{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a06_05.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a06_05.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a06_05.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 5\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n \u00f0u meaht be \u00f0\u00e6re sunnan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sweotole ge\u00feencean \n and be \u00e6ghwelcum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00f0rum steorran\n \u00feara \u00fee \u00e6fter burgum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beorhtost scine\u00f0.\n Gif him wan fore \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wolcen hanga\u00f0,\n- 5\n- \n ne m\u00e6gen hi swa leohtne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 leoman ansendan, \n \u00e6r se \u00feicca mist \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feynra weor\u00f0e.\n Swa oft smylte s\u00e6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 su\u00f0erne wind\n gr\u00e6ge glashlutre \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 grimme gedrefe\u00f0,\n \u00feonne hie gemenga\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 micla ysta,\n- 10\n- \n onhrera\u00f0 hronmere; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hrioh bi\u00f0 \u00feonne \n seo \u00fee \u00e6r gladu \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 onsiene w\u00e6s.\n Swa oft \u00e6springe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ut awealle\u00f0\n of clife harum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 col and hlutor,\n and gereclice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 rihte flowe\u00f0,\n- 15\n- \n irne\u00f0 wi\u00f0 his eardes, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00f0 him on innan fel\u00f0 \n muntes m\u00e6genstan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and him on middan gelige\u00f0,\n atrendlod of \u00f0\u00e6m torre. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He on tu si\u00f0\u00f0an\n tosceaden wyr\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 scir bi\u00f0 gedrefed,\n burna geblonden, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 broc bi\u00f0 onwended\n- 20\n- \n of his rihtryne, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ry\u00f0um toflowen. \n Swa nu \u00fea \u00feiostro \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feinre heortan\n willa\u00f0 minre leohtan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lare wi\u00f0stondan\n and \u00f0in modge\u00feonc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 miclum gedrefan.\n Ac gif \u00f0u nu wilnast, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t \u00f0u wel m\u00e6ge,\n- 25\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6t so\u00f0e leoht \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sweotole oncnawan, \n leohte geleafan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00f0u forl\u00e6tan scealt\n idle ofers\u00e6l\u00f0a, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unnytne gefean.\n \u00feu scealt eac yfelne ege \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 an forl\u00e6tan,\n woruldearfo\u00f0a, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne most \u00f0u wesan for \u00f0\u00e6m\n- 30\n- \n ealles to ormod, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne \u00f0u \u00f0e \u00e6fre ne l\u00e6t \n wlenca gew\u00e6can, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee l\u00e6s \u00feu weor\u00f0e for him\n mid ofermettum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eft gescended,\n and to up ahafen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for orsorgum\n woruldges\u00e6l\u00f0um, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne eft to waclice\n- 35\n- \n geortreowe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6niges godes, \n \u00feonne \u00fee for worulde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wi\u00f0erwearda m\u00e6s\u00f0\n \u00feinga \u00fereage \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and \u00feu \u00f0e selfum\n swi\u00f0ost onsitte. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For\u00f0\u00e6m simle bi\u00f0\n se modsefa \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 miclum gebunden\n- 40\n- \n mid gedrefnesse, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gif hine dreccean mot \n \u00feissa yfla hw\u00e6\u00f0er, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 innan swencan.\n For\u00f0\u00e6m \u00fea twegen tregan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 teo\u00f0 tosomne\n wi\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e6t mod foran \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mistes dwoleman,\n \u00fe\u00e6t hit seo ece ne mot \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 innan geondscinan\n- 45\n- \n sunne for \u00f0\u00e6m sweartum mistum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6r\u00f0\u00e6m hi geswi\u00f0rad weor\u00f0en.","title":"The Meters of Boethius: Meter 5","type":"page"}