The Old Ways

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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 149

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Singað samheorte sangas drihtne and him neowne sang nu ða singað; wese his herenes on haligra clænre cyricean cyðed geneahhe. Israhelas on hine eac blissien, and Sione bearn symble hihtan swiðust ealra. Herigen his naman neode on ðreatum, on timpano tidum heriað and on psalterio singað georne. Forðon on his folce is fægere drihtne wel licendlic, and he wynlice þam manþwærum syleð mære hælu. þonne on wuldre gefeoð wel þa halgan,

beoð on heora husum bliðe gedreme. Him on gomum bið godes oft gemynd; heo þæs wislice wynnum brucað, and sweord habbaþ swylce on folmum. Mid þy hi wrecan þenceað wraðum cynnum and ðrea þearle þeodum eawan. And hio bindan balde þenceað cyningas on campum, and cuðlice heora æðelingas don on isene bendas, þæt hio dom on him deopne gecyðan and þæt mid wuldre awriten stande: þis is haligra wuldor her on eorðan.