# The Creed

ælmihtig fæder || up on rodore
ðe ða sciran gesceaft || sceope and worhtest
and eorðan wang || ealne gesettest
ic ðe ecne god || ænne gecenne
lustum gelyfe || ðu eart lifes frea
engla ordfruma || eorðan wealdend
and ðu garsecges || grundas geworhtest
and ðu ða menegu canst || mærra tungla
ic on sunu ðinne || soðne gelyfe
hælendne cyning || hider asendne
of ðam uplican || engla rice
ðone gabriel || godes ærendraca
sanctan marian || sylfre gebodode
ides unmæne || heo ðæt ærende
onfeng freolice || and ðe fæder sylfne
under breostcofan || bearn acende
næs ðær gefremmed || firen æt giftum
ac ðær halig gast || handgyft sealde
ðære fæmnan bosm || fylde mid blisse
and heo cuðlice || cende swa mærne
eorðbuendum || engla scyppend
se to frofre gewearð || foldbuendum
and ymbe bethleem || bodedan englas
ðæt acenned wæs || crist on eorðan
ða se pontisca || pilatus weold
under romwarum || rices and doma
ða se deora frea || deað ðrowade
on gealgan stah || gumena drihten
ðone geomormod || iosep byrigde
and he of helle || huðe gefette
of ðam suslhofe || sawla manega
het ða uplicne || eðel secan
ðæs ðy ðriddan dæge || ðeoda wealdend
aras rices frea || recene of moldan
and he feowertig daga || folgeras sine
runum arette || and ða his rice began
ðone uplican || eðel secan
cwæð ðæt he nolde || nænne forlætan
ðe him forð ofer ðæt || fylian wolde
and mid fæstum sefan || freode gelæstan
ic haligne gast || hihte beluce
emne swa ecne || swa is aðor gecweden
fæder oððe freobearn || folca gereordum
ne synd ðæt ðreo godas || ðriwa genemned
ac is an god || se ðe ealle hafað
ða ðry naman || ðinga gerynum
soð and sigefæst || ofer side gesceaft
wereda wuldorgyfa || wlanc and ece
eac ic gelyfe || ðæt syn leofe gode
ðe ðurh ænne geðanc || ealdor heriað
heofona heahcyning || her for life
and ic gemænscipe || mærne getreowe
ðinra haligra || her for life
lisse ic gelyfe || leahtra gehwylces
and ic ðone ærest || ealra getreowe
flæsces on foldan || on ða forhtan tid
ðær ðu ece lif || eallum dælest
swa her manna gehwylc || metode gecwemað