Andreas

Hie ða anmode ealle cwædon:

"Nu is gesyne ðæt þe soð meotud,

cyning eallwihta, cræftum wealdeð,

se ðisne ar hider onsende

þeodum to helpe. Is nu þearf mycel

þæt we gumcystum georne hyran."

þa se halga ongann hæleð blissigean,

wigendra þreat wordum retan:

"Ne beoð ge to forhte, þeh þe fell curen

synnigra cynn. Swylt þrowode,

witu be gewyrhtum. Eow is wuldres leoht

torht ontyned, gif ge teala hycgað."

Sende þa his bene fore bearn godes,

bæd haligne helpe gefremman

gumena geogoðe, þe on geofene ær

þurh flodes fæðm feorh gesealdon,

ðæt þa gastas, gode orfeorme,

in wita forwyrd, wuldre bescyrede,

in feonda geweald gefered ne wurdan.

þa ðæt ærende ealwealdan gode

æfter hleoðorcwidum haliges gastes

wæs on þanc sprecen, ðeoda ræswan.

Het þa onsunde ealle arisan,

geonge of greote, þa ær geofon cwealde.

þa þær ofostlice upp astodon

manige on meðle, mine gefrege,

eaforan unweaxne, ða wæs eall eador

leoðolic ond gastlic, þeah hie lungre ær

þurh flodes fær feorh aleton.

Onfengon fulwihte ond freoðuwære,

wuldres wedde witum aspedde,

mundbyrd meotudes. þa se modiga het,

cyninges cræftiga, ciricean getimbran,

gerwan godes tempel, þær sio geogoð aras

þurh fæder fulwiht ond se flod onsprang.

þa gesamnodon secga þreate

weras geond þa winburg wide ond side,

eorlas anmode, ond hira idesa mid,

cwædon holdlice hyran woldon,

onfon fromlice fullwihtes bæð

dryhtne to willan, ond diofolgild,

ealde eolhstedas, anforlætan.

þa wæs mid þy folce fulwiht hæfen,

æðele mid eorlum, ond æ godes

riht aræred, ræd on lande

mid þam ceasterwarum, cirice gehalgod.

þær se ar godes anne gesette,

wisfæstne wer, wordes gleawne,

in þære beorhtan byrig bisceop þam leodum,

ond gehalgode fore þam heremægene

þurh apostolhad, Platan nemned,

þeodum on þearfe, ond þriste bebead

þæt hie his lare læston georne,

feorhræd fremedon. Sægde his fusne hige,

þæt he þa goldburg ofgifan wolde,

secga seledream ond sincgestreon,

beorht beagselu, ond him brimþisan

æt sæs faroðe secan wolde.

þæt wæs þam weorode weorc to geþoligenne,

þæt hie se leodfruma leng ne wolde

wihte gewunian. þa him wuldres god

on þam siðfæte sylfum ætywde,

ond þæt word gecwæð, weoruda dryhten:

"folc of firenum? Is him fus hyge

gað geomriende, geohðo mænað

weras wif samod. Hira wop becom,

murnende mod

fore sneowan.

Ne scealt ðu þæt eowde anforlætan

on swa niowan gefean, ah him naman minne

on ferðlocan fæste getimbre.

Wuna in þære winbyrig, wigendra hleo,

salu sinchroden, seofon nihta fyrst.

Syððan ðu mid mildse minre ferest."

þa eft gewat oðre siðe

modig, mægene rof, Marmedonia

ceastre secan. Cristenra weox

word ond wisdom, syððan wuldres þegn,

æþelcyninges ar, eagum sawon.

Lærde þa þa leode on geleafan weg,

trymede torhtlice, tireadigra

wenede to wuldre weorod unmæte,

to þam halgan ham heofona rices,

þær fæder ond sunu ond frofre gast

in þrinnesse þrymme wealdeð

in woruld worulda wuldorgestealda.

Swylce se halga herigeas þreade,

deofulgild todraf ond gedwolan fylde.

þæt wæs Satane sar to geþolienne,

mycel modes sorg, þæt he ða menigeo geseah

hweorfan higebliðe fram helltrafum

þurh Andreas este lare

to fægeran gefean, þær næfre feondes ne bið,

gastes gramhydiges, gang on lande.

þa wæron gefylde æfter frean dome

dagas on rime, swa him dryhten bebead,

þæt he þa wederburg wunian sceolde.

Ongan hine þa fysan ond to flote gyrwan,

blissum hremig, wolde on brimþisan

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