Waldere B

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

        "...ce bæteran
buton ðam anum         ðe ic eac hafa
on stanfate         stille gehided.
Ic wat þæt hit ðohte         ðeodric Widian

5

selfum onsendon,         and eac sinc micel
maðma mid ði mece,         monig oðres mid him
golde gegirwan         (iulean genam),
þæs ðe hine of nearwum         Niðhades mæg,
Welandes bearn,         Widia ut forlet;

10

ðurh fifela gewe... ...ld         forð onette."
Waldere mað... ...lode,         wiga ellenrof,
hæfde him on handa         hildefrofre,
guðbilla gripe,         gyddode wordum:
"Hwæt! ðu huru wendest,         wine Burgenda,

15

þæt me Hagenan hand         hilde gefremede
and getwæmde ...ðewigges.         Feta, gyf ðu dyrre,
æt ðus heaðuwerigan         hare byrnan.
Standeð me her on eaxelum         ælfheres laf,
god and geapneb,         golde geweorðod,

20

ealles unscende         æðelinges reaf
to habbanne,         þonne hand wereð
feorhhord feondum.         Ne bið fah wið me,
þonne ...... unmægas         eft ongynnað,
mecum gemetað,         swa ge me dydon.

25

ðeah mæg sige syllan         se ðe symle byð
recon and rædfest         ryh... ...a gehwilces.
Se ðe him to ðam halgan         helpe gelifeð,
to gode gioce,         he þær gearo findeð
gif ða earnunga         ær geðenceð.

30

þonne moten wlance         welan britnian,
æhtum wealdan,         þæt is"