The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Metrical Charm 11: A Journey Charm
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ic me on þisse gyrde beluce and on godes helde
bebeode
wið þane sara stice, wið
þane sara slege,
wið þane grymma gryre,
wið ðane micela egsa þe bið eghwam
lað,
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and wið eal þæt lað þe in
to land fare.
Sygegealdor ic begale, sigegyrd ic me wege,
wordsige and worcsige. Se me dege;
ne me mere ne gemyrre, ne me maga
ne geswence,
ne me næfre minum feore forht ne gewurþe,
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ac gehæle me ælmihtig and sunu
and frofre gast,
ealles wuldres wyrðig dryhten,
swa swa ic gehyrde heofna scyppende.
Abrame and Isace
and swilce men, Moyses and Iacob,
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and Dauit and Iosep
and Evan and Annan and Elizabet,
Saharie and ec Marie, modur Cristes,
and eac þæ gebroþru, Petrus and Paulus,
and eac þusend þinra engla
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clipige ic me to are wið eallum feondum.
Hi me ferion and friþion and mine fore nerion,
eal me gehealdon, me gewealdon,
worces stirende; si me wuldres hyht,
hand ofer heafod, haligra rof,
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sigerofra sceolu, soðfæstra
engla.
Biddu ealle bliðu mode
þæt me beo Matheus helm,
Marcus byrne,
leoht, lifes rof, Lucos min swurd,
scearp and scirecg, scyld Iohannes,
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wuldre gewlitegod wælgar Serafhin.
Forð ic gefare, frind ic gemete,
eall engla blæd, eadiges lare.
Bidde ic nu sigeres god godes miltse,
siðfæt godne, smylte and lihte
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windas on waroþum.
Windas gefran,
circinde wæter simble gehælede
wið eallum feondum. Freond ic gemete wið,
þæt ic on þæs ælmihtgian frið
wunian mote,
belocun wið þam laþan,
se me lyfes eht,
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on engla blæd gestaþelod,
and inna halre hand heofna rices,
þa hwile þe ic on þis life wunian
mote.
Amen.
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