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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 349 sections

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   listum alede, laðne mannan,

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   swa heo ðæs unlædan eaðost mihte

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   wel gewealdan. Sloh ða wundenlocc

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   þone feondsceaðan fagum mece,

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   heteþoncolne, þæt heo healfne forcearf

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   þone sweoran him, þæt he on swiman læg,

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   druncen ond dolhwund. Næs ða dead þa gyt,

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   ealles orsawle; sloh ða eornoste

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   ides ellenrof oðre siðe

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    þone hæðenan hund, þæt him þæt heafod wand

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    forð on ða flore. Læg se fula leap

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    gesne beæftan, gæst ellor hwearf

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    under neowelne næs ond ðær genyðerad wæs,

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    susle gesæled syððan æfre,

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    wyrmum bewunden, witum gebunden,

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    hearde gehæfted in hellebryne

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    æfter hinsiðe. Ne ðearf he hopian no,

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    þystrum forðylmed, þæt he ðonan mote

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    of ðam wyrmsele, ac ðær wunian sceal

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    awa to aldre butan ende forð

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    in ðam heolstran ham, hyhtwynna leas.

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    Hæfde ða gefohten foremærne blæd

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    Iudith æt guðe, swa hyre god uðe,

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    swegles ealdor, þe hyre sigores onleah.

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    þa seo snotere mægð snude gebrohte

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    þæs herewæðan heafod swa blodig

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    on ðam fætelse þe hyre foregenga,

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    blachleor ides, hyra begea nest,

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    ðeawum geðungen, þyder on lædde,

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    ond hit þa swa heolfrig hyre on hond ageaf,

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    higeðoncolre, ham to berenne,

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    Iudith gingran sinre. Eodon ða gegnum þanonne

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    þa idesa ba ellenþriste,

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    oðþæt hie becomon, collenferhðe,

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    eadhreðige mægð, ut of ðam herige,

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    þæt hie sweotollice geseon mihten

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    þære wlitegan byrig weallas blican,

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    Bethuliam. Hie ða beahhrodene

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    feðelaste forð onettan,

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    oð hie glædmode gegan hæfdon

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    to ðam wealgate. Wiggend sæton,

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    weras wæccende wearde heoldon

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    in ðam fæstenne, swa ðam folce ær

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    geomormodum Iudith bebead,

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    searoðoncol mægð, þa heo on sið gewat,

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    ides ellenrof. Wæs ða eft cumen

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    leof to leodum, ond ða lungre het

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    gleawhydig wif gumena sumne

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    of ðære ginnan byrig hyre togeanes gan,

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    ond hi ofostlice in forleton

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    þurh ðæs wealles geat, ond þæt word acwæð

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    to ðam sigefolce: "Ic eow secgan mæg

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    þoncwyrðe þing, þæt ge ne þyrfen leng

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    murnan on mode. Eow ys metod bliðe,

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    cyninga wuldor; þæt gecyðed wearð

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    geond woruld wide, þæt eow ys wuldorblæd

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    torhtlic toweard ond tir gifeðe

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    þara læðða þe ge lange drugon."

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    þa wurdon bliðe burhsittende,

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    syððan hi gehyrdon hu seo halige spræc

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    ofer heanne weall. Here wæs on lustum.

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    Wið þæs fæstengeates folc onette,

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    weras wif somod, wornum ond heapum,

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    ðreatum ond ðrymmum þrungon ond urnon

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    ongean ða þeodnes mægð þusendmælum,

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    ealde ge geonge. æghwylcum wearð

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    men on ðære medobyrig mod areted,

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    syððan hie ongeaton þæt wæs Iudith cumen

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    eft to eðle, ond ða ofostlice

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    hie mid eaðmedum in forleton.

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    þa seo gleawe het, golde gefrætewod,

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    hyre ðinenne þancolmode

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    þæs herewæðan heafod onwriðan

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    ond hyt to behðe blodig ætywan

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    þam burhleodum, hu hyre æt beaduwe gespeow.

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    Spræc ða seo æðele to eallum þam folce:

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    "Her ge magon sweotole, sigerofe hæleð,

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    leoda ræswan, on ðæs laðestan

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    hæðenes heaðorinces heafod starian,

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    Holofernus unlyfigendes,

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    þe us monna mæst morðra gefremede,

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    sarra sorga, ond þæt swyðor gyt

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    ycan wolde, ac him ne uðe god

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    lengran lifes, þæt he mid læððum us

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    eglan moste; ic him ealdor oðþrong

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    þurh godes fultum. Nu ic gumena gehwæne

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    þyssa burgleoda biddan wylle,

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    randwiggendra, þæt ge recene eow

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    fysan to gefeohte. Syððan frymða god,

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    arfæst cyning, eastan sende

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    leohtne leoman, berað linde forð,

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    bord for breostum ond byrnhomas,

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    scire helmas in sceaðena gemong,

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    fyllan folctogan fagum sweordum,

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    fæge frumgaras. Fynd syndon eowere

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    gedemed to deaðe, ond ge dom agon,

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    tir æt tohtan, swa eow getacnod hafað

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    mihtig dryhten þurh mine hand."

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    þa wearð snelra werod snude gegearewod,

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     cenra to campe. Stopon cynerofe

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