The Ruin

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Wrætlic is þes wealstan,         wyrde gebræcon;
burgstede burston,         brosnað enta geweorc.
Hrofas sind gehrorene,         hreorge torras,
hrungeat berofen,         hrim on lime,

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scearde scurbeorge         scorene, gedrorene,
ældo undereotone.         Eorðgrap hafað
waldend wyrhtan         forweorone, geleorene,
heardgripe hrusan,         oþ hund cnea
werþeoda gewitan.         Oft þæs wag gebad

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ræghar ond readfah         rice æfter oþrum,
ofstonden under stormum;         steap geap gedreas.
Wonað giet se         ...num geheapen,
fel on        
grimme gegrunden        

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scan         heo...
...g orþonc         ærsceaft
...g         lamrindum beag
mod mo...         ...yne swiftne gebrægd
hwætred in hringas,         hygerof gebond

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weallwalan wirum         wundrum togædre.
Beorht wæron burgræced,         burnsele monige,
heah horngestreon,         heresweg micel,
meodoheall monig         %%M%% dreama full,
oþþæt þæt onwende         wyrd seo swiþe.

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Crungon walo wide,         cwoman woldagas,
swylt eall fornom         secgrofra wera;
wurdon hyra wigsteal         westen staþolas,
brosnade burgsteall.         Betend crungon
hergas to hrusan.         Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað,

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ond þæs teaforgeapa         tigelum sceadeð
hrostbeages hrof.         Hryre wong gecrong
gebrocen to beorgum,         þær iu beorn monig
glædmod ond goldbeorht         gleoma gefrætwed,
wlonc ond wingal         wighyrstum scan;

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seah on sinc, on sylfor,         on searogimmas,
on ead, on æht,         on eorcanstan,
on þas beorhtan burg         bradan rices.
Stanhofu stodan,         stream hate wearp
widan wylme;         weal eall befeng

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beorhtan bosme,         þær þa baþu wæron,
hat on hreþre.         þæt wæs hyðelic.
Leton þonne geotan        
ofer harne stan         hate streamas
un...        

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...þþæt hringmere         hate
        þær þa baþu wæron.
þonne is        
...re;         þæt is cynelic þing,
huse ......         burg....