A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: wife

Number of occurrences in corpus: 37

Genesis B 717b to hire willan || he æt þam wife onfeng / helle and hinnsiþ ||
Genesis A 1147b tra hundnigontig || ær he be wife her / þurh gebedscipe || bearn
Genesis A 1170b ig / wintra hæfde || þa he be wife ongann / bearna strynan || him
Maxims I 95a n bord || leof wilcuma / frysan wife || ðonne flota stondeð / bið
Riddles 2 32b gestreona / oft ic wirum dol || wife abelge / wonie hyre willan || h
Riddles 20 32b estreona. / Oft ic wirum dol || wife abelge, / wonie hyre willan; ||
The Seafarer 45a yge || ne to hringðege / ne to wife wyn || ne to worulde hyht / ne
Beowulf 639a uhealle || minne gebidan / ðam wife ða word || wel licodon / gilpc
Beowulf 2028a ræd talað / ðæt he mid ðy wife || wælfæhða dæl / sæcca ge
The Metres of Boethius: Metre 17 4a twæm || ealle comon / were and wife || on woruld innan / and hi eac
The Metres of Boethius: Metre 26 68a mægþ giunge / ac he mid þæm wife || wunode siþþan / oþþæt h
The Menologium 162a an || geond middangeard / betux wife and were || wurde acenned / ond
The Lord's Prayer II 87a le men || up arisað / ðe fram wife and fram were || wurdon acæn
Psalm 50 23b e / and him bezabe || brohte to wife / for gitsunga || ðe he godes
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 23 ide the words / to your wedded wife, and have put away your faith
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 28 ordered him to visit his lady wife, / and according to her judgeme
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 33 er room of that pious married wife. / The father entered with his s
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 131 keep. / [Edwin] took a faithful wife from the southern part of the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 715 stored to health a gesith’s wife, / on whom he placed holy water
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 753 ce peoples in war, / he took a wife called by the name of Æthelt
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 763 ether chastely as husband and wife. / How much she lived as an unto
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 892 ites that very night. / But his wife alone remained there, being m
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 896 fear me now, I beg, sweetest wife. / I am indeed alive; I have tru
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1139 rch building to the Lord. / His wife had been ill for many days, /
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 16 r whom a chaste life with his wife was enough: / she had already s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1269 uld choose to marry a wealthy wife. / He insisted that he be grante
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2597 g vineyard to , / after a cruel wife wrote a wicked document. / The
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 301 a fearful voice: ‘My dear wife lies at the threshold of deat
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 314 re to see / his dearly beloved wife so long oppressed / with insan
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 526 ertain nobleman, whose ailing wife, / afflicted by contagion, was
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 542 reins of rule. / (His gracious wife was Edildrid, a famous virago
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 861 orpor was oppressing the dear wife of the official / who (alas!)
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 921 ibution / is striking your dear wife. But you, if you want to incre
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 941 kingdoms, / who had a hateful wife in his service, / the sister o
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 952 / her cruel sister, the royal wife of Centwin, expelled him, / ev
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 971 y won over the leader and his wife; / the tireless torch shone for
N.MiraculaNyniae 285 the people produced with his wife a son, / deformed in his whole