The Old Ways

Norse · Anglo-Saxon Poetry · 298 of 343

Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 58

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Eripe me de inimicis meis, deus meus, et ab insurgentibus in me libera me. Ahrede me, halig god, hefiges niðes feonda minra, þe me feohtað to; alys me fram laðum þe me lungre on risan willað, nymþe þu me ræd gife. Eripe me de operantibus iniquitatem, et de uiris sanguinum salua me. Genere me fram niðe nahtfremmendra þe her unrihtes ealle wyrceað, and me wið blodhreowes weres bealuwe gehæle.