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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 74 sections

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   Monge sindon geond middangeard

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   unrimu cynn, þe we æþelu ne magon

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   ryhte areccan ne rim witan;

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   þæs wide sind geond world innan

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   fugla ond deora foldhrerendra

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   wornas widsceope, swa wæter bibugeð

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   þisne beorhtan bosm, brim grymetende,

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   sealtyþa geswing. We bi sumum hyrdon

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   wrætlice gecynd wildra secgan

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    firum freamærne feorlondum on

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    eard weardian, eðles neotan

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    æfter dunscrafum. Is þæt deor pandher

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    bi noman haten, þæs þe niþþa bearn,

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    wisfæste weras on gewritum cyþað

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    bi þam anstapan. Se is æghwam freond,

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    duguða estig, butan dracan anum,

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    þam he in ealle tid ondwrað leofaþ

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    þurh yfla gehwylc þe he geæfnan mæg.

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    ðæt is wrætlic deor, wundrum scyne

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    hiwa gehwylces; swa hæleð secgað,

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    gæsthalge guman, þætte Iosephes

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    tunece wære telga gehwylces

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    bleom bregdende, þara beorhtra gehwylc

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    æghwæs ænlicra oþrum lixte

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    dryhta bearnum, swa þæs deores hiw,

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    blæc brigda gehwæs, beorhtra ond scynra

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    wundrum lixeð, þætte wrætlicra

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    æghwylc oþrum, ænlicra gien

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    ond fægerra frætwum bliceð,

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    symle sellicra. He hafað sundorgecynd,

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    milde, gemetfæst. He is monþwære,

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    lufsum ond leoftæl, nele laþes wiht

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    ængum geæfnan butan þam attorsceaþan,

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    his fyrngeflitan, þe ic ær fore sægde.

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    Symle fylle fægen, þonne foddor þigeð,

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    æfter þam gereordum ræste seceð

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    dygle stowe under dunscrafum;

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    ðær se þeodwiga þreonihta fæc

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    swifeð on swefote, slæpe gebiesgad.

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    þonne ellenrof up astondeð,

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    þrymme gewelgad, on þone þriddan dæg,

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    sneome of slæpe. Sweghleoþor cymeð,

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    woþa wynsumast þurh þæs wildres muð.

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    æfter þære stefne stenc ut cymeð

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    of þam wongstede, wynsumra steam,

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    swettra ond swiþra swæcca gehwylcum,

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    wyrta blostmum ond wudubledum,

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    eallum æþelicra eorþan frætwum.

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    þonne of ceastrum ond cynestolum

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    ond of burgsalum beornþreat monig

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    farað foldwegum folca þryþum,

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    eoredcystum, ofestum gefysde,

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    dareðlacende; deor efne swa some

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    æfter þære stefne on þone stenc farað.

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    Swa is dryhten god, dreama rædend,

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    eallum eaðmede oþrum gesceaftum,

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    duguða gehwylcre, butan dracan anum,

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    attres ordfruman. þæt is se ealda feond,

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    þone he gesælde in susla grund,

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    ond gefetrade fyrnum teagum,

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    biþeahte þreanydum, ond þy þriddan dæge

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    of digle aras, þæs þe he deað fore us

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    þreo niht þolade, þeoden engla,

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    sigora sellend. þæt wæs swete stenc,

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    wlitig ond wynsum geond woruld ealle.

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    Siþþan to þam swicce soðfæste men

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    on healfa gehwone heapum þrungon

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    geond ealne ymbhwyrft eorþan sceata.

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    Swa se snottra gecwæð sanctus Paulus:

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    "Monigfealde sind geond middangeard

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    god ungnyðe þe us to giefe dæleð

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    ond to feorhnere fæder ælmihtig,

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    ond se anga hyht ealra gesceafta,

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    uppe ge niþre." þæt is æþele stenc.

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