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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

5

ðæt Aulixes      under hæfde
ðæm casere      cynericu twa.
He wæs þracia      ðioda aldor
and Retie      rices hirde.
Wæs his freadrihtnes      folccuð nama,

10

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,

15

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

20

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

25

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,

35

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,

40

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,

45

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

50

ælcne æfter oðrum      for ecne god.
Sceolde eac wesan      Apollines
dohtor diorboren,      dysiges folces,
gumrinca gyden;      cuðe galdra fela,
drifan drycræftas.      Hio gedwolan fylgde

55

manna swiðost      manegra þioda,
cyninges dohtor;      sio Circe wæs
haten for herigum.      Hio ricsode
on ðæm iglonde      þe Aulixes,
cining þracia,      com ane to

60

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

65

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

70

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

75

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,

80

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

85

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.

90

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;

95

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,

100

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

105

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,

110

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

115

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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