Bede's Death Song: The Hague Version
Verse Early Saxon
Fore ðaem nedfere nenig wiorðeð
ðonosnottorra ðon him ðearf riae
to ymbhycgenne aer his hinionge
hwet his gast
æ
godes oððe yfles
5
ester deaðdege doemed wiorðe.