{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a06_27.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a06_27.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a06_27.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 27\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Hwy ge \u00e6fre scylen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unrihtfioungum \n eower mod drefan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa swa mereflodes\n y\u00fea hrera\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 iscalde s\u00e6,\n wecgga\u00f0 for winde? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hwy o\u00f0wite ge\n- 5\n- \n wyrde eowre \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t hio geweald nafa\u00f0? \n Hwy ge \u00fe\u00e6s dea\u00f0es \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fee eow drihten gesceop\n gebidan ne magon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bitres gecyndes,\n nu he eow \u00e6lce d\u00e6g \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 onet toweard?\n Ne magon ge gesion \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t he symle spyre\u00f0\n- 10\n- \n \u00e6fter \u00e6ghwelcum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eor\u00f0an tudre, \n diorum and fuglum? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dea\u00f0 eac swa same\n \u00e6fter moncynne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 geond \u00f0isne middangeard,\n egeslic hunta, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a bi\u00f0 on wa\u00f0e;\n nyle he \u00e6nig sw\u00e6\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6fre forl\u00e6tan\n- 15\n- \n \u00e6r he gehede \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t he hwile \u00e6r \n \u00e6fter spyrede. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is \u00fe\u00e6t earmlic \u00feing\n \u00fe\u00e6t his gebidan ne magon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 burgsittende,\n unges\u00e6lige men; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hine \u00e6r willa\u00f0\n foran to sciotan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa swa fugla cyn\n- 20\n- \n o\u00f0\u00f0e wildu dior; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fea winna\u00f0 betwuh, \n \u00e6ghwylc wolde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00f0er acwellan.\n Ac \u00fe\u00e6t is unriht \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e6ghwelcum men\n \u00fe\u00e6t he o\u00f0erne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 inwit\u00feoncum\n fioge on f\u00e6r\u00f0e, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa swa fugl o\u00f0\u00f0e dior,\n- 25\n- \n ac \u00fe\u00e6t w\u00e6re rihtost, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6tte rinca gehwylc \n o\u00f0rum gulde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 edlean on riht,\n weorc be geweorhtum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 weoruldbuendum\n \u00feinga gehwilces, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t is, \u00fe\u00e6t he lufige\n godra gehwilcne \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa he geornost m\u00e6ge,\n- 30\n- \n mildsige yflum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa we \u00e6r spr\u00e6con. \n He sceal \u00feone monnan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mode lufian,\n and his un\u00feeawas \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealle hatian\n and ofsni\u00f0an, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swa he swi\u00f0ost m\u00e6ge.","title":"The Meters of Boethius: Meter 27","type":"page"}