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Viktor Rydberg's Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II  : Part 2: Germanic Mythology
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The Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms


Charm 4


Metrical Charm 4: For a Sudden Stich

Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Wið færstice feferfuige and seo reade netele, ðe þurh
ærn inwyxð, and wegbrade; wyll in buteran.
Hlude wæran hy, la, hlude,      ða hy ofer þone hlæw ridan,
wæran anmode,      ða hy ofer land ridan.
5
Scyld ðu ðe nu, þu ðysne nið      genesan mote.
Ut, lytel spere,      gif her inne sie!
Stod under linde,      under leohtum scylde,
þær ða mihtigan wif      hyra mægen beræddon
and hy gyllende      garas sændan;
10
ic him oðerne      eft wille sændan,
fleogende flane      forane togeanes.
Ut, lytel spere,      gif hit her inne sy!
Sæt smið,      sloh seax lytel,
iserna,      wundrum swiðe.
15
Ut, lytel spere,      gif her inne sy!
Syx smiðas sætan,      wælspera worhtan.
Ut, spere,      næs in, spere!
Gif her inne sy      isernes dæl,
hægtessan geweorc,      hit sceal gemyltan.
20
Gif ðu wære on fell scoten      oððe wære on flæsc scoten
oððe wære on blod scoten     
oððe wære on lið scoten,      næfre ne sy ðin lif atæsed;
gif hit wære esa gescot      oððe hit wære ylfa gescot
oððe hit wære hægtessan gescot,      nu ic wille ðin helpan.
25
þis ðe to bote esa gescotes,      ðis ðe to bote ylfa gescotes,
ðis ðe to bote hægtessan gescotes;      ic ðin wille helpan.
Fleoh þær      on fyrgenheafde.
Hal westu,      helpe ðin drihten!
Nim þonne þæt seax, ado on wætan.


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