Old English for y'all
ƿis līf is lǣne, and ƿēos woruld drēoseƿ and fealleƿ.
This life is temporary, and this world declines and falls.
This is a practice reading sentence from my Old English grammar book, I thought it was beautiful.
This life is temporary, and this world declines and falls.
This is a practice reading sentence from my Old English grammar book, I thought it was beautiful.
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milgemearces þæt se mere standeð;
ofer þæm hongiað hrinde bearwas,
wudu wyrtum fæst wæter oferhelmað.
þær mæg nihta gehwæm niðwundor seon,
fyr on flode. No þæs frod leofað
gumena bearna,
" Steams like black clouds, and the groves of trees/ Growing out over their lake are all covered/ With frozen spray, and wind down snakelike/ Roots that reach as far as the water/ And help keep it dark. At night that lake/ Burns like a torch. No one knows its bottom,/ No wisdom reaches such depths."
beowulf is the most BRUTAL olde english of all
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