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Waldere B

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 31 sections

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   "...ce bæteran

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   buton ðam anum ðe ic eac hafa

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   on stanfate stille gehided.

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   Ic wat þæt hit ðohte ðeodric Widian

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   selfum onsendon, and eac sinc micel

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   maðma mid ði mece, monig oðres mid him

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   golde gegirwan (iulean genam),

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   þæs ðe hine of nearwum Niðhades mæg,

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   Welandes bearn, Widia ut forlet;

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    ðurh fifela gewe... ...ld forð onette."

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    Waldere mað... ...lode, wiga ellenrof,

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    hæfde him on handa hildefrofre,

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    guðbilla gripe, gyddode wordum:

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    "Hwæt! ðu huru wendest, wine Burgenda,

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    þæt me Hagenan hand hilde gefremede

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    and getwæmde ...ðewigges. Feta, gyf ðu dyrre,

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    æt ðus heaðuwerigan hare byrnan.

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    Standeð me her on eaxelum ælfheres laf,

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    god and geapneb, golde geweorðod,

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    ealles unscende æðelinges reaf

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    to habbanne, þonne hand wereð

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    feorhhord feondum. Ne bið fah wið me,

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    þonne ...... unmægas eft ongynnað,

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    mecum gemetað, swa ge me dydon.

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    ðeah mæg sige syllan se ðe symle byð

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    recon and rædfest ryh... ...a gehwilces.

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    Se ðe him to ðam halgan helpe gelifeð,

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    to gode gioce, he þær gearo findeð

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    gif ða earnunga ær geðenceð.

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    þonne moten wlance welan britnian,

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    æhtum wealdan, þæt is"

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