The Old Ways

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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 92

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Drihten hine gegyrede gode strengðe, and hine þa mid micle mægene begyrde. Drihten rixað, dema usser, and hine mid weorðlice wlite gegyrede. And þa ymbhwyrft eorþan getrymede, swa folde stod fæste syþþan. Gearu is þin setl, and þu, ece god, ær worulde fruman, wunast butan ende. Hofan heora stefne streamas, drihten, hofan and hlynsadan hludan reorde fram wæterstefnum widra manigra. Wræclice syndon wægea gangas, þonne sæstreamas swiðust flowað; swa is wundorlic wealdend usser

halig drihten on heanessum. þin gewitnes is weorcum geleafsum, and mid soðe is swiðe getreowed. Huse þinum halig gedafenað, drihten usser, and dagas lange.