The Mologium

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 231 sections

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Gregorius. Ne hyrde ic guman a fyrn
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ænigne ær æfre bringan
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ofer sealtne mere selran lare,
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bisceop bremran. Nu on Brytene rest
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on Cantwarum cynestole neah,
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mynstre mærum. þænne monað bringð
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ymb twa and feower tiida lange
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ærra Liða us to tune,
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Iunius on geard, on þam gim astihð
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on heofenas up hyhst on geare,
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tungla torhtust, and of tille agrynt,
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to sete sigeð. Wyle syððan leng
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grund behealdan and gangan lator
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ofer foldan wang fægerust leohta,
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woruldgesceafta. þænne wuldres þegn
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ymb þreotyne, þeodnes dyrling,
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Iohannes in geardagan wearð acenned,
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tyn nihtum eac; we þa tiid healdað
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on midne sumor mycles on æþelum.
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Wide is geweorðod, swa þæt wel gerist,
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haligra tid geond hæleða bearn,
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Petrus and Paulus. Hwæt, þa apostolas,
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þeodenholde, þrowedon on Rome
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ofer midne sumor, miccle gewisse,
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furðor fif nihtum, folcbealo þrealic,
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mærne martyrdom; hæfdon mænige ær
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wundra geworhte geond wærþeoda,
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swylce hi æfter þam unrim fremedon
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swutelra and gesynra þurh sunu meotudes,
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ealdorþegnas. þænne ædre cymð
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emb twa niht þæs tidlice us
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Iulius monað, on þam Iacobus
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ymb feower niht feorh gesealde
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ond twentigum, trum in breostum,
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frod and fæstræd folca lareow,
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Zebedes afera. And þæs symle scriþ
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ymb seofon niht þæs sumere gebrihted
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Weodmonað on tun, welhwær bringeð
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Agustus yrmenþeodum
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hlafmæssan dæg. Swa þæs hærfest cymð
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ymbe oðer swylc butan anre wanan,
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wlitig, wæstmum hladen; wela byð geywed
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fægere on foldan. þænne forð gewat
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ymb þreo niht þæs þeodne getrywe
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þurh martyrdom, mære diacon,
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Laurentius, hæfð nu lif wiðþan
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mid wuldorfæder weorca to leane.
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Swylce þæs ymb fif niht fægerust mægða,
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wifa wuldor, sohte weroda god
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for suna sibbe, sigefæstne ham
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on neorxnawange; hæfde nergend þa
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fægere fostorlean fæmnan forgolden
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ece to ealdre. þænne ealling byð
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ymb tyn niht þæs tiid geweorðad
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Bartholomeus in Brytene her,
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wyrd welþungen. Swylce eac wide byð
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eorlum geypped æþelinges deað
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ymb feower niht, se þe fægere iu
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mid wætere oferwearp wuldres cynebearn,
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wiga weorðlice. Be him wealdend cwæð
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þæt nan mærra man geond middangeard
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betux wife and were wurde acenned.
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Ond þæs ymbe þreo niht geond þeoda feala
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þætte Haligmonð, heleþum geþinged,
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fereð to folce, swa hit foregleawe,
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ealde uþwitan, æror fundan,
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Septembres fær, and þy seofoþan dæg
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þæt acenned wearð cwena selost,
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drihtnes modor. þænne dagena worn
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ymbe þreotyne þegn unforcuð,
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godspelles gleaw, gast onsende
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Matheus his to metodsceafte,
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in ecne gefean. þænne ealling cymð
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ymb þreo niht þæs þeodum wide
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emnihtes dæg, ylda bearnum.
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Hwæt, we weorðiað wide geond eorðan
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heahengles tiid on hærfeste,
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Michaheles, swa þæt menigo wat,
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fif nihtum ufor þæs þe folcum byð,
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eorlum geywed emnihtes dæg.
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And þæs embe twa niht þæt se teoða monð
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on folc fereð, frode geþeahte,
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October on tun us to genihte,
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Winterfylleð, swa hine wide cigað
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igbuende Engle and Seaxe,
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weras mid wifum. Swylce wigena tiid
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ymb twentig þæs twegra healdað
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and seofon nihtum samod ætgædere
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on anne dæg. We þa æþelingas
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fyrn gefrunan þæt hy foremære,
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Simon and Iudas, symble wæron,
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drihtne dyre; forþon hi dom hlutan,
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eadigne upweg. And þæs ofstum bringð
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embe feower niht, folce genihtsum,
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Blotmonað on tun, beornum to wiste,
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Nouembris, niða bearnum
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eadignesse, swa nan oðer na deð
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monað maran miltse drihtnes.
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And þy ylcan dæge ealra we healdað
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sancta symbel þara þe sið oððe ær

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