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

1. 1100

   geopenigean uncuðe wyrd,

2. 1101

   niwan on nearwe, hwær he þara nægla swiðost

3. 1102

   on þam wangstede wenan þorfte.

4. 1103

   Leort ða tacen forð, þær hie to sægon,

5. 1104

   fæder, frofre gast, ðurh fyres bleo

6. 1105

   up eðigean þær þa æðelestan

7. 1106

   hæleða gerædum hydde wæron

8. 1107

   þurh nearusearwe, næglas on eorðan.

9. 1108

   ða cwom semninga sunnan beorhtra

10. 1109

    lacende lig. Leode gesawon

11. 1110

    hira willgifan wundor cyðan,

12. 1111

    ða ðær of heolstre, swylce heofonsteorran

13. 1112

    oððe goldgimmas, grunde getenge,

14. 1113

    næglas of nearwe neoðan scinende

15. 1114

    leohte lixton. Leode gefægon,

16. 1115

    weorud willhreðig, sægdon wuldor gode

17. 1116

    ealle anmode, þeah hie ær wæron

18. 1117

    þurh deofles spild in gedwolan lange,

19. 1118

    acyrred fram Criste. Hie cwædon þus:

20. 1119

    "Nu we seolfe geseoð sigores tacen,

21. 1120

    soðwundor godes, þeah we wiðsocun ær

22. 1121

    mid leasingum. Nu is in leoht cymen,

23. 1122

    onwrigen, wyrda bigang. Wuldor þæs age

24. 1123

    on heannesse heofonrices god!"

25. 1124

    ða wæs geblissod se ðe to bote gehwearf

26. 1125

    þurh bearn godes, bisceop þara leoda,

27. 1126

    niwan stefne. He þam næglum onfeng,

28. 1127

    egesan geaclod, ond þære arwyrðan

29. 1128

    cwene brohte. Hæfde Ciriacus

30. 1129

    eall gefylled, swa him seo æðele bebead,

31. 1130

    wifes willan. þa wæs wopes hring,

32. 1131

    hat heafodwylm ofer hleor goten,

33. 1132

    (nalles for torne tearas feollon

34. 1133

    ofer wira gespon), wuldres gefylled

35. 1134

    cwene willa. Heo on cneow sette

36. 1135

    leohte geleafan, lac weorðode,

37. 1136

    blissum hremig, þe hire brungen wæs

38. 1137

    gnyrna to geoce. Gode þancode,

39. 1138

    sigora dryhtne, þæs þe hio soð gecneow

40. 1139

    ondweardlice þæt wæs oft bodod

41. 1140

    feor ær beforan fram fruman worulde,

42. 1141

    folcum to frofre. Heo gefylled wæs

43. 1142

    wisdomes gife, ond þa wic beheold

44. 1143

    halig heofonlic gast, hreðer weardode,

45. 1144

    æðelne innoð, swa hie ælmihtig

46. 1145

    sigebearn godes sioððan freoðode.

47. 1146

    Ongan þa geornlice gastgerynum

48. 1147

    on sefan secean soðfæstnesse

49. 1148

    weg to wuldre. Huru, weroda god

50. 1149

    gefullæste, fæder on roderum,

51. 1150

    cining ælmihtig, þæt seo cwen begeat

52. 1151

    willan in worulde. Wæs se witedom

53. 1152

    þurh fyrnwitan beforan sungen

54. 1153

    eall æfter orde, swa hit eft gelamp

55. 1154

    ðinga gehwylces. þeodcwen ongan

56. 1155

    þurh gastes gife georne secan

57. 1156

    nearwe geneahhe, to hwan hio þa næglas selost

58. 1157

    ond deorlicost gedon meahte,

59. 1158

    dugoðum to hroðer, hwæt þæs wære dryhtnes willa.

60. 1159

    Heht ða gefetigean forðsnotterne

61. 1160

    ricene to rune, þone þe rædgeþeaht

62. 1161

    þurh gleawe miht georne cuðe,

63. 1162

    frodne on ferhðe, ond hine frignan ongan

64. 1163

    hwæt him þæs on sefan selost þuhte

65. 1164

    to gelæstenne, ond his lare geceas

66. 1165

    þurh þeodscipe. He hire þriste oncwæð:

67. 1166

    "þæt is gedafenlic þæt ðu dryhtnes word

68. 1167

    on hyge healde, halige rune,

69. 1168

    cwen seleste, ond þæs cininges bebod

70. 1169

    georne begange, nu þe god sealde

71. 1170

    sawle sigesped ond snyttro cræft,

72. 1171

    nerigend fira. þu ðas næglas hat

73. 1172

    þam æðelestan eorðcyninga

74. 1173

    burgagendra on his bridels don,

75. 1174

    meare to midlum. þæt manigum sceall

76. 1175

    geond middangeard mære weorðan,

77. 1176

    þonne æt sæcce mid þy oferswiðan mæge

78. 1177

    feonda gehwylcne, þonne fyrdhwate

79. 1178

    on twa healfe tohtan secaþ,

80. 1179

    sweordgeniðlan, þær hie ymb sige winnað,

81. 1180

    wrað wið wraðum. He ah æt wigge sped,

82. 1181

    sigor æt sæcce, ond sybbe gehwær,

83. 1182

    æt gefeohte frið, se ðe foran lædeð

84. 1183

    bridels on blancan, þonne beadurofe

85. 1184

    æt garþræce, guman gecoste,

86. 1185

    berað bord ond ord. þis bið beorna gehwam

87. 1186

    wið æglæce unoferswiðed

88. 1187

    wæpen æt wigge. Be ðam se witga sang,

89. 1188

    snottor searuþancum, (sefa deop gewod,

90. 1189

    wisdomes gewitt), he þæt word gecwæð:

91. 1190

    'Cuþ þæt gewyrðeð þæt þæs cyninges sceal

92. 1191

    mearh under modegum midlum geweorðod,

93. 1192

    bridelshringum. Bið þæt beacen gode

94. 1193

    halig nemned, ond se hwæteadig,

95. 1194

    wigge weorðod, se þæt wicg byrð.'"

96. 1195

    þa þæt ofstlice eall gelæste

97. 1196

    Elene for eorlum. æðelinges heht,

98. 1197

    beorna beaggifan, bridels frætwan,

99. 1198

    hire selfre suna sende to lace

100. 1199

     ofer geofenes stream gife unscynde.

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