{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a43_10.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a43_10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a43_10.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 10: For Loss of Cattle\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n \u00f0is man sceal cwe\u00f0an \u00f0onne his ceapa hwilcne man for- \n stolenne. Cwy\u00f0 \u00e6r he \u00e6nyg o\u00feer word cwe\u00f0e:\n Bethlem hatt\u00e6 seo burh \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00f0e Crist on geboren wes,\n seo is gem\u00e6rsod \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ofer ealne middangeard;\n- 5\n- \n swa \u00f0eos d\u00e6d wyr\u00fee \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for monnum m\u00e6re, \n per crucem Christi! And gebide \u00fee \u00f0onne \u00feriwa east and\n cwe\u00f0 \u00feriwa: Crux Christi ab oriente reducat. And III\n west and cwe\u00f0: Crux Christi ab occidente reducat. And\n III su\u00f0 and cwe\u00f0: Crux Christi a meridie reducant. And\n- 10\n- \n III nor\u00f0 and cwe\u00f0: Crux Christi abscondita sunt et inuenta \n est. Iudeas Crist ahengon, gedidon him d\u00e6da \u00fea wyrstan;\n h\u00e6lon \u00fe\u00e6t hi forhelan ne mihton. Swa n\u00e6fre \u00f0eos d\u00e6d\n forholen ne wyr\u00f0e per crucem Christi.","title":"Metrical Charm 10: For Loss of Cattle","type":"page"}