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The Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms
Charm 2
Metrical Charm
2: The Nine Herbs Charm
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
- Gemyne ðu, mucgwyrt,
hwæt þu ameldodest,
hwæt þu renadest æt Regenmelde.
Una þu hattest, yldost wyrta.
ðu miht wið III and wið
XXX,
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- þu miht wiþ
attre and wið onflyge,
þu miht wiþ þam laþan
ðe geond lond færð.
Ond þu, wegbrade, wyrta modor,
eastan openo, innan mihtigu;
ofer ðe crætu curran,
ofer ðe cwene reodan,
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- ofer ðe
bryde bryodedon, ofer þe
fearras fnærdon.
Eallum þu þon wiðstode and
wiðstunedest;
swa ðu wiðstonde attre and onflyge
and þæm laðan þe geond
lond fereð.
Stune hætte þeos wyrt, heo on stane
geweox;
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- stond heo wið attre,
stunað heo wærce.
Stiðe heo hatte, wiðstunað heo
attre,
wreceð heo wraðan, weorpeð ut attor.
þis is seo wyrt seo wiþ wyrm gefeaht,
þeos mæg wið attre, heo mæg
wið onflyge,
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- heo mæg wið
ðam laþan ðe
geond lond fereþ.
Fleoh þu nu, attorlaðe, seo læsse
ða maran,
seo mare þa læssan, oððæt
him beigra bot sy.
Gemyne þu, mægðe, hwæt
þu ameldodest,
hwæt ðu geændadest æt
Alorforda;
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- þæt næfre
for gefloge feorh ne gesealde
syþðan him mon mægðan to
mete gegyrede.
þis is seo wyrt ðe wergulu hatte;
ðas onsænde seolh ofer sæs
hrygc
ondan attres oþres to bote.
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- ðas VIIII
magon wið nygon attrum.
Wyrm com snican, toslat he man;
ða genam Woden VIIII wuldortanas,
sloh ða þa næddran, þæt
heo on VIIII tofleah.
þær geændade æppel
and attor,
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- þæt heo næfre
ne wolde on hus bugan.
Fille and finule, felamihtigu twa,
þa wyrte gesceop witig drihten,
halig on heofonum, þa he hongode;
sette and sænde on VII worulde
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- earmum and eadigum
eallum to bote.
Stond heo wið wærce, stunað heo
wið attre,
seo mæg wið III and wið
XXX,
wið feondes hond and wið færbregde,
wið malscrunge manra wihta.
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- Nu magon þas VIIII
wyrta wið nygon wuldorgeflogenum,
wið VIIII attrum and wið nygon
onflygnum,
wið ðy readan attre, wið ðy
runlan attre,
wið ðy hwitan attre, wið ðy
wedenan attre,
wið ðy geolwan attre, wið ðy
grenan attre,
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- wið ðy wonnan
attre, wið ðy wedenan attre,
wið ðy brunan attre, wið ðy
basewan attre,
wið wyrmgeblæd, wið wætergeblæd,
wið þorngeblæd, wið þystelgeblæd,
wið ysgeblæd, wið attorgeblæd,
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- gif ænig attor
cume eastan fleogan
oððe ænig norðan cume
oððe ænig westan ofer werðeode.
Crist stod ofer adle ængan
cundes.
Ic ana wat ea rinnende
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- þær
þa nygon nædran nean
behealdað;
motan ealle weoda nu wyrtum aspringan,
sæs toslupan, eal sealt wæter,
ðonne ic þis attor of ðe geblawe.
Mugcwyrt, wegbrade þe eastan open sy, lombescyrse,
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- attorlaðan, mageðan,
netelan, wudusuræppel, fille and finul,
ealde sapan. Gewyrc ða wyrta to duste, mængc wiþ þa
sapan and wiþ þæs æpples gor. Wyrc slypan of
wætere
and of axsan, genim finol, wyl on þære slyppan and beþe
mid
æggemongc, þonne he þa sealfe on
do, ge ær ge æfter. Sing
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- þæt galdor
on ælcre þara wyrta, III ær he hy wyrce and
on þone æppel ealswa; ond singe þon men in þone
muð and
in þa earan buta and on ða wunde þæt ilce gealdor,
ær he
þa sealfe on do.
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