Andreas

ða wæs beacen boden burhsittendum.

Ahleopon hildfrome heriges brehtme

ond to weallgeatum wigend þrungon,

cene under cumblum, corðre mycle

to ðam orlege, ordum ond bordum.

þa worde cwæð weoroda dryhten,

meotud mihtum swið sægde his magoþegne:

"Scealt ðu, Andreas, ellen fremman!

Ne mið ðu for menigo, ah þinne modsefan

staðola wið strangum! Nis seo stund latu

þæt þe wælreowe witum belecgaþ,

cealdan clommum. Cyð þe sylfne,

herd hige þinne, heortan staðola,

þæt hie min on ðe mægen oncnawan.

Ne magon hie ond ne moton ofer mine est

þinne lichoman, lehtrum scyldige,

deaðe gedælan, ðeah ðu drype þolige,

mirce manslaga. Ic þe mid wunige."

æfter þam wordum com werod unmæte,

lyswe larsmeoðas, mid lindgecrode,

bolgenmode; bæron ut hræðe

ond þam halgan þær handa gebundon.

Siþþan geypped wæs æðelinga wynn,

ond hie andweardne eagum meahton

gesion sigerofne, þær wæs sec manig

on þam welwange wiges oflysted

leoda duguðe. Lyt sorgodon

hwylc him þæt edlean æfter wurde.

Heton þa lædan ofer landsceare,

ðragmælum teon, torngeniðlan,

swa hie hit frecnost findan meahton.

Drogon deormodne æfter dunscræfum,

ymb stanhleoðo, stærcedferþne,

efne swa wide swa wegas to lagon,

enta ærgeweorc, innan burgum,

stræte stanfage. Storm upp aras

æfter ceasterhofum, cirm unlytel

hæðnes heriges. Wæs þæs halgan lic

sarbennum soden, swate bestemed,

banhus abrocen. Blod yðum weoll,

hatan heolfre. Hæfde him on innan

ellen untweonde, wæs þæt æðele mod

asundrad fram synnum, þeah he sares swa feala

deopum dolgslegum dreogan sceolde.

Swa wæs ealne dæg oððæt æfen com

sigetorht swungen. Sar eft gewod

ymb þæs beornes breost, oðþæt beorht gewat

sunne swegeltorht to sete glidan.

Læddan þa leode laðne gewinnan

to carcerne. He wæs Criste swa þeah

leof on mode. Him wæs leoht sefa

halig heortan neh, hige untyddre.

þa se halga wæs under heolstorscuwan,

eorl ellenheard, ondlange niht

searoþancum beseted. Snaw eorðan band

wintergeworpum. Weder coledon

heardum hægelscurum, swylce hrim ond forst,

hare hildstapan, hæleða eðel

lucon, leoda gesetu. Land wæron freorig

cealdum cylegicelum, clang wæteres þrym

ofer eastreamas, is brycgade

blæce brimrade. Bliðheort wunode

eorl unforcuð, elnes gemyndig,

þrist ond þrohtheard in þreanedum

wintercealdan niht. No on gewitte blon,

acol for þy egesan, þæs þe he ær ongann,

þæt he a domlicost dryhten herede,

weorðade wordum, oððæt wuldres gim

heofontorht onhlad. ða com hæleða þreat

to ðære dimman ding, duguð unlytel,

wadan wælgifre weorodes brehtme.

Heton ut hræðe æðeling lædan

in wraðra geweald, wærfæstne hæleð.

ða wæs eft swa ær ondlangne dæg

swungen sarslegum. Swat yðum weoll

þurh bancofan, blodlifrum swealg,

hatan heolfre. Hra weorces ne sann,

wundum werig. þa cwom wopes hring

þurh þæs beornes breost, blat ut faran,

weoll waðuman stream, ond he worde cwæð:

"Geseoh nu, dryhten god, drohtað minne,

weoruda willgeofa! þu wæst ond const

anra gehwylces earfeðsiðas.

Ic gelyfe to ðe, min liffruma,

þæt ðu mildheort me for þinum mægenspedum,

nerigend fira, næfre wille,

ece ælmihtig, anforlætan,

swa ic þæt gefremme, þenden feorh leofað,

min on moldan, þæt ic, meotud, þinum

larum leofwendum lyt geswice.

þu eart gescyldend wið sceaðan wæpnum,

ece eadfruma, eallum þinum;

ne læt nu bysmrian banan manncynnes,

facnes frumbearn, þurh feondes cræft

leahtrum belecgan þa þin lof berað."

ða ðær ætywde se atola gast,

wrað wærloga. Wigend lærde

for þam heremægene helle dioful

awerged in witum, ond þæt word gecwæð:

"Sleað synnigne ofer seolfes muð,