Wulf and Eadwacer

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Leodum is minum         swylce him mon lac gife;
willað hy hine aþecgan,         gif he on þreat cymeð.
Ungelic is us.        
Wulf is on iege,         ic on oþerre.

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Fæst is þæt eglond,         fenne biworpen.
Sindon wælreowe         weras þær on ige;
willað hy hine aþecgan,         gif he on þreat cymeð.
Ungelice is us.        
Wulfes ic mines widlastum         wenum dogode;

10

þonne hit wæs renig weder         ond ic reotugu sæt,
þonne mec se beaducafa         bogum bilegde,
wæs me wyn to þon,         wæs me hwæþre eac lað.
Wulf, min Wulf,         wena me þine
seoce gedydon,         þine seldcymas,

15

murnende mod,         nales meteliste.
Gehyrest þu, Eadwacer?         Uncerne earne hwelp
bireð wulf to wuda.        
þæt mon eaþe tosliteð         þætte næfre gesomnad wæs,
uncer giedd geador.