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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 1,322 sections

1. 1000

   syððan andsware edre gehyrdon,

2. 1001

   æðelinges word. Heht he Elenan hæl

3. 1002

   abeodan beadurofre, gif hie brim nesen

4. 1003

   ond gesundne sið settan mosten,

5. 1004

   hæleð hwætmode, to þære halgan byrig.

6. 1005

   Heht hire þa aras eac gebeodan

7. 1006

   Constantinus þæt hio cirican þær

8. 1007

   on þam beorhhliðe begra rædum

9. 1008

   getimbrede, tempel dryhtnes

10. 1009

    on Caluarie Criste to willan,

11. 1010

    hæleðum to helpe, þær sio halige rod

12. 1011

    gemeted wæs, mærost beama

13. 1012

    þara þe gefrugnen foldbuende

14. 1013

    on eorðwege. Hio geefnde swa,

15. 1014

    siððan winemagas westan brohton

16. 1015

    ofer lagufæsten leofspell manig.

17. 1016

    ða seo cwen bebead cræftum getyde

18. 1017

    sundor asecean þa selestan,

19. 1018

    þa þe wrætlicost wyrcan cuðon

20. 1019

    stangefogum, on þam stedewange

21. 1020

    girwan godes tempel, swa hire gasta weard

22. 1021

    reord of roderum. Heo þa rode heht

23. 1022

    golde beweorcean ond gimcynnum,

24. 1023

    mid þam æðelestum eorcnanstanum

25. 1024

    besettan searocræftum ond þa in seolfren fæt

26. 1025

    locum belucan. þær þæt lifes treo,

27. 1026

    selest sigebeama, siððan wunode

28. 1027

    æðelum anbræce. þær bið a gearu

29. 1028

    wraðu wannhalum wita gehwylces,

30. 1029

    sæce ond sorge. Hie sona þær

31. 1030

    þurh þa halgan gesceaft helpe findaþ,

32. 1031

    godcunde gife. Swylce Iudas onfeng

33. 1032

    æfter fyrstmearce fulwihtes bæð,

34. 1033

    ond geclænsod wearð Criste getrywe,

35. 1034

    lifwearde leof. His geleafa wearð

36. 1035

    fæst on ferhðe, siððan frofre gast

37. 1036

    wic gewunode in þæs weres breostum,

38. 1037

    bylde to bote. He þæt betere geceas,

39. 1038

    wuldres wynne, ond þam wyrsan wiðsoc,

40. 1039

    deofulgildum, ond gedwolan fylde,

41. 1040

    unrihte æ. Him wearð ece rex,

42. 1041

    meotud milde, god, mihta wealdend.

43. 1042

    þa wæs gefulwad se ðe ær feala tida

44. 1043

    leoht gearu

45. 1044

    inbryrded breostsefa on þæt betere lif,

46. 1045

    gewended to wuldre. Huru, wyrd gescreaf

47. 1046

    þæt he swa geleaffull ond swa leof gode

48. 1047

    in worldrice weorðan sceolde,

49. 1048

    Criste gecweme. þæt gecyðed wearð,

50. 1049

    siððan Elene heht Eusebium

51. 1050

    on rædgeþeaht, Rome bisceop,

52. 1051

    gefetian on fultum, forðsnoterne,

53. 1052

    hæleða gerædum to þære halgan byrig,

54. 1053

    þæt he gesette on sacerdhad

55. 1054

    in Ierusalem Iudas þam folce

56. 1055

    to bisceope burgum on innan,

57. 1056

    þurh gastes gife to godes temple

58. 1057

    cræftum gecorene, ond hine Cyriacus

59. 1058

    þurh snyttro geþeaht syððan nemde

60. 1059

    niwan stefne. Nama wæs gecyrred

61. 1060

    beornes in burgum on þæt betere forð,

62. 1061

    æ hælendes. þa gen Elenan wæs

63. 1062

    mod gemynde ymb þa mæran wyrd,

64. 1063

    geneahhe for þam næglum þe ðæs nergendes

65. 1064

    fet þurhwodon ond his folme swa some,

66. 1065

    mid þam on rode wæs rodera wealdend

67. 1066

    gefæstnod, frea mihtig. Be ðam frignan ongan

68. 1067

    cristenra cwen, Cyriacus bæd

69. 1068

    þæt hire þa gina gastes mihtum

70. 1069

    ymb wundorwyrd willan gefylde,

71. 1070

    onwrige wuldorgifum, ond þæt word acwæð

72. 1071

    to þam bisceope, bald reordode:

73. 1072

    "þu me, eorla hleo, þone æðelan beam,

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    rode rodera cininges ryhte getæhtesð,

75. 1074

    on þa ahangen wæs hæðenum folmum

76. 1075

    gasta geocend, godes agen bearn,

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    nerigend fira. Mec þæra nægla gen

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    on fyrhðsefan fyrwet myngaþ.

79. 1078

    Wolde ic þæt ðu funde þa ðe in foldan gen

80. 1079

    deope bedolfen dierne sindon,

81. 1080

    heolstre behyded. A min hige sorgað,

82. 1081

    reonig reoteð, ond geresteð no

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    ærþan me gefylle fæder ælmihtig,

84. 1083

    wereda wealdend, willan minne,

85. 1084

    niða nergend, þurh þara nægla cyme,

86. 1085

    halig of hiehða. Nu ðu hrædlice

87. 1086

    eallum eaðmedum, ar selesta,

88. 1087

    þine bene onsend in ða beorhtan gesceaft,

89. 1088

    on wuldres wyn. Bide wigena þrym

90. 1089

    þæt þe gecyðe, cyning ælmihtig,

91. 1090

    hord under hrusan þæt gehyded gen,

92. 1091

    duguðum dyrne, deogol bideð."

93. 1092

    þa se halga ongan hyge staðolian,

94. 1093

    breostum onbryrded, bisceop þæs folces.

95. 1094

    Glædmod eode gumena þreate

96. 1095

    god hergendra, ond þa geornlice

97. 1096

    Cyriacus on Caluariæ

98. 1097

    hleor onhylde, hygerune ne mað,

99. 1098

    gastes mihtum to gode cleopode

100. 1099

     eallum eaðmedum, bæd him engla weard

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