{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a43_08.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a43_08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a43_08.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 Metrical Charm 8: For a Swarm of Bees\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Wi\u00f0 ymbe nim eor\u00fean, oferweorp mid \u00feinre swi\u00feran \n handa under \u00feinum swi\u00feran fet, and cwet:\n Fo ic under fot, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 funde ic hit.\n Hw\u00e6t, eor\u00f0e m\u00e6g \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wi\u00f0 ealra wihta gehwilce\n- 5\n- \n and wi\u00f0 andan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and wi\u00f0 \u00e6minde \n and wi\u00f0 \u00fea micelan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mannes tungan.\n And wi\u00f0\u00f0on forweorp ofer greot, \u00feonne hi swirman, and cwe\u00f0:\n Sitte ge, sigewif, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 siga\u00f0 to eor\u00fean!\n N\u00e6fre ge wilde \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to wuda fleogan.\n- 10\n- \n Beo ge swa gemindige \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mines godes, \n swa bi\u00f0 manna gehwilc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 metes and e\u00feeles.","title":"Metrical Charm 8: For a Swarm of Bees","type":"page"}