The Creed University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.6.23 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems 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