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Solomon and Saturn

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 550 sections

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   Oðer bið unlæde on eorðan, oðer bið eadig,

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   swiðe leoftæle mid leoda duguðum;

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   oðer leofað lytle hwile,

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   swiceð on ðisse sidan gesceafte, and ðonne eft mid sorgum gewiteð.

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   Fricge ic ðec, hlaford Salomon, hwæðres bið hira folgoð betra?"

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   Salomon cuæð:

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   "Modor ne rædeð, ðonne heo magan cenneð,

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   hu him weorðe geond worold widsið sceapen.

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   Oft heo to bealwe bearn afedeð,

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    seolfre to sorge, siððan dreogeð

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    his earfoðu orlegstunde.

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    Heo ðæs afran sceall oft and gelome

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    grimme greotan, ðonne he geong færeð,

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    hafað wilde mod, werige heortan,

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    sefan sorgfullne, slideð geneahhe,

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    werig, wilna leas, wuldres bedæled,

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    hwilum higegeomor healle weardað,

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    leofað leodum feor; locað geneahhe

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    fram ðam unlædan agen hlaford.

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    Forðan nah seo modor geweald, ðonne heo magan cenneð,

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    bearnes blædes, ac sceall on gebyrd faran

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    an æfter anum; ðæt is eald gesceaft."

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    Saturnus cwæð:

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    "Ac forhwan nele monn him on giogoðe georne gewyrcan

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    deores dryhtscipes and dædfruman,

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    wadan on wisdom, winnan æfter snytro?"

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    Salomon cwæð:

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    "Hwæt! Him mæg eadig eorl eaðe geceosan

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    on his modsefan mildne hlaford,

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    anne æðeling. Ne mæg don unlæde swa."

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    Saturnus cwæð:

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    "Ac forhwam winneð ðis wæter geond woroldrice,

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    dreogeð deop gesceaft? Ne mot on dæg restan,

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    neahtes neðyð, cræfte tyð,

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    cristnað and clænsað cwicra manigo,

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    wuldre gewlitigað. Ic wihte ne cann

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    forhwan se stream ne mot stillan neahtes."

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    "his lifes fæðme. Simle hit bið his lareowum hyrsum;

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    full oft hit eac ðæs deofles dugoð gehnægeð,

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    ðær weotena bið worn gesamnod.

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    ðonne snottrum men snæd oððglideð,

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    ða he be leohte gesihð, luteð æfter,

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    gesegnað and gesyfleð and him sylf friteð.

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    Swilc bið seo an snæd æghwylcum men

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    selre micle, gif heo gesegnod bið,

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    to ðycgganne, gif he hit geðencan cann,

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    ðonne him sie seofon daga symbelgereordu.

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    Leoht hafað heow and had haliges gastes,

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    Cristes gecyndo; hit ðæt gecyðeð full oft.

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    Gif hit unwitan ænige hwile

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    healdað butan hæftum, hit ðurh hrof wædeð,

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    bryceð and bærneð boldgetimbru,

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    seomað steap and geap, stigeð on lenge,

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    clymmeð on gecyndo, cunnað hwænne mote

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    fyr on his frumsceaft on fæder geardas,

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    eft to his eðle, ðanon hit æror cuom.

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    Hit bið eallenga eorl to gesihðe,

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    ðam ðe gedælan can dryhtnes ðecelan,

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    forðon nis nænegu gecynd cuiclifigende,

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    ne fugel ne fisc ne foldan stan,

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    ne wæteres wylm ne wudutelga,

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    ne munt ne mor ne ðes middangeard,

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    ðæt he forð ne sie fyrenes cynnes."

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    Saturnus cwæð:

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    "Full oft ic frode menn fyrn gehyrde

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    secggan and swerian ymb sume wisan,

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    hwæðer wære twegra butan tweon strengra,

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    wyrd ðe warnung, ðonne hie winnað oft

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    mid hira ðreamedlan, hwæðerne aðreoteð ær.

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    Ic to soðon wat; sægdon me geara

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    Filistina witan, ðonne we on geflitum sæton,

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    bocum tobræddon and on bearm legdon,

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    meðelcwidas mengdon, moniges fengon,

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    ðæt nære nænig manna middangeardes

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    ðæt meahte ðara twega tuion aspyrian."

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    Salomon cwæð:

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    "Wyrd bið wended hearde, wealleð swiðe geneahhe;

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    heo wop weceð, heo wean hladeð,

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    heo gast scyð, heo ger byreð,

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    and hwæðre him mæg wissefa wyrda gehwylce

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    gemetigian, gif he bið modes gleaw

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    and to his freondum wile fultum secan,

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    ðeh hwæðre godcundes gæstes brucan."

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    Saturnus cwæð:

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    "Ac hwæt witeð us wyrd seo swiðe,

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    eallra fyrena fruma, fæhðo modor,

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    weana wyrtwela, wopes heafod,

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    frumscylda gehwæs fæder and modor,

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    deaðes dohtor? Ac tohwan drohtað heo mid us?

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    Hwæt! Hie wile lifigende late aðreotan,

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    ðæt heo ðurh fyrena geflitu fæhðo ne tydre."

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    Salomon cwæð:

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    "Nolde gæd geador in godes rice

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    eadiges engles and ðæs ofermodan;

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    oðer his dryhtne hierde, oðer him ongan wyrcan ðurh dierne cræftas

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    segn and side byrnan, cwæð ðæt he mid his gesiðum wolde

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    hiðan eall heofona rice and him ðonne on healfum sittan,

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    tydran him mid ðy teoðan dæle, oððæt he his tornes ne cuðe

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    ende ðurh insceafte. ða wearð se æðelra ðeoden

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     gedrefed ðurh ðæs deofles gehygdo; forlet hine ða of dune gehreosan,

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