The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Metrical Charm 1: For Unfruitful Land
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Her ys seo bot, hu ðu meaht þine æceras betan gif hi
nellaþ wel wexan oþþe þær hwilc ungedefe þing
on gedon bið
on dry oððe on lyblace. Genim þonne on niht, ær hyt
dagige, feower tyrf on feower healfa þæs landes, and gemearca
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hu hy ær stodon. Nim þonne ele and hunig and beorman,
and ælces feos meolc þe on þæm lande sy, and ælces
treow-
cynnes dæl þe on þæm lande sy gewexen, butan heardan
beaman, and ælcre namcuþre wyrte dæl, butan glappan anon,
and do þonne haligwæter ðær on, and drype þonne
þriwa on
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þone staðol þara turfa, and cweþe ðonne ðas word:
Crescite,
wexe, et multiplicamini, and gemænigfealda, et replete,
and
gefylle, terre, þas eorðan. In nomine patris et filii
et spiritus
sancti sit benedicti. And Pater Noster swa oft swa þæt oðer.
And bere siþþan ða turf to circean, and mæssepreost asinge
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feower mæssan ofer þan turfon, and wende man þæt grene
to
ðan weofode, and siþþan gebringe man þa turf þær
hi ær
wæron ær sunnan setlgange. And hæbbe him gæworht of
cwicbeame feower Cristes mælo and awrite on ælcon ende:
Matheus and Marcus, Lucas and Iohannes. Lege þæt
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Cristes mæl on þone pyt neoþeweardne, cweðe ðonne:
Crux
Matheus, crux Marcus, crux Lucas, crux sanctus Iohannes.
Nim ðonne þa turf and sete ðær ufon on and cweþe ðonne
nigon siþon þas word, Crescite, and swa oft Pater Noster,
and wende þe þonne eastweard, and onlut nigon siðon
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eadmodlice, and cweð þonne þas word:
Eastweard ic stande, arena ic me bidde,
bidde ic þone mæran domine, bidde ðone
miclan drihten,
bidde ic ðone haligan heofonrices weard,
eorðan ic bidde and upheofon
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and ða soþan sancta Marian
and heofones meaht and heahreced,
þæt ic mote þis gealdor mid gife
drihtnes
toðum ontynan þurh trumne geþanc,
aweccan þas wæstmas us to woruldnytte,
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gefyllan þas foldan mid fæste
geleafan,
wlitigigan þas wancgturf, swa se witega cwæð
þæt se hæfde are on eorþrice,
se þe ælmyssan
dælde domlice drihtnes þances.
Wende þe þonne III sunganges, astrece þonne on andlang
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and arim þær letanias and cweð þonne: Sanctus, sanctus,
sanctus oþ ende. Sing þonne Benedicite aþenedon earmon
and Magnificat and Pater Noster III, and bebeod hit Criste
and sancta Marian and þære halgan rode to lofe and to
weorþinga and to are þam þe
þæt land age and eallon þam þe
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him underðeodde synt. ðonne þæt eall sie gedon, þonne
nime man uncuþ sæd æt ælmesmannum and selle him twa
swylc, swylce man æt him nime, and gegaderie ealle his
sulhgeteogo togædere; borige þonne on þam beame stor and
finol and gehalgode sapan and gehalgod sealt. Nim þonne
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þæt sæd, sete on þæs sules bodig, cweð þonne:
Erce, Erce, Erce, eorþan modor,
geunne þe se alwalda, ece drihten,
æcera wexendra and wridendra,
eacniendra and elniendra,
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sceafta hehra, scirra
wæstma,
and þæra bradan berewæstma,
and þæra hwitan hwætewæstma,
and ealra eorþan wæstma.
Geunne him ece drihten
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and his halige, þe on heofonum
synt,
þæt hys yrþ si gefriþod wið
ealra feonda gehwæne,
and heo si geborgen wið ealra bealwa gehwylc,
þara lyblaca geond land sawen.
Nu ic bidde ðone waldend, se ðe ðas woruld
gesceop,
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þæt ne sy nan to þæs cwidol wif
ne to þæs cræftig man
þæt awendan ne mæge word
þus gecwedene.
þonne man þa sulh forð drife and þa forman furh onsceote,
cweð þonne:
Hal wes þu, folde, fira modor!
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Beo þu growende on godes fæþme,
fodre gefylled firum to nytte.
Nim þonne ælces cynnes melo and abacæ man innewerdre
handa bradnæ hlaf and gecned hine mid meolce and mid
haligwætere and lecge under þa forman furh. Cweþe þonne:
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Ful æcer fodres fira cinne,
beorhtblowende, þu gebletsod weorþ
þæs haligan noman þe ðas heofon
gesceop
and ðas eorþan þe we on lifiaþ;
se god, se þas grundas geworhte, geunne us growende
gife,
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þæt us corna gehwylc cume to nytte.
Cweð þonne III Crescite in nomine patris, sit benedicti.
Amen and Pater Noster þriwa.
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