Metrical Charm 5: For Loss of Cattle
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Metrical Charm 5: For Loss of Cattle
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
- þonne þe mon ærest secge þæt þin ceap sy losod, þonne
cweð þu ærest, ær þu elles hwæt cweþe:
Bæðleem hatte seo buruh þe Crist on acænned wæs,
seo is gemærsod geond ealne middangeard;
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- swa þyos dæd for monnum mære gewurþe
þurh þa haligan Cristes rode! Amen. Gebide þe þonne
þriwa east and cweþ þonne þriwa: Crux Christi ab oriente
reducað. Gebide þe þonne þriwa west and cweð þonne
þriwa: Crux Christi ab occidente reducat. Gebide þe
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- þonne þriwa suð and cweþ þriwa: Crux Christi ab austro
reducat. Gebide þonne þriwa norð and cweð þriwa: Crux
Christi ab aquilone reducað, crux Christi abscondita est et
inuenta est. Iudeas Crist ahengon, dydon dæda þa
wyrrestan, hælon þæt hy forhelan ne mihtan. Swa þeos
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- dæd nænige þinga forholen ne wurþe þurh þa haligan
Cristes rode. Amen.
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