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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 677 sections

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   innan ond utan. Is seo eaggebyrd

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   stearc ond hiwe stane gelicast,

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   gladum gimme, þonne in goldfate

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   smiþa orþoncum biseted weorþeð.

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   Is ymb þone sweoran, swylce sunnan hring,

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   beaga beorhtast brogden feðrum.

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   Wrætlic is seo womb neoþan, wundrum fæger,

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   scir ond scyne. Is se scyld ufan

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   frætwum gefeged ofer þæs fugles bæc.

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    Sindon þa scancan scyllum biweaxen,

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    fealwe fotas. Se fugel is on hiwe

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    æghwæs ænlic, onlicost pean,

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    wynnum geweaxen, þæs gewritu secgað.

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    Nis he hinderweard, ne hygegælsa,

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    swar ne swongor, swa sume fuglas,

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    þa þe late þurh lyft lacað fiþrum,

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    ac he is snel ond swift ond swiþe leoht,

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    wlitig ond wynsum, wuldre gemearcad.

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    Ece is se æþeling se þe him þæt ead gefeð!

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    þonne he gewiteð wongas secan,

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    his ealdne eard, of þisse eþeltyrf.

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    Swa se fugel fleogeð, folcum oðeaweð

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    mongum monna geond middangeard,

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    þonne somniað suþan ond norþan,

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    eastan ond westan, eoredciestum,

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    farað feorran ond nean folca þryþum

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    þær hi sceawiaþ scyppendes giefe

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    fægre on þam fugle, swa him æt fruman sette

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    sigora soðcyning sellicran gecynd,

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    frætwe fægerran ofer fugla cyn.

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    ðonne wundriað weras ofer eorþan

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    wlite ond wæstma, ond gewritum cyþað,

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    mundum mearciað on marmstane,

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    hwonne se dæg ond seo tid dryhtum geeawe

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    frætwe flyhthwates. ðonne fugla cynn

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    on healfa gehwone heapum þringað,

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    sigað sidwegum, songe lofiað,

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    mærað modigne meaglum reordum,

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    ond swa þone halgan hringe beteldað

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    flyhte on lyfte; fenix biþ on middum,

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    þreatum biþrungen. þeoda wlitað,

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    wundrum wafiað, hu seo wilgedryht

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    wildne weorþiað, worn æfter oþrum,

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    cræftum cyþað ond for cyning mærað

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    leofne leodfruman, lædað mid wynnum

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    æþelne to earde, oþþæt se anhoga

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    oðfleogeð, feþrum snel, þæt him gefylgan ne mæg

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    drymendra gedryht, þonne duguða wyn

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    of þisse eorþan tyrf eþel seceð.

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    Swa se gesæliga æfter swylthwile

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    his ealdcyðþe eft geneosað,

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    fægre foldan. Fugelas cyrrað

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    from þam guðfrecan geomormode

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    eft to earde. þonne se æþeling bið

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    giong in geardum. God ana wat,

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    cyning ælmihtig, hu his gecynde bið,

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    wifhades þe weres; þæt ne wat ænig

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    monna cynnes, butan meotod ana,

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    hu þa wisan sind wundorlice,

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    fæger fyrngesceap, ymb þæs fugles gebyrd.

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    þær se eadga mot eardes neotan,

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    wyllestreama wuduholtum in,

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    wunian in wonge, oþþæt wintra bið

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    þusend urnen. þonne him weorþeð

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    ende lifes; hine ad þeceð

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    þurh æledfyr. Hwæþre eft cymeð

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    aweaht wrætlice wundrum to life.

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    Forþon he drusende deað ne bisorgað,

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    sare swyltcwale, þe him symle wat

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    æfter ligþræce lif edniwe,

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    feorh æfter fylle, þonne fromlice

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    þurh briddes had gebreadad weorðeð

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    eft of ascan, edgeong weseð

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    under swegles hleo. Bið him self gehwæðer

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    sunu ond swæs fæder, ond symle eac

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    eft yrfeweard ealdre lafe.

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    Forgeaf him se meahta moncynnes fruma

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    þæt he swa wrætlice weorþan sceolde

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    eft þæt ilce þæt he ær þon wæs,

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    feþrum bifongen, þeah hine fyr nime.

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    Swa þæt ece lif eadigra gehwylc

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    æfter sarwræce sylf geceoseð

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    þurh deorcne deað, þæt he dryhtnes mot

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    æfter geardagum geofona neotan

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    on sindreamum, ond siþþan a

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    wunian in wuldre weorca to leane.

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    þisses fugles gecynd fela gelices

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    bi þam gecornum Cristes þegnum

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    beacnað in burgum, hu hi beorhtne gefean

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    þurh fæder fultum on þas frecnan tid

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    healdaþ under heofonum, ond him heanne blæd

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    in þam uplican eðle gestrynaþ.

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    Habbaþ we geascad þæt se ælmihtiga

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    worhte wer ond wif þurh his wundra sped,

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    ond hi þa gesette on þone selestan

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    foldan sceata, þone fira bearn

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    nemnað neorxnawong, þær him nænges wæs

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    eades onsyn, þenden eces word,

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    halges hleoþorcwide, healdan woldan

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     on þam niwan gefean. þær him niþ gescod,

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