Riddle 26

14 Dec 21
fols. 107r–107v
  • M3ecmec: me feonda sumfeonda sum: a certain foe     feore besnyþedefeore besnyþede: deprived of life
  • woruldstrenga binomworuldstrenga binom: bereft of worldly strength     wættewætte: wetted siþþansiþþan: then
  • dyfdedyfde: dipped on wætreon wætre: in water      dydedyde: took efteft: again þonanþonan: thence
  • sette on sunnansette on sunnan: set in the sun     þærþær: where ic swiþeswiþe: swiftly beleasbeleas: lost
  • herum þamherum þam: the hairs þe ic hæfdeþe ic hæfde: that I had.     heardheard: hard mec siþþan
  • snaðsnað: cut seaxses ecgknife’s edge     sindrum begrundensindrum begrunden: ground free from impurities
  • fingrasfingras: fingers feoldanfeoldan: folded     ⁊ond: and mec fugles wynfugles wyn: bird’s joy
  • geondsprengdegeondsprengde: sprinkled about speddropumspeddropum: useful drops     spyredespyrede: travelled geneahhegeneahhe: often
  • oferofer: over brunne brerdbrunne brerd: brown rim     beamtelgebeamtelge: tree-dye swealgswealg: swallowed
  • streames dælestreames dæle: part of the stream     stopstop: stepped eft on mec
  • siþade sweartlast.      Mec siþþan wrah
  • hæleð hleobordum      hyde beþenede
  • gierede mec mid golde      forþon me gliwedon
  • wrætlic weorc smiþa,      wire bifongen.
  • Nu þa gereno ond se reada telg
  • ond þa wuldorgesteald wide mære
  • dryhtfolca helm, nales dol wite.
  • Gif min bearn wera brucan willað,
  • hy beoð þy gesundran ond þy sigefæstran,
  • heortum þy hwætran ond þy hygebliþran,
  • ferþe þy frodran, habbaþ freonda þy ma,
  • swæsra ond gesibbra, soþra ond godra,
  • tilra ond getreowra, þa hyra tyr ond ead
  • estum ycað ond hy arstafum
  • lissum bilecgað ond hi lufan fæþmum
  • fæste clyppað. Frige hwæt ic hatte,
  • niþum to nytte. Nama min is mære,
  • hæleþum gifre ond halig sylf|
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