Ġeaf Cedd Halga þone Wōl tō manigum?

Þonne cwæþ MynċBynċ:

Cedd sunu Cummingsan hātte for Engliscum halgan þǣm þe āfōr tō Norðanhymbran Rīce and steorf of wōle æfter hē ġeaf hit manigum ōðerum. Ne mæġ þū āþenċan þis from nāhte. 

Dōminiċ Cummings is heāhwitan tō Borise Īonsunan Fullmagenan on Engelande. Þes Māius þā hē tō his hīrdcrofte āfōr, þā Engeland forbēad āfārunge forþām þǣr is Corōnādle. MynċBynċ bodaþ þæt Cummings dyde ilċe swā se halga dyde se þe hātte ēac his sunu.  Tō sōðan, mǣnþ hē þæt se Halga Cedd sprǣdeþ ādle þurh fārunge.

Ac nis þis riht. Halga Cedd was Norðanhymbran biscop on þǣm seofoðe hundtīentiġearan. Ġēse, steorf hē of wōle, ac ne ġeaf hit tō Norðanhymbran Rīċe.

Hēr wrōte Bēde be Ceddes dēaðe:

"Þā hē þā maniġ ġear on þǣre foresprecenan mæġðe biscophād þeģnode, swīlċe ēac þisses mynstres ġemǣnne dyde, and þǣr prafost and ealdormann ġesette, þā gelimp þæt hē tō þǣm selfan mynstre becōm on þā tīde þǣre miċlan dēaðliċnesse and wōles, þe ofer menncynn cumen wæs. Þā wæs hē þǣr ġestonden liċhamlicre untrymnesse and forðferde: and his liċhama wæs ǣrest ūte bebryged. Þā wæs æft forðgongendre tīde on þǣm ilcan mystre stǣnen ċiriċe ġetimbred, on āre þǣre eadigan fǣmnan Sca Marian, and æft on þǣre his liċhama ġeseted wæs, be suðan þǣm wīgbede.

"Sealde hē se biscop þæt mynster tō reċċenne æfter him Ċeaddan his breðer, se wæs æfter þone biscop ġeworden and haliġ Godes mann, swā wē heræfter secgaþ. Wǣron hīe fēower ġebroðor Cedd and Cynebil and Cælin and Ċēadde, ealle Godes sācerdas, þæt seldon ġemēted biþ, mǣre and gōde. Tweġen wǣron biscopas, tweġen wǣron mæssepreostas þā selestan. Mid þȳ þā broðer þā ġehīerdon, þā þe on his mystre wǣron on Ēastseaxna mæġðe, heora biscop forðferendne and bebyrgendne on Norðanhymbrum, þā eode heora þritiģ of þǣm mynstre and þider cōmon. Woldon hīe and willnodon æt heora fæder līċe oððe Gode lifgan, ġif þæt Gode liċade, oððe forþferde þǣr bebyrged bēon. And hīe lustlīċe from þǣm broðrum þæs mystres onfangne wǣron. And hīe ealle þǣr mid þȳ wæle þæs foresprecenan wōles hredlīċe forðferdon and bebyrgede wǣron, būton ānnum cnihte, be þǣm cuþ stondeþ, þæt hē mid ġebedum þæs halgan biscopes from dēaðe ġescielded wæs."

Swā, magon wē sēon þæt Sca Cedd ne ġeaf wōl tō Norðhymbran Rīċe. Hē steorf from wōle æfter becōm hē þǣr. And lator weorþ hit þæt munucas from Ēastseaxna āfōron þider and ēadiġ meahten bringan wōl mid him.

Lēoþweorc.

On Ealdenglisce is þǣr ānne ġewuneliċne weġ tō findenne lēoþ, and þæt is eftgodstefnliċ fers. Hēr magon wit brūcaþ forma part from Bēowulfe and oðerum fersum tō ġefrāgienne be þissum ferscynne.

Ac forma sculon wit wītan word þā þe āreċċaþ fers. On ġereorde bēoþ twā stæfcynn, þā clipole stæfas and þǣm samodswegendum stafum. Þā clipole stæfas sindon ah, eh, ih, oh, uh, yh, æsc, and heora lengum hīwum mid līnan. Þā samodswegendum sind ealle ōðere stæfas. On ferslīnan sindon þǣr tweġen partas, and betwēonum him is stillnesse. Latost sculon wit wēnan mēter, and on mǣstan Ealdengliscferse is þis fēower streng stæfġefēg on līnan ; þās nemnaþ wit fēt. Ġif wit finden ilċ stæf on oðerum fētum, þonne wē nemiaþ þās eftgodstefna.

Hēr is forman part from Bēowulfe:

Hwæt wē GārDena        on ġeardagum
þēodcyninga                   þrymm ġefrūgnon
hū þā æðelingas             ellen fremedon.

Iċ hæfde on ǣġhwæðerum līnan þā fēt ġemearcod. On ǣġhwæðerum parte sind þǣr eftgodstefna. On formum līnan sind clipola eftgodstefna eh (on 'den' and on 'ġear') and ahe (on 'Gār' and on 'dag') and þǣm samodswegendum eftgodstefnum sind de (on 'Den' and on 'dag') and gehe (on 'Gār' and on 'dag'). Sāmhwilċ mæġ ēaðe secgan þæt ge on 'Gār' and 'ġear' sind efgodstefna, ac nis þis nā riht. Ān is ge, and ōðer is yog. On ōðere līnan sind þorn and yhe and ēac rehe eftgodstefna. On þrīddum līnan sind æsc mid ehe and ellum eftgodstefne. Hwȳ sindon æsc mid ehe eftgodstefna? Forþām ġif cupol stæf swā forman stæf and þissum bēgenum fētum sīen, þonne sind þās eftgodstefna, āhwæðre clipol stæf mægen hīe bēon. Mǣstan tīde sindon tū eftgodstefna on līnan ; ān is clipol stæf and ōðer is samodsegende stæf. Ac þǣr sind māran oððe læssan æt tide.

From Oppenhāmmeres ferse:

Iċ eom Dēaþ ġeworden     wēstend of woruldum.

Iċ wrōte ōðerlīċe þā eftgodstefna. Þǣr sindon fēower eftgodstefna on þisse līnan. Iċ þenċe þæt þǣr sīen læssan. Ac hit is ġiet riht eftgodstefnliċ fers.

Hēr is fers from Se Holbylta be Tōlcin Ealdran:

On seolfrenum siglum      þār hīe wǣfon
blōstmiende steorran,      on helmum hēngon
þæt wyrmes fȳr,                on wriðenum wīre
sēowodon lēoht                 mōnan and sunnum.

Hit is min selfes āwendung. Þēs is þærriht āwendung, and hit hielt þā samodstefna from his ferse. Ac hit nis gōd eftgodstefnliċfers.

On seolfrenum siglum       þār hīe settedon
þā heofonlīċe steorran       on helmum hēngon
þæt wyrmes fȳr                   cnytedum on wīre
dūfodon on taporas            of hrōfes tungolum.

Þis is beteran fers. Ealle līnan hæfdon tū oððe þrēo eftgodstefna.

Oppenhāmer and þǣm Bāgafadgītan.

Oppenhāmer wæs ġefricgend on twentiġforman hundtīeniġeare. Hē ġefræġ motu mid ōðerum, and samod byldon hīe forman motforbyrst on Mænnhættenġeweorce. Þonne hē þone motforbyrst dyde seah, þonne cwæþ hē from þǣm Bāgafadgītan:

"Ġif se glǣm of þusend sunnum samod innon þǣm lyfte berste, þonne sīe þæt ġelīc lēoman of þǣm mihtlīcānan."

Lator cwæþ hē:

"Wē wēndon þā worulde nē meahte āwunian ilċe. Fēa folc hlōg, fēa folc wēp. Mōstan folc wǣron still. Iċ ġemunde þā word from þǣre Hīnda haliġbēċ, þǣm Bāgafadgītan ; Fiscna fandode tō ġelǣrenne þone Æðeling þe dō hē his nīede and, þonne hine inblāwan, þonne āwende him selfe innan his maniġlēomanhīwe, þonne cwæþ hē, "Nū eom iċ Dēaþ ġeworden, wēstand of woruldum.' Iċ wēne þæt  wē ealle þōhton þæt, ānnum weġe oððe oðerum."

Iċ fēle þæt ne fordēme iċ hine for his wordum, swā lator hrēaw hē his weorc on þǣm Mænnhættenġeweorce, þēah se mōtforbyrst is fǣrost þing. Ac iċ þenċe þæt is wrǣtliċ þæt hē ċēas fers from þǣm Bāgavadgītan tō reċċenne his mōd. Hit nis nā gōde āwendunge on Nīwenglisce. Ne secge wē "am become". Hē hæfde "have become" on Nīwenglisce ġesæġd. Ēac hit is wrǣtliċ, swā þās word sindon riht Ealdenglisc and scoplicum. Wē meahte fersian hīe:

Iċ eom Dēaþ ġeworden         wēstend of woruldum.

Hit is fæġer fers on rihtmētere.

Se Indryhteneahtfeldweġ

Se Indryhteneahtfeldweġ biþ æfestnesse for miċlum folcum, and for oðerum biþ ūpwitigunge. Se Būddah lifde feorr ēast māran tweþusend ġeara ġēo. Ēac hē hātte Siddārða, and hē būde on heāhhealle ǣrlīċe on his līfe. His fæder wiste hē weorðe grēatne wīgan, ac þǣr wæs forewitegunge hē weorðe grēatne hāligmann. Swā his fæder heold hine bedēglad innon þǣre heāhhealle, swā þæt nāt hē nā ǣlċe sorgunge nā ādle. Ac Siddārða dēmde ānnum dagum þæt hē wiste wītan þā worulde, swā hē smēag ūte þā healle. Þǣr seah hē fēower folc: forma wæs ealdne mann, oðer wæs ādliċne mann, þridda wæs dēadne mann, fēorða wæs hāligmann. Ne seah hē ǣr nā dēaþ, nā ādlnesse, nā ealdōmnesse. For forman tīde wiste hē þās. Þonne dēmde hē āfare and weorðe ġelīc þǣm haligmenn, swā þæt ne forhtie þās þing nā lengra.

Hē fōr for lengum hwīle and sōhte hāliġmenn tǣċan him. Hīe tǣhton him miċel þing: hū stillan his mōd, hū libban mid nā drynce nā mete, hū sittan for dagum on bliss, ac ne hulpon þās him nā forhtan. Ǣġhwilċ tīde ċierde tō him his forhtnesse oððe forlǣtu. Ēac hē wæs swīðe wācne ġeworden. Æt ēa fānd mæġðe hine and ġeaf him hlāf. Þonne hē dreāmere on scipe mid hearpe sēah, þonne hīerde hē þone dreāmere cweðan: "ġif þū þā snēre nearulicostan macast, þonne bricþ þū þā ; ġif þū þā snēre slæcostan lǣtst, þonne ne mæġst þū plagan." Þā dēmde hē nā ne wiernian him selfe drync oððe hlāf, nā ne mæġ hē būan on fromfarwe. Hē nemde þisne 'Se Middenweġ".

Þā wæs hē āgēn wel, þā dēmde hē sittan under trēowe oþ hē underġiete forlǣte. Æfter þriddagum underġiet hē eall forlǣte, and nē fēlede nā forlǣte, nā forhde hē of dēaþ. Þā underġiet hē Þā Fēowerindryhtensōþ: þæt biþ þǣr forlǣte ; þæt forlǣte cymþ from grapunge ; þæt biþ þǣr weġ āfaran from forlǣte ; þæt se weġ biþ Þone Indryhteneahtfeldweġ. Hē wæs Būddah wearþ, þonne þe mǣnþ fullæfrewærnesse. Hē eode þā Þone Eahtfeldweġ tō oðerum tǣċan, þonne frēodon hīe him selfum from forlǣte ēac.

Se Eahtfeldweġ hæfþ eaht þēawas: rihtwēn, rihtinġeþanc, rihtsprǣc, rihtġebǣru, rihtġeweorc, rihthīgung, rihtmōdfulnes, rihtgadrungmōde.  Hit is segene þæt ġif mann onġiete þā Fēowerindryhtensōþ and fylġe þone Eahtfeldweġ, þā mann weorðe fullost æfre wær and frēogie him selfe from ūpspringe and dēaþe and forlǣte and forhtnesse.

Þonne ġiet fullfylgaþ þone Eahtfeldweġ ymb þǣm worulde. Þǣr sindon maniġ æfestnescynn. Sāmhwilca hæfdon þēawas ilca þǣm Būddeh on his tīde ; þās hātton Ealdscōla. Sāmhwilca hæfdon oðere latoran þēawas ; þās hātton Grēatscriodu. On latoran cynne sindon Sēn and Heofonliclande. Ne fullfylgaþ oðere folk æfestnesse, ac hīe brūcaþ þā þēawas swilċe swā mōdfulnesse gōdian heoria līf.

Forma wrīt

Þēos bōc is part of mīn fære tō leornienne Ealdenglisc.  Neom iċ nū swīðe gōde, ac iċ wēne gōdian on tīde. Iċ regne tō wrītenna ǣne on wucan, oððe māran. Hwīltīdum wrīte iċ hēr be mīn weorce tō wendenne þā bōc þā hātte 'Se Holbylta' be Tōlcīnan innan Ealdenglisce. Oðer tīd wrīte iċ be swilċum oðerum þingum, swilċum ġehwæt wille iċ. And hēr wrīte iċ ǣnlīce on Ealdenglisce.

Þonne iċ þes bōc and þǣm wordum āwende, þā sceall iċ hwīltīdum sciepe and brūce wordas þā þe sindon nīwe tō Ealdenglisce. Þās iċ nemie 'untīdliċword', forþām hīe cumaþ from tīde æfter þǣm ġereorde stillede and ne sprǣccon folc hit nā, oððe hīe cumaþ from oðerum landum þǣm þe nāt se Englisc nān. Iċ wēne þās untīdliċword sindon fēawliċe, swā iċ wille tō wrītienne swā neāhliċ swā iċ mæġ tō rihtliċ Ealdenglisce.