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

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   þæt he be ðære rode riht getæhte

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   þe ær in legere wæs lange bedyrned,

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   ond hine seolfne sundor acigde.

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   Elene maþelode to þam anhagan,

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   tireadig cwen: "þe synt tu gearu,

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   swa lif swa deað, swa þe leofre bið

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   to geceosanne. Cyð ricene nu

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   hwæt ðu þæs to þinge þafian wille."

9. 608

   Iudas hire ongen þingode (ne meahte he þa gehðu bebugan,

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    oncyrran rex geniðlan; he wæs on þære cwene gewealdum):

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    "Hu mæg þæm geweorðan þe on westenne

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    meðe ond meteleas morland trydeð,

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    hungre gehæfted, ond him hlaf ond stan

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    on gesihðe bu samod geweorðað,

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    streac ond hnesce, þæt he þone stan nime

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    wið hungres hleo, hlafes ne gime,

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    gewende to wædle, ond þa wiste wiðsæce,

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    beteran wiðhyccge, þonne he bega beneah?"

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    Him þa seo eadige ondwyrde ageaf

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    Elene for eorlum undearnunga:

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    "Gif ðu in heofonrice habban wille

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    eard mid englum ond on eorðan lif,

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    sigorlean in swegle, saga ricene me

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    hwær seo rod wunige radorcyninges,

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    halig under hrusan, þe ge hwile nu

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    þurh morðres man mannum dyrndun."

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    Iudas maðelade, (him wæs geomor sefa,

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    hat æt heortan, ond gehwæðres wa,

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    ge he heofonrices hyht swa mode

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    ond þis ondwearde anforlete,

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    rice under roderum, ge he ða rode ne tæhte):

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    "Hu mæg ic þæt findan þæt swa fyrn gewearð

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    wintra gangum? Is nu worn sceacen,

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    CC oððe ma geteled rime.

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    Ic ne mæg areccan, nu ic þæt rim ne can.

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    Is nu feala siðþan forðgewitenra

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    frodra ond godra þe us fore wæron,

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    gleawra gumena. Ic on geogoðe wearð

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    on siðdagum syððan acenned,

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    cnihtgeong hæleð. Ic ne can þæt ic nat,

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    findan on fyrhðe þæt swa fyrn gewearð."

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    Elene maðelade him on ondsware:

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    "Hu is þæt geworden on þysse werþeode

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    þæt ge swa monigfeald on gemynd witon,

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    alra tacna gehwylc swa Troiana

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    þurh gefeoht fremedon? þæt wæs fyr mycle,

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    open ealdgewin, þonne þeos æðele gewyrd,

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    geara gongum. Ge þæt geare cunnon

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    edre gereccan, hwæt þær eallra wæs

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    on manrime morðorslehtes,

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    dareðlacendra deadra gefeallen

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    under bordhagan. Ge þa byrgenna

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    under stanhleoðum, ond þa stowe swa some,

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    ond þa wintergerim on gewritu setton."

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    Iudas maðelade, gnornsorge wæg:

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    "We þæs hereweorces, hlæfdige min,

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    for nydþearfe nean myndgiaþ,

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    ond þa wiggþræce on gewritu setton,

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    þeoda gebæru, ond þis næfre

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    þurh æniges mannes muð gehyrdon

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    hæleðum cyðan, butan her nu ða."

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    Him seo æðele cwen ageaf ondsware:

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    "Wiðsæcest ðu to swiðe soðe ond rihte

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    ymb þæt lifes treow, ond nu lytle ær

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    sægdest soðlice be þam sigebeame

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    leodum þinum, ond nu on lige cyrrest."

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    Iudas hire ongen þingode, cwæð þæt he þæt on gehðu gespræce

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    ond on tweon swiðost, wende him trage hnagre.

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    Him oncwæð hraðe caseres mæg:

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    "Hwæt, we ðæt hyrdon þurh halige bec

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    hæleðum cyðan þæt ahangen wæs

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    on Caluarie cyninges freobearn,

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    godes gastsunu. þu scealt geagninga

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    wisdom onwreon, swa gewritu secgaþ,

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    æfter stedewange hwær seo stow sie

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    Caluarie, ær þec cwealm nime,

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    swilt for synnum, þæt ic hie syððan mæge

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    geclænsian Criste to willan,

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    hæleðum to helpe, þæt me halig god

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    gefylle, frea mihtig, feores ingeþanc,

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    weoruda wuldorgeofa, willan minne,

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    gasta geocend." Hire Iudas oncwæð

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    stiðhycgende: "Ic þa stowe ne can,

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    ne þæs wanges wiht ne þa wisan cann."

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    Elene maðelode þurh eorne hyge:

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    "Ic þæt geswerige þurh sunu meotodes,

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    þone ahangnan god, þæt ðu hungre scealt

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    for cneomagum cwylmed weorðan,

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    butan þu forlæte þa leasunga

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    ond me sweotollice soð gecyðe."

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    Heht þa swa cwicne corðre lædan,

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    scufan scyldigne (scealcas ne gældon)

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    in drygne seað, þær he duguða leas

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    siomode in sorgum VII nihta fyrst

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    under hearmlocan hungre geþreatod,

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    clommum beclungen, ond þa cleopigan ongan

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    sarum besylced on þone seofeðan dæg,

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    meðe ond meteleas, (mægen wæs geswiðrod):

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    "Ic eow healsie þurh heofona god

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     þæt ge me of ðyssum earfeðum up forlæten,

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