The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Creed
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem. ælmihtig fæder
up on rodore,
þe ða sciran gesceaft sceope and worhtest
and eorðan wang ealne gesettest,
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ic þe ecne god ænne gecenne,
lustum gelyfe. þu eart lifes frea,
engla ordfruma, eorðan wealdend,
and ðu garsecges grundas geworhtest,
and þu ða menegu
canst mærra tungla.
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Et in Iesum Christum filium eius unicum, dominum nostrum. Ic on sunu
þinne soðne gelyfe,
hælendne cyning, hider asendne
of ðam uplican engla rice,
þone Gabriel, godes ærendraca,
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sanctan Marian sylfre gebodode.
Ides unmæne, heo þæt ærende
onfeng freolice, and ðe fæder sylfne
under breostcofan bearn acende.
Næs ðær gefremmed firen æt giftum,
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ac þær halig gast handgyft sealde,
þære fæmnan bosm fylde mid blisse,
and heo cuðlice cende swa mærne
eorðbuendum engla scyppend,
se to frofre gewearð foldbuendum,
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and ymbe Bethleem bodedan englas
þæt acenned wæs Crist on eorðan.
Passus sub Pontio Pilato. ða se pontisca
Pilatus weold
under Romwarum rices and doma,
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þa se deora frea deað þrowade,
on gealgan stah, gumena drihten,
þone geomormod Iosep byrigde,
and he of helle huðe gefette,
of þam suslhofe, sawla manega,
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het ða uplicne eþel secan.
Tertia die resurrexit a mortuis. þæs þy ðriddan
dæge þeoda wealdend
aras, rices frea, recene of moldan,
and he XL daga folgeras sine
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runum arette, and ða his rice began,
þone uplican eðel secan,
cwæð þæt he nolde nænne
forlætan
þe him forð ofer þæt fylian wolde
and mid fæstum sefan freode gelæstan.
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Credo in spiritum sanctum. Ic haligne gast
hihte beluce,
emne swa ecne swa is aðor gecweden,
fæder oððe freobearn, folca gereordum.
Ne synd þæt þreo godas, þriwa
genemned,
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ac is an god, se ðe ealle hafað
þa þry naman þinga gerynum,
soð and sigefæst ofer side gesceaft,
wereda wuldorgyfa, wlanc and ece.
Sanctum ecclesiam catholicam.
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Eac ic gelyfe þæt syn leofe gode
þe þurh ænne geþanc ealdor
heriað,
heofona heahcyning her for life,
Sanctorum communionem. and ic gemænscipe
mærne getreowe
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þinra haligra her for life.
Remissionem peccatorum. Lisse ic gelyfe leahtra
gehwylces,
Carnis resurrectionem. and ic þone ærest
ealra getreowe,
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flæsces on foldan on þa forhtan tid,
Et uitam eternam. þær ðu ece lif
eallum dælest,
swa her manna gehwylc metode gecwemað.
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