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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 349 sections

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   Hi ða fromlice fagum swyrdum,

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   hæleð higerofe, herpað worhton

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   þurh laðra gemong, linde heowon,

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   scildburh scæron. Sceotend wæron

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   guðe gegremede, guman Ebrisce;

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   þegnas on ða tid þearle gelyste

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   gargewinnes. þær on greot gefeoll

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   se hyhsta dæl heafodgerimes

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   Assiria ealdorduguðe,

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    laðan cynnes. Lythwon becom

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    cwicera to cyððe. Cirdon cynerofe,

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    wiggend on wiðertrod, wælscel on innan,

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    reocende hræw. Rum wæs to nimanne

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    londbuendum on ðam laðestan,

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    hyra ealdfeondum unlyfigendum

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    heolfrig herereaf, hyrsta scyne,

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    bord ond bradswyrd, brune helmas,

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    dyre madmas. Hæfdon domlice

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    on ðam folcstede fynd oferwunnen

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    eðelweardas, ealdhettende

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    swyrdum aswefede. Hie on swaðe reston,

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    þa ðe him to life laðost wæron

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    cwicera cynna. þa seo cneoris eall,

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    mægða mærost, anes monðes fyrst,

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    wlanc, wundenlocc, wagon ond læddon

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    to ðære beorhtan byrig, Bethuliam,

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    helmas ond hupseax, hare byrnan,

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    guðsceorp gumena golde gefrætewod,

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    mærra madma þonne mon ænig

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    asecgan mæge searoþoncelra;

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    eal þæt ða ðeodguman þrymme geeodon,

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    cene under cumblum on compwige

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    þurh Iudithe gleawe lare,

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    mægð modigre. Hi to mede hyre

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    of ðam siðfate sylfre brohton,

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    eorlas æscrofe, Holofernes

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    sweord ond swatigne helm, swylce eac side byrnan

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    gerenode readum golde, ond eal þæt se rinca baldor

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    swiðmod sinces ahte oððe sundoryrfes,

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    beaga ond beorhtra maðma, hi þæt þære beorhtan idese

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    ageafon gearoþoncolre. Ealles ðæs Iudith sægde

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    wuldor weroda dryhtne, þe hyre weorðmynde geaf,

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    mærðe on moldan rice, swylce eac mede on heofonum,

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    sigorlean in swegles wuldre, þæs þe heo ahte soðne geleafan

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    to ðam ælmihtigan; huru æt þam ende ne tweode

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    þæs leanes þe heo lange gyrnde. ðæs sy ðam leofan drihtne

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    wuldor to widan aldre, þe gesceop wind ond lyfte,

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    roderas ond rume grundas, swylce eac reðe streamas

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    ond swegles dreamas, ðurh his sylfes miltse.

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