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Original Old English: Gyf wif drycræft and galdorcræft and
unlibban wyrce and
swylc bega, fæste XII monað [on
hlafe and on wætere].
Modern English translation:...
- Se fīfta mōnaþ is
nemned on ūre geðeōde Ðrymylce, for ðon
sƿylc genihtsumnesƿæs geō on
Brytone and eāc on
Germania lande, of ðæm
Ongla ðeōd com on ðās...
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orlege hafelan weredon, þonne
hniton feþan,
eoferas cnysedan,
swylc eorl
scolde wesan aérgód
swylc Æschere wæs. Ask not for news of
happy hours!
Sorrow is come...
- mece geþinged, þæt hit sceadenmæl
scyran moste,
cwealmbealu cyðan. Ne bið
swylc cwenlic þeaw
idese to efnanne, þeah ðe hio ænlicu sy, þætte freoðuwebbe...
- muðleas sprecan,
wordum wrixlan. Þæt is
wundres dæl, on
sefan searolic þam þe
swylc ne conn, hu mec
seaxes ord ond seo swiþre hond,
eorles ingeþonc ond ord...
- unclænnesse
heora life al
lyfedan þa
hwile ðe hi wæron. Ac se bið gesælig þe eal
swylc oferhogað and ðone soðan Godd lufað and weorðað þe
ealle þing
gescop and...
