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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 2,936 sections

1. 800

   þæt wit unc wite warian sceolden,

2. 801

   hearma mæstne. Nu slit me hunger and þurst

3. 802

   bitre on breostum, þæs wit begra ær

4. 803

   wæron orsorge on ealle tid.

5. 804

   Hu sculon wit nu libban oððe on þys lande wesan,

6. 805

   gif her wind cymð, westan oððe eastan,

7. 806

   suðan oððe norðan? Gesweorc up færeð,

8. 807

   cymeð hægles scur hefone getenge,

9. 808

   færeð forst on gemang, se byð fyrnum ceald.

10. 809

    Hwilum of heofnum hate scineð,

11. 810

    blicð þeos beorhte sunne, and wit her baru standað,

12. 811

    unwered wædo. Nys unc wuht beforan

13. 812

    to scursceade, ne sceattes wiht

14. 813

    to mete gemearcod, ac unc is mihtig god,

15. 814

    waldend wraðmod. To hwon sculon wit weorðan nu?

16. 815

    Nu me mæg hreowan þæt ic bæd heofnes god,

17. 816

    waldend þone godan, þæt he þe her worhte to me

18. 817

    of liðum minum, nu þu me forlæred hæfst

19. 818

    on mines herran hete. Swa me nu hreowan mæg

20. 819

    æfre to aldre þæt ic þe minum eagum geseah."

21. 820

    ða spræc Eue eft, idesa scienost,

22. 821

    wifa wlitegost; hie wæs geweorc godes,

23. 822

    þeah heo þa on deofles cræft bedroren wurde:

24. 823

    "þu meaht hit me witan, wine min Adam,

25. 824

    wordum þinum; hit þe þeah wyrs ne mæg

26. 825

    on þinum hyge hreowan þonne hit me æt heortan deð."

27. 826

    Hire þa Adam andswarode:

28. 827

    "Gif ic waldendes willan cuðe,

29. 828

    hwæt ic his to hearmsceare habban sceolde,

30. 829

    ne gesawe þu no sniomor, þeah me on sæ wadan

31. 830

    hete heofones god heonone nu þa,

32. 831

    on flod faran, nære he firnum þæs deop,

33. 832

    merestream þæs micel, þæt his o min mod getweode,

34. 833

    ac ic to þam grunde genge, gif ic godes meahte

35. 834

    willan gewyrcean. Nis me on worulde niod

36. 835

    æniges þegnscipes, nu ic mines þeodnes hafa

37. 836

    hyldo forworhte, þæt ic hie habban ne mæg.

38. 837

    Ac wit þus baru ne magon bu tu ætsomne

39. 838

    wesan to wuhte. Uton gan on þysne weald innan,

40. 839

    on þisses holtes hleo." Hwurfon hie ba twa,

41. 840

    togengdon gnorngende on þone grenan weald,

42. 841

    sæton onsundran, bidan selfes gesceapu

43. 842

    heofoncyninges, þa hie þa habban ne moston

44. 843

    þe him ær forgeaf ælmihtig god.

45. 844

    þa hie heora lichoman leafum beþeahton,

46. 845

    weredon mid ðy wealde, wæda ne hæfdon;

47. 846

    ac hie on gebed feollon bu tu ætsomne

48. 847

    morgena gehwilce, bædon mihtigne

49. 848

    þæt hie ne forgeate god ælmihtig,

50. 849

    and him gewisade waldend se goda,

51. 850

    hu hie on þam leohte forð libban sceolden.

52. 851

    þa com feran frea ælmihtig

53. 852

    ofer midne dæg, mære þeoden,

54. 853

    on neorxnawang neode sine;

55. 854

    wolde neosian nergend usser,

56. 855

    bilwit fæder, hwæt his bearn dyde;

57. 856

    wiste forworhte þam he ær wlite sealde.

58. 857

    Gewitan him þa gangan geomermode

59. 858

    under beamsceade blæde bereafod,

60. 859

    hyddon hie on heolstre, þa hie halig word

61. 860

    drihtnes gehyrdon, and ondredon him.

62. 861

    þa sona ongann swegles aldor

63. 862

    weard ahsian woruldgesceafta,

64. 863

    het him recene to rice þeoden

65. 864

    his sunu gangan. Him þa sylfa oncwæð,

66. 865

    hean hleoðrade hrægles þearfa:

67. 866

    "Ic wreo me her wæda leasne,

68. 867

    liffrea min, leafum þecce.

69. 868

    Scyldfull mine sceaðen is me sare,

70. 869

    frecne on ferhðe; ne dear nu forð gan

71. 870

    for ðe andweardne. Ic eom eall eall nacod."

72. 871

    Him ða ædre god andswarede:

73. 872

    "Saga me þæt, sunu min, for hwon secest ðu

74. 873

    sceade sceomiende? þu sceonde æt me

75. 874

    furðum ne anfenge, ac gefean eallum.

76. 875

    For hwon wast þu wean and wrihst sceome,

77. 876

    gesyhst sorge, and þin sylf þecest

78. 877

    lic mid leafum, sagast lifceare

79. 878

    hean hygegeomor, þæt þe sie hrægles þearf,

80. 879

    nymþe ðu æppel ænne byrgde

81. 880

    of ðam wudubeame þe ic þe wordum forbead?"

82. 881

    Him þa Adam eft andswarode:

83. 882

    "Me ða blæda on hand bryd gesealde,

84. 883

    freolucu fæmne, freadrihten min,

85. 884

    ðe ic þe on teonan geþah. Nu ic þæs tacen wege

86. 885

    sweotol on me selfum. Wat ic sorga ðy ma."

87. 886

    ða ðæs Euan frægn ælmihtig god:

88. 887

    "Hwæt druge þu, dohtor, dugeþa genohra,

89. 888

    niwra gesceafta neorxnawanges,

90. 889

    growendra gifa, þa þu gitsiende

91. 890

    on beam gripe, blæda name

92. 891

    on treowes telgum, and me on teonan

93. 892

    æte þa unfreme, Adame sealdest

94. 893

    wæstme þa inc wæron wordum minum

95. 894

    fæste forbodene?" Him þa freolecu mæg,

96. 895

    ides æwiscmod andswarode:

97. 896

    "Me nædre beswac and me neodlice

98. 897

    to forsceape scyhte and to scyldfrece,

99. 898

    fah wyrm þurh fægir word, oðþæt ic fracoðlice

100. 899

     feondræs gefremede, fæhðe geworhte,

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