Metrical Charm 11: A Journey Charm

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic me on þisse gyrde beluce         and on godes helde bebeode
wið þane sara stice,         wið þane sara slege,
wið þane grymma gryre,        
wið ðane micela egsa         þe bið eghwam lað,

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and wið eal þæt lað         þe in to land fare.
Sygegealdor ic begale,         sigegyrd ic me wege,
wordsige and worcsige.         Se me dege;
ne me mere ne gemyrre,         ne me maga ne geswence,
ne me næfre minum feore         forht ne gewurþe,

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ac gehæle me ælmihtig and sunu         and frofre gast,
ealles wuldres         wyrðig dryhten,
swa swa ic gehyrde         heofna scyppende.
Abrame and Isace        
and swilce men,         Moyses and Iacob,

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and Dauit and Iosep        
and Evan and Annan         and Elizabet,
Saharie and ec Marie,         modur Cristes,
and eac þæ gebroþru,         Petrus and Paulus,
and eac þusend         þinra engla

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clipige ic me to are         wið eallum feondum.
Hi me ferion and friþion         and mine fore nerion,
eal me gehealdon,         me gewealdon,
worces stirende;         si me wuldres hyht,
hand ofer heafod,         haligra rof,

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sigerofra sceolu,         soðfæstra engla.
Biddu ealle         bliðu mode
þæt me beo Matheus helm,         Marcus byrne,
leoht, lifes rof,         Lucos min swurd,
scearp and scirecg,         scyld Iohannes,

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wuldre gewlitegod         wælgar Serafhin.
Forð ic gefare,         frind ic gemete,
eall engla blæd,         eadiges lare.
Bidde ic nu sigeres god         godes miltse,
siðfæt godne,         smylte and lihte

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windas on waroþum.         Windas gefran,
circinde wæter         simble gehælede
wið eallum feondum.         Freond ic gemete wið,
þæt ic on þæs ælmihtgian frið         wunian mote,
belocun wið þam laþan,         se me lyfes eht,

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on engla blæd         gestaþelod,
and inna halre hand         heofna rices,
þa hwile þe ic on þis life         wunian mote.
Amen.