Dobbie, 1942 122-3; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York); Grattan and Singer, 1952 172-6; Grattan, J.H.G. and Singer, C., Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine, Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum n.s. 3 (London).
Wið færstice feferfuige and seo reade netele, ðe þurh
ærn inwyxð, and wegbrade; wyll in buteran.
Hlude wæran hy, la, hlude,
ða hy ofer þone hlæw ridan,
wæran anmode,
ða hy ofer land ridan.
5
Scyld ðu ðe nu, þu ðysne nið
genesan mote.
Ut, lytel spere,
gif her inne sie!
Stod under linde,
under leohtum scylde,
þær ða mihtigan wif
hyra mægen beræddon
and hy gyllende
garas sændan;
10
ic him oðerne
eft wille sændan,
fleogende flane
forane togeanes.
Ut,
lytel[?] spere,
gif hit her inne sy!
Sæt smið,
sloh seax lytel,
iserna,
wundrum[?] swiðe.
15
Ut, lytel spere,
gif her inne sy!
Syx smiðas sætan,
wælspera worhtan.
Ut, spere,
næs in, spere!
Gif her inne sy
isernes[?] dæl,
hægtessan geweorc,
hit sceal gemyltan.
20
Gif ðu wære on fell scoten
oððe wære on flæsc scoten
oððe wære on lið scoten,
næfre ne sy ðin lif atæsed;
gif hit wære esa gescot
oððe hit wære ylfa gescot
oððe hit wære hægtessan gescot,
nu ic wille ðin helpan.
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þis ðe to bote esa gescotes,
ðis ðe to bote ylfa gescotes,
ðis ðe to bote hægtessan gescotes;
ic ðin wille helpan.
Fleoh[?] þær
on
fyrgenheafde[?].
Hal westu,
helpe ðin drihten!
Nim þonne þæt seax, ado on wætan.