Ofer Indeum liegþ þu, beorht ieg
Taprabane, ealdfæder
swefn
Nu ne blawað þa garsecg æþm swete on strande.
Þæt
Micel Yð, sweart on sæ, com scriþan geond garsecg
Hæwe
Indisc garsecg, be Godes handa geswungen,
Æt feorrum Sumatra-ieg.
Eorþ
styrde.
Sund aros
Yð ætberst in brima
Windleas wylm
Swift
geond seglrada, grim on garsecge.
Landesduru ne holdeð hit,
Fram
brimubedde fleogað finger
Þa þusenda aswefede in anum firendæde.
Wyrtgemang ieg,
Þa in geardagum wæs an engla rice,
Anhoga
nu; seo woruldrice ebbieð,
Nu Hæðenmannaiegland is Taprabane,
ciricebærna,
Þa sind Godes sanctas in grimre bende
Noðylæs
þin flodgyrd ne hold Godes lufe fram þe.
Ne lufeð we þe
giet, swa swa Crist lærede us?
Þis dæg standað we eall
in ege Godes miht and modgeðance.
| Her Engle ond oðre, endleofon menn, fotcræftigan and feohweligan ofer sæwe flugon sohton plegfeld, for gomene georne, to Germanie. In þæm Þeodiscan lande geþrang wæs micel. Þa fruman in worulde in fotþoðore goldsecende gadredon be felde To Carlesreste cwom Engla healf, ond Berlinburg under beorhtan sunnan, wæs in ordes eagan, þider eodon menn. Þær wæs woruldeswæg ond gumena gewuna. Hwæs sincgeafa Gesomnung wæs se Dyfenaling deorra mæðma Idelgeornes wín, eald hrifhryre, folcmihtes feond, for felum nu wearþ. In gomengielde æt þære gaderunge, ne wat hie nan geantalu. In Englalande man weaxede wod þonne word wearþ gehiered. Cnyttede cumbol man to crætwægnum hwit and omhiwodan ond hweoleslas. Blodrod Cristes geboren wæs on him, For Sancte Georgie, swa hwa swa he wæs, And in æghwylcum ealhuse menn Frettað ond feohtað ond forligað gedruncene wurdon under deorre rode swa þæm þæron Crist aswealt - ac ne mann þencte ymb hine, Galileiscne guman þe gaf his feorh in geodagum begeondan sæ. Ac secgað we ealle, secgas ond þegnas, we þa wyrcað seo woruld for wera dæda, "Nis naht - we abidað oððæt gebrohte wierþþ hider oðer gamen us, Hroceburgisc." |