The Old Ways

Norse · Anglo-Saxon Poetry · 150 of 343

The Paris Psalter: Psalm 66

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Miltsa us, mihtig drihten, and us on mode eac gebletsa nu; beorhte leohte þinne andwlitan, and us on mode weorð þuruh þine mycelnesse milde and bliðe. And we þæs on eorðan andgyt habbað, ure wegas wide geond þas werðeode on þinre hælo healdan motan. Folc þe andette; þu eart fæle god, and þe andetten ealle þeoda. Hæbbe þæs gefean folca æghwylc and blissien bealde þeoda, þæs þe þu hi on rihtum rædum demest and eorðbuende ealle healdest. Folc þe andetten fælne drihten

and þe andetten ealle þeoda. Ge him eorðe syleð æþele wæstme; gebletsige us bliðe drihten and user god eac bletsige; hæbbe his egesan eall eorþan gemæru.