For Loss of Cattle

Dobbie, 1942 126; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York).

 

ðis man sceal cweðan ðonne his ceapa hwilcne man for-

 

stolenne. Cwyð[?] ær he ænyg oþer word cweðe:

 

Bethlem hattæ seo burh      ðe Crist on geboren wes,

 

seo is gemærsod      ofer ealne middangeard;

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swa ðeos dæd wyrþe      for monnum mære,

 

[per crucem Christi]! And gebide þe ðonne þriwa east and

 

cweð þriwa: [Crux Christi ab oriente reducat]. And [III][?]

 

west and cweð: [Crux Christi ab occidente reducat]. And

 

[III][?] suð and cweð: [Crux Christi a meridie reducant]. And

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[III][?] norð and cweð: [Crux Christi abscondita sunt et inuenta

 

est]. Iudeas Crist ahengon, gedidon him dæda þa wyrstan;

 

hælon þæt hi forhelan ne mihton. Swa næfre ðeos dæd

 

forholen ne wyrðe [per crucem Christi].