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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 115 sections

1. 100

   ond þas stanhleoþu stormas cnyssað,

2. 101

   hrið hreosende hrusan bindeð,

3. 102

   wintres woma, þonne won cymeð,

4. 103

   nipeð nihtscua, norþan onsendeð

5. 104

   hreo hæglfare hæleþum on andan.

6. 105

   Eall is earfoðlic eorþan rice,

7. 106

   onwendeð wyrda gesceaft weoruld under heofonum.

8. 107

   Her bið feoh læne, her bið freond læne,

9. 108

   her bið mon læne, her bið mæg læne,

10. 109

    eal þis eorþan gesteal idel weorþeð!"

11. 110

    Swa cwæð snottor on mode, gesæt him sundor æt rune.

12. 111

    Til biþ se þe his treowe gehealdeþ, ne sceal næfre his torn to rycene

13. 112

    beorn of his breostum acyþan, nemþe he ær þa bote cunne,

14. 113

    eorl mid elne gefremman. Wel bið þam þe him are seceð,

15. 114

    frofre to fæder on heofonum, þær us eal seo fæstnung stondeð.

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