The Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms
Charm 8
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
- Wið ymbe nim eorþan,
oferweorp mid þinre swiþran
handa under þinum swiþran fet, and cwet:
Fo ic under fot, funde ic hit.
Hwæt, eorðe mæg wið ealra wihta gehwilce
- 5
- and wið andan
and wið æminde
and wið þa micelan mannes tungan.
And wiððon forweorp ofer greot, þonne hi swirman, and cweð:
Sitte ge, sigewif, sigað to eorþan!
Næfre ge wilde to wuda fleogan.
- 10
- Beo ge swa gemindige
mines godes,
swa bið manna gehwilc metes and eþeles.
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