This version was taken from the Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry and is freely distributable .
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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This version was taken from the Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry and is freely distributable . Verse Indeterminate Saxon |
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| 1 | Mæg ic be me sylfum | soðgied wrecan, | |
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| siþas secgan, | hu ic geswincdagum | ||||||
| earfoðhwile | oft þrowade, | ||||||
| bitre breostceare | gebiden hæbbe, | ||||||
| 5 | gecunnad in ceole | cearselda fela, | |||||
| atol yþa gewealc, | þær mec oft bigeat | ||||||
| nearo nihtwaco | æt nacan stefnan, | ||||||
| þonne he be clifum cnossað. | Calde geþrungen | ||||||
| wæron mine fet, | forste gebunden, | ||||||
| 10 | caldum clommum, | þær þa ceare seofedun | |||||
| hat ymb heortan; | hungor innan slat | ||||||
| merewerges mod. | þæt se mon ne wat | ||||||
| þe him on foldan | fægrost limpeð, | ||||||
| hu ic earmcearig | iscealdne sæ | ||||||
| 15 | winter wunade | wræccan lastum, | |||||
| winemægum bidroren, | |||||||
| bihongen hrimgicelum; | hægl scurum fleag. | ||||||
| þær ic ne gehyrde | butan hlimman sæ, | ||||||
| iscaldne wæg. | Hwilum ylfete song | ||||||
| 20 | dyde ic me to gomene, | ganetes hleoþor | |||||
| ond huilpan sweg | fore hleahtor wera, | ||||||
| mæw singende | fore medodrince. | ||||||
| Stormas þær stanclifu beotan, | þær him stearn oncwæð | ||||||
| isigfeþera; | ful oft þæt earn bigeal, | ||||||
| 25 | urigfeþra; | ne ænig hleomæga | |||||
| feasceaftig ferð | frefran meahte. | ||||||
| 27 | Forþon him gelyfeð lyt, | se þe ah lifes wyn | |
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| gebiden in burgum, | bealosiþa hwon, | ||||||
| wlonc ond wingal, | hu ic werig oft | ||||||
| 30 | in brimlade | bidan sceolde. | |||||
| Nap nihtscua, | norþan sniwde, | ||||||
| hrim hrusan bond, | hægl feol on eorþan, | ||||||
| 33 | corna caldast. | Forþon cnyssað nu | |
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| heortan geþohtas, | þæt ic hean streamas, | ||||||
| 35 | sealtyþa gelac | sylf cunnige; | |||||
| monað modes lust | mæla gehwylce | ||||||
| ferð to feran, | þæt ic feor heonan | ||||||
| elþeodigra | eard gesece. | ||||||
| Forþon nis þæs modwlonc | mon ofer eorþan, | ||||||
| 40 | ne his gifena þæs god, | ne in geoguþe to þæs hwæt, | |||||
| ne in his dædum to þæs deor, | ne him his dryhten to þæs hold, | ||||||
| þæt he a his sæfore | sorge næbbe, | ||||||
| to hwon hine dryhten | gedon wille. | ||||||
| Ne biþ him to hearpan hyge | ne to hringþege, | ||||||
| 45 | ne to wife wyn | ne to worulde hyht, | |||||
| ne ymbe owiht elles, | nefne ymb yða gewealc, | ||||||
| ac a hafað longunge | se þe on lagu fundað. | ||||||
| 48 | Bearwas blostmum nimað, | byrig fægriað, | |
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| wongas wlitigað, | woruld onetteð; | ||||||
| 50 | ealle þa gemoniað | modes fusne | |||||
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