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Solomon and Saturn

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 550 sections

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   wræsteð him ðæt woddor and him ða wongan brieceð.

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   ᛖ E hiene yflað, swa he a wile

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   ealra feonda gehwane fæste gestondan.

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   ðonne hiene on unðanc ᚱ R ieorrenga geseceð,

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   bocstafa brego, bregdeð sona

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   feond be ðam feaxe, læteð flint brecan

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   scines sconcan; he ne besceawað no

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   his leomona lið, ne bið him læce god.

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   Wendeð he hiene ðonne under wolcnum, wigsteall seceð,

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    heolstre behelmed. Huru him bið æt heartan wa,

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    ðonne he hangiende helle wisceð,

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    ðæs ængestan eðelrices.

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    ðonne hine forcinnað ða cirican getuinnas,

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    ᚾ N and ᚩ O samod æghwæðer brengeð

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    sweopan of siðe; sargiað hwile

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    fremdne flæschoman, feorh ne bemurnað.

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    ðonne ᛋ S cymeð, engla geræswa,

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    wuldores stæf, wraðne gegripeð

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    feond be ðam fotum, læteð foreweard hleor

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    on strangne stan, stregdað toðas

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    geond helle heap. Hydeð hine æghwylc

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    æfter sceades sciman; sceaða bið gebisigod,

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    Satanes ðegn swiðe gestilled.

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    Swilce hiene ᛢ Q and ᚢ V cwealme gehnægað,

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    frome folctogan, farað him togegnes,

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    habbað leoht speru, lange sceaftas,

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    swiðmode sweopan, swenga ne wyrnað,

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    deorra dynta; him bið ðæt deofol lað.

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    ðonne hine I and ᛚ L and se yrra ᚳ C

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    guðe begyrdað (geap stæf wigeð

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    biterne brogan), bigað sona

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    helle hæftling, ðæt he on hinder gæð.

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    ðonne hiene ᛇ F and ᛗ M utan ymbðringað,

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    scyldigne sceaðan, habbað scearp speru,

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    atole earhfare, æled lætað

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    on ðæs feondes feax flana stregdan,

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    biterne brogan; banan heardlice

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    grimme ongieldað, ðæs hie oft gilp brecað.

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    ðonne hine æt niehstan nearwe stilleð

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    ᛄ G se geapa, ðone god sendeð

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    freondum on fultum, færeð æfter ᛞ D

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    fifmægnum full. Fyr bið se ðridda

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    stæf stræte neah, stille bideð.

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    ᚻ H onetteð, engel hine scierpeð,

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    Cristes cempan, on cwicum wædum

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    godes spyrigendes geonges hrægles.

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    ðonne hine on lyfte lifgetwinnan

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    under tungla getrumum tuigena ordum,

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    sweopum seolfrynum, swiðe weallað,

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    oððæt him ban blicað, bledað ædran;

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    gartorn geotað gifrum deofle.

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    Mæg simle se godes cwide gumena gehwylcum

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    ealra feonda gehwane fleondne gebrengan

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    ðurh mannes muð, manfulra heap

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    sweartne geswencan, næfre hie ðæs syllice

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    bleoum bregdað. æfter bancofan

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    feðerhoman onfoð, hwilum flotan gripað;

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    hwilum hie gewendað in wyrmes lic

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    stronges and sticoles, stingeð nieten,

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    feldgongende feoh gestrudeð.

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    Hwilum he on wætere wicg gehnægeð,

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    hornum geheaweð, oððæt him heortan blod,

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    famig flodes bæð, foldan geseceð.

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    Hwilum he gefeterað fæges mannes,

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    handa gehefegað, ðonne he æt hilde sceall

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    wið lað werud lifes tiligan;

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    awriteð he on his wæpne wællnota heap,

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    bealwe bocstafas, bill forscrifeð,

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    meces mærðo. Forðon nænig man scile

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    oft orðances ut abredan

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    wæpnes ecgge, ðeah ðe him se wlite cweme,

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    ac symle he sceal singan, ðonne he his sweord geteo,

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    Pater Noster, and ðæt palmtreow

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    biddan mid blisse, ðæt him bu gife

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    feorh and folme, ðonne his feond cyme."

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    "...... swice, ær he soð wite,

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    ðæt ða sienfullan saula sticien

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    mid hettendum helle tomiddes.

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    Hateð ðonne heahcining helle betynan,

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    fyres fulle, and ða feondas mid."

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    Hæfde ða se snotra sunu Dauides

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    forcumen and forcyðed Caldea eorl.

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    Hwæðre was on sælum se ðe of siðe cwom

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    feorran gefered; næfre ær his ferhð ahlog.

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    Hwæt! Ic flitan gefrægn on fyrndagum

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    modgleawe men, middangeardes ræswan,

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    gewesan ymbe hira wisdom; wyrs deð se ðe liehð

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    oððe ðæs soðes ansæceð. Saloman was bremra,

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    ðeah ðe Saturnus sumra hæfde,

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    bald breosttoga, boca cæga,

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    leornenga locan. land eall geondhwearf,

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    Indea mere, east Corsias,

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    Persea rice, Palestinion,

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    Niniuen ceastre and norð Predan,

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    Meda maððumselas, Marculfes eard,

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    Saulus rice, swa he suð ligeð

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    ymbe Geallboe and ymb Geador norð,

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    Filistina flet, fæsten Creca,

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    wudu Egipta, wæter Mathea,

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     cludas Coreffes, Caldea rice,

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