The Wanderer Flashcards
experiences / awaits favour
are gebideth
Path of exile
wræclastas
Fate is very inflexible
Wyrd bith ful aræd
So spoke the earth-stepper
Swa cwæth eardstapa
Noble custom
Indryhten theaw
Bind fast his spirit-locker
His forthlocan fæste binde
my gold-friend I covered in earth’s hiding place
Goldwine minne hrusen heolstre biwrah
Falling frost and snow are mixed with hail
Hreosan hrim ond snaw hagle gemenged
Sorrow is renewed (x2)
Sorg/cearo bith geniwad
How they suddenly left the floor
Hu hi færlice flet ofgeafon
So this middle-earth … declines and falls
Swa thes middangeard … dreoseth and fealleth
Nor ever too desirous of boasting
Ne næfre gielpes to georn
The wine-halls topple
Woriath tha winsalo
Bird / hoary wolf
Fugel / hara wulf
One a sad faced warrior hidden in the earth-cave
Sumne dreorighleor in earthscræfe eorl gehydde