The Ruin

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Wrætlic is þes wealstan,      wyrde gebræcon; burgstede burston,      brosnað enta geweorc. Hrofas sind gehrorene,      hreorge torras, hrungeat berofen,      hrim on lime, 5 scearde scurbeorge      scorene, gedrorene, ældo undereotone.      Eorðgrap hafað waldend wyrhtan      forweorone, geleorene, heardgripe hrusan,      oþ hund cnea werþeoda gewitan.      Oft þæs wag gebad 10 ræghar ond readfah      rice æfter oþrum, ofstonden under stormum;      steap geap gedreas. Wonað giet se      ...num geheapen, fel on grimme gegrunden 15 scan      heo... ...g orþonc      ærsceaft ...g      lamrindum beag mod mo...      ...yne swiftne gebrægd hwætred in hringas,      hygerof gebond 20 weallwalan wirum      wundrum togædre. Beorht wæron burgræced,      burnsele monige, heah horngestreon,      heresweg micel, meodoheall monig      ᛗ dreama full, oþþæt þæt onwende      wyrd seo swiþe. 25 Crungon walo wide,      cwoman woldagas, swylt eall fornom secgrofra wera; wurdon hyra wigsteal      westen staþolas, brosnade burgsteall.      Betend crungon hergas to hrusan.      Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað, 30 ond þæs teaforgeapa      tigelum sceadeð hrostbeages hrof. Hryre wong gecrong gebrocen to beorgum,      þær iu beorn monig glædmod ond goldbeorht      gleoma gefrætwed, wlonc ond wingal      wighyrstum scan; 35 seah on sinc, on sylfor,      on searogimmas, on ead, on æht,      on eorcanstan, on þas beorhtan burg      bradan rices. Stanhofu stodan,      stream hate wearp widan wylme;      weal eall befeng 40 beorhtan bosme,      þær þa baþu wæron, hat on hreþre.      þæt wæs hyðelic. Leton þonne geotan ofer harne stan      hate streamas un... 45 ...þþæt hringmere      hate þær þa baþu wæron. þonne is ...re;      þæt is cynelic þing, huse ......      burg....