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The Seasons for Fasting

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 230 sections

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   lange lifes tyd leordun þæt sylfe,

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   þæt þu oþrum ne scealt æfre filian.

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   Eac we feowertig daga fæsten healden

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   ær þæm æriste ures dryhtnes,

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   þæt nu lengtentid leoda nemnað,

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   and hit ærest ongan eorl se goda,

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   mære Moyses, ær he on munt styge;

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   he þæt fæsten heold feowertig daga

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   and nyhta samod, swa he nahtes anbat

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    ær he þa deoran æ dryhtnes anfenge.

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    Him þær gesealde sylfe dryhten

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    bremne boca cræft, bæle behlæned,

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    of his haligan handa gescrifene,

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    het hine leodum þone leoran and tæcan

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    elda orþancum eallum to tacne,

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    þæt we mid fæstene magon freode gewinnan

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    and þa deopan dryhtnes gerynu,

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    þa þe leoran sceolan leoda gehwylce,

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    gif us þære duguþe hwæt dryhten sylleð.

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    Eft Helias, eorl se mæra,

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    him on westene wiste geþigede,

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    þær him symbelbread somod mid wætere

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    dryhtnes engla sum dihte togeanes,

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    and se gestrangud wearð styþum gyfle

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    to gefæstenne feowertig daga

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    and nihta samod, swa he nahtes anbat

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    ær he on Horeb dun hali ferde.

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    Uton þæt gerine rihte gehicgan,

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    þæt se mæra þegen mihta ne hæfde

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    to astigenne stæppon on ypplen

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    ær him þæt symbel wearþ seald fram engle.

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    We sint on westene wuldres blisse

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    on þæm ænete ealra gefeana;

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    nu is helpes tid, halig dryhten,

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    hu we munt þinne mærne gestygan.

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    Sint for englas geteald eorþbugendum

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    þa þe dryhtnes word dædum lærað.

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    We þa andlifene ofstum þycgen

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    and þone deoran wist, dryhtnes lare;

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    uton fæstan swa fyrene dædum

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    on forhæfenesse her for life,

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    þæt we þæs muntes mægen mærþa gestigan

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    swa se ealda dyde Elias iu.

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    Is to hicganne hu se halga gewat

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    of þissum wangstede wuldres neosian;

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    hine fyren scryd feower mærum

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    wlangum wicgum on weg ferede

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    on neorxnawong, þær us nergend Crist

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    gehaten hafað ham mid blisse,

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    gif we þæt fæsten her fyrena gelæstað

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    and þone uplican æþel secað.

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    Nu wæs æt nehstan þæt us nergend Crist,

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    halig heofenes weord, heolp and lærde.

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    He hine dyppan let deorum þweale,

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    fulwihtes bæðe, fyrena bedæled,

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    and he feowertig daga firsude mettas,

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    eac nihta swa feala nanuht gyltig,

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    leodum to lare, þæt hie on lengten sceolan

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    efen feowertig daga fæsten hewan.

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    Hine costude þær Cristes gewinna

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    on þæm ænete eald and fræte,

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    geseah mærne frean mannum gelicne

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    and þa wenan ongann, wommes gemyndig,

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    þæt he stræla his stellan mihte

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    on þam lichoman; næs þæs leahtra nan,

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    ac on hinder gewat hearmes brytta,

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    and þær englas hyra ealdor sohtan.

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    Higesynnig man, gyf þe susla weard

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    costian durre, þonne he Crist dyde,

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    wereda wulderfrean, womma leasne,

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    ne mæg he þæs inne ahwæt scotian

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    gif he myrcels næfþ manes æt egum,

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    ac he on hinder scriþ, and þe halig

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    englas ærfæste æghwær helpað,

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    gif þu dryhtnes her dædum fylgest.

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    Hæbbe we nu gemearcod hu þa mæran iu

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    feowertig daga fæsten hewdon,

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    and we bebeodað þurh beorn godes

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    þæt manna gehwilc þe for moldan wunað

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    ær þam æreste ures dryhtnes

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    efen feowertig daga fæsten hewe

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    oþ þa nigoþan tid, and he na bruce

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    flæsces oþþe fyrna, þæ læs þe he fah wese.

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    Sceolan sacerdas singan mæssan,

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    dæghwamlice dryhten biddan

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    on þam fæstenne þæt he freond wese

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    folce gynd foldan, and þa fyrna sceolan

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    þam sacerdan secgan gehwilce

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    and þa dymnissa dædum betan

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    wordes and weorces, wuldres ealdor

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    þurh ælmesdæde eall gegladian.

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    þonne is þearf micel þeoda mænium

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    þæt þa sacerdos sylfe ne gyltan,

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    ne on leahtrum hiora ligegen to fæste.

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    Hwa mæg þyngian þreale hwilcum

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    wiþ his arwesan, gyf he him ærur hæfð

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    bitere onbolgen, and þæs bote ne deð,

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    ac þa æbyligþe ealdere wrohte,

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    dæghwamlice dædum niwað?

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     Gyf se sacerd hine sylfne ne cunne

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