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1 I can by myself
2 expeditions tell
3 a time of hardship
4 bitter breastcare
5 known aboard ship
6 terrible waves welling
7 an anxious nightwatch
8 when along cliffs it knocked.
9 were my feet,
10 by cold fetters
11 hot about the heart.
12 the seaweary spirit.
13 for whom on shore
14 how I, wretched,
15 in winter endured,
16 of hall-companions bereft
17 hung with icicles.
18 There I did not hear
19 ice-cold wave.
20 did I make for myself as game,
21 and curlew's music
22 singing sea-mew
23 Storms there stonecliffs beat
24 Often eagle screamed
25 Not any protecting kinsmen
26 the destitute spirit
27 Therefore (indeed?) he little believes ---
28 experienced in town,
29 proud and wine-swollen ---
30 in sea's path
31 Nightshadow darkened.
32 Frost the ground bound.
33 Of kernels coldest.
34 the heart's thoughts °
35 salt-waves' rolling,
36 Mind's desire reminds
37 the spirit to travel,
38 foreigners'
39 Indeed there is not so proud-hearted °
40 nor of his gifts so generous,
41 nor in his deeds so brave
42 that he ever about his seafaring
43 as to what the Lord with (to?) him
44 Neither will his thought be on harp,
45 nor on pleasure of women,
46 nor about anything else
47 but always has longing
48 Groves take blossom,
49 meadows beautiful,
50 All then remind
51 the heart, to a journey,
52 on floodways
53 Likewise cuckoo reminds °
54 summer's guardian sings
55 bitterly into breastcoffer.
56 fortunate man,
57 who those tracks of exile (acc.)
58 Therefore (indeed?) now my mind passes
59 my spirit
60 over whale's home
61 (over) earth's expanse,
62 eager and greedy.
63 whets onto whale-way
64 over seas' lake.
65 the Lord's joys
66 fleeting on land.
67 that for it worldlywealth
68 Always a certain one of three
69 before its time
70 disease or age
71 from doomed men
72 Therefore this for every man
73 of the living ones, praise
74 that he might earn
75 through actions on earth
76 through brave deeds
77 so that Him the children of men
78 and His praise from then on
79 for ever and ever
80 joy amidst the Heavenly Host.
81 all magnificence
82 There are not now kings
83 or gold-givers
84 when they among themselves the most
85 and in the most lordly
86 Perished is all this host,
87 the weaker men remain
88 occupy (it) in travail.
89 Earth's grandeur
90 as now each man
91 Old age overtakes him.
92 Grey-haired one mourns,
93 sons of noblemen,
94 Cannot, then, the fleshcover
95 either swallow sweetness
96 or a hand stir
97 Although the grave (acc.) will
98 a brother (nom.) of his born (brother),
99 with various treasures,
100 Cannot be to the soul
101 gold as an aid
102 when he has hoarded it formerly
103 Mighty is the terrible power of the Lord.
104 He established
105 the earth's expanse
106 Foolish is he who does not dread his Lord.
107 Blessed is he who humbly lives.
108 God in him that disposition establishes,
109 One must control (with) a strong mind
110 and (be) true to men
111 Must each man
112 with his friends
113 although (lest?) him he will
114 or on the funeral pyre
115 his well-earned friend.
116 God mightier
117 Let us think
118 and then consider
119 and then let us also endeavour
120 into that eternal
121 there (where) life springs up
122 joy in Heaven.
123 that He honoured us,
124 Eternal Lord,
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1 a true poem utter,
2 how I in days of toil
3 often endured
4 have experienced,
5 many care-abodes,
6 (where) there often befell me
7 at vessel's prow
8 By cold pinched
9 frost-bound
10 there (where?) cares sighed
11 Hunger inside gnawed
12 That the man knows not
13 most fairly it befalls,
14 ice-cold sea
15 in tracks of exile,
16 ........................
17 Hail flew in gusts.
18 but roaring sea,
19 Sometimes wild swan's song
20 gannet's cry
21 instead of laughter of men,
22 instead of mead-drinking.
23 there tern answered them icy-feathered.
24 hoary-feathered.
25 ........................
26 could travel (console?)
27 he who has ever life's pleasures
28 of adversities few,
29 how I weary often
30 had to remain.
31 From north it snowed.
32 Hail fell on earth
33 Indeed (therefore? and?) now beat (urge?)
34 that I high seas,
35 myself experience.
36 on each occasion
37 that I far hence
38 land seek.
39 a man on earth,
40 nor in youth so bold,
41 nor his lord so loyal to him,
42 has not had sorrow (anxiety?)
43 wishes to do.
44 nor on receiving rings,
45 nor on worldly joy,
46 except about the waves' welling,
47 he who onto water sets out.
48 towns grow fair,
49 world hastens on.
50 the eager of spirit,
51 for him who thus thinks
52 afar to depart.
53 with sad voice,
54 inviting sorrow.
55 That the man knows not
56 what that certain one endured
57 laid down furthest.
58 over heart's enclosure,
59 with flood-tide
60 passes wide
61 comes back to me
62 Lone-flier yells,
63 the heart irresistibly
64 Indeed to me hotter are °
65 than this dead life
66 I do not believe
67 forever remains.
68 in each case
69 becomes ambiguous:
70 or edge-hatred
71 takes away life.
72 of those speaking afterwards,
73 is the best of memorials
74 before he must on his way
75 against foes' hostility
76 against the devil,
77 will hereafter honor
78 may live with angels
79 in the blessedness of eternal life,
80 The days are gone,
81 of earth's realm.
82 or Caesars
83 such as once were
84 marvels performed
85 glory lived.
86 joys are departed,
87 and this world hold,
88 Glory is laid low.
89 grows old and sere
90 throughout middle-earth.
91 Visage grows pale.
92 knows his friends of yore,
93 to earth given.
94 when the life has left it
95 or feel pain
96 or with mind think.
97 with gold strew.
98 bury him among the dead
99 that will not go with him.
100 that is sinful
101 before the terrible power of God
102 when he lived here.
103 Before (because of?) it the world turns aside.
104 the solid lands,
105 and the heavens above.
106 To him comes the death unforeseen.
107 To him comes the grace of heaven.
108 Therefore (because?) he in his might believes.
109 and within bounds hold it
110 and in ways pure.
111 with moderation govern
112 and with his enemies (his) malice
113 full of fire
114 (have) burned
115 Fate is stronger,
116 than the understanding of any man.
117 where we have a home
118 how we might come there
119 that we might (go)
120 blessedness
121 in love of God,
122 For this let there be thanks to the Holy One
123 Glory's Prince,
124 for all time. Amen.
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