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The Creed

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 59 sections

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   Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem. ælmihtig fæder up on rodore,

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   þe ða sciran gesceaft sceope and worhtest

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   and eorðan wang ealne gesettest,

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   ic þe ecne god ænne gecenne,

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   lustum gelyfe. þu eart lifes frea,

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   engla ordfruma, eorðan wealdend,

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   and ðu garsecges grundas geworhtest,

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   and þu ða menegu canst mærra tungla.

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   Et in Iesum Christum filium eius unicum, dominum nostrum. Ic on sunu þinne soðne gelyfe,

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    hælendne cyning, hider asendne

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    of ðam uplican engla rice,

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    þone Gabriel, godes ærendraca,

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    sanctan Marian sylfre gebodode.

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    Ides unmæne, heo þæt ærende

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    onfeng freolice, and ðe fæder sylfne

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    under breostcofan bearn acende.

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    Næs ðær gefremmed firen æt giftum,

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    ac þær halig gast handgyft sealde,

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    þære fæmnan bosm fylde mid blisse,

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    and heo cuðlice cende swa mærne

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    eorðbuendum engla scyppend,

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    se to frofre gewearð foldbuendum,

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    and ymbe Bethleem bodedan englas

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    þæt acenned wæs Crist on eorðan.

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    Passus sub Pontio Pilato. ða se pontisca Pilatus weold

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    under Romwarum rices and doma,

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    þa se deora frea deað þrowade,

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    on gealgan stah, gumena drihten,

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    þone geomormod Iosep byrigde,

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    and he of helle huðe gefette,

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    of þam suslhofe, sawla manega,

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    het ða uplicne eþel secan.

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    Tertia die resurrexit a mortuis. þæs þy ðriddan dæge þeoda wealdend

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    aras, rices frea, recene of moldan,

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    and he XL daga folgeras sine

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    runum arette, and ða his rice began,

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    þone uplican eðel secan,

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    cwæð þæt he nolde nænne forlætan

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    þe him forð ofer þæt fylian wolde

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    and mid fæstum sefan freode gelæstan.

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    Credo in spiritum sanctum. Ic haligne gast hihte beluce,

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    emne swa ecne swa is aðor gecweden,

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    fæder oððe freobearn, folca gereordum.

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    Ne synd þæt þreo godas, þriwa genemned,

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    ac is an god, se ðe ealle hafað

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    þa þry naman þinga gerynum,

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    soð and sigefæst ofer side gesceaft,

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    wereda wuldorgyfa, wlanc and ece.

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    Sanctum ecclesiam catholicam.

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    Eac ic gelyfe þæt syn leofe gode

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    þe þurh ænne geþanc ealdor heriað,

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    heofona heahcyning her for life,

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    Sanctorum communionem. and ic gemænscipe mærne getreowe

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    þinra haligra her for life.

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    Remissionem peccatorum. Lisse ic gelyfe leahtra gehwylces,

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    Carnis resurrectionem. and ic þone ærest ealra getreowe,

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    flæsces on foldan on þa forhtan tid,

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    Et uitam eternam. þær ðu ece lif eallum dælest,

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    swa her manna gehwylc metode gecwemað.

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