Author: Iosep

Hundred fyrfleogum hofran bufan æcrum þissum æfene.

Þa eorðe wæs waeterleas. Gewider-forewitegung saegð scuras cumon, ac upgodu helpon Þæm Þe hie helpon. Ic wæterede wyrtum, and nu þa scuras feallon andlangne dæg.

Dyncge brædeþ, þæt eorð weorþe wistgifende. Ac hit nu gen stincaþ.

Ic nat, hwæþer se swamm is meteswam. Wene?

Hit hatte “worhanas bæc”, Polyporus squamosus of snottorum. Hit is ætlic, geongwesende, ac micel toh in ealdnes.

Þis – þis is meteswam:

“For mete heo sceal sume hwile swamma brucan;” – Lacnunga. i. 346, 8.

Unweod-cwellende and sædere æt-gædere – þæt was god æcermann!

Fela grene æsc-borienda afeohtað se æsc, se þe is ða ungrene. Wa la wa, ealle æscas ungeara steorfað.

Micel regna.

Þurh storme, se elm wæs forbrocan, and ufeweard hælf wæs flod-astyred.

Easteres, ic ado græf-heawere of isenoxan, 7 mæd-mæwere ætfæstene.

“seo reade netele ðe þurh ærn inwyxð” – Lacnunga, CXXVII

Cicen-siht is niedmicel, þæt se tunsteall wistfull sie. Ac hit stincð!