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Question 1

Ġeworhton ðā Wedra lēode
hlēo on hōe, se wæs hēah ond brād,
wǣġlīðendum wīde ġesȳne,

Answer 1

The people of the Yeats then made a mound
on the cliff it was high and broad, widely
visible to seafarers

Question 2

ond betimbredon on tȳn dagum
3160 beadurōfes bēcn, bronda lāfe
wealle beworhton swā hyt weorðlicost
foresnotre men findan mihton.

Answer 2

And in ten days they built a beacon for the brave one in battle, they surronded the remainder of the flames with a wall as the very wise men could find it most splendidly design

Question 3

Hī on beorg dydon bēg ond siġlu,
eall swylċe hyrsta swylċe on horde ǣr
3165 nīðhēdiġe men ġenumen hæfdon.
Forlēton eorla ġestrēon eorðan healdan
gold on grēote, þǣr hit nū ġēn lifað
eldum swā unnyt swā hit ǣror wæs.

Answer 3

In the mound they placed rings, and jewels and all such ornaments such as the hostile men had taken from the hoard Previously, they let the earth hold the treasure of the noblemen gold in the ground where it lives now still as useless to men as it was before.

Question 4

Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan hildedīore
3170 æþelinga bearn ealra twelfe,
woldon ċeare cwīðan ond kyning mǣnan,
wordġyd wrecan ond ymb wer sprecan;

Answer 4

Then the ones brave in battle children of
princes twelve in all rode around the mound
they wished to lament their sorrow and
bemoan their king utter an elegy and to
speak about the man.

Question 5

eahtodan eorlscipe ond his ellenweorc
duguðum dēmdon, swā hit ġedēfe bið
3175 þæt mon his winedryhten wordum
herġe, ferhðum frēoġe þonne hē forð scile of līċhaman lǣded weorðan.

Answer 5

They praised his nobility and they judged
highly his work of glory, as it is fitting that man should praise his beloved lord with words to love him in one’s heart when he must to be led forth from his body

Question 6

Swā begnornodon Ġēata lēode
hlāfordes hryre heorðġenēatas,
3180 cwǣdon þæt hē wǣre wyruldcyninga
manna mildust ond monðwǣrust,
lēodum līðost ond lofġeornost.

Answer 6

So the people of the yeats his earth
compansions thus lamented fall of their lord, they said that he was the kindest of men and the most gentle and the kindest to his people he was most eager for fame.