesewenlica, and eac swa same
gesewenlicra softe wealdest
scirra gesceafta mid gesceadwisum
mægne and cræfte. þu þysne middangeard
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from fruman ærest forð oð ende
tidum totældes, swa hit getæsost wæs,
endebyrdes, þæt hi æghwæðer
ge ær farað ge eft cumað.
þu þe unstilla agna gesceafta
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to ðinum willan wislice astyrest,
and þe self wunæst swiðe stille
unanwendendlic a forð simle.
Nis nan mihtigra ne nan mærra
ne geond ealle þa gesceaft efnlica þin,
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ne þe ænig nedþearf næs æfre giet
ealra þara weorca þe þu geworht hafast;
ac mid þinum willan þu hit worhtes eall,
and mid anwalde þinum agenum
weorulde geworhtest and wuhta gehwæt,
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þeah ðe nænegu nedðearf wære
eallra þara mærþa. Is ðæt micel gecynd
þines goodes, þencð ymb se ðe wile,
forðon hit is eall an ælces þincges,
þu and þæt ðin good. Hit is þin agen,
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forðæm hit his utan ne com auht to ðe,
ac ic georne wat þæt ðin goodnes is,
ælmihtig good, eall mid ðe selfum.
Hit is ungelic urum gecynde;
us is utan cymen eall þa we habbað
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gooda on grundum from gode selfum.
Næfst þu to ænegum andan genumenne,
forðam þe nan þing nis þin gelica,
ne huru ænig ælcræftigre,
forðæm þu ealgood anes geþeahte
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þines geþohtest, and hi þa worhtest.
Næs æror ðe ænegu gesceaft
þe auht oððe nauht auðer worhte,
ac ðu butan bysne, brego moncynnes,
ælmihtig god, eall geworhtest
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þing þearle good; eart þe selfa
þæt hehste good. Hwæt, ðu, halig fæder,
æfter þinum willan woruld gesceope,
ðisne middangeard, meahtum þinum,
weorada drihten, swa þu woldest self,
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and mid ðinum willan wealdest ealles;
forðæm þu, soða god, selfa dælest
gooda æghwilc. Forðæm þu geara ær
ealla gesceafta ærest gesceope
swiðe gelice, sumes hwæðre þeah
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ungelice, nemdest eall swa ðeah
mid ane noman ealle togædre
woruld under wolcnum. Hwæt, þu, wuldres god,
þone anne naman eft todældes,
fæder, on feower; wæs þara folde an
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and wæter oðer worulde dæles,
and fyr is þridde and feowerðe lyft;
þæt is eall weoruld eft togædere.
Habbað þeah þa feower frumstol hiora,
æghwilc hiora agenne stede,
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þeah anra hwilc wið oðer sie
miclum gemenged, and mid mægne eac
fæder ælmihtiges fæste gebunden
gesiblice softe togædre
mid bebode þine, bilewit fæder,
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þætte heora ænig oðres ne dorste
mearce ofergangan for metodes ege;
ac geþweorod sint ðegnas togædre,
cyninges cempan, cele wið hæto,
wæt wið drygum, winnað hwæðre.
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Wæter and eorðe wæstmas brengað;
þa sint on gecynde cealda ba twa,
wæter wæt and ceald. Wangas ymbelicgað,
eorðe ælgreno, eac hwæðre ceald.
Lyft is gemenged, forþæm hio on middum wunað;
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nis þæt nan wundor þæt hio sie wearm and ceald,
wæt wolcnes tier, winde geblonden,
forðæm hio is on midle, mine gefræge,
fyres and eorðan. Fela monna wat
þætte yfemest is eallra gesceafta
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fyr ofer eorðan, folde neoðemest.
Is þæt wundorlic, weroda drihten,
þæt ðu mid geþeahte þinum wyrcest
þæt ðu þæm gesceaftum swa gesceadlice
mearce gesettest, and hi gemengdest eac.
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Hwæt, ðu þæm wættere wætum and cealdum
foldan to flore fæste gesettest,
forðæm hit unstille æghwider wolde
wide toscriðan wac and hnesce.
Ne meahte hit on him selfum, soð ic geare wat,
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æfre gestandan, ac hit sio eorðe hylt
and swelgeð eac be sumum dæle,
þæt hio siðþan mæg for ðæm sype weorðan
geleht lyftum. Forðæm leaf and gærs
bræd geond Bretene, bloweð and groweð
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eldum to are. Eorðe sio cealde
brengð wæstma fela wundorlicra,
forðæm hio mid þæm wætere weorðað geþawened.
Gif þæt nære, þonne hio wære
fordrugod to duste and todrifen siððan
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wide mid winde, swa nu weorðað oft
axe giond eorðan eall toblawen.
Ne meahte on ðære eorðan awuht libban,
ne wuhte þon ma wætres brucan,
on eardian ænige cræfte
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for cele anum, gif þu, cyning engla,
wið fyre hwæthwugu foldan and lagustream
ne mengdest togædre, and gemetgodest
cele and hæto cræfte þine,
þæt þæt fyr ne mæg foldan and merestream
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blate forbærnan, þeah hit wið ba twa sie
fæste gefeged, fæder ealdgeweorc.
Ne þincð me þæt wundur wuhte þe læsse
þæt ðios eorðe mæg and egorstream,
swa ceald gesceaft, cræfta nane
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ealles adwæscan þæt þæt him on innan sticað
fyres gefeged mid frean cræfte.
þæt is agen cræft eagorstreames,
wætres and eorþan, and on wolcnum eac,
and efne swa same uppe ofer rodere.
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þonne is þæs fyres frumstol on riht,
eard ofer eallum oðrum gesceaftum
gesewenlicum geond þisne sidan grund;
þeah hit wið ealla sie eft gemenged
weoruldgesceafta, þeah waldan ne mot
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þæt hit ænige eallunga fordo
butan þæs leafe þe us þis lif tiode,
þæt is se eca and se ælmihtga.
Eorðe is hefigre oðrum gesceaftum,
þicre geþuren, forðæm hio þrage stod
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ealra gesceafta under niðemæst,
buton þæm rodere, þe þas ruman gesceaft
æghwylce dæge utan ymbhwyrfeð,
and þeah þære eorðan æfre ne oðrineð,
ne hire on nanre ne mot near þonne on oðre
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stowe gestæppan; striceð ymbutan
ufane and neoðane, efenneah gehwæðer.
æghwilc gesceaft þe we ymb sprecað
hæfð his agenne eard onsundran,
bið þeah wið þæm oðrum eac gemenged.
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Ne mæg hira ænig butan oðrum bion.
þeah hi unsweotole somod eardien,
swa nu eorðe and wæter earfoðtæcne
unwisra gehwæm wuniað on fyre,
þeah hi sindan sweotole þæm wisum.
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Is þæt fyr swa same fæst on þæm wætre
and on stanum eac stille geheded
earfoðhawe, is hwæðre þær.
Hafað fæder engla fyr gebunden
efne to þon fæste þæt hit fiolan ne mæg
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eft æt his eðle, þær þæt oðer fyr
up ofer eall þis eardfæst wunað.
Sona hit forlæteð þas lænan gesceaft,
mid cele ofercumen, gif hit on cyððe gewit,
and þeah wuhta gehwilc wilnað þiderweard
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þær his mægðe bið mæst ætgædre.
þu gestaðoladest þurh þa strongan meaht,
weroda wuldorcyning, wundorlice
eorðan swa fæste þæt hio on ænige
healfe ne heldeð; ne mæg hio hider ne þider
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sigan þe swiðor þe hio symle dyde.
Hwæt, hi þeah eorðlices auht ne haldeð,
is þeah efneðe up and of dune
to feallanne foldan ðisse,
þæm anlicost þe on æge bið,
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gioleca on middan, glideð hwæðre
æg ymbutan. Swa stent eall weoruld
stille on tille, streamas ymbutan,
lagufloda gelac, lyfte and tungla,
and sio scire scell scriðeð ymbutan
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dogora gehwilce; dyde lange swa.
Hwæt, þu, ðioda god, ðriefalde on us
sawle gesettest, and hi siððan eac
styrest and stihtest þurh ða strongan meaht,
þæt hire þy læsse on ðæm lytlan ne bið
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anum fingre þe hire on eallum bið
þæm lichoman. Forðæm ic lytle ær
sweotole sæde þæt sio sawl wære
þriefald gesceaft þegna gehwilces,
forðæm uðwitan ealle seggað
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ðætte an gecynd ælcre saule
irsung sie, oðer wilnung;
is sio ðridde gecynd þæm twæm betere,
sio gesceadwisnes. Nis ðæt scandlic cræft,
forðæm hit nænig hafað neat buton monnum.
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Hæfð þa oðra twa unrim wuhta;
hæfð þa wilnunga welhwilc neten
and þa yrsunga eac swa selfe.
Forðy men habbæð geond middangeard
eorðgesceafta ealla oferþungen,
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forðæm ðe hi habbað, þæs ðe hi nabbað,
þone ænne cræft þe we ær nemdon.
Sio gesceadwisnes sceal on gehwelcum
þære wilnunge waldan semle,
and irsunge eac swa selfe;
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hio sceal mid geþeahte þegnes mode,
mid andgite, ealles waldan.
Hio is þæt mæste mægen monnes saule
and se selesta sundorcræfta.
Hwæt, þu ða saule, sigora waldend,
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þeoda þrymcyning, þus gesceope,
þæt hio hwearfode on hire selfre
hire utan ymb, swa swa eal deð
rineswifte rodor, recene ymbscriðeð
dogora gehwilce drihtnes meahtum
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þisne middangeard. Swa deð monnes saul,
hweole gelicost, hwærfeð ymbe hy selfe,
oft smeagende ymb ðas eorðlican
drihtnes gesceafta dagum and nihtum.
Hwilum ymb hi selfe secende smeað,
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hwilum eft smeað ymb þone ecan god,
sceppend hire. Scriðende færð,
hweole gelicost, hwærfð ymb hi selfe.
þonne hio ymb hire scyppend mid gescead smeað,
hio bið up ahæfen ofer hi selfe,
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ac hio bið eallunga an hire selfre,
þonne hio ymb hi selfe secende smeað;
hio bið swiðe fior hire selfre beneoðan,
þonne hio þæs lænan lufað and wundrað
eorðlicu þing ofer ecne ræd.
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Hwæt, þu, ece god, eard forgeafe
saulum on heofonum, selest weorðlica
ginfæsta gifa, god ælmihtig,
be geearnunga anra gehwelcre.
Ealle hi scinað ðurh þa sciran neaht
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hadre on heofonum, na hwæðre þeah
ealle efenbeorhte. Hwæt, we oft gesioð
hadrum nihtum þætte heofonsteorran
ealle efenbeorhte æfre ne scinað.
Hwæt, þu, ece god, eac gemengest
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þa heofoncundan hider wið eorðan,
saula wið lice; siððan wuniað
þis eorðlice and þæt ece samod,
saul in flæsce. Hwæt, hi simle to ðe
hionan fundiað; forðæm hi hider of ðe
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æror comon, sculon eft to ðe.
Sceal se lichama last weardigan
eft on eorðan, forðæm he ær of hire
weox on weorulde. Wunedon ætsomne
efen swa lange swa him lyfed wæs
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from þæm ælmihtigan, þe hi æror gio
gesomnade, þæt is soð cining.
Se þas foldan gesceop and hi gefylde þa
swiðe mislicum, mine gefræge,
neata cynnum, nergend user.
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He hi siððan asiow sæda monegum
wuda and wyrta weorulde sceatum.
Forgif nu, ece god, urum modum,
þæt hi moten to þe, metod alwuhta,
þurg þas earfoðu up astigan,
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and of þisum bysegum, bilewit fæder,
þeoda waldend, to ðe cuman,
and þonne mid openum eagum moten
modes ures, ðurh ðinra mægna sped,
æwelm gesion eallra gooda,
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þæt þu eart selfa sigedrihten god,
ge þa eagan hal ures modes,
þæt we hi on ðe selfum siððan moten
afæstnian. Fæder engla, todrif
þone þiccan mist þe þrage nu
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wið þa eagan foran usses modes
hangode hwyle, hefig and þystre.
Onliht nu þa eagan usses modes
mid þinum leohte, lifes waldend,
forðæm þu eart sio birhtu, bilewit fæder,
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soðes leohtes, and þu selfa eart
sio fæste ræst, fæder ælmihtig,
eallra soðfæstra. Hwæt, þu softe gedest
þæt hi ðe selfne gesion moten.
þu eart eallra þinga, þeoda waldend,
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fruma and ende. Hwæt, þu, fæder engla,
eall þing birest eðelice
buton geswince. þu eart selfa weg
and latteow eac lifgendra gehwæs,
and sio wlitige stow þe se weg to ligð,
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þe ealle to a fundiað
men of moldan on þa mæran gesceaft.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 21
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wel la, monna bearn geond middangeard,
friora æghwilc fundie to
þæm ecum gode þe we ymb sprecað,
and to þæm gesælðum þe we secgað ymb.
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Se ðe ðonne nu sie nearwe gehefted
mid þisses mæran middangeardes
unnyttre lufe, sece him eft hræðe
fulne friodom, þæt he forð cume
to þæm gesælðum saula rædes.
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Forþæm þæt is sio an rest eallra geswinca,
hyhtlicu hyð heaum ceolum
modes usses, meresmylta wic.
þæt is sio an hyð þe æfre bið
æfter þam yðum ura geswinca,
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ysta gehwelcre, ealnig smylte.
þæt is sio friðstow and sio frofor an
eallra yrminga æfter þissum
weoruldgeswincum. þæt is wynsum stow
æfter þyssum yrmðum to aganne.
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Ac ic georne wat þætte gylden maðm,
sylofren sincstan, searogimma nan,
middangeardes wela modes eagan
æfre ne onlyhtað, auht ne gebetað
hiora scearpnesse to þære sceawunga
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soðra gesælða, ac hi swiðor get
monna gehwelces modes eagan
ablendað on breostum, þonne hi hi beorhtran gedon.
Forðæm æghwilc ðing þe on þys andweardan
life licað lænu sindon,
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eorðlicu þing a fleondu.
Ac þæt is wundorlic wlite and beorhtnes
þe wuhta gehwæs wlite geberhteð,
and æfter þæm eallum wealdeð.
Nele se waldend ðæt forweorðan scylen
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saula usse, ac he hi selfa wile
leoman onlihtan, lifes wealdend.
Gif þonne hæleða hwilc hlutrum eagum
modes sines mæg æfre ofsion
hiofones leohtes hlutre beorhto,
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þonne wile he secgan þæt ðære sunnan sie
beorhtnes þiostro beorna gehwylcum
to metanne wið þæt micle leoht
godes ælmihtiges; þæt is gasta gehwæm
ece butan ende eadegum saulum.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 22
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Se þe æfter rihte mid gerece wille
inweardlice æfter spyrian
swa deoplice, þæt hit todrifan ne mæg
monna ænig, ne amerran huru
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ænig eorðlic ðincg, he ærest sceal
secan on him selfum þæt he sume hwile
ymbutan hine æror sohte.
Sece þæt siððan on his sefan innan,
and forlæte an, swa he oftost mæge,
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ælcne ymbhogan ðy him unnet sie,
and gesamnige, swa he swiðost mæge,
ealle to þæm anum his ingeðonc,
gesecge his mode þæt hit mæg findan
eall on him innan þæt hit oftost nu
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ymbutan hit ealneg seceð,
gooda æghwylc. He ongit siððan
yfel and unnet eal þæt he hæfde
on his incofan æror lange
efne swa sweotole swa he on þa sunnan mæg
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eagum andweardum on locian,
and he eac ongit his ingeþonc
leohtre and berhtre þonne se leoma sie
sunnan on sumera, þonne swegles gim,
hador heofontungol, hlutrost scineð.
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Forðæm þæs lichoman leahtras and hefignes
and þa unþeawas eallunga ne magon
of mode ation monna ænegum
rihtwisnesse, ðeah nu rinca hwæm
þæs lichoman leahtras and hefignes
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and unþeawas oft bysigen
monna modsefan, mæst and swiðost
mid þære yflan oforgiotolnesse;
mid gedwolmiste dreorigne sefan
fortihð mod foran monna gehwelces,
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þæt hit swa beorhte ne mot blican and scinan
swa hit wolde, gif hit geweald ahte;
þeah bið sum corn sædes gehealden
symle on ðære saule soðfæstnesse,
þenden gadertang wunað gast on lice.
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ðæs sædes corn bið symle aweaht
mid ascunga, eac siððan mid
goodre lare, gif hit growan sceal.
Hu mæg ænig man andsware findan
ðinga æniges, þegen mid gesceade,
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þeah hine rinca hwilc rihtwislice
æfter frigne gif he awuht nafað
on his modsefan mycles ne lytles
rihtwisnesse ne geradscipes?
Nis þeah ænig man þætte ealles swa
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þæs geradscipes swa bereafod sie
þæt he andsware ænige ne cunne
findan on ferhðe, gif he frugnen bið.
Forðæm hit is riht spell þæt us reahte gio
ald uðwita, ure Platon;
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he cwæð þætte æghwilc ungemyndig
rihtwisnesse hine hræðe sceolde
eft gewendan into sinum
modes gemynde; he mæg siððan
on his runcofan rihtwisnesse
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findan on ferhte fæste gehydde
mid gedræfnesse dogora gehwilce
modes sines mæst and swiðost,
and mid hefinesse his lichoman,
and mid þæm bisgum þe on breostum styreð
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mon on mode mæla gehwylce.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 23
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Sie ðæt la on eorðan ælces ðinges
gesælig mon, gif he gesion mæge
þone hlutrestan heofontorhtan stream,
æðelne æwelm ælces goodes,
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and of him selfum ðone sweartan mist,
modes þiostro, mæg aweorpan.
We sculon ðeah gita mid godes fylste
ealdum and leasum ðinne ingeðonc
betan bispellum, þæt ðu ðe bet mæge
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aredian to rodorum rihte stige
on ðone ecan eard ussa saula.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 24
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic hæbbe fiðru fugle swiftran,
mid ðæm ic fleogan mæg feor fram eorðan
ofer heane hrof heofones þisses,
ac ðær ic nu moste mod gefeðran,
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ðinne ferðlocan, feðrum minum,
oððæt ðu meahte þisne middangeard,
ælc eorðlic ðing, eallunga forsion.
Meahtes ofer rodorum gereclice
feðerum lacan, feor up ofer
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wolcnu windan, wlitan siððan
ufan ofer ealle. Meahtes eac faran
ofer ðæm fyre ðe fela geara
for lange betweox lyfte and rodere,
swa him æt frymðe fæder getiode.
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ðu meahtest ðe siððan mid ðære sunnan
faran betweox oðrum tunglum.
Meahtest ðe full recen on ðæm rodere ufan
siððan weorðan, and ðonne samtenges
æt ðæm ælcealdan anum steorran,
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se yfmest is eallra tungla,
ðone Saturnus sundbuende
hatað under heofonum; he is se cealda
eallisig tungl, yfemest wandrað
ofer eallum ufan oðrum steorrum.
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Siððan ðu ðonne ðone up a hafast
forð oferfarenne, ðu meaht feorsian;
ðonne bist ðu siððan sona ofer uppan
rodere ryneswiftum. Gif ðu on riht færest,
ðe ðone hehstan heofon behindan lætst,
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ðonne meaht ðu siððan soðes leohtes
habban þinne dæl, ðonan an cyning
rume ricsað ofer roderum up
and under swa same eallra gesceafta,
weorulde waldeð. þæt is wis cyning,
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þæt is se ðe waldeð giond werðioda
ealra oðra eorðan cyninga,
se mid his bridle ymbebæted hæfð
ymbhwyrft ealne eorðan and heofones.
He his gewaldleðer wel gemetgað,
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se stioreð a þurg ða strongan meaht
ðæm hrædwæne heofones and eorðan.
Se an dema is gestæððig,
unawendendlic, wlitig and mære.
Gif ðu weorðest on wege rihtum
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up to ðæm earde, þæt is æðele stow,
ðeah ðu hi nu geta forgiten hæbbe,
gif ðu æfre eft þær an cymest,
ðonne wilt þu secgan and sona cweðan:
"ðis is eallunga min agen cyð,
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eard and eðel. Ic wæs ær hionan
cumen and acenned ðurh ðisses cræftgan meaht.
Nylle ic æfre hionan ut witan,
ac ic symle her softe wille
mid fæder willan fæste stondan."
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Gif ðe ðonne æfre eft geweorðeð
þæt ðu wilt oððe most weorolde ðiostro
eft fandian, ðu meaht eaðe gesion
unrihtwise eorðan cyningas
and þa ofermodan oðre rican
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ðe þis werige folc wyrst tuciað,
þæt hi symle bioð swiðe earme,
unmehtige ælces ðinges,
emne ða ilcan þe þis earme folc
sume hwile nu swiðost ondrædæð.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 25
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Geher nu an spell be ðæm ofermodum
unrihtwisum eorðan cyningum,
ða her nu manegum and mislicum
wædum wlitebeorhtum wundrum scinað
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on heahsetlum, hrofe getenge,
golde gegerede and gimcynnum,
utan ymbestandne mid unrime
ðegna and eorla. þa bioð gehyrste
mid heregeatwum hildetorhtum,
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sweordum and fetelum swiðe geglengde,
and þegniað ðrymme micle
ælc oðrum, and hi ealle him
ðonan mid ðy ðrymme þreatiað gehwider
ymbsittenda oðra ðeoda;
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and se hlaford ne scrifð, ðe ðæm here waldeð,
freonde ne feonde, feore ne æhtum,
ac he reðigmod ræst on gehwilcne,
wedehunde wuhta gelicost;
bið to up ahæfen inne on mode
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for ðæm anwalde þe him anra gehwilc
his tirwina to fultemað.
Gif mon ðonne wolde him awindan of
þæs cynegerelan claða gehwilcne,
and him þonne oftion ðara ðegnunga
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and þæs anwaldes ðe he ær hæfde,
ðonne meaht ðu gesion þæt he bið swiðe gelic
sumum ðara gumena þe him geornost nu
mid ðegnungum ðringað ymbeutan;
gif he wyrsa ne bið, ne wene ic his na beteran.
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Gif him þonne æfre unmendlinga
weas geberede þæt him wurde oftogen
þrymmes and wæda and þegnunga
and ðæs anwaldes þe we ymbe sprecað,
gif him ænig þara ofhende wyrð,
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ic wat þæt him þynceð þæt he þonne sie
becropen on carcern, oððe coðlice
racentan geræped. Ic gereccan mæg
þæt of ungemete ælces ðinges,
wiste and wæda, wingedrinces,
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and of swetmettum, swiðost weaxað
þære wrænnesse wodðrag micel;
sio swiðe gedræfð sefan ingehygd
monna gehwelces, þonan mæst cymeð
yfla ofermetta, unnetta saca.
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þonne hi gebolgene weorðað, him wyrð on breostum inne
beswungen sefa on hraðre mid ðæm swiðan welme
hatheortnesse, and hreðe siððan
unrotnesse eac geræped,
hearde gehæfted. Him siððan onginð
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sum tohopa swiðe leogan
þæs gewinnes wræce; wilnað þæt irre
anes and oðres; him þæt eall gehæt
his recelest, rihtes ne scrifeð.
Ic ðe sæde ær on ðisse selfan bec
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þæt sumes goodes sidra gesceafta
anlepra ælc a wilnode
for his agenum ealdgecynde.
Unrihtwise eorðan cyningas
ne magon æfre þurhtion awuht goodes
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for ðæm yfle þe ic ðe ær sæde.
Nis ðæt nan wundor, forðæm hi willað hi
þæm unðeawum þe ic ðe ær nemde,
anra gehwelcum, a underðeodan.
Sceal ðonne nede nearwe gebugan
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to ðara hlaforda hæftedome,
þe he hine eallunga ær underþiodde.
ðæt is wyrse get, þæt he winnan nyle
wið ðæm anwalde ænige stunde;
þær he wolde a winnan onginnan,
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and þonne on ðæm gewinne þurhwunian forð,
þonne næfde he nane scylde,
ðeah he oferwunnen weorðan sceolde.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 26
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic þe mæg eaðe ealdum and leasum
spellum andreccan spræce gelice
efne ðisse ilcan þe wit ymb sprecað.
Hit gesælde gio on sume tide
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ðæt Aulixes under hæfde
ðæm casere cynericu twa.
He wæs þracia ðioda aldor
and Retie rices hirde.
Wæs his freadrihtnes folccuð nama,
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Agamemnon, se ealles weold
Creca rices. Cuð wæs wide
þæt on þa tide Troia gewin
wearð under wolcnum. For wiges heard
Creca drihten campsted secan,
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Aulixes mid, an hund scipa
lædde ofer lagustream, sæt longe ðær
tyn winter full. þa sio tid gelomp
þæt hi ðæt rice geræht hæfdon,
diore gecepte drihten Creca
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Troia burg tilum gesiðum.
ða ða Aulixes leafe hæfde,
ðracia cining, þæt he þonan moste,
he let him behindan hyrnde ciolas
nigon and hundnigontig, nænigne þonan
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merehengesta ma þonne ænne
ferede on fifelstream, famigbordon,
ðriereðre ceol; þæt bið ðæt mæste
Creciscra scipa. þa wearð ceald weder,
stearc storma gelac; stunede sio brune
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yð wið oðre, ut feor adraf
on Wendelsæ wigendra scola
up on þæt igland þær Apolines
dohtor wunode dægrimes worn.
Wæs se Apollinus æðeles cynnes,
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Iobes eafora, se wæs gio cyning.
Se licette litlum and miclum
gumena gehwylcum þæt he good wære,
hehst and halgost; swa se hlaford þa
þæt dysige folc on gedwolan lædde,
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oððæt him gelyfde leoda unrim,
forðæm he wæs mid rihte rices hirde,
hiora cynecynnes. Cuð is wide
þæt on ða tide þeoda æghwilc
hæfdon heora hlaford for ðone hehstan god,
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and weorðodon swa swa wuldres cining,
gif he to ðæm rice wæs on rihte boren.
Wæs þæs Iobes fæder god eac swa he;
Saturnus ðone sundbuende
heton, hæleða bearn. Hæfdon ða mægða
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ælcne æfter oðrum for ecne god.
Sceolde eac wesan Apollines
dohtor diorboren, dysiges folces,
gumrinca gyden; cuðe galdra fela,
drifan drycræftas. Hio gedwolan fylgde
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manna swiðost manegra þioda,
cyninges dohtor; sio Circe wæs
haten for herigum. Hio ricsode
on ðæm iglonde þe Aulixes,
cining þracia, com ane to
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ceole liðan. Cuð wæs sona
eallre þære mænige þe hire mid wunode
æþelinges sið. Hio mid ungemete
lissum lufode liðmonna frean,
and he eac swa same ealle mægne
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efne swa swiðe hi on sefan lufode,
þæt he to his earde ænige nyste
modes mynlan ofer mægð giunge;
ac he mid þæm wife wunode siððan,
oððæt him ne meahte monna ænig
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ðegna sinra þær mid wesan,
ac hi for ðæm yrmðum eardes lyste;
mynton forlætan leofne hlaford.
ða ongunnon wercan werðeoda spell,
sædon þæt hio sceolde mid hire scinlace
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beornas forbredan, and mid balocræftum
wraðum weorpan on wildra lic
cyninges þegnas, cyspan siððan
and mid racentan eac ræpan mænigne.
Sume hi to wulfum wurdon, ne meahton þonne word forðbringan,
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ac hio þragmælum ðioton ongunnon.
Sume wæron eaforas, a grymetedon
ðonne hi sares hwæt siofian scioldon.
þa ðe leon wæron ongunnon laðlice
yrrenga ryn a ðonne hi sceoldon
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clipian for corðre. Cnihtas wurdon,
ealde ge giunge, ealle forhwerfde
to sumum diore, swelcum he æror
on his lifdagum gelicost wæs,
butan þam cyninge, þe sio cwen lufode.
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Nolde þara oþra ænig onbitan
mennisces metes, ac hi ma lufedon
diora drohtað, swa hit gedefe ne wæs.
Næfdon hi mare monnum gelices
eorðbuendum ðonne ingeþonc;
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hæfde anra gehwylc his agen mod,
þæt wæs þeah swiðe sorgum gebunden
for ðæm earfoðum þe him on sæton.
Hwæt, ða dysegan men þe ðysum drycræftum
longe gelyfdon, leasum spellum,
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wisson hwæðre þæt þæt gewit ne mæg
mod onwendan monna ænig
mid drycræftum, þeah hio gedon meahte
þæt ða lichoman lange þrage
onwend wurdon. Is þæt wundorlic
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mægencræft micel moda gehwilces
ofer lichoman lænne and sænne.
Swylcum and swylcum þu meaht sweotole ongitan
þæt ðæs lichoman listas and cræftas
of ðæm mode cumað monna gehwylcum,
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anlepra ælc. þu meaht eaðe ongitan
þætte ma dereð monna gehwelcum
modes unðeaw þonne mettrymnes
lænes lichoman. Ne þearf leoda nan
wenan þære wyrde þæt þæt werige flæsc
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þæt mod mæge monna æniges
eallunga to him æfre onwendan,
ac þa unðeawas ælces modes
and þæt ingeþonc ælces monnes
þone lichoman lit þider hit wile.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 27
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwy ge æfre scylen unrihtfioungum
eower mod drefan, swa swa mereflodes
yþa hrerað iscalde sæ,
wecggað for winde? Hwy oðwite ge
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wyrde eowre þæt hio geweald nafað?
Hwy ge þæs deaðes þe eow drihten gesceop
gebidan ne magon bitres gecyndes,
nu he eow ælce dæg onet toweard?
Ne magon ge gesion þæt he symle spyreð
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æfter æghwelcum eorðan tudre,
diorum and fuglum? Deað eac swa same
æfter moncynne geond ðisne middangeard,
egeslic hunta, a bið on waðe;
nyle he ænig swæð æfre forlætan
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ær he gehede þæt he hwile ær
æfter spyrede. Is þæt earmlic þing
þæt his gebidan ne magon burgsittende,
ungesælige men; hine ær willað
foran to sciotan, swa swa fugla cyn
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oððe wildu dior; þa winnað betwuh,
æghwylc wolde oðer acwellan.
Ac þæt is unriht æghwelcum men
þæt he oðerne inwitþoncum
fioge on færðe, swa swa fugl oððe dior,
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ac þæt wære rihtost, þætte rinca gehwylc
oðrum gulde edlean on riht,
weorc be geweorhtum weoruldbuendum
þinga gehwilces, þæt is, þæt he lufige
godra gehwilcne swa he geornost mæge,
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mildsige yflum, swa we ær spræcon.
He sceal þone monnan mode lufian,
and his unþeawas ealle hatian
and ofsniðan, swa he swiðost mæge.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 28
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwa is on eorðan nu unlærdra
þe ne wundrige wolcna færeldes,
rodres swifto, ryne tunglo,
hu hy ælce dæge utan ymbhwerfeð
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eallne middangeard? Hwa is moncynnes
þæt ne wundrie ymb þas wlitegan tungl,
hu hy sume habbað swiðe micle
scyrtran ymbehwerft, sume scriðað leng
utan ymb eall ðis? An þara tungla
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woruldmen hatað wænes þisla;
þa habbað scyrtran scriðe and færelt,
ymbhwerft læssan, ðonne oðru tungl,
forðæm hi þære eaxe utan ymbhweorfeð,
þone norðende nean ymbcerreð.
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On ðære ilcan eaxe hwerfeð
eall ruma rodor, recene scriðeð,
suðheald swifeð, swift, untiorig.
Hwa is on weorulde þæt ne wafige,
buton þa ane þe hit ær wisson,
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þætte mænig tungul maran ymbhwyrft
hafað on heofonum, sume hwile eft
læsse geliðað, þa þe lacað ymb
eaxe ende oððe micle
mare geferað þa hire middre ymbe
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þearle þrægeð? þara is gehaten
Saturnus sum, se hæfð ymb þritig
wintergerimes weoruld ymbcirred.
Boetes eac beorhte scineð,
oðer steorra, cymeð efne swa same
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on þone ilcan stede eft ymb þritig
geargerimes, ðær he gio ða wæs.
Hwa is weoruldmonna þæt ne wafige,
hu sume steorran oð ða sæ farað
under merestreamas, þæs ðe monnum ðincð?
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Swa eac sume wenað þæt sio sunne do,
ac se wena nis wuhte þe soðra.
Ne bið hio on æfen ne on ærmorgen
merestreame þe near ðe on midne dæg,
and þeah monnum þyncð þæt hio on mere gange
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under sæswife, þonne hio on setl glideð.
Hwa is on weorulde þæt ne wundrige
fulles monan, þonne he færinga
wyrð under wolcnum wlites bereafad,
beþeaht mid þiostrum? Hwa þegna ne mæge
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eac wafian ælces stiorran,
hwy hi ne scinen scirum wederum
beforan ðære sunnan, swa hi symle doð
middelnihtum wið þone monan foran,
hadrum heofone? Hwæt, nu hæleða fela
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swelces and swelces swiðe wundrað,
and ne wundriað þætte wuhta gehwilc,
men and netenu, micelne habbað
and unnetne andan betweoh him,
swiðe singalne. Is þæt sellic þincg,
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þæt hi ne wundriað hu hit on wolcnum oft
þearle þunrað, þragmælum eft
anforlæteð, and eac swa same
yð wið lande ealneg winneð,
wind wið wæge. Hwa wundrað þæs
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oððe oþres eft, hwi þæt is mæge
weorðan of wætere; wlitetorht scineð
sunna swegle hat; sona gecerreð
ismere ænlic on his agen gecynd,
weorðeð to wætre. Ne þincð þæt wundor micel
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monna ænegum þæt he mægge gesion
dogora gehwilce, ac ðæt dysie folc
þæs hit seldnor gesihð swiðor wundrað,
þeah hit wisra gehwæm wundor ðince
on his modsefan micle læsse.
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Unstaðolfæste ealneg wenað
þæt þæt ealdgesceaft æfre ne wære
þæt hi seldon gesioð, ac swiðor giet
weoruldmen wenað þæt hit weas come,
niwan gesælde, gif hiora nængum hwylc
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ær ne oðeowde; is þæt earmlic þinc.
Ac gif hiora ænig æfre weorðeð
to ðon firwetgeorn þæt he fela onginð
leornian lista, and him lifes weard
of mode abrit þæt micle dysig
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ðæt hit oferwrigen mid wunode lange,
þonne ic wæt geare þæt hi ne wundriað
mæniges þinges þe monnum nu
wæfðo and wunder welhwær þynceð.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 29
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gif ðu nu wilnige weorulddrihtnes
heane anwald hlutre mode
ongitan giorne, gem almægene
heofones tunglu, hu hi him healdað betwuh
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sibbe singale, dydon swa lange.
Swa hi gewenede wuldres aldor
æt frumsceafte þæt sio fyrene ne mot
sunne gesecan snawcealdes weg,
monan gemæro. Hwæt, ða mæran tungl
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auðer oðres rene a ne gehrineð
ær þæm þæt oðer of gewiteð.
Ne huru se stiorra gestigan wile
westdæl wolcna, þone wise men
Ursa nemnað; ealle stiorran
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sigað æfter sunnan samod mid rodere
under eorðan grund, he ana stent.
Nis þæt nan wundor; he is wundrum fæst,
upende neah eaxe ðæs roderes.
ðonne is an steorra ofer oðre beorht,
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cymeð eastan up ær þonne sunne;
þone monna bearn morgenstiorra
hatað under heofonum, forðæm he hæleþum dæg
bodað æfter burgum, brengeð æfter
swegeltorht sunne samad eallum dæg.
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Is se forrynel fæger and sciene,
cymeð eastan up ær for sunnan
and eft æfter sunnan on setl glideð,
west under weorulde. Werðioda his
noman onwendað þonne niht cymeð,
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hatað hine ealle æfenstiorra.
Se bið þære sunnan swiftra; siððan hi on setl gewitað,
ofirneð þæt æþele tungol, oðþæt he be eastan weorðeð
eldum oðewed ær þonne sunne.
Habbað æðele tungol emne gedæled
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dæg and nihte drihtnes meahtum,
sunna and mona, swiðe geþwære,
swa him æt frymþe fæder getiohhode.
Ne þearft þu no wenan þæt ða wlitegan tungl
ðæs þeowdomes aðroten weorðe
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ær domes dæge; deð siððan ymbe
moncynnes fruma swa him gemet þinceð,
forðon hi be healfe heofones þisses
on ane ne læt ælmihtig god,
þy læs hi oðra fordyden æþela gesceafta,
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ac se eca god ealla gemetgað
sida gesceafta, softa geþwerað.
Hwilum ðæt drige drifð þone wætan,
hwylum he gemengeð, metodes cræfte,
cile wið hæto; hwilum cerreð eft
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on uprodor ælbeorhta leg,
leoht on lyfte; ligeð him behindan
hefig hrusan dæl, þeah hit hwilan ær
eorðe sio cealde oninnan hire
heold and hydde haliges meahtum.
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Be þæs cyninges gebode cymeð geara gehwæt,
eorðe bringeð æghwylc tudor,
and se hata sumor hæleða bearnum
geara gehwilce giereð and drigeð
geond sidne grund sæd and bleda,
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hærfest to honda herbuendum,
ripa receð. Ren æfter þæm
swylce hagal and snaw hrusan leccað
on wintres tid, weder unhiore.
Forðæm eorðe onfehð eallum sædum,
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gedeð þæt hi growað geara gehwilce;
on lenctentid leaf up spryttað.
Ac se milda metod monna bearnum
on eorðan fet eall þætte groweð,
wæstmas on weorolde, wel forðbrengeð
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hit þonne he wile, heofona waldend,
and eowað eft eorðbuendum,
nimð þonne he wile, nergende god.
And þæt hehste good on heahsetle
siteð self cyning, and þios side gesceaft
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þenað and ðiowað. He þonan waldeð
þæm geweltleðrum weoruldgesceafta.
Nis þæt nan wundor; he is weroda god,
cyning and drihten cwucera gehwelces,
æwelm and fruma eallra gesceafta,
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wyrhta and sceppend weorulde þisse,
wisdom and æ woruldbuendra.
Ealla gesceafta on his ærendo
hionane he sendeð, hæt eft cuman.
Gif he swa gestæððig ne staðolade
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ealla gesceafta, æghwylc hiora
wraðe tostencte weorðan sceolden,
æghwilc hiora ealle to nauhte
weorðan sceoldon wraðe toslopena,
þeah þa ane lufe ealla gesceafta
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heofones and eorðan hæbben gemæne,
þæt hi þiowien swilcum þiodfruman,
and fægniað þæt hiora fæder wealdeð.
Nis þæt nan wundor, forðæm wuhta nan
æfre ne meahte elles wunian,
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gif hi eallmægene hiora ordfruman
ne þiowoden, þeodne mærum.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 30
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Omerus wæs east mid Crecum
on ðæm leodscipe leoða cræftgast,
Firgilies freond and lareow,
þæm mæran sceope magistra betst.
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Hwæt, se Omerus oft and gelome
þære sunnan wlite swiðe herede,
æðelo cræftas oft and gelome
leoðum and spellum leodum reahte.
Ne mæg hio þeah gescinan, þeah hio sie scir and beorht,
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ahwærgen neah ealla gesceafta;
ne furðum þa gesceafta ðe hio gescinan mæg
endemes ne mæg ealla geondlihtan
innan and utan. Ac se ælmihtega
waldend and wyrhta weorulde gesceafta
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his agen weorc eall geondwliteð,
endemes þurhsyhð ealla gesceafta.
ðæt is sio soðe sunne mid rihte,
be ðæm we magon singan swylc butan lease.
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 31
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt, ðu meaht ongitan, gif his ðe geman lyst,
þætte mislice manega wuhta
geond eorðan farað ungelice;
habbað blioh and fær, bu ungelice,
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and mægwlitas manegra cynna
cuð and uncuð. Creopað and snicað,
eall lichoma eorðan getenge,
nabbað hi æt fiðrum fultum, ne magon hi mid fotum gangan,
eorðan brucan, swa him eaden wæs.
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Sume fotum twam foldan peððað,
sume fierfete, sume fleogende
windað under wolcnum. Bið ðeah wuhta gehwylc
onhnigen to hrusan, hnipað of dune,
on weoruld wliteð, wilnað to eorðan,
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sume nedþearfe, sume neodfræce.
Man ana gæð metodes gesceafta
mid his andwlitan up on gerihte.
Mid ðy is getacnod þæt his treowa sceal
and his modgeþonc ma up þonne niðer
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habban to heofonum, þy læs he his hige wende
niðer swa ðær nyten. Nis þæt gedafenlic,
þæt se modsefa monna æniges
niðerheald wese and þæt neb upweard!
The Battle of Finnsburh
Verse Indeterminate Unknown
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...nas byrnað?"
Hnæf hleoþrode ða, heaþogeong cyning:
"Ne ðis ne dagað eastan, ne her draca ne fleogeð,
ne her ðisse healle hornas ne byrnað.
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Ac her forþ berað; fugelas singað,
gylleð græghama, guðwudu hlynneð,
scyld scefte oncwyð. Nu scyneð þes mona
waðol under wolcnum. Nu arisað weadæda
ðe ðisne folces nið fremman willað.
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Ac onwacnigeað nu, wigend mine,
habbað eowre linda, hicgeaþ on ellen,
winnað on orde, wesað onmode!"
ða aras mænig goldhladen ðegn, gyrde hine his swurde.
ða to dura eodon drihtlice cempan,
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Sigeferð and Eaha, hyra sword getugon,
and æt oþrum durum Ordlaf and Guþlaf,
and Hengest sylf hwearf him on laste.
ða gyt Garulf Guðere styrde
ðæt he swa freolic feorh forman siþe
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to ðære healle durum hyrsta ne bære,
nu hyt niþa heard anyman wolde,
ac he frægn ofer eal undearninga,
deormod hæleþ, hwa ða duru heolde.
"Sigeferþ is min nama," cweþ he, "ic eom Secgena leod,
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wreccea wide cuð; fæla ic weana gebad,
heardra hilda. ðe is gyt her witod
swæþer ðu sylf to me secean wylle."
ða wæs on healle wælslihta gehlyn;
sceolde cellod bord cenum on handa,
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banhelm berstan (buruhðelu dynede),
oð æt ðære guðe Garulf gecrang,
ealra ærest eorðbuendra,
Guðlafes sunu, ymbe hyne godra fæla,
hwearflicra hræw. Hræfen wandrode,
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sweart and sealobrun. Swurdleoma stod,
swylce eal Finnsburuh fyrenu wære.
Ne gefrægn ic næfre wurþlicor æt wera hilde
sixtig sigebeorna sel gebæran,
ne nefre swetne medo sel forgyldan
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ðonne Hnæfe guldan his hægstealdas.
Hig fuhton fif dagas, swa hyra nan ne feol
drihtgesiða, ac hig ða duru heoldon.
ða gewat him wund hæleð on wæg gangan,
sæde þæt his byrne abrocen wære,
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heresceorp unhror, and eac wæs his helm ðyrel.
ða hine sona frægn folces hyrde,
hu ða wigend hyra wunda genæson,
oððe hwæþer ðæra hyssa
Waldere A
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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hyrde hyne georne:
"Huru Welande... worc ne geswiceð
monna ænigum ðara ðe Mimming can
heardne gehealdan. Oft æt hilde gedreas
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swatfag and sweordwund secg æfter oðrum.
ætlan ordwyga, ne læt ðin ellen nu gy...
gedreosan to dæge, dryhtscipe
is se dæg cumen
þæt ðu scealt aninga oðer twega,
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lif forleosan oððe l... ...gne dom
agan mid eldum, ælfheres sunu.
Nalles ic ðe, wine min, wordum cide,
ðy ic ðe gesawe æt ðam sweordplegan
ðurh edwitscype æniges monnes
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wig forbugan oððe on weal fleon,
lice beorgan, ðeah þe laðra fela
ðinne byrnhomon billum heowun,
ac ðu symle furðor feohtan sohtest,
mæl ofer mearce; ðy ic ðe metod ondred,
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þæt ðu to fyrenlice feohtan sohtest
æt ðam ætstealle oðres monnes,
wigrædenne. Weorða ðe selfne
godum dædum, ðenden ðin god recce.
Ne murn ðu for ði mece; ðe wearð maðma cyst
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gifeðe to geoce, mid ðy ðu Guðhere scealt
beot forbigan, ðæs ðe he ðas beaduwe ongan
...d unryhte ærest secan.
Forsoc he ðam swurde and ðam syncfatum,
beaga mænigo, nu sceal bega leas
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hworfan from ðisse hilde, hlafurd secan
ealdne ᛟ oððe her ær swefan,
gif he ða"
Waldere B
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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"...ce bæteran
buton ðam anum ðe ic eac hafa
on stanfate stille gehided.
Ic wat þæt hit ðohte ðeodric Widian
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selfum onsendon, and eac sinc micel
maðma mid ði mece, monig oðres mid him
golde gegirwan (iulean genam),
þæs ðe hine of nearwum Niðhades mæg,
Welandes bearn, Widia ut forlet;
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ðurh fifela gewe... ...ld forð onette."
Waldere mað... ...lode, wiga ellenrof,
hæfde him on handa hildefrofre,
guðbilla gripe, gyddode wordum:
"Hwæt! ðu huru wendest, wine Burgenda,
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þæt me Hagenan hand hilde gefremede
and getwæmde ...ðewigges. Feta, gyf ðu dyrre,
æt ðus heaðuwerigan hare byrnan.
Standeð me her on eaxelum ælfheres laf,
god and geapneb, golde geweorðod,
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ealles unscende æðelinges reaf
to habbanne, þonne hand wereð
feorhhord feondum. Ne bið fah wið me,
þonne ...... unmægas eft ongynnað,
mecum gemetað, swa ge me dydon.
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ðeah mæg sige syllan se ðe symle byð
recon and rædfest ryh... ...a gehwilces.
Se ðe him to ðam halgan helpe gelifeð,
to gode gioce, he þær gearo findeð
gif ða earnunga ær geðenceð.
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þonne moten wlance welan britnian,
æhtum wealdan, þæt is"
The Battle of Maldon
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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brocen wurde.
Het þa hyssa hwæne hors forlætan,
feor afysan, and forð gangan,
hicgan to handum and to hige godum.
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þa þæt Offan mæg ærest onfunde,
þæt se eorl nolde yrhðo geþolian,
he let him þa of handon leofne fleogan
hafoc wið þæs holtes, and to þære hilde stop;
be þam man mihte oncnawan þæt se cniht nolde
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wacian æt þam wige, þa he to wæpnum feng.
Eac him wolde Eadric his ealdre gelæstan,
frean to gefeohte, ongan þa forð beran
gar to guþe. He hæfde god geþanc
þa hwile þe he mid handum healdan mihte
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bord and bradswurd; beot he gelæste
þa he ætforan his frean feohtan sceolde.
ða þær Byrhtnoð ongan beornas trymian,
rad and rædde, rincum tæhte
hu hi sceoldon standan and þone stede healdan,
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and bæd þæt hyra randas rihte heoldon
fæste mid folman, and ne forhtedon na.
þa he hæfde þæt folc fægere getrymmed,
he lihte þa mid leodon þær him leofost wæs,
þær he his heorðwerod holdost wiste.
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þa stod on stæðe, stiðlice clypode
wicinga ar, wordum mælde,
se on beot abead brimliþendra
ærænde to þam eorle, þær he on ofre stod:
"Me sendon to þe sæmen snelle,
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heton ðe secgan þæt þu most sendan raðe
beagas wið gebeorge; and eow betere is
þæt ge þisne garræs mid gafole forgyldon,
þon we swa hearde hilde dælon.
Ne þurfe we us spillan, gif ge spedaþ to þam;
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we willað wið þam golde grið fæstnian.
Gyf þu þat gerædest, þe her ricost eart,
þæt þu þine leoda lysan wille,
syllan sæmannum on hyra sylfra dom
feoh wið freode, and niman frið æt us,
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we willaþ mid þam sceattum us to scype gangan,
on flot feran, and eow friþes healdan."
Byrhtnoð maþelode, bord hafenode,
wand wacne æsc, wordum mælde,
yrre and anræd ageaf him andsware:
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"Gehyrst þu, sælida, hwæt þis folc segeð?
Hi willað eow to gafole garas syllan,
ættrynne ord and ealde swurd,
þa heregeatu þe eow æt hilde ne deah.
Brimmanna boda, abeod eft ongean,
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sege þinum leodum miccle laþre spell,
þæt her stynt unforcuð eorl mid his werode,
þe wile gealgean eþel þysne,
æþelredes eard, ealdres mines,
folc and foldan. Feallan sceolon
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hæþene æt hilde. To heanlic me þinceð
þæt ge mid urum sceattum to scype gangon
unbefohtene, nu ge þus feor hider
on urne eard in becomon.
Ne sceole ge swa softe sinc gegangan;
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us sceal ord and ecg ær geseman,
grim guðplega, ær we gofol syllon."
Het þa bord beran, beornas gangan,
þæt hi on þam easteðe ealle stodon.
Ne mihte þær for wætere werod to þam oðrum;
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þær com flowende flod æfter ebban,
lucon lagustreamas. To lang hit him þuhte,
hwænne hi togædere garas beron.
Hi þær Pantan stream mid prasse bestodon,
Eastseaxena ord and se æschere.
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Ne mihte hyra ænig oþrum derian,
buton hwa þurh flanes flyht fyl gename.
Se flod ut gewat; þa flotan stodon gearowe,
wicinga fela, wiges georne.
Het þa hæleða hleo healdan þa bricge
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wigan wigheardne, se wæs haten Wulfstan,
cafne mid his cynne, þæt wæs Ceolan sunu,
þe ðone forman man mid his francan ofsceat
þe þær baldlicost on þa bricge stop.
þær stodon mid Wulfstane wigan unforhte,
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ælfere and Maccus, modige twegen,
þa noldon æt þam forda fleam gewyrcan,
ac hi fæstlice wið ða fynd weredon,
þa hwile þe hi wæpna wealdan moston.
þa hi þæt ongeaton and georne gesawon
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þæt hi þær bricgweardas bitere fundon,
ongunnon lytegian þa laðe gystas,
bædon þæt hi upgang agan moston,
ofer þone ford faran, feþan lædan.
ða se eorl ongan for his ofermode
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alyfan landes to fela laþere ðeode.
Ongan ceallian þa ofer cald wæter
Byrhtelmes bearn (beornas gehlyston):
"Nu eow is gerymed, gað ricene to us,
guman to guþe; god ana wat
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hwa þære wælstowe wealdan mote."
Wodon þa wælwulfas (for wætere ne murnon),
wicinga werod, west ofer Pantan,
ofer scir wæter scyldas wegon,
lidmen to lande linde bæron.
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þær ongean gramum gearowe stodon
Byrhtnoð mid beornum; he mid bordum het
wyrcan þone wihagan, and þæt werod healdan
fæste wið feondum. þa wæs feohte neh,
tir æt getohte. Wæs seo tid cumen
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þæt þær fæge men feallan sceoldon.
þær wearð hream ahafen, hremmas wundon,
earn æses georn; wæs on eorþan cyrm.
Hi leton þa of folman feolhearde speru,
gegrundene garas fleogan;
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bogan wæron bysige, bord ord onfeng.
Biter wæs se beaduræs, beornas feollon
on gehwæðere hand, hyssas lagon.
Wund wearð Wulfmær, wælræste geceas,
Byrhtnoðes mæg; he mid billum wearð,
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his swuster sunu, swiðe forheawen.
þær wearð wicingum wiþerlean agyfen.
Gehyrde ic þæt Eadweard anne sloge
swiðe mid his swurde, swenges ne wyrnde,
þæt him æt fotum feoll fæge cempa;
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þæs him his ðeoden þanc gesæde,
þam burþene, þa he byre hæfde.
Swa stemnetton stiðhicgende
hysas æt hilde, hogodon georne
hwa þær mid orde ærost mihte
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on fægean men feorh gewinnan,
wigan mid wæpnum; wæl feol on eorðan.
Stodon stædefæste; stihte hi Byrhtnoð,
bæd þæt hyssa gehwylc hogode to wige
þe on Denon wolde dom gefeohtan.
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Wod þa wiges heard, wæpen up ahof,
bord to gebeorge, and wið þæs beornes stop.
Eode swa anræd eorl to þam ceorle,
ægþer hyra oðrum yfeles hogode.
Sende ða se særinc suþerne gar,
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þæt gewundod wearð wigena hlaford;
he sceaf þa mid ðam scylde, þæt se sceaft tobærst,
and þæt spere sprengde, þæt hit sprang ongean.
Gegremod wearð se guðrinc; he mid gare stang
wlancne wicing, þe him þa wunde forgeaf.
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Frod wæs se fyrdrinc; he let his francan wadan
þurh ðæs hysses hals, hand wisode
þæt he on þam færsceaðan feorh geræhte.
ða he oþerne ofstlice sceat,
þæt seo byrne tobærst; he wæs on breostum wund
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þurh ða hringlocan, him æt heortan stod
ætterne ord. Se eorl wæs þe bliþra,
hloh þa, modi man, sæde metode þanc
ðæs dægweorces þe him drihten forgeaf.
Forlet þa drenga sum daroð of handa,
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fleogan of folman, þæt se to forð gewat
þurh ðone æþelan æþelredes þegen.
Him be healfe stod hyse unweaxen,
cniht on gecampe, se full caflice
bræd of þam beorne blodigne gar,
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Wulfstanes bearn, Wulfmær se geonga,
forlet forheardne faran eft ongean;
ord in gewod, þæt se on eorþan læg
þe his þeoden ær þearle geræhte.
Eode þa gesyrwed secg to þam eorle;
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he wolde þæs beornes beagas gefecgan,
reaf and hringas and gerenod swurd.
þa Byrhtnoð bræd bill of sceðe,
brad and bruneccg, and on þa byrnan sloh.
To raþe hine gelette lidmanna sum,
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þa he þæs eorles earm amyrde.
Feoll þa to foldan fealohilte swurd;
ne mihte he gehealdan heardne mece,
wæpnes wealdan. þa gyt þæt word gecwæð
har hilderinc, hyssas bylde,
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bæd gangan forð gode geferan;
ne mihte þa on fotum leng fæste gestandan.
He to heofenum wlat:
"Geþancie þe, ðeoda waldend,
ealra þæra wynna þe ic on worulde gebad.
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Nu ic ah, milde metod, mæste þearfe
þæt þu minum gaste godes geunne,
þæt min sawul to ðe siðian mote
on þin geweald, þeoden engla,
mid friþe ferian. Ic eom frymdi to þe
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þæt hi helsceaðan hynan ne moton."
ða hine heowon hæðene scealcas
and begen þa beornas þe him big stodon,
ælfnoð and Wulmær begen lagon,
ða onemn hyra frean feorh gesealdon.
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Hi bugon þa fram beaduwe þe þær beon noldon.
þær wearð Oddan bearn ærest on fleame,
Godric fram guþe, and þone godan forlet
þe him mænigne oft mear gesealde;
he gehleop þone eoh þe ahte his hlaford,
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on þam gerædum þe hit riht ne wæs,
and his broðru mid him begen ærndon,
Godwine and Godwig, guþe ne gymdon,
ac wendon fram þam wige and þone wudu sohton,
flugon on þæt fæsten and hyra feore burgon,
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and manna ma þonne hit ænig mæð wære,
gyf hi þa geearnunga ealle gemundon
þe he him to duguþe gedon hæfde.
Swa him Offa on dæg ær asæde
on þam meþelstede, þa he gemot hæfde,
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þæt þær modiglice manega spræcon
þe eft æt þearfe þolian noldon.
þa wearð afeallen þæs folces ealdor,
æþelredes eorl; ealle gesawon
heorðgeneatas þæt hyra heorra læg.
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þa ðær wendon forð wlance þegenas,
unearge men efston georne;
hi woldon þa ealle oðer twega,
lif forlætan oððe leofne gewrecan.
Swa hi bylde forð bearn ælfrices,
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wiga wintrum geong, wordum mælde,
ælfwine þa cwæð, he on ellen spræc:
"Gemunan þa mæla þe we oft æt meodo spræcon,
þonne we on bence beot ahofon,
hæleð on healle, ymbe heard gewinn;
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nu mæg cunnian hwa cene sy.
Ic wylle mine æþelo eallum gecyþan,
þæt ic wæs on Myrcon miccles cynnes;
wæs min ealda fæder Ealhelm haten,
wis ealdorman, woruldgesælig.
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Ne sceolon me on þære þeode þegenas ætwitan
þæt ic of ðisse fyrde feran wille,
eard gesecan, nu min ealdor ligeð
forheawen æt hilde. Me is þæt hearma mæst;
he wæs ægðer min mæg and min hlaford."
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þa he forð eode, fæhðe gemunde,
þæt he mid orde anne geræhte
flotan on þam folce, þæt se on foldan læg
forwegen mid his wæpne. Ongan þa winas manian,
frynd and geferan, þæt hi forð eodon.
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Offa gemælde, æscholt asceoc:
"Hwæt þu, ælfwine, hafast ealle gemanode
þegenas to þearfe, nu ure þeoden lið,
eorl on eorðan. Us is eallum þearf
þæt ure æghwylc oþerne bylde
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wigan to wige, þa hwile þe he wæpen mæge
habban and healdan, heardne mece,
gar and godswurd. Us Godric hæfð,
earh Oddan bearn, ealle beswicene.
Wende þæs formoni man, þa he on meare rad,
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on wlancan þam wicge, þæt wære hit ure hlaford;
forþan wearð her on felda folc totwæmed,
scyldburh tobrocen. Abreoðe his angin,
þæt he her swa manigne man aflymde!"
Leofsunu gemælde and his linde ahof,
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bord to gebeorge; he þam beorne oncwæð:
"Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle
fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan,
wrecan on gewinne minne winedrihten.
Ne þurfon me embe Sturmere stedefæste hælæð
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wordum ætwitan, nu min wine gecranc,
þæt ic hlafordleas ham siðie,
wende fram wige, ac me sceal wæpen niman,
ord and iren." He ful yrre wod,
feaht fæstlice, fleam he forhogode.
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Dunnere þa cwæð, daroð acwehte,
unorne ceorl, ofer eall clypode,
bæd þæt beorna gehwylc Byrhtnoð wrece:
"Ne mæg na wandian se þe wrecan þenceð
frean on folce, ne for feore murnan."
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þa hi forð eodon, feores hi ne rohton;
ongunnon þa hiredmen heardlice feohtan,
grame garberend, and god bædon
þæt hi moston gewrecan hyra winedrihten
and on hyra feondum fyl gewyrcan.
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Him se gysel ongan geornlice fylstan;
he wæs on Norðhymbron heardes cynnes,
Ecglafes bearn, him wæs æscferð nama.
He ne wandode na æt þam wigplegan,
ac he fysde forð flan genehe;
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hwilon he on bord sceat, hwilon beorn tæsde,
æfre embe stunde he sealde sume wunde,
þa hwile ðe he wæpna wealdan moste.
þa gyt on orde stod Eadweard se langa,
gearo and geornful, gylpwordum spræc
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þæt he nolde fleogan fotmæl landes,
ofer bæc bugan, þa his betera leg.
He bræc þone bordweall and wið þa beornas feaht,
oðþæt he his sincgyfan on þam sæmannum
wurðlice wrec, ær he on wæle lege.
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Swa dyde æþeric, æþele gefera,
fus and forðgeorn, feaht eornoste.
Sibyrhtes broðor and swiðe mænig oþer
clufon cellod bord, cene hi weredon;
bærst bordes lærig, and seo byrne sang
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gryreleoða sum. þa æt guðe sloh
Offa þone sælidan, þæt he on eorðan feoll,
and ðær Gaddes mæg grund gesohte.
Raðe wearð æt hilde Offa forheawen;
he hæfde ðeah geforþod þæt he his frean gehet,
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swa he beotode ær wið his beahgifan
þæt hi sceoldon begen on burh ridan,
hale to hame, oððe on here crincgan,
on wælstowe wundum sweltan;
he læg ðegenlice ðeodne gehende.
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ða wearð borda gebræc. Brimmen wodon,
guðe gegremode; gar oft þurhwod
fæges feorhhus. Forð þa eode Wistan,
þurstanes sunu, wið þas secgas feaht;
he wæs on geþrange hyra þreora bana,
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ær him Wigelines bearn on þam wæle læge.
þær wæs stið gemot; stodon fæste
wigan on gewinne, wigend cruncon,
wundum werige. Wæl feol on eorþan.
Oswold and Eadwold ealle hwile,
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begen þa gebroþru, beornas trymedon,
hyra winemagas wordon bædon
þæt hi þær æt ðearfe þolian sceoldon,
unwaclice wæpna neotan.
Byrhtwold maþelode bord hafenode
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(se wæs eald geneat), æsc acwehte;
he ful baldlice beornas lærde:
"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre,
mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað.
Her lið ure ealdor eall forheawen,
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god on greote. A mæg gnornian
se ðe nu fram þis wigplegan wendan þenceð.
Ic eom frod feores; fram ic ne wille,
ac ic me be healfe minum hlaforde,
be swa leofan men, licgan þence."
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Swa hi æþelgares bearn ealle bylde,
Godric to guþe. Oft he gar forlet,
wælspere windan on þa wicingas,
swa he on þam folce fyrmest eode,
heow and hynde, oðþæt he on hilde gecranc.
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Næs þæt na se Godric þe ða guðe forbeah
The Battle of Brunanburh
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Her æþelstan cyning, eorla dryhten,
beorna beahgifa, and his broþor eac,
Eadmund æþeling, ealdorlangne tir
geslogon æt sæcce sweorda ecgum
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ymbe Brunanburh. Bordweal clufan,
heowan heaþolinde hamora lafan,
afaran Eadweardes, swa him geæþele wæs
from cneomægum, þæt hi æt campe oft
wiþ laþra gehwæne land ealgodon,
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hord and hamas. Hettend crungun,
Sceotta leoda and scipflotan
fæge feollan, feld dænnede
secga swate, siðþan sunne up
on morgentid, mære tungol,
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glad ofer grundas, godes condel beorht,
eces drihtnes, oð sio æþele gesceaft
sah to setle. þær læg secg mænig
garum ageted, guma norþerna
ofer scild scoten, swilce Scittisc eac,
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werig, wiges sæd. Wesseaxe forð
ondlongne dæg eorodcistum
on last legdun laþum þeodum,
heowan herefleman hindan þearle
mecum mylenscearpan. Myrce ne wyrndon
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heardes hondplegan hæleþa nanum
þæra þe mid Anlafe ofer æra gebland
on lides bosme land gesohtun,
fæge to gefeohte. Fife lægun
on þam campstede cyningas giunge,
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sweordum aswefede, swilce seofene eac
eorlas Anlafes, unrim heriges,
flotan and Sceotta. þær geflemed wearð
Norðmanna bregu, nede gebeded,
to lides stefne litle weorode;
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cread cnear on flot, cyning ut gewat
on fealene flod, feorh generede.
Swilce þær eac se froda mid fleame com
on his cyþþe norð, Costontinus,
har hilderinc, hreman ne þorfte
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mæca gemanan; he wæs his mæga sceard,
freonda gefylled on folcstede,
beslagen æt sæcce, and his sunu forlet
on wælstowe wundun forgrunden,
giungne æt guðe. Gelpan ne þorfte
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beorn blandenfeax bilgeslehtes,
eald inwidda, ne Anlaf þy ma;
mid heora herelafum hlehhan ne þorftun
þæt heo beaduweorca beteran wurdun
on campstede cumbolgehnastes,
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garmittinge, gumena gemotes,
wæpengewrixles, þæs hi on wælfelda
wiþ Eadweardes afaran plegodan.
Gewitan him þa Norþmen negledcnearrum,
dreorig daraða laf, on Dinges mere
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ofer deop wæter Difelin secan,
eft Iraland, æwiscmode.
Swilce þa gebroþer begen ætsamne,
cyning and æþeling, cyþþe sohton,
Wesseaxena land, wiges hremige.
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Letan him behindan hræw bryttian
saluwigpadan, þone sweartan hræfn,
hyrnednebban, and þane hasewanpadan,
earn æftan hwit, æses brucan,
grædigne guðhafoc and þæt græge deor,
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wulf on wealde. Ne wearð wæl mare
on þis eiglande æfre gieta
folces gefylled beforan þissum
sweordes ecgum, þæs þe us secgað bec,
ealde uðwitan, siþþan eastan hider
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Engle and Seaxe up becoman,
ofer brad brimu Brytene sohtan,
wlance wigsmiþas, Wealas ofercoman,
eorlas arhwate eard begeatan.
The Capture of the Five Boroughs
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Her Eadmund cyning, Engla þeoden,
mæcgea mundbora, Myrce geeode,
dyre dædfruma, swa Dor scadeþ,
Hwitanwyllesgeat and Humbra ea,
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brada brimstream. Burga fife,
Ligoraceaster and Lincylene
and Snotingaham, swylce Stanford eac
and Deoraby. Dæne wæran æror
under Norðmannum nyde gebegde
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on hæþenra hæfteclommum
lange þrage, oþ hie alysde eft
for his weorþscipe wiggendra hleo,
afera Eadweardes, Eadmund cyning.
The Coronation of Edgar
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Her Eadgar wæs, Engla waldend,
corðre miclum to cyninge gehalgod
on ðære ealdan byrig, Acemannesceastre;
eac hi igbuend oðre worde
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beornas Baðan nemnaþ. þær wæs blis micel
on þam eadgan dæge eallum geworden,
þone niða bearn nemnað and cigað
Pentecostenes dæg. þær wæs preosta heap,
micel muneca ðreat, mine gefrege,
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gleawra gegaderod. And ða agangen wæs
tyn hund wintra geteled rimes
fram gebyrdtide bremes cyninges,
leohta hyrdes, buton ðær to lafe þa get
wæs wintergeteles, þæs ðe gewritu secgað,
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seofon and twentig; swa neah wæs sigora frean
ðusend aurnen, ða þa ðis gelamp.
And him Eadmundes eafora hæfde
nigon and XX, niðweorca heard,
wintra on worulde, ða þis geworden wæs,
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and þa on ðam XXX wæs ðeoden gehalgod.
The Death of Edward
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Her Eadward kingc, Engla hlaford,
sende soþfæste sawle to Criste
on godes wæra, gast haligne.
He on worulda her wunode þrage
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on kyneþrymme, cræftig ræda,
XXIIII, freolic wealdend,
wintra gerimes, weolan britnode,
and healfe tid, hæleða wealdend,
weold wel geþungen Walum and Scottum
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and Bryttum eac, byre æðelredes,
Englum and Sexum, oretmægcum,
swa ymbclyppað cealde brymmas,
þæt eall Eadwarde, æðelum kinge,
hyrdon holdlice hagestealde menn.
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Wæs a bliðemod bealuleas kyng,
þeah he lange ær, lande bereafod,
wunode wræclastum wide geond eorðan,
syððan Cnut ofercom kynn æðelredes
and Dena weoldon deore rice
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Engla landes XXVIII
wintra gerimes, welan brytnodon.
Syððan forð becom freolice in geatwum
kyningc kystum god, clæne and milde,
Eadward se æðela, eðel bewerode,
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land and leode, oðþæt lungre becom
deað se bitera, and swa deore genam
æþelne of eorðan; englas feredon
soþfæste sawle innan swegles leoht.
And se froda swa þeah befæste þæt rice
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heahþungenum menn, Harolde sylfum,
æþelum eorle, se in ealle tid
hyrde holdlice hærran sinum
wordum and dædum, wihte ne agælde
þæs þe þearf wæs þæs þeodkyninges.
Durham
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Is ðeos burch breome geond Breotenrice,
steppa gestaðolad, stanas ymbutan
wundrum gewæxen. Weor ymbeornad,
ea yðum stronge, and ðer inne wunað
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feola fisca kyn on floda gemonge.
And ðær gewexen is wudafæstern micel;
wuniad in ðem wycum wilda deor monige,
in deope dalum deora ungerim.
Is in ðere byri eac bearnum gecyðed
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ðe arfesta eadig Cudberch
and ðes clene cyninges heafud,
Osuualdes, Engle leo, and Aidan biscop,
Eadberch and Eadfrið, æðele geferes.
Is ðer inne midd heom æðelwold biscop
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and breoma bocera Beda, and Boisil abbot,
ðe clene Cudberte on gecheðe
lerde lustum, and he his lara wel genom.
Eardiæð æt ðem eadige in in ðem minstre
unarimeda reliquia,
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ðær monia wundrum gewurðað, ðes ðe writ seggeð,
midd ðene drihnes wer domes bideð.
The Rune Poem
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ᛇ byþ frofur fira gehwylcum.
Sceal ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan
gif he wile for drihtne domes hleotan.
ᚢ byþ anmod and oferhyrned,
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felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum,
mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht.
ᚦ byþ ðearle scearp; ðegna gehwylcum
anfeng ys yfyl, ungemetun reþe
manna gehwylcun ðe him mid resteð.
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ᚩ byþ ordfruma ælcre spræce,
wisdomes wraþu and witena frofur,
and eorla gehwam eadnys and tohiht.
ᚱ byþ on recyde rinca gehwylcum
sefte, and swiþhwæt ðam ðe sitteþ on ufan
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meare mægenheardum ofer milpaþas.
ᚳ byþ cwicera gehwam cuþ on fyre,
blac and beorhtlic, byrneþ oftust
ðær hi æþelingas inne restaþ.
ᚷ gumena byþ gleng and herenys,
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wraþu and wyrþscype, and wræcna gehwam
ar and ætwist ðe byþ oþra leas.
ᚹne bruceþ ðe can weana lyt,
sares and sorge, and him sylfa hæfþ
blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.
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ᚻ byþ hwitust corna; hwyrft hit of heofones lyfte,
wealcaþ hit windes scuras, weorþeþ hit to wætere syððan.
ᚾ byþ nearu on breostan, weorþeþ hi ðeah oft niþa bearnum
to helpe and to hæle gehwæþre, gif hi his hlystaþ æror.
ᛁ byþ oferceald, ungemetum slidor,
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glisnaþ glæshluttur, gimmum gelicust,
flor forste geworuht, fæger ansyne.
ᛄ byþ gumena hiht, ðon god læteþ,
halig heofones cyning, hrusan syllan
beorhte bleda beornum and ðearfum.
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ᛇ byþ utan unsmeþe treow,
heard, hrusan fæst, hyrde fyres,
wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle.
ᛈ byþ symble plega and hlehter
wlancum ðar wigan sittaþ
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on beorsele bliþe ætsomne.
ᛉ secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne,
wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme,
blode breneð beorna gehwylcne
ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeð.
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ᛋ semannum symble biþ on hihte,
ðonn hi hine feriaþ ofer fisces beþ,
oþ hi brimhengest bringeþ to lande.
ᛏ biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel
wiþ æþelingas, a biþ on færylde,
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ofer nihta genipu næfre swiceþ.
ᛒ byþ bleda leas, bereþ efne swa ðeah
tanas butan tudder, biþ on telgum wlitig,
heah on helme hrysted fægere,
geloden leafum, lyfte getenge.
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ᛖ byþ for eorlum æþelinga wyn,
hors hofum wlanc, ðær him hæleþ ymbe,
welege on wicgum, wrixlaþ spræce,
and biþ unstyllum æfre frofur.
ᛗ byþ on myrgþe his magan leof;
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sceal þeah anra gehwylc oðrum swican,
for ðam dryhten wyle dome sine
þæt earme flæsc eorþan betæcan.
ᛚ byþ leodum langsum geþuht,
gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum,
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and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ,
and se brimhengest bridles ne gymeð.
ᛝ wæs ærest mid Eastdenum
gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan eft
ofer wæg gewat, wæn æfter ran;
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ðus heardingas ðone hæle nemdun.
ᛟ byþ oferleof æghwylcum men,
gif he mot ðær rihtes and gerysena on
brucan on bolde bleadum oftast.
ᛞ byþ drihtnes sond, deore mannum,
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mære metodes leoht, myrgþ and tohiht
eadgum and earmum, eallum brice.
ᚪ byþ on eorþan elda bearnum
flæsces fodor, fereþ gelome
ofer ganotes bæþ; garsecg fandaþ
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hwæþer ac hæbbe æþele treowe.
ᚫ biþ oferheah, eldum dyre,
stiþ on staþule, stede rihte hylt,
ðeah him feohtan on firas monige.
ᚣ byþ æþelinga and eorla gehwæs
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wyn and wyrþmynd, byþ on wicge fæger,
fæstlic on færelde, fyrdgeatewa sum.
ᛡ byþ eafix, and ðeah a bruceþ
fodres on foldan, hafaþ fægerne eard,
wætre beworpen, ðær he wynnum leofaþ.
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ᛠ byþ egle eorla gehwylcun,
ðonn fæstlice flæsc onginneþ,
hraw colian, hrusan ceosan
blac to gebeddan; bleda gedreosaþ,
wynna gewitaþ, wera geswicaþ.
Solomon and Saturn
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Saturnus cwæð:
"Hwæt! Ic iglanda eallra hæbbe
boca onbyrged þurh gebregdstafas,
larcræftas onlocen Libia and Greca,
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swylce eac istoriam Indea rices.
Me þa treahteras tala wisedon
on þam micelan bec
M... ...ces heardum.
Swylce ic næfre on eallum þam fyrngewrytum findan ne mihte
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soðe samnode. Ic sohte þa git
hwylc wære modes oððe mægenþrymmes,
elnes oððe æhte oððe eorlscipes
se gepalmtwigoda Pater Noster.
Sille ic þe ealle, sunu Dauides,
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þeoden Israela, XXX punda
smætes goldes and mine suna twelfe,
gif þu mec gebringest þæt ic si gebryrded
ðurh þæs cantices cwyde Cristes linan,
gesemesð mec mid soðe, and ic mec gesund fare,
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wende mec on willan on wæteres hrigc
ofer Coferflod Caldeas secan."
Salomon cwæð:
"Unlæde bið on eorþan, unnit lifes,
wesðe wisdomes, weallað swa nieten,
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feldgongende feoh butan gewitte,
se þurh ðone cantic ne can Crist geherian.
Worað he windes full, worpað hine deofol
on domdæge, draca egeslice,
bismorlice, of blacere liðran
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irenum aplum; ealle beoð aweaxen
of edwittes iða heafdum.
þonne him bið leofre ðonne eall ðeos leohte gesceaft,
gegoten fram ðam grunde goldes and seolfres,
feðersceatum full feohgestreona,
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gif he æfre ðæs organes owiht cuðe.
Fracoð he bið ðonne and fremede frean ælmihtigum,
englum ungelic ana hwearfað."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac hwa mæg eaðost ealra gesceafta
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ða halgan duru heofona rices
torhte ontynan on getælrime?"
Salomon cwæð:
"ðæt gepalmtwigede Pater Noster
heofonas ontyneð, halige geblissað,
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metod gemiltsað, morðor gefylleð,
adwæsceð deofles fyr, dryhtnes onæleð.
Swylce ðu miht mid ðy beorhtan gebede blod onhætan,
ðæs deofles dreor, þæt him dropan stigað,
swate geswiðed, seofan intingum,
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egesfullicran ðonne seo ærene gripu,
ðonne heo for XII fyra tydernessum
ofer gleda gripe gifrust wealleð.
Forðon hafað se cantic ofer ealle Cristes bec
widmærost word; he gewritu læreð,
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stefnum steoreð, and him stede healdeð
heofona rices, heregeatewa wigeð."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac hulic is se organ ingemyndum
to begonganne ðam ðe his gast wile
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meltan wið morðre, mergan of sorge,
asceadan of scyldum? Huru him scippend geaf
wuldorlicne wlite. Mec ðæs on worolde full oft
fyrwit frineð, fus gewiteð,
mod gemengeð. Nænig manna wat,
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hæleða under hefenum, hu min hige dreoseð,
bysig æfter bocum; hwilum me bryne stigeð,
hige heortan neah hædre wealleð."
Salomon cwæð:
"Gylden is se godes cwide, gimmum astæned,
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hafað sylfren leaf; sundor mæg æghwylc
ðurh gastes gife godspel secgan.
He bið seofan snytro and saule hunig
and modes meolc, mærþa gesælgost.
He mæg ða saule of siennihte
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gefeccan under foldan, næfre hie se feond to ðæs niðer
feterum gefæstnað; ðeah he hie mid fiftigum
clusum beclemme, he ðone cræft briceð
and ða orðancas ealle tosliteð.
Hungor he ahieðeð, helle gestrudeð,
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wylm toweorpeð, wuldor getimbreð.
He is modigra middangearde,
staðole strengra ðonne ealra stana gripe.
Lamena he is læce, leoht wincendra,
swilce he is deafra duru, dumbra tunge,
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scyldigra scyld, scyppendes seld,
flodes ferigend, folces nerigend,
yða yrfeweard, earmra fisca
and wyrma welm, wildeora holt,
on westenne weard, weorðmynta geard.
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And se ðe wile geornlice ðone godes cwide
singan soðlice, and hine siemle wile
lufian butan leahtrum, he mæg ðone laðan gæst,
feohtende feond, fleonde gebrengan,
gif ðu him ærest on ufan ierne gebrengest
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prologa prima, ðam is ᛈ P nama.
Hafað guðmæcga gierde lange,
gyldene gade, and a ðone grymman feond
swiðmod sweopað, and him on swaðe fylgeð
ᚪ A ofermægene and hine eac ofslihð.
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ᛏ T hine teswað and hine on ða tungan sticað,
wræsteð him ðæt woddor and him ða wongan brieceð.
ᛖ E hiene yflað, swa he a wile
ealra feonda gehwane fæste gestondan.
ðonne hiene on unðanc ᚱ R ieorrenga geseceð,
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bocstafa brego, bregdeð sona
feond be ðam feaxe, læteð flint brecan
scines sconcan; he ne besceawað no
his leomona lið, ne bið him læce god.
Wendeð he hiene ðonne under wolcnum, wigsteall seceð,
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heolstre behelmed. Huru him bið æt heartan wa,
ðonne he hangiende helle wisceð,
ðæs ængestan eðelrices.
ðonne hine forcinnað ða cirican getuinnas,
ᚾ N and ᚩ O samod æghwæðer brengeð
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sweopan of siðe; sargiað hwile
fremdne flæschoman, feorh ne bemurnað.
ðonne ᛋ S cymeð, engla geræswa,
wuldores stæf, wraðne gegripeð
feond be ðam fotum, læteð foreweard hleor
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on strangne stan, stregdað toðas
geond helle heap. Hydeð hine æghwylc
æfter sceades sciman; sceaða bið gebisigod,
Satanes ðegn swiðe gestilled.
Swilce hiene ᛢ Q and ᚢ V cwealme gehnægað,
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frome folctogan, farað him togegnes,
habbað leoht speru, lange sceaftas,
swiðmode sweopan, swenga ne wyrnað,
deorra dynta; him bið ðæt deofol lað.
ðonne hine I and ᛚ L and se yrra ᚳ C
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guðe begyrdað (geap stæf wigeð
biterne brogan), bigað sona
helle hæftling, ðæt he on hinder gæð.
ðonne hiene ᛇ F and ᛗ M utan ymbðringað,
scyldigne sceaðan, habbað scearp speru,
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atole earhfare, æled lætað
on ðæs feondes feax flana stregdan,
biterne brogan; banan heardlice
grimme ongieldað, ðæs hie oft gilp brecað.
ðonne hine æt niehstan nearwe stilleð
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ᛄ G se geapa, ðone god sendeð
freondum on fultum, færeð æfter ᛞ D
fifmægnum full. Fyr bið se ðridda
stæf stræte neah, stille bideð.
ᚻ H onetteð, engel hine scierpeð,
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Cristes cempan, on cwicum wædum
godes spyrigendes geonges hrægles.
ðonne hine on lyfte lifgetwinnan
under tungla getrumum tuigena ordum,
sweopum seolfrynum, swiðe weallað,
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oððæt him ban blicað, bledað ædran;
gartorn geotað gifrum deofle.
Mæg simle se godes cwide gumena gehwylcum
ealra feonda gehwane fleondne gebrengan
ðurh mannes muð, manfulra heap
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sweartne geswencan, næfre hie ðæs syllice
bleoum bregdað. æfter bancofan
feðerhoman onfoð, hwilum flotan gripað;
hwilum hie gewendað in wyrmes lic
stronges and sticoles, stingeð nieten,
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feldgongende feoh gestrudeð.
Hwilum he on wætere wicg gehnægeð,
hornum geheaweð, oððæt him heortan blod,
famig flodes bæð, foldan geseceð.
Hwilum he gefeterað fæges mannes,
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handa gehefegað, ðonne he æt hilde sceall
wið lað werud lifes tiligan;
awriteð he on his wæpne wællnota heap,
bealwe bocstafas, bill forscrifeð,
meces mærðo. Forðon nænig man scile
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oft orðances ut abredan
wæpnes ecgge, ðeah ðe him se wlite cweme,
ac symle he sceal singan, ðonne he his sweord geteo,
Pater Noster, and ðæt palmtreow
biddan mid blisse, ðæt him bu gife
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feorh and folme, ðonne his feond cyme."
"...... swice, ær he soð wite,
ðæt ða sienfullan saula sticien
mid hettendum helle tomiddes.
Hateð ðonne heahcining helle betynan,
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fyres fulle, and ða feondas mid."
Hæfde ða se snotra sunu Dauides
forcumen and forcyðed Caldea eorl.
Hwæðre was on sælum se ðe of siðe cwom
feorran gefered; næfre ær his ferhð ahlog.
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Hwæt! Ic flitan gefrægn on fyrndagum
modgleawe men, middangeardes ræswan,
gewesan ymbe hira wisdom; wyrs deð se ðe liehð
oððe ðæs soðes ansæceð. Saloman was bremra,
ðeah ðe Saturnus sumra hæfde,
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bald breosttoga, boca cæga,
leornenga locan. land eall geondhwearf,
Indea mere, east Corsias,
Persea rice, Palestinion,
Niniuen ceastre and norð Predan,
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Meda maððumselas, Marculfes eard,
Saulus rice, swa he suð ligeð
ymbe Geallboe and ymb Geador norð,
Filistina flet, fæsten Creca,
wudu Egipta, wæter Mathea,
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cludas Coreffes, Caldea rice,
Creca cræftas, cynn Arabia,
lare Libia, lond Syria,
Pitðinia, Buðanasan,
Pamhpilia, Pores gemære,
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Macedonia, Mesopotamie,
Cappadocia, Cristes eðel,
Hieryhco, Galilea, Hierusalem
"oððe ic swigie,
nyttes hycgge, ðeah ic no sprece.
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Wat ic ðonne, gif ðu gewitest on Wendelsæ
ofer Coforflod cyððe secean,
ðæt ðu wille gilpan ðæt ðu hæbbe gumena bearn
forcumen and forcyððed. Wat ic ðæt wæron Caldeas
guðe ðæs gielpne and ðæs goldwlonce,
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mærða ðæs modige, ðær to ðam moning gelomp
suð ymbe Sanere feld. Sæge me from ðam lande
ðær nænig fyra ne mæg fotum gestæppan."
Saturnus cuæð:
"Se mæra was haten sæliðende
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weallende Wulf, werðeodum cuð
Filistina, freond Nebrondes.
He on ðam felda ofslog XXV
dracena on dægred, and hine ða deað offeoll;
forðan ða foldan ne mæg fira ænig,
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ðone mercstede, mon gesecan,
fugol gefleogan, ne ðon ma foldan neat.
ðanon atercynn ærest gewurdon
wide onwæcned, ða ðe nu weallende
ðurh attres oroð ingang rymað.
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Git his sweord scineð swiðe gescæned,
and ofer ða byrgenna blicað ða hieltas."
Salomon cwæð:
"Dol bið se ðe gæð on deop wæter,
se ðe sund nafað ne gesegled scip
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ne fugles flyht, ne he mid fotum ne mæg
grund geræcan; huru se godes cunnað
full dyslice, dryhtnes meahta."
Saturnus cuæð:
"Ac hwæt is se dumba, se ðe on sumre dene resteð?
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Swiðe snyttrað, hafað seofon tungan;
hafað tungena gehwylc XX orda,
hafað orda gehwylc engles snytro,
ðara ðe wile anra hwylc uppe bringan,
ðæt ðu ðære gyldnan gesiehst Hierusalem
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weallas blican and hiera winrod lixan,
soðfæstra segn. Saga hwæt ic mæne."
Salomon cuæð:
"Bec sindon breme, bodiað geneahhe
weotodne willan ðam ðe wiht hygeð.
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Gestrangað hie and gestaðeliað staðolfæstne geðoht,
amyrgað modsefan manna gehwylces
of ðreamedlan ðisses lifes."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Bald bið se ðe onbyregeð boca cræftes;
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symle bið ðe wisra ðe hira geweald hafað."
Salomon cuæð:
"Sige hie onsendað soðfæstra gehwam,
hælo hyðe, ðam ðe hie lufað."
Saturnus cwæð:
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"An wise is on woroldrice
ymb ða me fyrwet bræc L wintra
dæges and niehtes ðurh deop gesceaft;
geomrende gast deð nu gena swa,
ærðon me geunne ece dryhten
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ðæt me geseme snoterra monn."
Salomon cwæð:
"Soð is ðæt ðu sagast; seme ic ðe recene
ymb ða wrætlican wiht. Wilt ðu ðæt ic ðe secgge?
An fugel siteð on Filistina
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middelgemærum; munt is hine ymbutan,
geap gylden weall. Georne hine healdað
witan Filistina, wenað ðæs ðe naht is,
ðæt hiene him scyle eall ðeod on genæman
wæpna ecggum; hie ðæs wære cunnon,
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healdað hine niehta gehwylce norðan and suðan
on twa healfa tu hund wearda.
Se fugel hafað IIII heafdu
medumra manna, and he is on middan hwælen;
geowes he hafað fiðeru and griffus fet,
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ligeð lonnum fæst, locað unhiere,
swiðe swingeð and his searo hringeð,
gilleð geomorlice and his gyrn sefað,
wylleð hine on ðam wite, wunað unlustum,
singgeð syllice; seldum æfre
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his leoma licggað. Longað hine hearde,
ðynceð him ðæt sie ðria XXX ðusend wintra
ær he domdæges dynn gehyre.
Nyste hine on ðære foldan fira ænig
eorðan cynnes, ærðon ic hine ana onfand
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and hine ða gebendan het ofer brad wæter,
ðæt hine se modega heht Melotes bearn,
Filistina fruma, fæste gebindan,
lonnum belucan wið leodgryre.
ðone fugel hatað feorbuende,
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Filistina fruman, uasa mortis."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac hwæt is ðæt wundor ðe geond ðas worold færeð,
styrnenga gæð, staðolas beateð,
aweceð wopdropan, winneð oft hider?
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Ne mæg hit steorra ne stan ne se steapa gimm,
wæter ne wildeor wihte beswican,
ac him on hand gæð heardes and hnesces,
micles and mætes; him to mose sceall
gegangan geara gehwelce grundbuendra,
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lyftfleogendra, laguswemmendra,
ðria ðreoteno ðusendgerimes."
Salomon cuæð:
"Yldo beoð on eorðan æghwæs cræftig;
mid hiðendre hildewræsne,
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rumre racenteage, ræceð wide,
langre linan, lisseð eall ðæt heo wile.
Beam heo abreoteð and bebriceð telgum,
astyreð standendne stefn on siðe,
afilleð hine on foldan; friteð æfter ðam
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wildne fugol. Heo oferwigeð wulf,
hio oferbideð stanas, heo oferstigeð style,
hio abiteð iren mid ome, deð usic swa."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac forhwon fealleð se snaw, foldan behydeð,
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bewrihð wyrta cið, wæstmas getigeð,
geðyð hie and geðreatað, ðæt hie ðrage beoð
cealde geclungne? Full oft he gecostað eac
wildeora worn, wætum he oferbricgeð,
gebryceð burga geat, baldlice fereð,
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reafað"
"swiðor micle ðonne se swipra nið
se hine gelædeð on ða laðan wic
mid ða fræcnan feonde to willan."
Saturnus cwæð:
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"Nieht bið wedera ðiestrost, ned bið wyrda heardost,
sorg bið swarost byrðen, slæp bið deaðe gelicost."
Salomon cwæð:
"Lytle hwile leaf beoð grene;
ðonne hie eft fealewiað, feallað on eorðan
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and forweorniað, weorðað to duste.
Swa ðonne gefeallað ða ðe fyrena ær
lange læstað, lifiað him in mane,
hydað heahgestreon, healdað georne
on fæstenne feondum to willan,
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and wenað wanhogan ðæt hie wille wuldorcining,
ælmihtig god, ece gehiran."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Sona bið gesiene, siððan flowan mot
yð ofer eall lond, ne wile heo awa ðæs
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siðes geswican, sioððan hire se sæl cymeð,
ðæt heo domes dæges dyn gehiere."
Salomon cwæð:
"Wa bið ðonne ðissum modgum monnum, ðam ðe her nu mid mane lengest
lifiað on ðisse lænan gesceafte. Ieo ðæt ðine leode gecyðdon;
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wunnon hie wið dryhtnes miehtum, forðon hie ðæt worc ne gedegdon.
Ne sceall ic ðe hwæðre, broðor, abelgan; ðu eart swiðe bittres cynnes,
eorre eormenstrynde. Ne beyrn ðu in ða inwitgecyndo!"
Saturnus cwæð:
"Saga ðu me, Salomon cyning, sunu Dauides,
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hwæt beoð ða feowere fægæs rapas?"
Salomon cuæð:
"Gewurdene wyrda,
ðæt beoð ða feowere fæges rapas."
Saturnus cwæð:
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"Ac hwa demeð ðonne dryhtne Criste
on domes dæge, ðonne he demeð eallum gesceaftum?"
Salomon cwæð:
"Hwa dear ðonne dryhtne deman, ðe us of duste geworhte,
nergend of niehtes wunde? Ac sæge me hwæt nærende wæron."
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Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac forhwon ne mot seo sunne side gesceafte
scire geondscinan? Forhwam besceadeð heo
muntas and moras and monige ec
weste stowa? Hu geweorðeð ðæt?"
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Salomon cuæð:
"Ac forhwam næron eorðwelan ealle gedæled
leodum gelice? Sum to lyt hafað,
godes grædig; hine god seteð
ðurh geearnunga eadgum to ræste."
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Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac forhwan beoð ða gesiðas somod ætgædre,
wop and hleahtor? Full oft hie weorðgeornra
sælða toslitað; hu gesæleð ðæt?"
Salomon cuæð:
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"Unlæde bið and ormod se ðe a wile
geomrian on gihðe; se bið gode fracoðast."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Forhwon ne moton we ðonne ealle mid onmedlan
gegnum gangan in godes rice?"
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Salomon cwæð:
"Ne mæg fyres feng ne forstes cile,
snaw ne sunne somod eardian,
aldor geæfnan, ac hira sceal anra gehwylc
onlutan and onliðigan ðe hafað læsse mægn."
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Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac forhwon ðonne leofað se wyrsa leng?
Se wyrsa ne wat in woroldrice
on his mægwinum maran are."
Salomon cwæð:
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"Ne mæg mon forildan ænige hwile
ðone deoran sið, ac he hine adreogan sceall."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac hu gegangeð ðæt? Gode oððe yfle,
ðonne hie beoð ðurh ane idese acende,
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twegen getwinnas, ne bið hira tir gelic.
Oðer bið unlæde on eorðan, oðer bið eadig,
swiðe leoftæle mid leoda duguðum;
oðer leofað lytle hwile,
swiceð on ðisse sidan gesceafte, and ðonne eft mid sorgum gewiteð.
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Fricge ic ðec, hlaford Salomon, hwæðres bið hira folgoð betra?"
Salomon cuæð:
"Modor ne rædeð, ðonne heo magan cenneð,
hu him weorðe geond worold widsið sceapen.
Oft heo to bealwe bearn afedeð,
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seolfre to sorge, siððan dreogeð
his earfoðu orlegstunde.
Heo ðæs afran sceall oft and gelome
grimme greotan, ðonne he geong færeð,
hafað wilde mod, werige heortan,
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sefan sorgfullne, slideð geneahhe,
werig, wilna leas, wuldres bedæled,
hwilum higegeomor healle weardað,
leofað leodum feor; locað geneahhe
fram ðam unlædan agen hlaford.
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Forðan nah seo modor geweald, ðonne heo magan cenneð,
bearnes blædes, ac sceall on gebyrd faran
an æfter anum; ðæt is eald gesceaft."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac forhwan nele monn him on giogoðe georne gewyrcan
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deores dryhtscipes and dædfruman,
wadan on wisdom, winnan æfter snytro?"
Salomon cwæð:
"Hwæt! Him mæg eadig eorl eaðe geceosan
on his modsefan mildne hlaford,
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anne æðeling. Ne mæg don unlæde swa."
Saturnus cwæð:
"Ac forhwam winneð ðis wæter geond woroldrice,
dreogeð deop gesceaft? Ne mot on dæg restan,
neahtes neðyð, cræfte tyð,
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cristnað and clænsað cwicra manigo,
wuldre gewlitigað. Ic wihte ne cann
forhwan se stream ne mot stillan neahtes."
"his lifes fæðme. Simle hit bið his lareowum hyrsum;
full oft hit eac ðæs deofles dugoð gehnægeð,
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ðær weotena bið worn gesamnod.
ðonne snottrum men snæd oððglideð,
ða he be leohte gesihð, luteð æfter,
gesegnað and gesyfleð and him sylf friteð.
Swilc bið seo an snæd æghwylcum men
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selre micle, gif heo gesegnod bið,
to ðycgganne, gif he hit geðencan cann,
ðonne him sie seofon daga symbelgereordu.
Leoht hafað heow and had haliges gastes,
Cristes gecyndo; hit ðæt gecyðeð full oft.
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Gif hit unwitan ænige hwile
healdað butan hæftum, hit ðurh hrof wædeð,
bryceð and bærneð boldgetimbru,
seomað steap and geap, stigeð on lenge,
clymmeð on gecyndo, cunnað hwænne mote
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fyr on his frumsceaft on fæder geardas,
eft to his eðle, ðanon hit æror cuom.
Hit bið eallenga eorl to gesihðe,
ðam ðe gedælan can dryhtnes ðecelan,
forðon nis nænegu gecynd cuiclifigende,
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ne fugel ne fisc ne foldan stan,
ne wæteres wylm ne wudutelga,
ne munt ne mor ne ðes middangeard,
ðæt he forð ne sie fyrenes cynnes."
Saturnus cwæð:
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"Full oft ic frode menn fyrn gehyrde
secggan and swerian ymb sume wisan,
hwæðer wære twegra butan tweon strengra,
wyrd ðe warnung, ðonne hie winnað oft
mid hira ðreamedlan, hwæðerne aðreoteð ær.
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Ic to soðon wat; sægdon me geara
Filistina witan, ðonne we on geflitum sæton,
bocum tobræddon and on bearm legdon,
meðelcwidas mengdon, moniges fengon,
ðæt nære nænig manna middangeardes
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ðæt meahte ðara twega tuion aspyrian."
Salomon cwæð:
"Wyrd bið wended hearde, wealleð swiðe geneahhe;
heo wop weceð, heo wean hladeð,
heo gast scyð, heo ger byreð,
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and hwæðre him mæg wissefa wyrda gehwylce
gemetigian, gif he bið modes gleaw
and to his freondum wile fultum secan,
ðeh hwæðre godcundes gæstes brucan."
Saturnus cwæð:
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"Ac hwæt witeð us wyrd seo swiðe,
eallra fyrena fruma, fæhðo modor,
weana wyrtwela, wopes heafod,
frumscylda gehwæs fæder and modor,
deaðes dohtor? Ac tohwan drohtað heo mid us?
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Hwæt! Hie wile lifigende late aðreotan,
ðæt heo ðurh fyrena geflitu fæhðo ne tydre."
Salomon cwæð:
"Nolde gæd geador in godes rice
eadiges engles and ðæs ofermodan;
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oðer his dryhtne hierde, oðer him ongan wyrcan ðurh dierne cræftas
segn and side byrnan, cwæð ðæt he mid his gesiðum wolde
hiðan eall heofona rice and him ðonne on healfum sittan,
tydran him mid ðy teoðan dæle, oððæt he his tornes ne cuðe
ende ðurh insceafte. ða wearð se æðelra ðeoden
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gedrefed ðurh ðæs deofles gehygdo; forlet hine ða of dune gehreosan,
afielde hine ða under foldan sceatas,
heht hine ðær fæste gebindan. ðæt sindon ða usic feohtað on.
Forðon is witena gehwam wopes eaca.
ða ðæt eadig onfand engla dryhten,
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ðæt heo leng mid hine lare ne namon,
aweorp hine ða of ðam wuldre and wide todraf,
and him bebead bearn heofonwara
ðæt hie ec scoldon a ðenden hie lifdon
wunian in wylme, wop ðrowian,
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heaf under hefonum, and him helle gescop,
wælcealde wic wintre beðeahte,
wæter in sende and wyrmgeardas,
atol deor monig irenum hornum,
blodige earnas and blace nædran,
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ðurst and hungor and ðearle gewin,
egna egesan, unrotnesse;
and æghwylc him ðissa earfeða ece stondeð
butan edwende a ðenden hie lifigað."
Saturnus cwæð:
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"Is ðonne on ðisse foldan fira ænig
eorðan cynnes, ðara ðe man age,
ðe deað abæde, ær se dæg cyme
ðæt sie his calendcwide arunnen
and hine mon annunga ut abanne?"
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Salomon cwæð:
"æghwylcum men engel onsendeð
dryhten heofona ðonne dæg styreð;
se sceall behealdan hu his hyge wille;
grædig growan in godes willan,
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murnan metodes ðrym, mid ðy ðe hit dæg bið.
ðonne hine ymbegangað gastas twegen;
oðer bið golde glædra, oðer bið grundum sweartra,
oðer cymeð
ofer ðære stylenan helle;
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oðer hine læreð ðæt he lufan healde,
metodes miltse, and his mæga ræd,
oðer hine tyhteð and on tæso læreð,
yweð him and yppeð earmra manna
misgemynda, and ðurh ðæt his mod hweteð,
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lædeð hine and læceð and hine geond land spaneð,
oððæt his ege bið, æfðancum full,
ðurh earmra scyld yrre geworden.
Swa ðonne feohteð se feond on feower gecynd,
oððæt he gewendeð on ða wyrsan hand
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deofles dædum dæglongne fyrst,
and ðæs willan wyrcð ðe hine on woh spaneð.
Gewiteð ðonne wepende on weg faran
engel to his earde and ðæt eall sagað:
'Ne meahte ic of ðære heortan heardne aðringan
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stylenne stan; sticað him tomiddes'"
The Mologium
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Crist wæs acennyd, cyninga wuldor,
on midne winter, mære þeoden,
ece ælmihtig, on þy eahteoðan dæg
Hælend gehaten, heofonrices weard.
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Swa þa sylfan tiid side herigeas,
folc unmæte, habbað foreweard gear,
for þy se kalend us cymeð geþincged
on þam ylcan dæge us to tune,
forma monað; hine folc mycel
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Ianuarius gerum heton.
And þæs embe fif niht þætte fulwihttiid
eces drihtnes to us cymeð,
þæne twelfta dæg tireadige,
hæleð heaðurofe, hatað on Brytene,
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in foldan her. Swylce emb feower wucan
þætte Solmonað sigeð to tune
butan twam nihtum, swa hit getealdon geo,
Februarius fær, frode gesiþas,
ealde ægleawe. And þæs embe ane niht
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þæt we Marian mæssan healdað,
cyninges modor, forþan heo Crist on þam dæge,
bearn wealdendes, brohte to temple.
ðænne þæs emb fif niht þæt afered byð
winter of wicum, and se wigend þa
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æfter seofentynum swylt þrowade
nihtgerimes, nergendes þegen,
Mathias mære, mine gefræge,
þæs þe lencten on tun geliden hæfde,
werum to wicum. Swylce eac is wide cuð
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ymb III and twa þeodum gewelhwær
his cyme kalend ceorlum and eorlum
(butan þænne bises geboden weorðe
feorðan geare; þænne he furðor cymeð
ufor anre niht us to tune),
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hrime gehyrsted hagolscurum færð
geond middangeard Martius reðe,
Hlyda healic. ðænne se halga þæs
emb XI niht æþele scynde
Gregorius in godes wære,
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breme in Brytene. Swylce Benedictus
embe nigon niht þæs nergend sohte,
heard and higestrang, þæne heriað wel
in gewritum wise, wealdendes þeow
rincas regolfæste. Swylce eac rimcræftige
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on þa ylcan tiid emniht healdað,
forðan wealdend god worhte æt frymðe
on þy sylfan dæge sunnan and monan.
Hwæt, ymb feower niht fæder onsende,
þæs þe emnihte eorlas healdað,
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heahengel his, se hælo abead
Marian mycle, þæt heo meotod sceolde
cennan, kyninga betst, swa hit gecyðed wearð
geond middangeard; wæs þæt mære wyrd,
folcum gefræge! Swylce emb feower and þreo
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nihtgerimes, þætte nergend sent
Aprelis monað, on þam oftust cymð
seo mære tiid mannum to frofre,
drihtnes ærist; þænne dream gerist
wel wide gehwær, swa se witega sang:
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"þis is se dæg þæne drihten us
wisfæst worhte, wera cneorissum,
eallum eorðwarum eadigum to blisse."
Ne magon we þa tide be getale healdan
dagena rimes, ne drihtnes stige
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on heofenas up, forþan þe hwearfað aa
wisra gewyrdum, ac sceal wintrum frod
on circule cræfte findan
halige dagas. Sculan we hwæðere gyt
martira gemynd ma areccan,
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wrecan wordum forð, wisse gesingan,
þæt embe nihgontyne niht and fifum,
þæs þe Eastermonað to us cymeð,
þæt man reliquias ræran onginneð,
halige gehyrste; þæt is healic dæg,
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bentiid bremu. Swylce in burh raþe
embe siex niht þæs, smicere on gearwum,
wudum and wyrtum cymeð wlitig scriðan
þrymilce on tun, þearfe bringeð
Maius micle geond menigeo gehwær.
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Swa þi ylcan dæge æþele geferan,
Philippus and Iacob, feorh agefan,
modige magoþegnas for meotudes lufan.
And þæs embe twa niht þætte tæhte god
Elenan eadigre æþelust beama,
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on þam þrowode þeoden engla
for manna lufan, meotud on galgan
be fæder leafe. Swylce ymb fyrst wucan
butan anre niht þætte yldum bringð
sigelbeorhte dagas sumor to tune,
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wearme gewyderu. þænne wangas hraðe
blostmum blowað, swylce blis astihð
geond middangeard manigra hada
cwicera cynna, cyninge lof secgað
mænifealdlice, mærne bremað,
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ælmihtigne. þæs emb eahta and nigon
dogera rimes þætte drihten nam
in oðer leoht Agustinus,
bliðne on breostum, þæs þe he on Brytene her
eaðmode him eorlas funde
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to godes willan, swa him se gleawa bebead
Gregorius. Ne hyrde ic guman a fyrn
ænigne ær æfre bringan
ofer sealtne mere selran lare,
bisceop bremran. Nu on Brytene rest
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on Cantwarum cynestole neah,
mynstre mærum. þænne monað bringð
ymb twa and feower tiida lange
ærra Liða us to tune,
Iunius on geard, on þam gim astihð
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on heofenas up hyhst on geare,
tungla torhtust, and of tille agrynt,
to sete sigeð. Wyle syððan leng
grund behealdan and gangan lator
ofer foldan wang fægerust leohta,
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woruldgesceafta. þænne wuldres þegn
ymb þreotyne, þeodnes dyrling,
Iohannes in geardagan wearð acenned,
tyn nihtum eac; we þa tiid healdað
on midne sumor mycles on æþelum.
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Wide is geweorðod, swa þæt wel gerist,
haligra tid geond hæleða bearn,
Petrus and Paulus. Hwæt, þa apostolas,
þeodenholde, þrowedon on Rome
ofer midne sumor, miccle gewisse,
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furðor fif nihtum, folcbealo þrealic,
mærne martyrdom; hæfdon mænige ær
wundra geworhte geond wærþeoda,
swylce hi æfter þam unrim fremedon
swutelra and gesynra þurh sunu meotudes,
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ealdorþegnas. þænne ædre cymð
emb twa niht þæs tidlice us
Iulius monað, on þam Iacobus
ymb feower niht feorh gesealde
ond twentigum, trum in breostum,
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frod and fæstræd folca lareow,
Zebedes afera. And þæs symle scriþ
ymb seofon niht þæs sumere gebrihted
Weodmonað on tun, welhwær bringeð
Agustus yrmenþeodum
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hlafmæssan dæg. Swa þæs hærfest cymð
ymbe oðer swylc butan anre wanan,
wlitig, wæstmum hladen; wela byð geywed
fægere on foldan. þænne forð gewat
ymb þreo niht þæs þeodne getrywe
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þurh martyrdom, mære diacon,
Laurentius, hæfð nu lif wiðþan
mid wuldorfæder weorca to leane.
Swylce þæs ymb fif niht fægerust mægða,
wifa wuldor, sohte weroda god
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for suna sibbe, sigefæstne ham
on neorxnawange; hæfde nergend þa
fægere fostorlean fæmnan forgolden
ece to ealdre. þænne ealling byð
ymb tyn niht þæs tiid geweorðad
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Bartholomeus in Brytene her,
wyrd welþungen. Swylce eac wide byð
eorlum geypped æþelinges deað
ymb feower niht, se þe fægere iu
mid wætere oferwearp wuldres cynebearn,
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wiga weorðlice. Be him wealdend cwæð
þæt nan mærra man geond middangeard
betux wife and were wurde acenned.
Ond þæs ymbe þreo niht geond þeoda feala
þætte Haligmonð, heleþum geþinged,
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fereð to folce, swa hit foregleawe,
ealde uþwitan, æror fundan,
Septembres fær, and þy seofoþan dæg
þæt acenned wearð cwena selost,
drihtnes modor. þænne dagena worn
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ymbe þreotyne þegn unforcuð,
godspelles gleaw, gast onsende
Matheus his to metodsceafte,
in ecne gefean. þænne ealling cymð
ymb þreo niht þæs þeodum wide
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emnihtes dæg, ylda bearnum.
Hwæt, we weorðiað wide geond eorðan
heahengles tiid on hærfeste,
Michaheles, swa þæt menigo wat,
fif nihtum ufor þæs þe folcum byð,
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eorlum geywed emnihtes dæg.
And þæs embe twa niht þæt se teoða monð
on folc fereð, frode geþeahte,
October on tun us to genihte,
Winterfylleð, swa hine wide cigað
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igbuende Engle and Seaxe,
weras mid wifum. Swylce wigena tiid
ymb twentig þæs twegra healdað
and seofon nihtum samod ætgædere
on anne dæg. We þa æþelingas
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fyrn gefrunan þæt hy foremære,
Simon and Iudas, symble wæron,
drihtne dyre; forþon hi dom hlutan,
eadigne upweg. And þæs ofstum bringð
embe feower niht, folce genihtsum,
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Blotmonað on tun, beornum to wiste,
Nouembris, niða bearnum
eadignesse, swa nan oðer na deð
monað maran miltse drihtnes.
And þy ylcan dæge ealra we healdað
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sancta symbel þara þe sið oððe ær
worhtan in worulde willan drihtnes.
Syþþan wintres dæg wide gangeð
on syx nihtum, sigelbeortne genimð
hærfest mid herige hrimes and snawes,
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forste gefeterad, be frean hæse,
þæt us wunian ne moton wangas grene,
foldan frætuwe. þæs ymb feower niht
þætte Martinus mære geleorde,
wer womma leas wealdend sohte,
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upengla weard. þænne embe eahta niht
and feowerum þætte fan gode
besenctun on sægrund sigefæstne wer,
on brime haran, þe iu beorna fela
Clementes oft clypiað to þearfe.
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And þæs embe seofon niht, sigedrihtne leof,
æþele Andreas up on roderum
his gast ageaf on godes wære,
fus on forðweg. þænne folcum bringð
morgen to mannum monað to tune,
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Decembris drihta bearnum,
ærra Iula. Swylce emb eahta and twelf
nihtgerimes þætte nergend sylf
þristhydigum Thomase forgeaf
wið earfeðum ece rice,
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bealdum beornwigan bletsunga his.
þænne emb feower niht þætte fæder engla
his sunu sende on þas sidan gesceaft
folcum to frofre. Nu ge findan magon
haligra tiida þe man healdan sceal,
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swa bebugeð gebod geond Brytenricu
Sexna kyninges on þas sylfan tiid.
Maxims II
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Cyning sceal rice healdan. Ceastra beoð feorran gesyne,
orðanc enta geweorc, þa þe on þysse eorðan syndon,
wrætlic weallstana geweorc. Wind byð on lyfte swiftust,
þunar byð þragum hludast. þrymmas syndan Cristes myccle,
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wyrd byð swiðost. Winter byð cealdost,
lencten hrimigost (he byð lengest ceald),
sumor sunwlitegost (swegel byð hatost),
hærfest hreðeadegost, hæleðum bringeð
geres wæstmas, þa þe him god sendeð.
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Soð bið switolost, sinc byð deorost,
gold gumena gehwam, and gomol snoterost,
fyrngearum frod, se þe ær feala gebideð.
Weax bið wundrum clibbor. Wolcnu scriðað.
Geongne æþeling sceolan gode gesiðas
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byldan to beaduwe and to beahgife.
Ellen sceal on eorle, ecg sceal wið hellme
hilde gebidan. Hafuc sceal on glofe
wilde gewunian, wulf sceal on bearowe,
earm anhaga, eofor sceal on holte,
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toðmægenes trum. Til sceal on eðle
domes wyrcean. Daroð sceal on handa,
gar golde fah. Gim sceal on hringe
standan steap and geap. Stream sceal on yðum
mencgan mereflode. Mæst sceal on ceole,
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segelgyrd seomian. Sweord sceal on bearme,
drihtlic isern. Draca sceal on hlæwe,
frod, frætwum wlanc. Fisc sceal on wætere
cynren cennan. Cyning sceal on healle
beagas dælan. Bera sceal on hæðe,
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eald and egesfull. Ea of dune sceal
flodgræg feran. Fyrd sceal ætsomne,
tirfæstra getrum. Treow sceal on eorle,
wisdom on were. Wudu sceal on foldan
blædum blowan. Beorh sceal on eorþan
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grene standan. God sceal on heofenum,
dæda demend. Duru sceal on healle,
rum recedes muð. Rand sceal on scylde,
fæst fingra gebeorh. Fugel uppe sceal
lacan on lyfte. Leax sceal on wæle
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mid sceote scriðan. Scur sceal on heofenum,
winde geblanden, in þas woruld cuman.
þeof sceal gangan þystrum wederum. þyrs sceal on fenne gewunian
ana innan lande. Ides sceal dyrne cræfte,
fæmne hire freond gesecean, gif heo nelle on folce geþeon
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þæt hi man beagum gebicge. Brim sceal sealte weallan,
lyfthelm and laguflod ymb ealra landa gehwylc,
flowan firgenstreamas. Feoh sceal on eorðan
tydran and tyman. Tungol sceal on heofenum
beorhte scinan, swa him bebead meotud.
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God sceal wið yfele, geogoð sceal wið yldo,
lif sceal wið deaþe, leoht sceal wið þystrum,
fyrd wið fyrde, feond wið oðrum,
lað wið laþe ymb land sacan,
synne stælan. A sceal snotor hycgean
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ymb þysse worulde gewinn, wearh hangian,
fægere ongildan þæt he ær facen dyde
manna cynne. Meotod ana wat
hwyder seo sawul sceal syððan hweorfan,
and ealle þa gastas þe for gode hweorfað
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æfter deaðdæge, domes bidað
on fæder fæðme. Is seo forðgesceaft
digol and dyrne; drihten ana wat,
nergende fæder. Næni eft cymeð
hider under hrofas, þe þæt her for soð
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mannum secge hwylc sy meotodes gesceaft,
sigefolca gesetu, þær he sylfa wunað.
A Proverb from Winfrid's Time
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Oft daedlata dome foreldit,
sigisitha gahuem, suuyltit thi ana.
The Judgment Day II
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Hwæt! Ic ana sæt innan bearwe,
mid helme beþeht, holte tomiddes,
þær þa wæterburnan swegdon and urnon
on middan gehæge, eal swa ic secge.
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Eac þær wynwyrta weoxon and bleowon
innon þam gemonge on ænlicum wonge,
and þa wudubeamas wagedon and swegdon
þurh winda gryre; wolcn wæs gehrered,
and min earme mod eal wæs gedrefed.
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þa ic færinga, forht and unrot,
þas unhyrlican fers onhefde mid sange,
eall swylce þu cwæde, synna gemunde,
lifes leahtra, and þa langan tid,
þæs dimman cyme deaðes on eorðan.
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Ic ondræde me eac dom þone miclan
for mandædum minum on eorðan,
and þæt ece ic eac yrre ondræde me
and synfulra gehwam æt sylfum gode,
and hu mihtig frea eall manna cynn
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todæleð and todemeð þurh his dihlan miht.
Ic gemunde eac mærðe drihtnes
and þara haligra on heofonan rice,
swylce earmsceapenra yfel and witu.
Ic gemunde þis mid me, and ic mearn swiðe,
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and ic murcnigende cwæð, mode gedrefed:
"Nu ic eow, æddran, ealle bidde
þæt ge wylspringas wel ontynan,
hate of hleorum, recene to tearum,
þænne ic synful slea swiðe mid fyste,
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breost mine beate on gebedstowe,
and minne lichaman lecge on eorðan
and geearnade sar ealle ic gecige.
Ic bidde eow benum nu ða
þæt ge ne wandian wiht for tearum,
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ac dreorige hleor dreccað mid wope
and sealtum dropum sona ofergeotaþ,
and geopeniað man ecum drihtne.
Ne þær owiht inne ne belife
on heortscræfe heanra gylta,
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þæt hit ne sy dægcuð, þæt þæt dihle wæs,
openum wordum eall abæred,
breostes and tungan and flæsces swa some.
ðis is an hæl earmre sauwle
and þam sorgiendum selest hihta,
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þæt he wunda her wope gecyðe
uplicum læce, se ana mæg
aglidene mod gode gehælan
and ræplingas recene onbindan,
ne mid swiðran his swyþe nele brysan
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wanhydige mod wealdend engla,
ne þone wlacan smocan waces fleaxes
wyle waldend Crist wætere gedwæscan.
Hu ne gesceop þe se scaþa scearplice bysne
þe mid Criste wæs cwylmed on rode,
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hu micel forstent and hu mære is
seo soðe hreow synna and gylta?
Se sceaþa wæs on rode scyldig and manful,
mid undædum eall gesymed;
he drihtene swa þeah, deaðe gehende,
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his bena bebead breostgehigdum.
He mid lyt wordum ac geleaffullum
his hæle begeat and help recene,
and in gefor þa ænlican geatu
neorxnawonges mid nerigende.
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Ic acsige þe, la, earme geþanc,
hwi latast þu swa lange, þæt þu ðe læce ne cyþst,
oððe hwi swigast þu, synnigu tunge,
nu þu forgifnesse hæfst gearugne timan,
nu þe ælmihtig earum atihtum,
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heofonrices weard, gehyreð mid lustum?
Ac se dæg cymeð ðonne demeð god
eorðan ymbhwyrft; þu ana scealt
gyldan scad wordum wið scyppend god,
and þam rican frean riht agyldan.
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Ic lære þæt þu beo hrædra mid hreowlicum tearum,
and þæt yrre forfoh eces deman.
Hwæt ligst þu on horwe leahtrum afylled,
flæsc, mid synnum? Hwi ne feormast þu
mid teara gyte torne synne?
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Hwi ne bidst þu þe beþunga and plaster,
lifes læcedomes æt lifes frean?
Nu þu scealt greotan, tearas geotan,
þa hwile tima sy and tid wopes;
nu is halwende þæt man her wepe
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and dædbote do drihtne to willan.
Glæd bið se godes sunu, gif þu gnorn þrowast
and þe sylfum demst for synnum on eorðan,
ne heofenes god henða and gyltas
ofer ænne syþ wrecan wile ænigum men.
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Ne scealt þu forhyccan heaf and wopas
and forgifnesse gearugne timan.
Gemyne eac on mode, hu micel is þæt wite
þe þara earmra byð for ærdædum,
oþþe hu egeslice and hu andrysne
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heahþrymme cyningc her wile deman
anra gehwylcum be ærdædum,
oþþe hwylce forebeacn feran onginnað
and Cristes cyme cyþað on eorðan.
Eall eorðe bifað, eac swa þa duna
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dreosað and hreosað,
and beorga hliðu bugað and myltað,
and se egeslica sweg ungerydre sæ
eall manna mod miclum gedrefeð.
Eal bið eac upheofon
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sweart and gesworcen, swiðe geþuxsað,
deorc and dimhiw, and dwolma sweart.
þonne stedelease steorran hreosað,
and seo sunne forswyrcð sona on morgen,
ne se mona næfð nanre mihte wiht,
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þæt he þære nihte genipu mæge flecgan.
Eac þonne cumað hider ufon of heofone
deaðbeacnigende tacn, bregað þa earman;
þonne cumað upplice eoredheapas,
stiþmægen astyred, styllað embutan
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eal engla werod, ecne behlænað,
ðone mæran metod mihte and þrymme.
Sitt þonne sigelbeorht swegles brytta
on heahsetle, helme beweorðod.
We beoð færinga him beforan brohte,
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æghwanum cumene to his ansyne,
þæt gehwylc underfo
dom be his dædum æt drihtne sylfum.
Ic bidde, man, þæt þu gemune hu micel bið se broga
beforan domsetle drihtnes þænne;
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stent hergea mæst heortleas and earh,
amasod and amarod, mihtleas, afæred.
þænne samod becumað of swegles hleo
eall engla werod, ecne ymtrymmað.
þænne bið geban micel, and aboden þider
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eal Adames cnosl eorðbuendra
þe on foldan wearð feded æfre
oððe modar gebær to manlican,
oþþe þa þe wæron oððe woldon beon
oþþe towearde geteald wæron awiht.
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ðonne eallum beoð ealra gesweotolude
digle geþancas on þære dægtide,
eal þæt seo heorte hearmes geþohte
oððe seo tunge to teonan geclypede
oþþe mannes hand manes gefremede
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on þystrum scræfum þinga on eorðan;
eal þæt hwæne sceamode scylda on worulde,
þæt he ænigum men ypte oððe cyðde,
þonne bið eallum open ætsomne,
gelice alyfed þæt man lange hæl.
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Ufenan eall þis eac byð gefylled
eal uplic lyft ættrenum lige.
Færð fyr ofer eall, ne byð þær nan foresteal,
ne him man na ne mæg miht forwyrnan;
eal þæt us þincð æmtig eahgemearces
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under roderes ryne, readum lige
bið emnes mid þy eal gefylled.
ðonne fyren lig blaweð and braslað,
read and reaðe, ræsct and efesteð,
hu he synfullum susle gefremme;
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ne se wrecenda bryne wile forbugan
oððe ænigum þær are gefremman,
buton he horwum sy her afeormad,
and þonne þider cume, þearle aclænsad.
þonne fela mægða, folca unrim,
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heora sinnigan breost swiðlice beatað
forhte mid fyste for fyrenlustum.
þær beoð þearfan and þeodcyningas,
earm and eadig, ealle beoð afæred;
þær hæfð ane lage earm and se welega,
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forðon hi habbað ege ealle ætsomne.
ðæt reðe flod ræscet fyre
and biterlice bærnð ða earman saula,
and heora heortan horxlice wyrmas,
synscyldigra, ceorfað and slitað.
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Ne mæg þær æni man be agnum gewyrhtum
gedyrstig wesan, deman gehende,
ac ealle þurhyrnð oga ætsomne,
breostgehyda and se bitera wop,
and þær stænt astifad, stane gelicast,
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eal arleas heap yfeles on wenan.
Hwæt dest þu, la, flæsc? Hwæt dreogest þu nu?
Hwæt miht þu on þa tid þearfe gewepan?
Wa þe nu, þu þe þeowast þissere worulde,
and her glæd leofast on galnysse
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and þe mid stiðum astyrest sticelum þæs gælsan!
Hwi ne forhtas þu fyrene egsan,
and þe sylfum ondræd swiðlice witu,
ða deoflum geo drihten geteode,
awyrgedum gastum, weana to leane?
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þa oferswiðað sefan and spræce
manna gehwylces for micelnysse.
Nænig spræc mæg beon, spellum areccan
ænegum on eorðan earmlice witu,
fulle stowa fyres on grunde,
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þe wæs in grimmum susle on helle.
þær synt to sorge ætsomne gemenged
se þrosma lig and se þrece gicela,
swiðe hat and ceald helle tomiddes.
Hwilum þær eagan ungemetum wepað
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for þæs ofnes bryne (eal he is bealuwes full);
hwilum eac þa teþ for miclum cyle manna þær gryrrað.
þis atule gewrixl earmsceapene men
on worulda woruld wendað þær inne
betwyx forsworcenum sweartum nihtum
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and weallendes pices wean and þrosme.
þær nan stefn styreð butan stearcheard
wop and wanung, nawiht elles;
ne bið þær ansyn gesewen ænigre wihte,
butan þara cwelra þe cwylmað ða earman.
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Ne bið þær inne aht gemeted
butan lig and cyle and laðlic ful;
hy mid nosan ne magon naht geswæccan
butan unstences ormætnesse.
þær beoð þa wanigendan welras gefylde
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ligspiwelum bryne laðlices fyres,
and hy wælgrimme wyrmas slitað
and heora ban gnagað brynigum tuxlum.
Ufenon eal þis bið þæt earme breost
mid bitere care breged and swenced,
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for hwi fyrngende flæsc on þas frecnan tid
hym selfum swa fela synna geworhte,
þæt hit on cweartern cwylmed wurde,
þær ða atelan synd ecan witu;
þær leohtes ne leoht lytel sperca
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earmum ænig, ne þær arfæstnes
ne sib ne hopa ne swige gegladað
ne þara wependra worn wihte.
Flyhð frofor aweg; ne bið þær fultum nan
þæt wið þa biteran þing gebeorh mæge fremman.
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Ne bið þær ansyn gemet ænigre blisse,
ac þær bið angryslic ege and fyrhtu
and sari mod, swiðlic gristbigtung;
þær bið unrotnes æghwær wælhreow,
adl and yrre and æmelnes,
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and þær synnge eac sauwle on lige
on blindum scræfe byrnað and yrnað.
þonne deriende gedwinað heonone
þysse worulde gefean, gewitað mid ealle;
þonne druncennes gedwineð mid wistum,
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and hleahter and plega hleapað ætsomne,
and wrænnes eac gewiteð heonone,
and fæsthafolnes feor gewiteð,
uncyst onweg and ælc gælsa
scyldig scyndan on sceade þonne,
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and se earma flyhð uncræftiga slæp
sleac mid sluman slincan on hinder.
ðonne blindum beseah biterum ligum
earme on ende þæt unalyfed is nu;
leofest on life lað bið þænne,
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and þæt werige mod wendað þa gyltas
swiðe mid sorgum and mid sargunge.
Eala, se bið gesælig and ofersælig
and on worulda woruld wihta gesæligost,
se þe mid gesyntum swylce cwyldas
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and witu mæg wel forbugon,
and samod bliðe on woruld ealle
his þeodne geþeon, and þonne mot
habban heofonrice; þæt is hihta mæst.
þær niht ne genimð næfre þeostrum
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þæs heofenlican leohtes sciman;
ne cymð þær sorh ne sar ne geswenced yld,
ne þær ænig geswinc æfre gelimpeð,
oððe hunger oþþe þurst oððe heanlic slæp,
ne bið þær fefur ne adl ne færlic cwyld,
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nanes liges gebrasl ne se laðlica cyle.
Nis þær unrotnes ne þær æmelnys,
ne hryre ne caru ne hreoh tintrega,
ne bið þær liget ne laðlic storm,
winter ne þunerrad ne wiht cealdes,
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ne þær hagulscuras hearde mid snawe,
ne bið þær wædl ne lyre ne deaðes gryre
ne yrmð ne agnes ne ænigu gnornung,
ac þær samod ricxað sib mid spede,
and arfæstnes and ece god,
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wuldor and wurðmynt,
swylce lof and lif and leoflic geþwærnes.
Ufenan eal þis ece drihten
him ealra goda gehwylc glædlice ðenað,
þær a andweard ealle weorðaþ
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and fehþ and geblyssað fæder ætsomne,
wuldraþ and wel hylt,
fægere frætuað and freolice lufað
and on heofonsetle hean geregnað.
His sunu bliðe, sigores brytta,
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sylð anra gehwam ece mede,
heofonlice hyrsta, þæt is healic gifu,
gemang þam ænlican engla werode
and þæra haligra heapum and þreatum.
þær hy beoð geþeode þeodscipum on gemang
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betwyx heahfæderas and halige witegan,
blissiendum modum, byrgum tomiddes,
þær þa ærendracan synd ælmihtiges godes,
and betweoh rosena reade heapas,
þær symle scinað.
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þær þæra hwittra hwyrfð mædenheap,
blostmum behangen, beorhtost wereda,
þe ealle læt ænlicu godes drut,
seo frowe þe us frean acende,
metod on moldan, meowle seo clæne.
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þæt is Maria, mædena selast;
heo let þurh þa scenan scinendan ricu,
gebletsodost ealra, þæs breman fæder,
betweox fæder and sunu, freolicum werede,
and betwyx þære ecan uplicum sibbe
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rice rædwitan, rodera weardas.
Hwæt mæg beon heardes her on life,
gif þu wille secgan soð þæm ðe frineð,
wið þam þu mote gemang þam werode
eardian unbleoh on ecnesse,
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and on upcundra eadegum setlum
brucan bliðnesse butan ende forð?"
An Exhortation to Christian Living
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nu lære ic þe swa man leofne sceal.
Gif þu wille þæt blowende rice gestigan,
þænne beo þu eadmod and ælmesgeorn,
wis on wordum, and wæccan lufa
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on hyge halgum on þas hwilwendan tid,
bliðe mode, and gebedum filige
oftost symle þær þu ana sy.
Forðan þæt halige gebed and seo hluttre lufu
godes and manna and seo ælmessylen
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and se miccla hopa to þinum hælende,
þæt he þine synna adwæscan wylle,
and eac oþera fela
godra weorca glengað and bringað
þa soðfæstan sauwle to reste
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on þa uplican eadignesse.
Wyrc þæt þu wyrce, word oððe dæda,
hafa metodes ege on gemang symle;
þæt is witodlice wisdomes ord,
þæt þu þæt ece leoht eal ne forleose.
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þeos woruld is æt ende, and we synd wædlan gyt
heofena rices; þæt is hefig byrden.
And þeah þu æfter þinum ende eall gesylle
þæt þu on eorðan ær gestryndes
goda gehwylces, wylle gode cweman,
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ne mihtu mid þæm eallum sauwle þine
ut alysan, gif heo inne wyrð
feondum befangen, frofre bedæled,
welena forwyrned; ac þu wuldres god,
ece ælmihtigne, ealninga bidde
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þæt he þe ne forlæte laðum to handa,
feondum to frofre, ac þu fleoh þanan,
syle ælmessan oft and gelome
digolice; þæt bið drihtnes lac
gumena gehwylces þe on god gelyfð.
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Ceapa þe mid æhtum eces leohtes,
þy læs þu forweorðe, þænne þu hyra geweald nafast
to syllanne. Hit bið swiðe yfel
manna gehwilcum þæt he micel age,
gif he him god ne ondræt
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swiðor micle þonne his sylfes gewil.
Warna þe georne wið þære wambe fylle,
forþan heo þa unþeawas ealle gesomnað
þe þære saule swiðost deriað,
þæt is druncennes and dyrnegeligere,
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ungemet wilnung ætes and slæpes;
þa man mæg mid fæstenum
and forhæfdnessum heonon adrifan,
and mid cyricsocnum cealdum wederum
eadmodlice ealluncga biddan
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heofena drihten þæt he þe hæl gife,
milde mundbora, swa him gemet þince.
And ondræd þu ðe dihle wisan,
nearwe geþancas, þe on niht becumað,
synlustas foroft swiðe fremman
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earfoðlice, þy þu earhlice scealt
gyltas þine swiðe bemurnan,
har hilderinc; hefie þe ðincaþ
synna þine. Forþam þu sylf ongyte
þæt þu alætan scealt læne staþelas,
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eard and eþel. Uncuð bið þe þænne
tohwan þe þin drihten gedon wille,
þænne þu lengc ne most lifes brucan,
eardes on eþle, swa þu ær dydest,
blissum hremi. Nu þu ðe beorgan scealt,
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and wið feonda gehwæne fæste healdan
sauwle þine; a hi winnað
embe þæt
dæges and nihtes ongean drihtnes lif.
þu miht hy gefleman, gif þu filian wilt
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larum minum, swa ic lære þe
digollice þæt þu on dægred oft
ymbe þinre sauwle ræd swiðe smeage,
hu þu þæt ece leoht æfre begytan mæge,
siðe gesecan; þu scealt glædlice swiðe swincan
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wið þæs uplican eþelrices
dæges and nihtes, þu scealt druncen fleon
and þa oferfylle ealle forlætan.
Gif þu wilt þa upplican eardwic ceosan,
þænne scealt þu hit on eorðan ær geþencan,
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and þu þe sylfne swiðe gebindan
and þa unþeawas ealle forlætan
þe þu on þis life ær lufedest and feddest.
A Summons to Prayer
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þænne gemiltsað þe, N., mundum qui regit,
ðeoda þrymcyningc thronum sedentem
a butan ende
saule þinre
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Geunne þe on life auctor pacis
sibbe gesælða, salus mundi,
metod se mæra magna uirtute,
and se soðfæsta summi filius
fo on fultum, factor cosmi,
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se of æþelre wæs uirginis partu
clæne acenned Christus in orbem,
metod þurh Marian, mundi redemptor,
and þurh þæne halgan gast. Uoca frequenter
bide helpes hine, clemens deus,
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se onsended wæs summo de throno
and þære clænan clara uoce
þa gebyrd bodade bona uoluntate
þæt heo scolde cennan Christum regem,
ealra cyninga cyningc, casta uiuendo.
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and þu þa soðfæstan supplex rogo,
fultumes bidde friclo uirginem almum,
and þær æfter to omnes sancti
bliðmod bidde, beatus et iustus,
þæt hi ealle þe unica uoce
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þingian to þeodne thronum regentem,
ecum drihtne, alta polorum,
þæt he þine saule, summus iudex,
onfo freolice, factor aeternus,
and he gelæde luce perhennem,
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þær eadige anime sancte
rice restað regna caelorum.
The Lord's Prayer II
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Pater noster.
þu eart ure fæder, ealles wealdend,
cyninc on wuldre. Forðam we clypiað to þe,
are biddað, nu þu yþost miht
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sawle alysan. þu hig sændest ær
þurh þine æþelan hand in to þam flæsce;
ac hwar cymð heo nu,
buton þu, engla god, eft hig alyse,
sawle of synnum þurh þine soðan miht?
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Qui es in celis.
ðu eart on heofonum hiht and frofor,
blissa beorhtost; ealle abugað to þe,
þinra gasta þrym, anre stæfne
clypiað to Criste, cweþað ealle þus:
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"Halig eart þu, halig, heofonengla cyningc,
drihten ure, and þine domas synd
rihte and rume, ræcað efne gehwam,
æghwilcum men agen gewyrhta.
Wel bið ðam þe wyrcð willan þinne!"
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Sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Swa is gehalgod þin heah nama
swiðe mærlice manegum gereordum,
twa and hundseofontig, þæs þe secgað bec,
þæt þu, engla god, ealle gesettest
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ælcere þeode þeaw and wisan.
þa wurþiað þin weorc wordum and dædum,
þurh gecynd clypiað and Crist heriað
and þin lof lædað, lifigenda god,
swa þu eart geæþelod geond ealle world.
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Adueniat regnum tuum.
Cum nu and mildsa, mihta waldend,
and us þin rice alyf, rihtwis dema,
earda selost and ece lif,
þar we sibbe and lufe samod gemetað,
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eagena beorhtnysse and ealle mirhðe,
þar bið gehyred þin halige lof
and þin micele miht, mannum to frofre,
swa þu, engla god, eallum blissast.
Fiat uoluntas tua. - 40
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Gewurðe þin willa, swa þu, waldend, eart
ece geopenod geond ealle world,
and þu þe silf eart soðfæst dema,
rice rædbora, geond rumne grund.
Swa þin heahsetl is heah and mære,
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fæger and wurðlic, swa þin fæder worhte,
æþele and ece, þar ðu on sittest
on sinre swiðran healf. þu eart sunu and fæder,
ana ægþer; swa is þin æþele gecynd
micclum gemærsod, and þu monegum helpst,
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ealra cyninga þrym, clypast ofer ealle.
Bið þin wuldorword wide gehyred,
þonne þu þine fyrde fægere geblissast,
sylest miht and mund micclum herige,
and þe þanciað þusenda fela,
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eal engla þrym, anre stæfne.
Sicut in celo. Swa þe on heofonum heahþrymnesse
æþele and ece a þanciað,
clæne and gecorene Cristes þegnas,
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singað and biddað soðfæstne god
are and gifnesse ealre þeode;
þonne þu him tiðast, tyreadig cyningc,
swa þu eadmod eart ealre worlde.
Sy þe þanc and lof þinre mildse,
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wuldor and willa; þu gewurðod eart
on heofonrice, heah casere,
Et in terra. and on eorðan, ealra cyninga
help and heafod, halig læce,
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reðe and rihtwis, rumheort hlaford.
þu geæþelodest þe ealle gesceafta,
and tosyndrodest hig siððan on manega,
sealdest ælcre gecynde agene wisan
and a þine mildse ofer manna bearn.
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Panem nostrum cotidianum.
Swa mid sibbe sænst urne hlaf
dæghwamlice duguðe þinre,
rihtlice dælest
mete þinum mannum and him mare gehætst
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æfter forðsiðe, þines fæder rice,
þæt wæs on fruman fægere gegearwod,
earda selost and ece lif,
gif we soð and riht symle gelæstað.
Da nobis hodie. - 85
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Syle us to dæg, drihten, þine
mildse and mihta and ure mod gebig,
þanc and þeawas, on þin gewil.
Bewyrc us on heortan haligne gast
fæste on innan, and us fultum sile,
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þæt we moton wyrcan willan þinne
and þe betæcan, tyreadig cyningc,
sawle ure on þines silfes hand.
Et dimitte nobis debita nostra.
Forgif us ure synna, þæt us ne scamige eft,
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drihten ure, þonne þu on dome sitst
and ealle men up arisað
þe fram wife and fram were wurdon acænned.
Beoð þa gebrosnodon ban mid þam flæsce
ealle ansunde eft geworden;
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þar we swutollice siððan oncnawað
eal þæt we geworhton on worldrice,
betere and wyrse, þar beoð buta geara.
Ne magon we hit na dyrnan, for ðam þe hit drihten wat,
and þar gewitnesse beoð wuldormicele,
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heofonwaru and eorðwaru, helwaru þridde.
þonne bið egsa geond ealle world,
þar man us tyhhað on dæg twegen eardas,
drihtenes are oððe deofles þeowet,
swa hwaðer we geearniað her on life,
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þa hwile þe ure mihta mæste wæron.
Sicut et dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Ac þonne us alyseð lifigende god
sawle ure, swa we her forgifað
earmon mannum þe wið us agilt.
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Et ne nos inducas in temtationem.
And na us þu ne læt laðe beswican
on costunga, cwellan and bærnan
sawla ure, þeah we sinna fela
didon for ure disige dæges and nihtes,
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idele spræce and unrihte weorc,
þine bodu bræcon. We þe biddað nu,
ælmihtig god, are and gifnesse;
ne læt swa heanlice þin handgeweorc
on endedæge eal forwurðan,
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Set libera nos a malo.
ac alys us of yfele. Ealle we beþurfon
godes gifnesse; we agylt habbað
and swiðe gesingod. We ðe, soðfæstan god,
heriað and lofiað, swa þu, hælend, eart
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cynebearn gecydd cwycum and deadum,
æþele and ece ofer ealle þingc.
þu miht on anre hand eaðe befealdan
ealne middaneard. Swilc is mære cyningc.
Amen. - 135
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Sy swa þu silf wilt, soðfæst dema;
we þe, engla god, ealle heriað,
swa þu eart gewurðod a on worlda forð.
The Gloria I
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gloria.
Sy þe wuldor and lof wide geopenod
geond ealle þeoda, þanc and wylla,
mægen and mildse and ealles modes lufu,
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soðfæstra sib, and ðines sylfes dom
worulde gewlitegod, swa ðu wealdan miht
eall eorðan mægen and uplyfte,
wind and wolcna. Wealdest eall on riht.
Patri et filio et spiritui sancto. - 10
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þu eart frofra fæder and feorhhyrde,
lifes latteow, leohtes wealdend,
asyndrod fram synnum, swa ðin sunu mære
þurh clæne gecynd, cyning ofer ealle,
beald gebletsod, boca lareow,
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heah higefrofer and halig gast.
Sicut erat in principio. Swa wæs on fruman frea mancynnes
ealre worulde wlite and frofer,
clæne and cræftig. þu gecyddest þæt
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þa ðu, ece god, ana gewrohtest
þurh halige miht heofonas and eorðan,
eardas and uplyft and ealle þing.
þu settest on foldan swyðe feala cynna
and tosyndrodost hig syððon on mænego;
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þu gewrohtest, ece god, ealle gesceafta
on syx dagum, and on þone seofoðan þu gerestest.
þa wæs geforðad þin fægere weorc,
and ðu sunnandæg sylf halgodest
and gemærsodest hine manegum to helpe.
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þone heahan dæg healdað and freoðiaþ
ealle þa ðe cunnon cristene þeawas,
halige heortlufan and ðæs hehstan gebod;
on drihtnes namon se dæg is gewurðod.
Et nunc et semper. - 35
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And nu and symble þine soðan weorc
and ðin mycele miht manegum swytelað,
swa þine cræftas heo cyðaþ wide
ofer ealle woruld; ece standeþ
godes handgeweorc, groweð swa ðu hete.
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Ealle þe heriað halige dreamas
clænre stefne and cristene bec,
eall middaneard, and we men cweþað
on grunde her: "Gode lof and ðanc,
ece willa, and ðin agen dom!"
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Et is secula seculorum.
And on worulda woruld wunað and rixað
cyning innan wuldre and his þa gecorenan,
heahþrymnesse haliges gastes,
wlitige englas and wuldorgyfe,
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soðe sibbe, sawla þancung,
modes miltse. þær is seo mæste lufu;
haligdomes heofonas syndon
þurh þine ecan word æghwær fulle,
swa syndon þine mihta ofer middangeard
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swutele and gesyne, þæt ðu hy sylf worhtest.
Amen. We þæt soðlice secgað ealle:
þurh clæne gecynd þu eart cyning on riht,
clæne and cræftig. þu gecyddest þæt
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þa ðu, mihtig god, man geworhtest
and him on dydest oruð and sawul,
sealdest word and gewitt and wæstma gecynd,
cyddest þine cræftas. Swylc is Cristes miht!
The Lord's Prayer III
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Pater noster qui es in celis.
Fæder manncynnes, frofres ic þe bidde,
halig drihten, þu ðe on heofonum eart.
Sanctificetur nomen tuum. - 5
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þæt sy gehalgod, hygecræftum fæst,
þin nama nu ða, neriende Crist,
in urum ferhðlocan fæste gestaðelod.
Adueniat regnum tuum. Cume nu to mannum, mihta wealdend,
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þin rice to us, rihtwis dema,
and ðin geleafa in lifdæge
Fiat uolontas tua sicut in celo et in terra. on urum mode mære þurhwunige.
And þin willa mid us weorðe gelæsted
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on eardunge eorðan rices,
swa hluttor is in heofonwuldre,
wynnum gewlitegod a to worulde forð.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie. Syle us nu to dæge, drihten gumena,
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heofena heahcyning, hlaf urne,
þone ðu onsendest sawlum to hæle
on middaneard manna cynnes;
þæt is se clæna Crist, drihten god.
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Forgyf us, gumena weard, gyltas and synna,
and ure leahtras alet, lices wunda
and mandæda, swa we mildum wið ðe,
ælmihtigum gode, oft abylgeað,
Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. - 30
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swa swa we forlætað leahtras on eorþan
þam þe wið us oft agyltað,
and him womdæde witan ne þencað
for earnunge ecan lifes.
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Ne læd þu us to wite in wean sorge
ne in costunge, Crist nerigende,
þy læs we arlease ealra þinra mildsa
þurh feondscipe fremde weorðan.
Sed libera nos a malo. - 40
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And wið yfele gefreo us eac nu ða
feonda gehwylces; we in ferhðlocan,
þeoden engla, ðanc and wuldor,
soð sigedrihten, secgað georne,
þæs ðe þu us milde mihtum alysdest
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fram hæftnyde hellewites.
Amen. Weorðe þæt.
The Creed
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem.
ælmihtig fæder up on rodore,
þe ða sciran gesceaft sceope and worhtest
and eorðan wang ealne gesettest,
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ic þe ecne god ænne gecenne,
lustum gelyfe. þu eart lifes frea,
engla ordfruma, eorðan wealdend,
and ðu garsecges grundas geworhtest,
and þu ða menegu canst mærra tungla.
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Et in Iesum Christum filium eius unicum, dominum nostrum.
Ic on sunu þinne soðne gelyfe,
hælendne cyning, hider asendne
of ðam uplican engla rice,
þone Gabriel, godes ærendraca,
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sanctan Marian sylfre gebodode.
Ides unmæne, heo þæt ærende
onfeng freolice, and ðe fæder sylfne
under breostcofan bearn acende.
Næs ðær gefremmed firen æt giftum,
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ac þær halig gast handgyft sealde,
þære fæmnan bosm fylde mid blisse,
and heo cuðlice cende swa mærne
eorðbuendum engla scyppend,
se to frofre gewearð foldbuendum,
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and ymbe Bethleem bodedan englas
þæt acenned wæs Crist on eorðan.
Passus sub Pontio Pilato. ða se pontisca Pilatus weold
under Romwarum rices and doma,
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þa se deora frea deað þrowade,
on gealgan stah, gumena drihten,
þone geomormod Iosep byrigde,
and he of helle huðe gefette,
of þam suslhofe, sawla manega,
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het ða uplicne eþel secan.
Tertia die resurrexit a mortuis. þæs þy ðriddan dæge þeoda wealdend
aras, rices frea, recene of moldan,
and he XL daga folgeras sine
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runum arette, and ða his rice began,
þone uplican eðel secan,
cwæð þæt he nolde nænne forlætan
þe him forð ofer þæt fylian wolde
and mid fæstum sefan freode gelæstan.
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Credo in spiritum sanctum.
Ic haligne gast hihte beluce,
emne swa ecne swa is aðor gecweden,
fæder oððe freobearn, folca gereordum.
Ne synd þæt þreo godas, þriwa genemned,
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ac is an god, se ðe ealle hafað
þa þry naman þinga gerynum,
soð and sigefæst ofer side gesceaft,
wereda wuldorgyfa, wlanc and ece.
Sanctum ecclesiam catholicam. - 55
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Eac ic gelyfe þæt syn leofe gode
þe þurh ænne geþanc ealdor heriað,
heofona heahcyning her for life,
Sanctorum communionem. and ic gemænscipe mærne getreowe
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þinra haligra her for life.
Remissionem peccatorum. Lisse ic gelyfe leahtra gehwylces,
Carnis resurrectionem. and ic þone ærest ealra getreowe,
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flæsces on foldan on þa forhtan tid,
Et uitam eternam. þær ðu ece lif eallum dælest,
swa her manna gehwylc metode gecwemað.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 5
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Verba mea auribus percipe, domine; intellege clamorem meum.
Word þu min onfoh, wuldres ealdor,
and mid earum gehyr, ece drihten.
Intende uoci orationis mææ, rex meus et deus meus.
Ongyt mine clypunga cuðum gereorde,
beheald min gebed holdum mode;
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þu eart min cyning and eac ece god.
Quoniam ad te orabo: Domine, mane exaudies uocem meam.
Forðon ic to ðe, ece drihten,
soðum gebidde, and ðu symble gehyr
morgena gehwylce mine stefne.
Mane adstabo tibi et uidebo, quoniam nos deus uolens iniquitatem tu es.
Ic þe æt stande ær on morgen
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and ðe sylfne geseo; forðon ic to soðe wat
þæt ðu unriht ne wilt ænig, drihten.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 19
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Domine, saluum fac regem, et exaudi nos in die qui inuocauerimus te.
Do, drihten, cyng dædum halne,
and us eac gehyr holdum mode,
swylce we ðe daga, drihten, cigen.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 24
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Uias tuas, domine, notas fac mihi, et semitas tuas edoce me.
Do me wegas þine wise, drihten,
and me ðinra stiga stapas eac gelær.
Dirige me in ueritate tua, et doce me, quia tu es deus salutaris meus et te sustinui tota die.
Gerece me on ræde and me ricene gelær,
þæt ic on þinre soðfæstnysse simble lyfige.
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Reminiscrere miserationum tuarum, domine, et misericordiæ tuæ, quæ a seculo sunt.
Wes ðu gemyndig miltsa þinra,
þe ðu, drihten, dydest syððan dagas wæron,
and ðu wislice þas woruld gesettest.
Delicta iuuentutis meæ, et ignorantias meas ne memineris, domine; secundum magnam misericordiam tuam memor esto mei, deus.
Ne gemynega þu me minra fyrena
gramra to georne, þe ic geong dyde
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and me uncuðe æghwær wæron;
for ðinre þære myclan mildheortnysse
weorð gemyndig min, mihtig drihten.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 27
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Saluum fac populum tuum, domine, et benedic hereditati tuæ, et rege eos et extolle illos usque in aeternum.
Hal do þin folc, halig drihten,
and ðin yrfe eac eal gebletsa;
rece þu heo swylce and on riht ahefe,
þæt hi on worulde wynnum lifigen.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 32
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Fiat misericordia tua, domine, super nos, quemadmodum sperauimus in te.
Wese þin mildheortnys, mihtig drihten,
wel ofer us, swa we wenað on ðe.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 34
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Iudica, domine, nocentes me; expugna inpugnantes me.
Dem, drihten, nu þa me deredon ær,
afeoht swylce þa me fuhtan to.
Adprehende arma et scutum, et exsurge in adiutorium michi.
Gegrip gar and scyld, and me georne gestand
on fultume wið feonda gryre.
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Effunde frameam et conclude aduersus eos qui me persecuntur; dic anime mææ, Salus tua ego sum.
Heald me herewæpnum wið unholdum
and wige beluc wraðum feondum
þe min ehtend ealle syndon;
sæge þonne syððan sawle minre
þæt ðu hire on hæle hold gestode.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 40
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ego dixi, Domine, miserere mei; sana animam meam, quia peccaui tibi.
Ic nu mægene cweðe: "Miltsa me, drihten,
hæl mine sawle, forðon me hreoweð nu
þæt ic firene on ðe fremede geneahhige."
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 43
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Exsurge, domine, adiuua nos, et libera nos propter nomen tuum.
Aris, drihten, nu and us ricene do
fælne fultum, and us æt feondum ahrede,
forðon we naman þinne nyde lufiað.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 50
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Miserere mei, deus, secundam magnam misericordiam tuam.
Mildsa me, mihtig drihten, swa ðu manegum dydest,
æfter ðinre þære mycelan mildheortnysse.
Auerte faciem tuam a peccatis meis, et omnes iniquitates meas dele.
Awend þine ansyne a fram minum
fræcnum fyrenum, and nu forð heonon
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eall min unriht adwæsc æghwær symle.
Cor mundum crea in me, deus, et spiritum rectum innoua in uisceribus meis.
Syle me, halig god, heortan clæne,
and rihtne gast, god, geniwa
on minre gehigde huru, min drihten.
Ne proicias me a facie tua, et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.
Ne awyrp þu me, wuldres ealdor,
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fram ðinre ansyne æfre to feore,
ne huru on weg aber þone halgan gast,
þæt he me færinga fremde wyrðe.
Redde michi lætitiam salutaris tui, et spiritu principali confirma me.
Syle me þinre hælu holde blisse,
and me ealdorlice æþele gaste
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on ðinne willan getryme, weroda drihten.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 53
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Deus, in momine tuo saluum me fac, et in uirtute tua libera me.
On þinum þam halgan naman, gedo me halne, god;
alys me fram laðum þurh þin leofe mægen.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 58
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Eripe me de inimicis meis, deus meus, et ab insurgentibus in me libera me.
Ahrede me, halig god, hefiges niðes
feonda minra, þe me feohtað to;
alys me fram laðum þe me lungre on
risan willað, nymþe þu me ræd gife.
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Eripe me de operantibus iniquitatem, et de uiris sanguinum salua me.
Genere me fram niðe nahtfremmendra
þe her unrihtes ealle wyrceað,
and me wið blodhreowes weres bealuwe gehæle.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 60
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Sic psalmum dicam nomini tuo, deus, in seculum seculi, ut reddam uota mea de die in diem.
Swa ic naman þinum neode singe,
þæt ic min gehat her agylde
of dæge on dæg, swa hit gedefe wese.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 64
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Exaudi nos, deus salutaris noster, spes omnium finium terre et in mari longe.
Gehyr us, hælend god, þu eart hiht ealra
þe on ðisse eorðan utan syndon
oððe feor on sæ foldum wuniað.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 69
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Deus, in adiutorium meum intende; domine, ad adiuuandum me festina.
Wes, drihten god, deore fultum;
beheald, drihten, me, and me hraðe syððan
gefultuma æt feorhþearfe.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 70
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Repleatur os meum laude tua, ut possim cantare gloriam tuam, tota die magnificentiam tuam.
Sy min muð and min mod mægne gefylled,
þæt ic þin lof mæge lustum singan
and wuldor ðin wide mærsian
and ðe ealne dæg æghwær herian.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 79
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Domine deus uirtutum, conuerte nos et ostende faciem tuam, et salui erimus.
Gehweorf us, mægna god, and us milde æteow
þinne andwlitan; ealle we beoð hale.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 84
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Conuerte nos, deus salutaris noster, et auerte iram tuam a nobis.
Gehweorf us hraðe, hælend drihten,
and ðin yrre fram us eac oncyrre.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 87
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Et ego ad te, domine, clamaui, et mane oratio mea preueniet te.
Ic me to ðe, ece drihten,
mid modgehygde mægne clypode,
and min gebed morgena gehwylce
fore sylfne ðe soðfæst becume.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 89
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Conuertere, domine, aliquantulum, et deprecabilis esto super seruos tuos.
Gehweorf us hwæthwygu, halig drihten;
wes ðinum scealcum wel eaðbene.
Respice in seruos tuos et in opera tua, domine, et dirige filios eorum.
Geseoh þine scealcas swæsum eagum,
and on þin agen weorc, ece drihten,
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and heora bearn gerece bliðum mode.
Et sit splendor domini dei nostri super nos, et opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos, et opus manuum nostrarum dirige.
Wese us beorhtnys ofer bliðan drihtnes,
ures þæs godan godes georne ofer ealle;
gerece ure handgeweorc heah ofer usic.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 101
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Domine, exaudi orationem meam, et clamor meus ad te perueniat.
þu min gebed, mære drihten,
gehyr, heofones weard, and gehlyde min
to ðe becume, þeoda reccend.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 102
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Benedic, anima mea, domino, et omnia interiora mea nomen sanctum eius.
Bletsa, mine sawle, bliðe drihten,
and eall min inneran his þone ecan naman.
Benedic, anima mea, domino, et noli obliuisci omnes retributiones eius.
Bletsige, mine sawle, bealde drihten,
ne wilt ðu ofergeotul æfre weorðan
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ealra goda þe he ðe ær dyde.
Qui propitiatur omnibus iniquitatibus tuis, qui sanat omnes languores tuos.
He þinum mandædum miltsade eallum
and ðine adle ealle gehælde.
Qui redemit de interitu uitam tuam, qui sanat in bonis desiderium tuum.
Se alysde þin lif leof of forwyrde,
fylde þinne willan fægere mid gode.
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Qui coronat te in miseratione et misericordia; renouabitur sicut aquile iuuentus tua.
He ðe gesigefæste soðre mildse
and ðe mildheorte mode getrymede;
eart ðu edniwe earne gelicost
on geoguðe nu gleaw geworden.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 118
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Uiuet anima mea et laudabit te, et iudicia tua adiuuabunt me.
Leofað sawul min and ðe lustum hereð,
and me þine domas dædum fultumiað.
Erraui sicut ouis que perierat; require seruum tuum, domine, quia mandata tua non sum oblitus.
Ic gedwelede swa þæt dysige sceap,
þæt ðe forwurðan wolde huru;
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la, sec þinne esne elne, drihten,
forðon ic ðinra beboda ne forgeat beorhtra æfre.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 121
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Fiat pax in uirtute tua, et abundantia in turribus tuis.
Sy ðe on ðinum mægne sib mæst and fyrmest,
and on þinum torrum wese tidum genihtsum.
Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 139
Verse Indeterminate Saxon