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The Husband's Message
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nu ic onsundran þe secgan wille
...... treocyn ic tudre aweox;
in mec æld... sceal ellor londes
settan ...... sealte streamas
- 5
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...sse. Ful oft ic on bates
gesohte
þær mec mondryhten min ......
ofer heah hofu; eom nu her cumen
on ceolþele, ond nu cunnan scealt
- 10
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hu þu ymb modlufan mines frean
on hyge hycge. Ic gehatan dear
þæt þu þær tirfæste treowe findest.
Hwæt, þec þonne biddan het se þisne beam agrof
þæt þu sinchroden sylf gemunde
- 15
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on gewitlocan wordbeotunga,
þe git on ærdagum oft gespræcon,
þenden git moston on meoduburgum
eard weardigan, an lond bugan,
freondscype fremman. Hine fæhþo adraf
- 20
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of sigeþeode; heht nu sylfa þe
lustum læran, þæt þu lagu drefde,
siþþan þu gehyrde on hliþes oran
galan geomorne geac on bearwe.
Ne læt þu þec siþþan siþes getwæfan,
- 25
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lade gelettan lifgendne monn.
Ongin mere secan, mæwes eþel,
onsite sænacan, þæt þu suð heonan
ofer merelade monnan findest,
þær se þeoden is þin on wenum.
- 30
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Ne mæg him worulde willa gelimpan
mara on gemyndum, þæs þe he me sægde,
þonne inc geunne alwaldend god
...... ætsomne siþþan motan
secgum ond gesiþum s...
- 35
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næglede beagas; he genoh hafað
fædan goldes
...d elþeode eþel healde,
fægre foldan
...ra hæleþa, þeah þe her min wine...
- 40
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nyde gebæded, nacan ut aþrong,
ond on yþa geong ...... sceolde
faran on flotweg, forðsiþes georn,
mengan merestreamas. Nu se mon hafað
wean oferwunnen; nis him wilna gad,
- 45
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ne meara ne maðma ne meododreama,
ænges ofer eorþan eorlgestreona,
þeodnes dohtor, gif he þin beneah
ofer eald gebeot incer twega.
Gecyre ic ætsomne ᛋ ᚱ geador
- 50
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ᛠ ᚹ ond ᛞ aþe benemnan,
þæt he þa wære ond þa winetreowe
be him lifgendum læstan wolde,
þe git on ærdagum oft gespræconn.