wilt ðu fus hæle fremdne monnan wisne woðboran wordum gretan fricgan felageongne ymb forðgesceaft biddan ðe gesecge sidra gesceafta cræftas cyndelice cwichrerende ða ðe dogra gehwam ðurh dom godes bringe wundra fela wera cneorissum is ðara anra gehwam orgeate tacen ðam ðurh wisdom woruld ealle con behabban on hreðre hycgende mon ðæt geara iu gliwes cræfte mid gieddingum guman oft wrecan rincas rædfæste cuðon ryht sprecan ðæt a fricgende fira cynnes ond secgende searoruna gespon a gemyndge mæst monna wiston forðon scyle ascian se ðe on elne leofað deophydig mon dygelra gesceafta bewritan in gewitte wordhordes cræft fæstnian ferðsefan ðencan forð teala ne sceal ðæs aðreotan ðegn modigne ðæt he wislice woruld fulgonge leorna ðas lare ic ðe lungre sceal meotudes mægensped maran gesecgan ðonne ðu hygecræftig in hreðre mæge mode gegripan is sin meaht forswið nis ðæt monnes gemet moldhrerendra ðæt he mæge in hreðre his heah geweorc furðor aspyrgan ðonne him frea sylle to ongietanne godes agen bibod ac we sculon ðoncian ðeodne mærum awa to ealdre ðæs ðe us se eca cyning on gæste wlite forgiefan wille ðæt we eaðe magon upcund rice forð gestigan gif us on ferðe geneah ond we willað healdan heofoncyninges bibod gehyr nu ðis herespel ond ðinne hyge gefæstna hwæt on frymðe gescop fæder ælmihtig heah hordes weard heofon ond eorðan sæs sidne grund sweotule gesceafte ða nu in ðam ðream ðurh ðeodnes hond heað ond hebbað ðone halgan blæd forðon eal swa teofanade se ðe teala cuðe æghwylc wið oðrum sceoldon eal beran stiðe stefnbyrd swa him se steora bibead missenlice gemetu ðurh ða miclan gecynd swa hi to worulde wlite forð berað dryhtnes duguðe ond his dæda ðrym lixende lof in ða longan tid fremmað fæstlice frean ece word in ðam frumstole ðe him frea sette hluttor heofones weard healdað georne mere gemære meaht forð tihð heofoncondelle ond holmas mid laðað ond lædeð lifes agend in his anes fæðm ealle gesceafta swa him wideferh wuldor stondeð ealra demena ðam gedefestan ðe us ðis lif gescop ond ðis leohte beorht cymeð morgna gehwam ofer misthleoðu wadan ofer wægas wundrum gegierwed ond mid ærdæge eastan snoweð wlitig ond wynsum wera cneorissum lifgendra gehwam leoht forð biereð bronda beorhtost ond his brucan mot æghwylc on eorðan ðe him eagna gesihð sigora soðcyning syllan wolde gewiteð ðonne mid ðy wuldre on westrodor forðmære tungol faran on heape oððæt on æfenne ut garsecges grundas pæðeð glom oðer cigð niht æfter cymeð healdeð nydbibod halgan dryhtnes heofontorht swegl scir gescyndeð in gesceaft godes under foldan fæðm farende tungol forðon nænig fira ðæs frod leofað ðæt his mæge æspringe ðurh his ægne sped witan hu geond grund færeð goldtorht sunne in ðæt wonne genip under wætra geðring oððe hwa ðæs leohtes londbuende brucan mote siððan heo ofer brim hweorfeð forðon swa teofenede se ðe teala cuðe dæg wið nihte deop wið hean lyft wið lagustream lond wið wæge flod wið flode fisc wið yðum ne waciað ðas geweorc ac he hi wel healdeð stondað stiðlice bestryðed fæste miclum meahtlocum in ðam mægenðrymme mid ðam sy ahefed heofon ond eorðe beoð ðonne eadge ða ðær in wuniað hyhtlic is ðæt heorðwerud ðæt is herga mæst eadigra unrim engla ðreatas hy geseoð symle hyra sylfra cyning eagum on wlitað habbað æghwæs genoh nis him wihte won ðam ðe wuldres cyning geseoð in swegle him is symbel ond dream ece unhwylen eadgum to frofre forðon scyle mon gehycgan ðæt he meotude hyre æghwylc ælda bearna forlæte idle lustas læne lifes wynne fundige him to lissa blisse forlæte heteniða gehwone sigan mid synna fyrnum fere him to ðam sellan rice