Christ and Satan

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 730 sections

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þreo and þritig geara ær ic þrowode.
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Gemunde ic ðæs mænego on þam minnan ham
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lange þæs ðe ic of hæftum ham gelædde
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up to earde, þæt heo agan sceolon
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drihtnes domas and duguðe þrym;
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wuniað in wynnum, habbað wuldres blæd
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þusendmælum. Ic eow þingade
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þa me on beame beornas sticedon,
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garum on galgum. Heow se giunga þær,
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and ic eft up becom ece dreamas
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to haligum drihtne."
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Swa wuldres weard wordum sæde,
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meotod moncynnes ær on morgen
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þæs þe drihten god of deaðe aras.
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Næs nan þæs stronglic stan gefæstnod,
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þeah he wære mid irne eall ymbfangen,
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þæt mihte þam miclan mægne wiðhabban,
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ah he ut eode, engla drihten,
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on þæm fæstenne, and gefatian het
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englas eallbeorhte andleofan gingran,
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and huru secgan het Simon Petre
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þæt he moste in Galileam god sceawian,
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ecne and trumne, swa he ær dyde.
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þa ic gongan gefregn gingran ætsomne
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ealle to Galileam; hæfdon gastes bled,
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ongeton haligne godes sunu
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swa heo gesegon hwær sunu meotodes
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þa on upp gestod, ece drihten,
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god in Galileam. To ðæs gingran þider
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ealle urnon, þær se eca wæs.
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Feollon on foldan, and to fotum hnigon;
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þanceden þeodne þæt hit þus gelomp
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þæt hi sceawodon scyppend engla.
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þa sona spræc Simon Petrus:
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"Eart þu þis, drihten, dome gewurðad?
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We ðe gesawon æt sumum cyrre,
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þec gelegdon on laðne bend
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hæþene mid hondum; him þæt gehreowan mæg
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þonne heo endestæf eft gesceawiað."
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Sume hie ne mihton mode oncnawan
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þæt wæs se deora (Didimus wæs haten)
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ær he mid hondum hælend genom
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sylfne be sidan þær he his swat forlet;
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feollon to foldan fulwihtes bæðe.
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Fæger wæs þæt ongin þæt freodrihten
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geþrowode, þeoden ure.
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He on beame astah and his blod ageat,
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god on galgan, þurh his gastes mægen.
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Forþon men sceolon mæla gehwylce
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secgan drihtne þanc dædum and weorcum,
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þæs ðe he us of hæftum ham gelædde
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up to eðle, þær we agan sceolon
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drihtnes domas,
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and we in wynnum wunian moton.
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Us is wuldres leoht
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torht ontyned, þam ðe teala þenceð.
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þa wæs on eorðan ece drihten
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feowertig daga folgad folcum,
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gecyðed mancynne, ær he in þa mæran gesceaft,
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burhleoda fruma, bringan wolde
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haligne gast to heofonrice.
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Astah up on heofonum engla scyppend,
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weoroda waldend. þa com wolcna sweg,
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halig of heofonum. Mid wæs hond godes,
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onfeng freodrihten, and hine forð lædde
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to þam halgan ham heofna ealdor.
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Him ymbflugon engla þreatas
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þusendmælum. þa hit þus gelomp,
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þa gyt nergende Crist gecwæð þæt he þæs
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ymb tene niht twelf apostolas
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mid his gastes gife, gingran geswiðde.
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Hæfde þa gesette sawla unrim
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god lifigende. þa wæs Iudas of,
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se ðe ær on tifre torhtne gesalde,
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drihten hælend; him seo dæd ne geþeah,
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þæs he bebohte bearn wealdendes
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on seolfres sinc; him þæt swearte forgeald
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earm æglæca innon helle.
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Siteð nu on þa swiðran hond sunu his fæderes;
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dæleð dogra gehwæm drihten weoroda
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help and hælo hæleþa bearnum
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geond middangeard. þæt is monegum cuð
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þæt he ana is ealra gescefta
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wyrhta and waldend þurh his wuldres cræft.
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Siteð him on heofnum halig encgel,
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waldend mid witegum. Hafað wuldres bearn
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his seolfes seld swegl betolden.
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Leaðað us þider to leohte þurh his læcedom,
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þær we moton seolfe sittan mid drihtne,
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uppe mid englum, habban þæt ilce leoht,
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þær his hired nu halig eardað,
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wunað in wynnum, þær is wuldres bled
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torht ontyned. Uton teala hycgan
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þæt we hælende heran georne,
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Criste cweman. þær is cuðre lif
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þonne we on eorðan mægen æfre gestreonan.
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Hafað nu geþingod to us þeoden mæra,
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ælmihtig god,
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on domdæge drihten seolfa.
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Hateð hehenglas hluddre stefne

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