Sealm 127 - Anglo-Saxon Psalms c.890-950 ADSealm 126 1 Nymþe hus timbrige halig Drihten, on idel gylp oðre winnað þe þæs huses hrof staðeliað. Nymðe gehealde eac halig Drihten ceastre mid cynnum, ne mæg hi cynlice wæccende weard gehealdan. 2 Forhwan ge mid idelnesse ealle arisað, ær ðon leoht cume leoda bearnum? arisað nu ricene, and hraðe sittað, þa ðe sares hlaf swiðe æton. Þonne he slæp syleð swiðe leofum; 3 þæt is yrfe eac ecean Drihtnes and herde bearn, þa her mannum beoð of innaðe ærest cende. 4 Swa seo stræle byð strangum and mihtigum hrorum on handa heard ascyrped, swa lyðra bearn lungre gewitað. 5 Þæt bið eadig wer, se ðe a þenceð, þæt he his lust on ðon leofne gefylle; ne bið he on ealdre ealre æfre gescended, þonne he on gaton greteð his grame feondas. |
The first 50 psalms are credited to King Alfred the Great and were written in c.890-899 AD, and the last 100 psalms were translated c.900-950 AD by an unknown poet.
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