The Old Ways

Norse · Anglo-Saxon Poetry · 330 of 343

The Metrical Epilogue to MS 41, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Bidde ic eac æghwylcne mann, brego, rices weard, þe þas boc ræde and þa bredu befo, fira aldor, þæt gefyrðrige þone writre wynsum cræfte þe ðas boc awrat bam handum twam, þæt he mote manega gyt mundum synum geendigan, his aldre to willan, and him þæs geunne se ðe ah ealles geweald, rodera waldend, þæt he on riht mote oð his daga ende drihten herigan. Amen. Geweorþe þæt.