Metrical Charm 8: For a Swarm of Bees

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next Metrical Charm 8: For a Swarm of Bees Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Wið ymbe nim eorþan, oferweorp mid þinre swiþran handa under þinum swiþran fet, and cwet: Fo ic under fot, funde ic hit. Hwæt, eorðe mæg wið ealra wihta gehwilce - 5 - and wið andan and wið æminde and wið þa micelan mannes tungan. And wiððon forweorp ofer greot, þonne hi swirman, and cweð: Sitte ge, sigewif, sigað to eorþan! Næfre ge wilde to wuda fleogan. - 10 - Beo ge swa gemindige mines godes, swa bið manna gehwilc metes and eþeles.