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The Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms
Charm 11
Metrical
Charm 11: A Journey Charm
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
- Ic me on þisse
gyrde beluce and on godes helde bebeode
wið þane sara stice,
wið þane sara slege,
wið þane grymma gryre,
wið ðane micela egsa þe bið
eghwam lað,
- 5
- and wið eal þæt
lað þe in to land fare.
Sygegealdor ic begale, sigegyrd ic me wege,
wordsige and worcsige. Se me dege;
ne me mere ne gemyrre, ne
me maga ne geswence,
ne me næfre minum feore forht ne gewurþe,
- 10
- ac gehæle me ælmihtig
and sunu and frofre gast,
ealles wuldres wyrðig
dryhten,
swa swa ic gehyrde heofna scyppende.
Abrame and Isace
and swilce men, Moyses and Iacob,
- 15
- and Dauit and Iosep
and Evan and Annan and Elizabet,
Saharie and ec Marie, modur Cristes,
and eac þæ gebroþru, Petrus
and Paulus,
and eac þusend þinra
engla
- 20
- clipige ic me to are
wið eallum feondum.
Hi me ferion and friþion and mine fore
nerion,
eal me gehealdon, me gewealdon,
worces stirende; si me wuldres hyht,
hand ofer heafod, haligra rof,
- 25
- sigerofra sceolu,
soðfæstra engla.
Biddu ealle bliðu mode
þæt me beo Matheus helm,
Marcus byrne,
leoht, lifes rof, Lucos min swurd,
scearp and scirecg, scyld
Iohannes,
- 30
- wuldre gewlitegod
wælgar Serafhin.
Forð ic gefare, frind ic gemete,
eall engla blæd, eadiges lare.
Bidde ic nu sigeres god godes miltse,
siðfæt godne, smylte and lihte
- 35
- windas
on waroþum.
Windas gefran,
circinde wæter simble
gehælede
wið eallum feondum. Freond ic gemete wið,
þæt ic on þæs ælmihtgian
frið wunian mote,
belocun wið þam laþan,
se me lyfes eht,
- 40
- on engla blæd
gestaþelod,
and inna halre hand heofna
rices,
þa hwile þe ic on þis life
wunian mote.
Amen.
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