{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a06_21.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a06_21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a06_21.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 21\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Wel la, monna bearn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 geond middangeard, \n friora \u00e6ghwilc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fundie to\n \u00fe\u00e6m ecum gode \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee we ymb spreca\u00f0,\n and to \u00fe\u00e6m ges\u00e6l\u00f0um \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee we secga\u00f0 ymb.\n- 5\n- \n Se \u00f0e \u00f0onne nu sie \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nearwe gehefted \n mid \u00feisses m\u00e6ran \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 middangeardes\n unnyttre lufe, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sece him eft hr\u00e6\u00f0e\n fulne friodom, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t he for\u00f0 cume\n to \u00fe\u00e6m ges\u00e6l\u00f0um \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 saula r\u00e6des.\n- 10\n- \n For\u00fe\u00e6m \u00fe\u00e6t is sio an rest \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eallra geswinca, \n hyhtlicu hy\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 heaum ceolum\n modes usses, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 meresmylta wic.\n \u00fe\u00e6t is sio an hy\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee \u00e6fre bi\u00f0\n \u00e6fter \u00feam y\u00f0um \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ura geswinca,\n- 15\n- \n ysta gehwelcre, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealnig smylte. \n \u00fe\u00e6t is sio fri\u00f0stow \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and sio frofor an\n eallra yrminga \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6fter \u00feissum\n weoruldgeswincum. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t is wynsum stow\n \u00e6fter \u00feyssum yrm\u00f0um \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to aganne.\n- 20\n- \n Ac ic georne wat \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6tte gylden ma\u00f0m, \n sylofren sincstan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 searogimma nan,\n middangeardes wela \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 modes eagan\n \u00e6fre ne onlyhta\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 auht ne gebeta\u00f0\n hiora scearpnesse \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to \u00fe\u00e6re sceawunga\n- 25\n- \n so\u00f0ra ges\u00e6l\u00f0a, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ac hi swi\u00f0or get \n monna gehwelces \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 modes eagan\n ablenda\u00f0 on breostum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feonne hi hi beorhtran gedon.\n For\u00f0\u00e6m \u00e6ghwilc \u00f0ing \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee on \u00feys andweardan\n life lica\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 l\u00e6nu sindon,\n- 30\n- \n eor\u00f0licu \u00feing \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a fleondu. \n Ac \u00fe\u00e6t is wundorlic \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wlite and beorhtnes\n \u00fee wuhta gehw\u00e6s \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wlite geberhte\u00f0,\n and \u00e6fter \u00fe\u00e6m \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eallum wealde\u00f0.\n Nele se waldend \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00f0\u00e6t forweor\u00f0an scylen\n- 35\n- \n saula usse, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ac he hi selfa wile \n leoman onlihtan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lifes wealdend.\n Gif \u00feonne h\u00e6le\u00f0a hwilc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hlutrum eagum\n modes sines \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6g \u00e6fre ofsion\n hiofones leohtes \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hlutre beorhto,\n- 40\n- \n \u00feonne wile he secgan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t \u00f0\u00e6re sunnan sie \n beorhtnes \u00feiostro \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beorna gehwylcum\n to metanne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wi\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e6t micle leoht\n godes \u00e6lmihtiges; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t is gasta gehw\u00e6m\n ece butan ende \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eadegum saulum.","title":"The Meters of Boethius: Meter 21","type":"page"}