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   þa word cweþað, ond wuldriað

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   æþelne ordfruman ealra gesceafta:

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   "Halig eart þu, halig, heahengla brego,

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   soð sigores frea, simle þu bist halig,

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   dryhtna dryhten! A þin dom wunað

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   eorðlic mid ældum in ælce tid

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   wide geweorþad. þu eart weoroda god,

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   forþon þu gefyldest foldan ond rodoras,

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   wigendra hleo, wuldres þines,

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    helm alwihta. Sie þe in heannessum

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    ece hælo, ond in eorþan lof,

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    beorht mid beornum. þu gebletsad leofa,

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    þe in dryhtnes noman dugeþum cwome

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    heanum to hroþre. þe in heahþum sie

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    a butan ende ece herenis."

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    Eala hwæt, þæt is wræclic wrixl in wera life,

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    þætte moncynnes milde scyppend

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    onfeng æt fæmnan flæsc unwemme,

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    ond sio weres friga wiht ne cuþe,

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    ne þurh sæd ne cwom sigores agend

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    monnes ofer moldan; ac þæt wæs ma cræft

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    þonne hit eorðbuend ealle cuþan

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    þurh geryne, hu he, rodera þrim,

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    heofona heahfrea, helpe gefremede

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    monna cynne þurh his modor hrif.

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    Ond swa forðgongende folca nergend

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    his forgifnesse gumum to helpe

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    dæleð dogra gehwam, dryhten weoroda.

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    Forþon we hine domhwate dædum ond wordum

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    hergen holdlice. þæt is healic ræd

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    monna gehwylcum þe gemynd hafað,

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    þæt he symle oftost ond inlocast

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    ond geornlicost god weorþige.

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    He him þære lisse lean forgildeð,

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    se gehalgoda hælend sylfa,

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    efne in þam eðle þær he ær ne cwom,

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    in lifgendra londes wynne,

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    þær he gesælig siþþan eardað,

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    ealne widan feorh wunað butan ende. Amen.

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    Nu ðu geornlice gæstgerynum,

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    mon se mæra, modcræfte sec

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    þurh sefan snyttro, þæt þu soð wite

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    hu þæt geeode, þa se ælmihtiga

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    acenned wearð þurh clænne had,

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    siþþan he Marian, mægða weolman,

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    mærre meowlan, mundheals geceas,

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    þæt þær in hwitum hræglum gewerede

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    englas ne oðeowdun, þa se æþeling cwom,

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    beorn in Betlem. Bodan wæron gearwe

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    þa þurh hleoþorcwide hyrdum cyðdon,

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    sægdon soðne gefean, þætte sunu wære

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    in middangeard meotudes acenned,

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    in Betleme. Hwæþre in bocum ne cwið

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    þæt hy in hwitum þær hræglum oðywden

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    in þa æþelan tid, swa hie eft dydon

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    ða se brega mæra to Bethania,

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    þeoden þrymfæst, his þegna gedryht

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    gelaðade, leof weorud. Hy þæs lareowes

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    on þam wildæge word ne gehyrwdon,

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    hyra sincgiefan. Sona wæron gearwe,

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    hæleð mid hlaford, to þære halgan byrg,

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    þær him tacna fela tires brytta

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    onwrah, wuldres helm, wordgerynum,

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    ærþon up stige ancenned sunu,

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    efenece bearn, agnum fæder,

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    þæs ymb feowertig þe he of foldan ær

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    from deaðe aras, dagena rimes.

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    Hæfde þa gefylled, swa ær biforan sungon,

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    witgena word geond woruld innan

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    þurh his þrowinga. þegnas heredon,

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    lufedun leofwendum lifes agend,

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    fæder frumsceafta. He him fægre þæs

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    leofum gesiþum lean æfter geaf,

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    ond þæt word acwæð waldend engla,

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    gefysed, frea mihtig, to fæder rice:

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    "Gefeoð ge on ferððe! Næfre ic from hweorfe,

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    ac ic lufan symle læste wið eowic,

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    ond eow meaht giefe ond mid wunige,

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    awo to ealdre, þæt eow æfre ne bið

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    þurh gife mine godes onsien.

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    Farað nu geond ealne yrmenne grund,

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    geond widwegas, weoredum cyðað,

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    bodiað ond bremað beorhtne geleafan,

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    ond fulwiað folc under roderum.

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    Hweorfað to hæþnum, hergas breotaþ,

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    fyllað ond feogað, feondscype dwæscað,

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    sibbe sawað on sefan manna

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    þurh meahta sped. Ic eow mid wunige,

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    forð on frofre, ond eow friðe healde

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    strengðu staþolfæstre on stowa gehware."

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    ða wearð semninga sweg on lyfte

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    hlud gehyred. Heofonengla þreat,

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    weorud wlitescyne, wuldres aras,

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    cwomun on corðre. Cyning ure gewat

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    þurh þæs temples hrof þær hy to segun,

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    þa þe leofes þa gen last weardedun

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    on þam þingstede, þegnas gecorene.

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    Gesegon hi on heahþu hlaford stigan,

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    godbearn of grundum. Him wæs geomor sefa

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     hat æt heortan, hyge murnende,

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