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The Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms


Charm 11


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,
30
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
35
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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