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Now we must praise the Guardian of heaven, The power and conception of the Lord, And all His works, as He, eternal Lord, Father of glory, started every wonder. First He created heaven as a roof, The holy Maker, for the sons of men. Then the eternal Keeper of mankind Furnished the earth below, the land, for men, Almighty God and everlasting Lord. |
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Thought shall be the harder, the heart the keener, courage the greater, as our strength lessens. Here lies our leader in the dust, all cut down; always may he mourn who now thinks to turn away from this warplay. I am old, I will not go away, but I plan to lie down by the side of my lord, by the man so dearly loved. |
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Those sinful creatures had no fill of rejoicing that they consumed me, assembled at feast at the sea bottom; rather, in the morning, wounded by blades they lay up on the shore, put to sleep by swords, so that never after did they hinder sailors in their course on the sea. The light came from the east, the bright beacon of God. |
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Full many a dire experience on that hill. I saw the God of hosts stretched grimly out. Darkness covered the Ruler's corpse with clouds, A shadow passed across his shining beauty, under the dark sky. All creation wept, bewailed the King's death. Christ was on the cross. |
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- ^ a b Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger (2015). A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse. London: Faber & Faber Ltd. p. 126. ISBN 9780571325399. OCLC 979493193. Taken from A.H. Smith, Three Northumbrian Poems, 1933, in turn taken from the manuscript known as the Moore Bede (Cambridge Library MS. kk.5.16).
- ^ Sweet, Henry (1908). An Anglo-Saxon Reader (8th ed. ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 47.
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has extra text (help) Taken from the Corpus MS. at Oxford (279), commonly referred to as the "O" manuscript of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. - ^ Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger (2015). A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse. London: Faber & Faber Ltd. p. 66. ISBN 9780571325399. OCLC 979493193. Lists a number of sources: E.D. Laborde (1936), E.V. Gordon (1937), D.G. Scragg (1981), Bernard J. Muir (1989), J.C. Pope & R.D. Fulk (2001), J.R.R. Tolkein (1953), N.F. Blake (1965), O.D. Macrae-Gibson (1970), Donald Scragg (1991), Jane Cooper (1993).
- ^ Crowne, D.K. (1960). "THE HERO ON THE BEACH: An Example of Composition by Theme in Anglo-Saxon Poetry". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 61 (4): 362–372.
- ^ a b Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger (2015). A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse. London: Faber & Faber Ltd. pp. 166–169. ISBN 9780571325399. OCLC 979493193. Lists a number of sources: B. Dickins & A.S.C. Ross (1934), M. Swanton (1970), J.C. Pope & R.D. Fulk (2001), R. Woolf (1958), J.A. Burrow (1959).