A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Welcome to the CLASP database: A Consolidated Library of Anglo Saxon Poetry.

For more information see the CLASP project homepage.

Poem of the Day: The Metres of Boethius: Metre 4

  1. æala þu scippend || scirra tungla
  2. hefones and eorþan || þu on heahsetle
  3. ecum ricsast || and þu ealne hræþe
  4. hefon ymbhwearfest || and þurh þine halige miht
  5. tunglu genedest || þæt hi þe to heraþ
  6. swylce seo sunne || sweartra nihta
  7. þiostro adwæsceþ || þurh þine meht
  8. blacum leohte || beorhte steorran
  9. mona gemetgaþ || þurh þinra meahta sped
  10. hwilum eac þa sunnan || sines bereafaþ
  11. ...

Full poem

Word Form of the Day: habunde

Number of occurrences in corpus: 3

Full entry

Metre of the Day

Riddles 63 1a

Bliss
Scansion: xxSx
Type: a1b
Sievers
Scansion: xx / x
Type: A3

Syntax: iN
Light Verse

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)

Full entry