VI The Battle of Brunanburg
From Warton’s History of English Poetry, Ed. 1840. Vol. I. p. lxvii. Translated by R. Taylor.
| Æthelstán cyning, | mid fleame cóm, |
| eorla drihten, | on his cyththe north, |
| boorna beáh-gyfa, | Constantinus, |
| and his bróther eac, | har hylderinc |
| Eadmund ætheling, | Hreman ne thórfte |
| ealdor langne tir, | meca gemanan. |
| geslogon æt secce, | Her wæs his maga sceard, |
| sweorda ecgum, | freonda gefylled, |
| ymbe Brunanburh. | on folc-stede, |
| Bord-weal clufon, | beslægen æt secce; |
| heowon heatho-linda, | and his sunu (he) forlet |
| hamora lafum, | on wæl-stowe, |
| eáforan Eadweardes. | wundum-forgrunden, |
| Swa him geæthele wæs | geongne æt guthe. |
| from cneo-mægum | Gylpan ne thórfte, |
| thæt híe æt campe oft, | beorn blanden-feax, |
| with lathra gehwæne, | bill-geslehtes, |
| land ealgodon, | eald inwitta; |
| hord and hámas, | ne Anláf thy má, |
| hettend crungon. | mid heora here-lafum, |
| Scotta leode, | hlihan ne thorfton, |
| and scip-flotan, | thæt hí beadu-weorca |
| fæge feollon. | beteran wurdon, |
| Feld dennade, | on camp-stede, |
| secga swate, | cumbol-gehnastes, |
| sith-than sunne úp, | gár mittinge, |
| on morgen-tíd, | gumena gemotes, |
| mære tuncgol, | wæpen-gewrixles, |
| glád ofer grundas, | thæs the híe on wæl-felda |
| Godes candel be orht, | with Eadweardes |
| éces Drihtnes; | eáforan plegodon. |
| oth-thæt sio æthele gesceaft, | Gewiton hym tha Northmen, |
| sáh tó setle. | nægledon cnearrum, |
| Thær læg secg monig, | dreorig daretha láf, |
| gárum ageted, | on dinges mere, |
| guman northere, | ofer deop wæter, |
| ofer scyld scoten. | Dyflin secan, |
| Swylc Scyttisc eac, | eft Yraland, |
| werig wiges sæd. | æwisc-mode. |
| West-Seaxe forth, | Swylce thá gebrother, |
| ondlangne dæg | begen æt samne, |
| eorod-cystum, | cyning and ætheling, |
| on last lægdon | cyththe sohton, |
| lathum theodum. | West Seaxna land, |
| Heowon here-flyman, | wiges hremige. |
| hindan thearle, | Læton him behindan, |
| mecum mylen-scearpum. | hrá brittian, |
| Myrce ne wyrndon | salowig padan, |
| heardes hand-plegan, | thone sweartan hræfn, |
| hæletha nanum, | hyrned-nebban; |
| thára the mid Anlafe, | and thone hasean padan, |
| ofer ear-geblond, | earn æftan hwit, |
| on lides bosme, | æses brucan, |
| land gesohton, | grædigne guth-hafoc; |
| fæge to feohte. | and thæt græge deor, |
| Fife lægon, | wulf on wealde. |
| on thám campstede, | Ne wearth wæl máre, |
| cyningas geonge, | on thys igland, |
| sweordum aswefede. | æfre gyta, |
| Swylc seofen éac | folces gefylled, |
| eorlas Anlafes; | beforan thissum, |
| unrím heriges, | sweordes ecgum, |
| flotan and Sceotta. | thæs the us secgath béc, |
| Thær geflymed wearth | ealde uthwitan, |
| Northmanna bregu, | sith-than eastan hider |
| nyde gebæded, | Engle and Seaxe |
| to lides stefne, | úp becomon, |
| litle werede. | ofer brade brimu |
| Cread cnear on-flot, | Brytene sohton, |
| cyning ut-gewat, | wlance wig-smithas, |
| on fealowe flod, | Weales ofer-comon, |
| feorh generede. | eorlas árhwáte, |
| Swylc thær éac se froda, | eard begeaton. |