Solomon and Saturn

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 550 sections

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Saturnus cwæð:
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"Hwæt! Ic iglanda eallra hæbbe
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boca onbyrged þurh gebregdstafas,
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larcræftas onlocen Libia and Greca,
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swylce eac istoriam Indea rices.
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Me þa treahteras tala wisedon
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on þam micelan bec
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M... ...ces heardum.
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Swylce ic næfre on eallum þam fyrngewrytum findan ne mihte
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soðe samnode. Ic sohte þa git
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hwylc wære modes oððe mægenþrymmes,
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elnes oððe æhte oððe eorlscipes
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se gepalmtwigoda Pater Noster.
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Sille ic þe ealle, sunu Dauides,
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þeoden Israela, XXX punda
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smætes goldes and mine suna twelfe,
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gif þu mec gebringest þæt ic si gebryrded
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ðurh þæs cantices cwyde Cristes linan,
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gesemesð mec mid soðe, and ic mec gesund fare,
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wende mec on willan on wæteres hrigc
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ofer Coferflod Caldeas secan."
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Salomon cwæð:
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"Unlæde bið on eorþan, unnit lifes,
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wesðe wisdomes, weallað swa nieten,
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feldgongende feoh butan gewitte,
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se þurh ðone cantic ne can Crist geherian.
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Worað he windes full, worpað hine deofol
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on domdæge, draca egeslice,
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bismorlice, of blacere liðran
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irenum aplum; ealle beoð aweaxen
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of edwittes iða heafdum.
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þonne him bið leofre ðonne eall ðeos leohte gesceaft,
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gegoten fram ðam grunde goldes and seolfres,
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feðersceatum full feohgestreona,
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gif he æfre ðæs organes owiht cuðe.
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Fracoð he bið ðonne and fremede frean ælmihtigum,
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englum ungelic ana hwearfað."
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Saturnus cwæð:
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"Ac hwa mæg eaðost ealra gesceafta
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ða halgan duru heofona rices
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torhte ontynan on getælrime?"
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Salomon cwæð:
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"ðæt gepalmtwigede Pater Noster
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heofonas ontyneð, halige geblissað,
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metod gemiltsað, morðor gefylleð,
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adwæsceð deofles fyr, dryhtnes onæleð.
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Swylce ðu miht mid ðy beorhtan gebede blod onhætan,
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ðæs deofles dreor, þæt him dropan stigað,
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swate geswiðed, seofan intingum,
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egesfullicran ðonne seo ærene gripu,
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ðonne heo for XII fyra tydernessum
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ofer gleda gripe gifrust wealleð.
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Forðon hafað se cantic ofer ealle Cristes bec
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widmærost word; he gewritu læreð,
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stefnum steoreð, and him stede healdeð
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heofona rices, heregeatewa wigeð."
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Saturnus cwæð:
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"Ac hulic is se organ ingemyndum
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to begonganne ðam ðe his gast wile
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meltan wið morðre, mergan of sorge,
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asceadan of scyldum? Huru him scippend geaf
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wuldorlicne wlite. Mec ðæs on worolde full oft
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fyrwit frineð, fus gewiteð,
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mod gemengeð. Nænig manna wat,
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hæleða under hefenum, hu min hige dreoseð,
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bysig æfter bocum; hwilum me bryne stigeð,
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hige heortan neah hædre wealleð."
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Salomon cwæð:
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"Gylden is se godes cwide, gimmum astæned,
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hafað sylfren leaf; sundor mæg æghwylc
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ðurh gastes gife godspel secgan.
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He bið seofan snytro and saule hunig
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and modes meolc, mærþa gesælgost.
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He mæg ða saule of siennihte
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gefeccan under foldan, næfre hie se feond to ðæs niðer
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feterum gefæstnað; ðeah he hie mid fiftigum
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clusum beclemme, he ðone cræft briceð
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and ða orðancas ealle tosliteð.
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Hungor he ahieðeð, helle gestrudeð,
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wylm toweorpeð, wuldor getimbreð.
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He is modigra middangearde,
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staðole strengra ðonne ealra stana gripe.
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Lamena he is læce, leoht wincendra,
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swilce he is deafra duru, dumbra tunge,
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scyldigra scyld, scyppendes seld,
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flodes ferigend, folces nerigend,
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yða yrfeweard, earmra fisca
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and wyrma welm, wildeora holt,
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on westenne weard, weorðmynta geard.
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And se ðe wile geornlice ðone godes cwide
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singan soðlice, and hine siemle wile
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lufian butan leahtrum, he mæg ðone laðan gæst,
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feohtende feond, fleonde gebrengan,
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gif ðu him ærest on ufan ierne gebrengest
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prologa prima, ðam is ᛈ P nama.
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Hafað guðmæcga gierde lange,
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gyldene gade, and a ðone grymman feond
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swiðmod sweopað, and him on swaðe fylgeð
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ᚪ A ofermægene and hine eac ofslihð.
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ᛏ T hine teswað and hine on ða tungan sticað,

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