Sealm 149 - Anglo-Saxon Psalms c.890-950 ADSealm 149 1 Singað samheorte sangas Drihtne and him neowne sang nu ða singað; wese his herenes on haligra clænre cyricean cyðed geneahhe. 2 Israhelas on hine eac blissien, and Sione bearn symble hihtan swiðust ealra [half line missing]. 3 Herigen his naman neode on ðreatum, on timpano tidum heriað and on psalterio singað georne. 4 Forðon on his folce is fægere Drihtne wel licendlic, and he wynlice þam manþwærum syleð mære hælu. 5 Þonne on wuldre gefeoð wel þa halgan, beoð on heora husum bliðe gedreme. 6 Him on gomum bið godes oft gemynd; heo þæs wislice wynnum brucað, and sweord habbaþ swylce on folmum. 7 Mid þy hi wrecan þenceað wraðum cynnum and ðrea þearle þeodum eawan. 8 And hio bindan balde þenceað cyningas on campum, and cuðlice heora æðelingas don on isene bendas, 9 Þæt hio dom on him deopne gecyðan and þæt mid wuldre awriten stande: þis is haligra wuldor her on eorðan. |
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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