{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a06_01.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a06_01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a06_01.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 Meters of Boethius: Meter 1\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Hit w\u00e6s geara iu \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00f0\u00e6tte Gotan eastan \n of Sci\u00f0\u00f0ia \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sceldas l\u00e6ddon,\n \u00fereate ge\u00ferungon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feeodlond monig,\n setton su\u00f0weardes \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sige\u00feeoda twa;\n- 5\n- \n Gotena rice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gearm\u00e6lum weox. \n H\u00e6fdan him gecynde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cyningas twegen,\n R\u00e6dgod and Aleric; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 rice ge\u00feungon.\n \u00fea w\u00e6s ofer Muntgiop \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 monig atyhted\n Gota gylpes full, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gu\u00f0e gelysted,\n- 10\n- \n folcgewinnes. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fana hwearfode \n scir on sceafte. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sceotend \u00feohton\n Italia \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealle gegongan,\n lindwigende. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi gel\u00e6stan swua\n efne from Muntgiop \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00f0 \u00feone m\u00e6ran wearo\u00f0\n- 15\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6r Sicilia \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 s\u00e6streamum in, \n eglond micel, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 e\u00f0el m\u00e6rsa\u00f0.\n \u00f0a w\u00e6s Romana \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 rice gewunnen,\n abrocen burga cyst, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beadurincum w\u00e6s\n Rom gerymed. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 R\u00e6dgot and Aleric\n- 20\n- \n foron on \u00f0\u00e6t f\u00e6sten; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fleah casere \n mid \u00feam \u00e6\u00feelingum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ut on Grecas.\n Ne meahte \u00fea seo wealaf \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wige forstandan\n Gotan mid gu\u00f0e; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 giomonna gestrion\n sealdon unwillum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 e\u00feelweardas,\n- 25\n- \n halige a\u00f0as. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W\u00e6s gehw\u00e6\u00f0eres waa. \n \u00feeah w\u00e6s magorinca \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mod mid Grecum,\n gif hi leodfruman \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 l\u00e6stan dorsten.\n Stod \u00ferage on \u00f0am. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feeod w\u00e6s gewunnen\n wintra m\u00e6nigo, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00f0\u00fe\u00e6t wyrd gescraf\n- 30\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6t \u00fee \u00f0eodrice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feegnas and eorlas \n heran sceoldan. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W\u00e6s se heretema\n Criste gecnoden, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cyning selfa onfeng\n fulluht\u00feeawum. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F\u00e6gnodon ealle\n Romwara bearn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and him recene to\n- 35\n- \n fri\u00f0es wilnedon. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He him f\u00e6ste gehet \n \u00fe\u00e6t hy ealdrihta \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6lces mosten\n wyr\u00f0e gewunigen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on \u00fe\u00e6re welegan byrig,\n \u00f0enden god wuolde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t he Gotena geweald\n agan moste. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He \u00fe\u00e6t eall aleag.\n- 40\n- \n W\u00e6s \u00fe\u00e6m \u00e6\u00feelinge \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arrianes \n gedwola leofre \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feonne drihtnes \u00e6.\n Het Iohannes, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 godne papan,\n heafde beheawon; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 n\u00e6s \u00f0\u00e6t h\u00e6rlic d\u00e6d.\n Eac \u00feam w\u00e6s unrim \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00f0res manes\n- 45\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6t se Gota fremede \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 godra gehwilcum. \n \u00f0a w\u00e6s ricra sum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on Rome byrig\n ahefen heretoga, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hlaforde leof,\n \u00feenden cynestole \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creacas wioldon.\n \u00fe\u00e6t w\u00e6s rihtwis rinc, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 n\u00e6s mid Romwarum\n- 50\n- \n sincgeofa sella \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 si\u00f0\u00f0an longe. \n He w\u00e6s for weorulde wis, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 weor\u00f0myn\u00f0a georn,\n beorn boca gleaw; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boitius\n se h\u00e6le hatte \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 se \u00feone hlisan ge\u00feah.\n W\u00e6s him on gemynde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6la gehwilce\n- 55\n- \n yfel and edwit \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t him el\u00f0eodge \n kyningas cy\u00f0don. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W\u00e6s on Greacas hold,\n gemunde \u00feara ara \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and ealdrihta\n \u00fee his eldran mid him \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ahton longe,\n lufan and lissa. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Angan \u00fea listum ymbe\n- 60\n- \n \u00f0encean \u00feearflice, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hu he \u00f0ider meahte \n Crecas oncerran, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t se casere eft\n anwald ofer hi \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 agan moste.\n Sende \u00e6rendgewrit \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealdhlafordum\n degelice, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and hi for drihtne b\u00e6d\n- 65\n- \n ealdum treowum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00f0\u00e6t hi \u00e6ft to him \n comen on \u00fea ceastre, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lete Greca witan\n r\u00e6dan Romwarum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 rihtes wyr\u00f0e\n lete \u00feone leodscipe. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00f0a \u00fea lare ongeat\n \u00f0eodric Amuling, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and \u00feone \u00feegn oferfeng,\n- 70\n- \n heht f\u00e6stlice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 folcgesi\u00f0as \n healdon \u00feone hererinc. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W\u00e6s him hreoh sefa,\n ege from \u00f0am eorle. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He hine inne heht\n on carcernes \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cluster belucan.\n \u00fea w\u00e6s modsefa \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 miclum gedrefed\n- 75\n- \n Boetius. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Breac longe \u00e6r \n wlencea under wolcnum; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he \u00fey wyrs meahte\n \u00feolian \u00fea \u00ferage, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fea hio swa \u00feearl becom.\n W\u00e6s \u00fea ormod eorl, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are ne wende,\n ne on \u00feam f\u00e6stene \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 frofre gemunde,\n- 80\n- \n ac he neowol astreaht \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ni\u00f0er of dune \n feol on \u00fea flore, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fela worda spr\u00e6c,\n for\u00feoht \u00f0earle; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne wende \u00feonan \u00e6fre\n cuman of \u00f0\u00e6m clammum. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cleopode to drihtne\n geomran stemne, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gyddode \u00feus:","title":"The Meters of Boethius: Meter 1","type":"page"}