{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a06_12.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a06_12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a06_12.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 12\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Se \u00fee wille wyrcan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 w\u00e6stmb\u00e6re lond, \n atio of \u00f0\u00e6m \u00e6cere \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6rest sona\n fearn and \u00feornas \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and fyrsas swa same,\n wiod \u00fea \u00fee willa\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 welhw\u00e6r derian\n- 5\n- \n cl\u00e6num hw\u00e6te, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fey l\u00e6s he ci\u00f0a leas \n licge on \u00f0\u00e6m lande. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is leoda gehw\u00e6m\n \u00f0ios o\u00f0ru bysen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 efnbehefu,\n \u00fe\u00e6t is, \u00fe\u00e6tte \u00f0ynce\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feegna gehwelcum\n huniges bibread \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 healfe \u00fey swetre,\n- 10\n- \n gif he hwene \u00e6r \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 huniges teare \n bitres onbyrge\u00f0. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bi\u00f0 eac swa same\n monna \u00e6ghwilc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 micle \u00fey f\u00e6genra\n li\u00f0es we\u00f0res, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gif hine lytle \u00e6r\n stormas gestonda\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and se stearca wind\n- 15\n- \n nor\u00f0an and eastan. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 N\u00e6negum \u00feuhte \n d\u00e6g on \u00feonce, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gif sio dimme niht\n \u00e6r ofer eldum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 egesan ne brohte.\n Swa \u00feinc\u00f0 anra gehw\u00e6m \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eor\u00f0buendra\n sio so\u00f0e ges\u00e6l\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 symle \u00f0e betere\n- 20\n- \n and \u00fey wynsumre, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee he wita ma, \n heardra hen\u00f0a, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 her adreoge\u00f0.\n \u00feu meaht eac mycle \u00fey e\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on modsefan\n so\u00f0a ges\u00e6l\u00f0a \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sweotolor gecnawan,\n and to heora cy\u00f0\u00f0e \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 becuman si\u00f0\u00f0an,\n- 25\n- \n gif \u00feu up atyhs\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6rest sona \n and \u00f0u awyrtwalast \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of gewitlocan\n leasa ges\u00e6l\u00f0a, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa swa londes ceorl\n of his \u00e6cere lyc\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 yfel weod monig.\n Si\u00f0\u00f0an ic \u00f0e secge \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t \u00feu sweotole meaht\n- 30\n- \n so\u00f0a ges\u00e6l\u00f0a \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sona oncnawan, \n and \u00feu \u00e6fre ne recst \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6niges \u00f0inges\n ofer \u00fea ane, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gif \u00feu hi ealles ongitst.","title":"The Meters of Boethius: Meter 12","type":"page"}