The Ruin

fols. 123v–124v
  • Wrætlic is þes wealstan, wyrde gebræcon;
  • burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc.
  • Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras,
  • hrungeat berofen, hrim on lime,
  • scearde scurbeorge scorene, gedrorene,
  • ældo undereotone. Eorðgrap hafað
  • waldend wyrhtan forweorone, geleorene,
  • heardgripe hrusan, oþ hund cnea
  • werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad
  • ræghar ond readfah rice æfter oþrum,
  • ofstonden under stormum; steap geap gedreas.
  • Wonað giet se …num geheapen,
  • fel on
  • grimme gegrunden
  • scan heo…
  • …g orþonc ærsceaft
  • …g lamrindum beag
  • mod mo… …yne swiftne gebrægd
  • hwætred in hringas, hygerof gebond
  • weallwalan wirum wundrum togædre.
  • Beorht wæron burgræced, burnsele monige,
  • heah horngestreon, heresweg micel,
  • meodoheall monig ᛗ dreama full,
  • oþþæt þæt onwende wyrd seo swiþe.
  • Crungon walo wide, cwoman woldagas,
  • swylt eall fornom secgrofra wera;
  • wurdon hyra wigsteal westen staþolas,
  • brosnade burgsteall. Betend crungon
  • hergas to hrusan. Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað,
  • ond þæs teaforgeapa tigelum sceadeð
  • hrostbeages hrof. Hryre wong gecrong
  • gebrocen to beorgum, þær iu beorn monig
  • glædmod ond goldbeorht gleoma gefrætwed,
  • wlonc ond wingal wighyrstum scan;
  • seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searogimmas,
  • on ead, on æht, on eorcanstan,
  • on þas beorhtan burg bradan rices.
  • Stanhofu stodan, stream hate wearp
  • widan wylme; weal eall befeng
  • beorhtan bosme, þær þa baþu wæron,
  • hat on hreþre. þæt wæs hyðelic.
  • Leton þonne geotan
  • ofer harne stan hate streamas
  • un…
  • …þþæt hringmere hate
  • þær þa baþu wæron.
  • þonne is
  • …re; þæt is cynelic þing,
  • huse …… burg….