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Christ and Satan

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 730 sections

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   up to eðle. þa com engla sweg,

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   dyne on dægred; hæfde drihten seolf

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   feond oferfohten. Wæs seo fæhðe þa gyt

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   open on uhtan, þa se egsa becom.

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   Let þa up faran eadige sawle,

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   Adames cyn, ac ne moste Efe þa gyt

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   wlitan in wuldre ær heo wordum cwæð:

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   "Ic þe æne abealh, ece drihten,

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   þa wit Adam twa eaples þigdon

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    þurh næddran nið, swa wit na ne sceoldon.

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    Gelærde unc se atola, se ðe æfre nu

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    beorneð on bendum, þæt wit blæd ahton,

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    haligne ham, heofon to gewalde.

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    þa wit ðæs awærgdan wordum gelyfdon,

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    namon mid handum on þam halgan treo

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    beorhte blæda; unc þæs bitere forgeald

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    þa wit in þis hate scræf hweorfan sceoldon,

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    and wintra rim wunian seoððan,

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    þusenda feolo, þearle onæled.

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    Nu ic þe halsige, heofenrices weard,

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    for þan hirede þe ðu hider læddest,

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    engla þreatas, þæt ic up heonon

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    mæge and mote mid minre mægðe.

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    And ymb þreo niht com þegen hælendes

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    ham to helle; is nu hæftum strong,

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    witum werig, swylce him wuldorcyning

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    for onmædlan eorre geworden.

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    Segdest us to soðe þætte seolfa god

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    wolde helwarum ham gelihtan.

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    Aras þa anra gehwylc, and wið earm gesæt,

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    hleonade wið handa. þeah hylle gryre

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    egeslic þuhte, wæron ealle þæs

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    fægen in firnum þæt freodrihten

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    wolde him to helpe helle gesecan."

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    Ræhte þa mid handum to heofencyninge,

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    bæd meotod miltse þurh Marian had:

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    "Hwæt, þu fram minre dohtor, drihten, onwoce

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    in middangeard mannum to helpe.

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    Nu is gesene þæt ðu eart sylfa god

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    and ece ordfruma ealra gesceafta."

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    Let þa up faran ece drihten;

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    wuldre hæfde wites clomma

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    feondum oðfæsted, and heo furðor sceaf

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    in þæt neowle genip, nearwe gebeged,

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    þær nu Satanus swearte þingað,

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    earm aglæca, and þa atolan mid him,

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    witum werige. Nalles wuldres leoht

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    habban moton, ah in helle grund,

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    ne hi edcerres æfre moton

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    wenan seoððan. Him wæs drihten god

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    wrað geworden, sealde him wites clom,

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    atole to æhte, and egsan gryre,

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    dimne and deorcne deaðes scuwan,

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    hatne helle grund, hinsiðgryre.

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    þæt, la, wæs fæger, þæt se feða com

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    up to earde, and se eca mid him,

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    meotod mancynnes in þa mæran burh!

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    Hofon hine mid him handum halige

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    witigan up to eðle, Abrahames cynn.

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    Hæfde þa drihten seolf deað oferwunnen,

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    feond geflemed; þæt in fyrndagum

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    witegan sædon þæt he swa wolde.

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    þis wæs on uhtan eall geworden,

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    ær dægrede, þæt se dyne becom,

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    hlud of heofonum, þa he helle duru

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    forbræc and forbegde; ban weornodon

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    þa hie swa leohtne leoman gesawon.

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    Gesæt þa mid þære fyrde frumbearn godes,

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    sæde soðcwidum: "Snotre gastas,

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    ic eow þurh mine mihte geworhte,

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    Adam ærest and þæt æðele wif.

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    þa hie begeton on godes willan

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    feowertig bearna, þæt forð þonon

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    on middangeard menio onwocon,

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    and wintra feola wunian moston,

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    eorlas on eðle, oððæt eft gelamp

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    þæt hie afyrde eft feond in firenum;

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    fah is æghwær.

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    Ic on neorxnawonge niwe asette

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    treow mid telgum, þæt ða tanas up

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    æpla bæron, and git æton þa

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    beorhtan blæda, swa inc se balewa het,

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    handþegen helle. Hæfdon forþon hatne grund,

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    þæs git ofergymdon hælendes word,

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    æten þa egsan. Wæs se atola beforan,

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    se inc bam forgeaf balewe geþohtas.

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    þa me gereaw þæt min handgeweorc

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    þæs carcernes clom ðrowade.

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    Næs ða monna gemet, ne mægen engla,

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    ne witegena weorc, ne wera snytero,

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    þæt eow mihte helpan, nimðe hælend god,

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    se þæt wite ær to wrece gesette.

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    Ferde to foldan þurh fæmnan had

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    ufan from eðle, and on eorþan gebad

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    tintregan fela and teonan micelne.

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    Me seredon ymb secgas monige

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    dæges and nihtes, hu heo me deaðes cwealm,

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    rices rædboran, hrefnan mihten.

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    þa wæs þæs mæles mearc agangen

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     þæt on worulde wæs wintra gerimes

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