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The Fates of the Apostles

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 123 sections

1. 100

   ᚢ on eðle, æfter tohreosan

2. 101

   læne lices frætewa, efne swa ᛚ toglideð.

3. 102

   þonne ᚳ ond ᚣ cræftes neosað

4. 103

   nihtes nearowe, on him ᚾ ligeð,

5. 104

   cyninges þeodom. Nu ðu cunnon miht

6. 105

   hwa on þam wordum wæs werum oncyðig.

7. 106

   Sie þæs gemyndig, mann se ðe lufige

8. 107

   þisses galdres begang, þæt he geoce me

9. 108

   ond frofre fricle. Ic sceall feor heonan,

10. 109

    an elles forð, eardes neosan,

11. 110

    sið asettan, nat ic sylfa hwær,

12. 111

    of þisse worulde. Wic sindon uncuð,

13. 112

    eard ond eðel, swa bið ælcum menn

14. 113

    nemþe he godcundes gastes bruce.

15. 114

    Ah utu we þe geornor to gode cleopigan,

16. 115

    sendan usse bene on þa beorhtan gesceaft,

17. 116

    þæt we þæs botles brucan motan,

18. 117

    hames in hehðo, þær is hihta mæst,

19. 118

    þær cyning engla clænum gildeð

20. 119

    lean unhwilen. Nu a his lof standeð,

21. 120

    mycel ond mære, ond his miht seomaþ,

22. 121

    ece ond edgiong, ofer ealle gesceaft.

23. 122

    Finit.

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