{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a06_17.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a06_17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a06_17.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 17\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Hw\u00e6t, eor\u00f0waran \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealle h\u00e6fden, \n foldbuende, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fruman gelicne;\n hi of anum tw\u00e6m \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealle comon,\n were and wife, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on woruld innan,\n- 5\n- \n and hi eac nu get \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealle gelice \n on woruld cuma\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wlance and heane.\n Nis \u00fe\u00e6t nan wundor, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for\u00f0\u00e6m witan ealle\n \u00fe\u00e6t an god is \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealra gesceafta,\n frea moncynnes, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 f\u00e6der and scippend.\n- 10\n- \n Se \u00f0\u00e6re sunnan leoht \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sele\u00f0 of heofonum, \n monan and \u00feyssum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6rum steorrum.\n Se milda metod \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gesceop men on eor\u00f0an,\n and gesamnade \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sawle to lice\n \u00e6t fruman \u00e6rest, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 folc under wolcnum\n- 15\n- \n emn\u00e6\u00f0ele gesceop \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6ghwilcne mon. \n Hwy ge \u00feonne \u00e6fre \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ofer o\u00f0re men\n ofermodigen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 buton andweorce,\n nu ge un\u00e6\u00f0elne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 n\u00e6nigne meta\u00f0?\n Hwy ge eow for \u00e6\u00feelum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 up ahebben,\n- 20\n- \n nu on \u00fe\u00e6m mode bi\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 monna gehwilcum \n \u00fea riht\u00e6\u00feelo \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee ic \u00f0e recce ymb,\n nales on \u00f0\u00e6m fl\u00e6sce \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 foldbuendra?\n Ac nu \u00e6ghwilc mon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee mid ealle bi\u00f0\n his un\u00feeawum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 under\u00f0ieded,\n- 25\n- \n he forl\u00e6t \u00e6rest \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lifes frumsceaft \n and his agene \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6\u00feelo swa selfe,\n and eac \u00feone f\u00e6der \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee hine \u00e6t fruman gesceop.\n For\u00f0\u00e6m hine an\u00e6\u00feela\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6lmihtig god,\n \u00fe\u00e6t he un\u00e6\u00feele \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a for\u00f0 \u00feanan\n- 30\n- \n wyr\u00f0 on weorulde, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to wuldre ne cym\u00f0.","title":"The Meters of Boethius: Meter 17","type":"page"}