The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 26
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ic þe mæg eaðe ealdum and leasum
spellum andreccan spræce gelice
efne ðisse ilcan þe wit ymb sprecað.
Hit gesælde gio on sume tide
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ðæt Aulixes under hæfde
ðæm casere cynericu twa.
He wæs þracia ðioda aldor
and Retie rices hirde.
Wæs his freadrihtnes folccuð nama,
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Agamemnon, se ealles weold
Creca rices. Cuð wæs wide
þæt on þa tide Troia gewin
wearð under wolcnum. For wiges heard
Creca drihten campsted secan,
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Aulixes mid, an hund scipa
lædde ofer lagustream, sæt longe ðær
tyn winter full. þa sio tid
gelomp
þæt hi ðæt rice geræht
hæfdon,
diore gecepte drihten Creca
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Troia burg tilum gesiðum.
ða ða Aulixes leafe hæfde,
ðracia cining, þæt he þonan moste,
he let him behindan hyrnde ciolas
nigon and hundnigontig, nænigne þonan
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merehengesta ma þonne ænne
ferede on fifelstream, famigbordon,
ðriereðre ceol; þæt bið ðæt
mæste
Creciscra scipa. þa wearð ceald weder,
stearc storma gelac; stunede sio brune
30
yð wið oðre, ut feor adraf
on Wendelsæ wigendra scola
up on þæt igland þær Apolines
dohtor wunode dægrimes worn.
Wæs se Apollinus æðeles cynnes,
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Iobes eafora, se wæs gio cyning.
Se licette litlum and miclum
gumena gehwylcum þæt he good wære,
hehst and halgost; swa se hlaford þa
þæt dysige folc on gedwolan lædde,
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oððæt him gelyfde leoda unrim,
forðæm he wæs mid rihte rices hirde,
hiora cynecynnes. Cuð is wide
þæt on ða tide þeoda æghwilc
hæfdon heora hlaford for ðone hehstan god,
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and weorðodon swa swa wuldres cining,
gif he to ðæm rice wæs on rihte boren.
Wæs þæs Iobes fæder god eac
swa he;
Saturnus ðone sundbuende
heton, hæleða bearn. Hæfdon ða
mægða
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ælcne æfter oðrum for ecne god.
Sceolde eac wesan Apollines
dohtor diorboren, dysiges folces,
gumrinca gyden; cuðe galdra fela,
drifan drycræftas. Hio gedwolan fylgde
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manna swiðost manegra þioda,
cyninges dohtor; sio Circe wæs
haten for herigum. Hio ricsode
on ðæm iglonde þe Aulixes,
cining þracia, com ane to
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ceole liðan. Cuð wæs sona
eallre þære mænige þe hire
mid wunode
æþelinges sið. Hio mid ungemete
lissum lufode liðmonna frean,
and he eac swa same ealle mægne
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efne swa swiðe hi on sefan lufode,
þæt he to his earde ænige nyste
modes mynlan ofer mægð giunge;
ac he mid þæm wife wunode siððan,
oððæt him ne meahte monna ænig
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ðegna sinra þær mid
wesan,
ac hi for ðæm yrmðum eardes lyste;
mynton forlætan leofne hlaford.
ða ongunnon wercan werðeoda spell,
sædon þæt hio sceolde mid hire scinlace
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beornas forbredan, and mid balocræftum
wraðum weorpan on wildra lic
cyninges þegnas, cyspan siððan
and mid racentan eac ræpan mænigne.
Sume hi to wulfum wurdon, ne meahton þonne word
forðbringan,
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ac hio þragmælum ðioton ongunnon.
Sume wæron eaforas, a grymetedon
ðonne hi sares hwæt siofian scioldon.
þa ðe leon wæron ongunnon laðlice
yrrenga ryn a ðonne hi sceoldon
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clipian for corðre. Cnihtas wurdon,
ealde ge giunge, ealle forhwerfde
to sumum diore, swelcum he æror
on his lifdagum gelicost wæs,
butan þam cyninge, þe sio cwen lufode.
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Nolde þara oþra ænig onbitan
mennisces metes, ac hi ma lufedon
diora drohtað, swa hit gedefe ne wæs.
Næfdon hi mare monnum gelices
eorðbuendum ðonne ingeþonc;
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hæfde anra gehwylc his agen mod,
þæt wæs þeah swiðe sorgum
gebunden
for ðæm earfoðum þe him on sæton.
Hwæt, ða dysegan men þe ðysum drycræftum
longe gelyfdon, leasum spellum,
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wisson hwæðre þæt þæt
gewit ne mæg
mod onwendan monna ænig
mid drycræftum, þeah hio gedon meahte
þæt ða lichoman lange þrage
onwend wurdon. Is þæt wundorlic
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mægencræft micel moda gehwilces
ofer lichoman lænne and sænne.
Swylcum and swylcum þu meaht sweotole ongitan
þæt ðæs lichoman listas and cræftas
of ðæm mode cumað monna gehwylcum,
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anlepra ælc. þu meaht eaðe ongitan
þætte ma dereð monna gehwelcum
modes unðeaw þonne mettrymnes
lænes lichoman. Ne þearf leoda nan
wenan þære wyrde þæt þæt
werige flæsc
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þæt mod mæge monna
æniges
eallunga to him æfre onwendan,
ac þa unðeawas ælces modes
and þæt ingeþonc ælces monnes
þone lichoman lit þider hit wile.
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