Northern European Mythology
The Kentish Hymn
Wuton wuldrian weorada dryhten
halgan hlioðorcwidum, hiofenrices weard,
lufian liofwendum, lifes agend,
and him simle sio sigefest wuldor
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uppe mid ænglum, and on eorðan sibb
gumena gehwilcum goodes willan.
We ðe heriað halgum stefnum
and þe blætsiað, bilewit feder,
and ðe þanciað, þioda walden,
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ðines weorðlican wuldordreames
and ðinra miclan mægena gerena,
ðe ðu, god dryhten, gastes mæhtum
hafest on gewealdum hiofen and eorðan,
an ece feder, ælmehtig god.
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ðu eart cyninga cyningc cwicera gehwilces,
ðu eart sigefest sunu and soð helend
ofer ealle gesceft angla and manna.
ðu, dryhten god, on dreamum wunast
on ðære upplican æðelan ceastre,
sitest sigehræmig on ða swiðran hand
ðinum godfæder, gasta gemyndig.
Mildsa nu, meahtig, manna cynne,
and of leahtrum ales ðine ða liofan gesceft,
and us hale gedo, heleða sceppend,
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niða nergend, for ðines naman are.
ðu eart soðlice simle halig,
and ðu eart ana æce dryhten,
and ðu ana bist eallra dema
cwucra ge deadra, Crist nergende,
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forðan ðu on ðrymme ricsast and on ðrinesse
and on annesse, ealles waldend,
hiofena heahcyninc, haliges gastes
fegere gefelled in fæder wuldre.