Wulf andEadwacer

Ed. Murray McGillivray. Online Corpus of Old English Poetry (OCOEP). Edition in progress. This file last updated 12/12/07.

Leodum is minum     swylce him mon lac gife;
willað hy hine aþecgan,     gif he on þreat cymeð.
Ungelic is us.
Wulf is on iege,     ic on oþerre.

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Fæst is þæt eglond,     fenne biworpen.
Sindon wælreowe     weras þær on ige;
willað hy hine aþecgan,     gif he on þreat cymeð.
Ungelice is us.
Wulfes ic mines widlastum     wenum hogode;

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þonne hit wæs renig weder     ond ic reotugu sæt,
þonne mec se beaducafa     bogum bilegde,
wæs me wyn to þon,     wæs me hwæþre eac lað.
Wulf, min Wulf,     wena me þine
seoce gedydon,     þine seldcymas,

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murnende mod,     nales meteliste.
Gehyrest þu, Eadwacer?     Uncerne earmne hwelp
bireð wulf to wuda.
Þæt mon eaþe tosliteð     þætte næfre gesomnad wæs,
uncer giedd geador.