Waldere B University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.6.8.2 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 Waldere B
"/ce bæteran buton ðam anum ðe ic eac hafa on stanfate stille gehided. Ic wat þæt hit ðohte ðeodric Widian selfum onsendon, and eac sinc micel maðma mid ði mece, monig oðres mid him golde gegirwan (iulean genam), þæs ðe hine of nearwum Niðhades mæg, Welandes bearn, Widia ut forlet; ðurh fifela gewe/ /ld forð onette." Waldere mað/ /lode, wiga ellenrof, hæfde him on handa hildefrofre, guðbilla gripe, gyddode wordum: "Hwæt! ðu huru wendest, wine Burgenda, þæt me Hagenan hand hilde gefremede and getwæmde /ðewigges. Feta, gyf ðu dyrre, æt ðus heaðuwerigan hare byrnan. Standeð me her on eaxelum ælfheres laf, god and geapneb, golde geweorðod, ealles unscende æðelinges reaf to habbanne, þonne hand wereð feorhhord feondum. Ne bið fah wið me, þonne […] unmægas eft ongynnað, mecum gemetað, swa ge me dydon. ðeah mæg sige syllan se ðe symle byð recon and rædfest ryh/ /a gehwilces. Se ðe him to ðam halgan helpe gelifeð, to gode gioce, he þær gearo findeð gif ða earnunga ær geðenceð. þonne moten wlance welan britnian, æhtum wealdan, þæt is"