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The Sources of Standard English.
| miþ strelum giwundæd | with arrows wounded |
| alegdun hiæ hinæ limwærignæ | they laid him down limb-weary |
| gistoddun him (æt) h(is l)icæs (h)eaf(du)m | they stood at his corpse's head |
II.
Manuscript of the year 737, containing lines by Cadmon.[1]
| Nu scylun hergan hefaen ricaes uard metudæs mæcti end his mod gidanc uerc uuldur fadur sue he uundra gihuaes eci drictin or astelidæ He ærist scop elda barnum heben til hrofe haleg scepen tha middun geard mon cynnæs uard eci dryctin æfter tiadæ firum foldu frea allmectig. |
Now must we praise heaven kingdom's Warden the Creator's might and his mind's thought glorious Father of men as he of each wonder eternal Lord formed the beginning He erst shaped for earth's bairns heaven as a roof holy Shaper then mid-earth mankind's Warden eternal Lord afterwards produced for men the earth Lord Almighty. |
- ↑ Bosworth, Origin of the Germanic Languages, p. 57.
