Nor Anlaff the more, With the left (remainder) of the army, To laugh not throve it,* That they battles work In camp-stead. At assembly the nighest, The great meeting Of the men of the motes, t Weep the ransoms Of those that they on wail-field Guarded by an oath, Aforen pledged. Quit them the Northmen With tackled gear, (with sails repaired) On the dingy sea, Over deep waters, Dublin they seek, that passage of the Evangelist, "what shall a man give in exchange for his soul." Math. xvi. 26. Mark viii. 37. 42 Ead and eath, an oath. 43 This word pronounced, sounds as quitten. * To laugh to boast, availed not. + Ward-motes is still in constant use to express a meeting of the principal inhabitants of the ward. Eft yra land, Ewi scamode. Swylce tha gebrothor, 4 Bege ætrunne, 45 Cyning and Etheling, Wiges hremige Lætan him behindan. Hra Bryttinga, Salowig padan, Thone sweartan hræfan Hyrnet nebban, And thone hasu-wadan earn, Eftan hwit æses brucan; Grædigne cuth haofoc, And that grege deor, * Wulfon wealde, Ne wearth wæl mare On thisne iglande, 44 Gedecan is to deck, thatch, cover. 45 Gibson reads atsunne, but Tiberius A vi. atrunne, toge theren. (Æfre gita * Folces gefylled) Beforan thyssum Swordes ecgum. (Thæs the us secgath 46 bec Ealde uth witan.) Siththan eastan hider, Engle and Seaxe, Up becomon. * Ofer brade briniu, Britene sohton. Wlance wig smithas, Weales ofer comon Eorlas arhwæte, Eard begeaton. 46 This rendering is confirmed by the Heptateuch of Thwaites, p. 162. (Ever since By folkes filled) Before this By sword's edge. (Thus they that seek books, Elders of the witens,)* Since that the easterns hither, Angles and Saxons, Up became. (arrived) O'er the broad brine (sea) Britain they sought. Smiting with lances, The Welch they conquered, The earls harrowed, The earth gotten. (the land obtained.) * Thus it is related by the Clerks, the learned. |