TEXTE ET TRADUCTION EN ANGLAIS MODERNE
Her Eadward cing.
Engla hlaford.
sende sotbfœste sawle to Kriste.
On godes wera gast h aligne. He on weorolda her wunode thrage ».
on kyne-thrymme craeftig reeda.
Feovver and twentig »
freolic wealdend wintra gerimes weolan britnode.
And he haelo-tid »
hseletha wealdend weold wel gethungen.
Walum and Scottum and Brytlum eac.
byre ^Ethelredes.
Hère Edward king,
of Angles lord,
sent bis stedfast
soûl to Christ.
In the kingdom of God
a holy spirit!
He in the world hère
abode awhile,
in the kingly throng,
of councile sage.
Four and twenty
winters wielding
the sceptre freely,
wealth he dispensed.
In the tideof healih,
the youthful monarch,
offspring of Ethelred!
ruled well his subjects;
the Welsh and the Scots,
and the Britons also,
l. The Saxon Chronicle, with an English translation by S. Ingram, p. 255.
Englum and Sexum.
oret-mœgcum.
Swa ymb-clyppath Gealda brymmas.
that eall Eadwarde aethelum kinge hyrdon holdlice agestealde menn.
Wa3s â blithe-mod bealu-leas kyng. »
theah he lang » <er lande-bereafod wunode wlsecastum »
wide geond eortban syththan Knut ofercom cynn iEthelredes.
'and Dena weoldon deore rice Engla-landes.
Eaht and twentig »
wintra gerimes weolan brytnodon. »
Sythtban forth becom freolic ingeatwum kyningc-kystum ».
god clsene and milde.
Eadward se aethela.
ethel bewerode.
land and leode.
Othlhœt lunger becom Death se bytera.
and swa deore genam aethelne of eorthan.
Englas iëredon.
sothfaeste sawle innan swegles leoth.
And se froda svvatheah befœste thœt rice heah-tbungenum menn.
Harolde sylfum.
Angles and Saxons, —
relations of old.
So apprebend
the first in rank,
that to Edward ail
the noble king
were firmly held
high-seated men.
Blithe minded aye
was the harmless king;
though he long ère,
of land bereft,
abode an exile
wide on the earth;
when Knute o'ercame
the kin of Ethelred,
and the Danes wielded
the dear kingdom
of Engle-land.
Eight and twenty
winters'rounds
they wealth dispensed
The came forth
free in his chambers,
in royal array,
good, pure and mild,
Edward the noble ;
by his country defended
by land and people.
Untill suddenly came
the bitter Death,
and this king so dear
snatched from the earth.
An gels carried
his soûl sincère
into the light of heaven.
But the prudent king
had settled the realm
on high-born men —
on Harold himself,
sethelum eorle. the noble earl;
Se in ealne tid » who in every seaso
hyrde holdelice. faithfully heard
herran synum. and obeyed his lord,
wordum dand dœdum. in word and deed ;
Wihte ne agaalde. nor gave to any
thaes the thearf wœs. what might be wanted
Thaes theod-kyninges )• by the nation's kiog.
