{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_18.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_18.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 The Partridge\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Hyrde ic secgan gen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bi sumum fugle \n wundorlicne\n f\u00e6ger,\n \u00fe\u00e6t word \u00fee gecw\u00e6\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wuldres ealdor:\n- 5\n- \n \"In swa hwylce tiid \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa ge mid treowe to me \n on hyge hweorfa\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond ge hellfirena\n sweartra geswica\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa ic symle to eow\n mid siblufan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sona gecyrre\n \u00feurh milde mod. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ge beo\u00f0 me si\u00fe\u00fean\n- 10\n- \n torhte tireadge \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 talade ond rimde, \n beorhte gebro\u00feor \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on bearna st\u00e6l.\"\n Uton we \u00fey geornor \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gode oliccan,\n firene feogan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fri\u00fees earnian,\n dugu\u00f0e to dryhtne, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feenden us d\u00e6g scine,\n- 15\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6t swa \u00e6\u00feelne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eardwica cyst \n in wuldres wlite \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wunian motan.\n Finit.","title":"The Partridge","type":"page"}