{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a02_04.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a02_04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a02_04.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site]\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n Homiletic Fragment I\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sorh cyme\u00f0 \n manig ond mislic \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in manna dream.\n Eorl o\u00f0erne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mid \u00e6f\u00feancum\n ond mid teonwordum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 t\u00e6le\u00f0 behindan,\n- 5\n- \n sprece\u00f0 f\u00e6gere beforan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond \u00fe\u00e6t facen swa \u00feeah \n hafa\u00f0 in his heortan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hord uncl\u00e6ne.\n By\u00f0 \u00feonne \u00fe\u00e6s wommes gewita \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 weoruda dryhten.\n For\u00f0an se witiga cw\u00e6\u00f0:\n \"Ne syle \u00f0u me \u00e6tsomne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mid \u00feam synfullum\n- 10\n- \n in wita forwyrd, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 weoruda dryhten, \n ne me on life forleos \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mid \u00feam ligewyrhtum,\n \u00feam \u00fee ful sme\u00f0e \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 spr\u00e6ce habba\u00f0,\n ond in gastcofan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 grimme ge\u00feohtas,\n gehata\u00f0 holdlice, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa hyra hyht ne g\u00e6\u00f0,\n- 15\n- \n w\u00e6re mid welerum.\" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wea bi\u00f0 in mode, \n siofa synnum fah, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sare geblonden,\n gefylled mid facne, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feeah he f\u00e6ger word\n utan \u00e6tywe. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6nlice beo\u00f0,\n swa \u00f0a beon bera\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 buta \u00e6tsomne\n- 20\n- \n arlicne anleofan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond \u00e6tterne t\u00e6gel \n hafa\u00f0 on hindan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hunig on mu\u00f0e,\n wynsume wist. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hwilum wundia\u00fe\n sare mid stinge, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feonne se s\u00e6l cyme\u00f0.\n Swa bio\u00f0 gelice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fea leasan men,\n- 25\n- \n \u00fea \u00f0e mid tungan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 treowa gehata\u00fe \n f\u00e6gerum wordum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 facenlice \u00feenca\u00fe,\n \u00feonne hie \u00e6t nehstan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nearwe beswica\u00fe,\n hafa\u00f0 on gehatum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hunigsm\u00e6ccas,\n sme\u00f0ne sybcwide, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond in siofan innan\n- 30\n- \n \u00feurh deofles cr\u00e6ft \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dyrne wunde. \n Swa is nu \u00fees middangeard \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mane geblonden,\n wana\u00f0 ond weaxe\u00f0. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waca\u00f0 se ealda,\n dwele\u00f0 ond drefe\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 d\u00e6ges ond nihtes\n miltse mid mane, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6gene getrywe\u00f0,\n- 35\n- \n ehte\u00f0 \u00e6festra, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 inwit sawe\u00f0, \n ni\u00f0 mid geneahe. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 N\u00e6nig o\u00f0erne\n freo\u00f0 in fyrh\u00f0e \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nim\u00fee feara hwylc,\n \u00fe\u00e6t he so\u00f0lice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sybbe healde,\n gastlice lufe, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa him god bebead.\n- 40\n- \n For\u00fean eallunga \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hyht geceose\u00f0, \n woruld wynsume, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 se \u00f0e wis ne bi\u00f0,\n snottor, searocr\u00e6ftig \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sawle r\u00e6des.\n Uton to \u00feam beteran, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nu we bot cunnon,\n hycgan ond hyhtan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t we heofones leoht\n- 45\n- \n uppe mid englum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 agan moton \n gastum to geoce, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feonne god wile\n eor\u00f0an lifes \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ende gewyrcan!","title":"Homiletic Fragment I","type":"page"}