- ealdor-leasne, þone þe ær
geheold wið
hettendum hord and rice, æfter hæleða
hryre hwate Scylfingas,
folcred fremede oððe furður gen eorl-scipe efnde. Such...
- þas hofu dreorgiað, ond þæs
teaforgeapa tigelum sceadeð
hrostbeages hrof.
Hryre wong
gecrong gebrocen to beorgum, þær iu
beorn monig glædmod ond goldbeorht...
- Se þæs leod-
hryres lean
gemunde uferan dogrum,
Eadgilse wearð fea-sceaftum feond.
Folce gestepte ofer sæ side sunu
Ohteres wigum and wæpnum: he gewræc...
- ealdor-leasne, þone þe ær
geheold wið
hettendum hord and rice, æfter hæleða
hryre hwate Scylfingas,
folcred fremede oððe furður gen eorl-scipe efnde. Such...
- and to "of" in present-day English. Hence, "The fall of Rome" was Rōme
hryre,
literally "Rome's fall", and "the god of thunder" was þunres god, literally...
-
verse English (from the Spanish) Swa
begnornodon |
Geata leode hlafordes hryre, | heorðgeneatas. Cwædon þæt he wære | wyruldcyning,
manna mildust | ond...