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METHUEN’S OLD ENGLISH LIBRARY Poetry DANIEL AND AZARIAS Edited by R. T. Farrell THE DREAM OF THE ROOD Edited by Bruce Dickins and Alan S. C. Ross Prose THE BATTLE OF MALDON THE PARKER CHRONICLE Edited by E. V. Gordon 832-9OO Edited by A. H. Smith THREE NORTHUMBRIAN POEMS Edited by A. H. Smith ÆLFRIc’s COLLOQUY Edited by G. N. Garmonsway JUDITH Edited by B. J. Timmer ÆLFRIC : LIVES OF THREE ENGLISH SAINTS DEOR Edited by G. I. Needham Edited by Kemp Malone SERMO LUPI AD ANGLOS JULIANA Edited by Dorothy Whitelock Edited by Rosemary Woolf cynewulf’s elene Studies Edited by P. O. E. Gradon EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH THE SEAFARER LITERATURE Edited by I. L. Gordon By R. M. Wilson THE WANDERER AN OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR Edited by T. P. Dunning and By Randolph Quirk and C. L. Wrenn A. J. Bliss FINN SB URH Fragment and Episode METHUEN’S OLD ENGLISH LIBRARY General Editors A. J. Bliss, Professor of Old and Middle English, University College, Dublin and A. Brown, Professor of English, Monash University Eodem metro conditum forte reperi fragmenti poetici fmgulare folium, in codice ms. ho* miliarum Stmi-Saxonicarum qui extat in Bibliotheca Lambttbana, Fragmentum autem fubfequitur. Si^epep^S anb Gaha. Sceolbe Lelæp bop^S. * nap býpna^S. [^eonjcynmj. JÞýpa ppopb getujon. Eenumon hanba. Nxppe hlcojipobe %a heapo Anb «t ojipum bupum. Banhelm bepptan. Ne ne ba£a% Gaptun. Opblap anb Euþlap. Bupuh^Selu býnebe. Ne hepbpaca ne pleoje^). Anb Öenjept pýlp. 0^6 xt %æpe ju’Öe. Ne hep TSippehealle hopnap ne Öpeapp him on lapte. Eapulp * gecpang. býpna^ö. Da £ýt Dapuljc. Galpa xpept. Ac hep popjibepa^S. Eu^epe ptýpobe. Gop^buenbpa Fu^elap pnga^. Ðxt he ppa ppeolic feoph. Du^lapep punu. Eylle’Ö jpaejhama. Fop man pij>e. Ymbe hýne jobpa pela. Eu^ pubu hJýnne^Ó. To ^æpe healle bupum. fcpeapplacpa hpæp. Scýlb pceptc oncpýí5. JÞýppta ne bxpan. fcpæpen panbpobc. Nu fcýne^S þejr mona. Nu hýt nij>a heapb. Speapt anb pealo bpun. Pa^bol unbep polcnum. Aný man polbe. *f* Spupb-leoma ptob. Nu apipa^S pea-bxba. Ac he ppxgn opep eal. Spýlce eal Finnpbupuh. Ðe ^ip ne polcep nr6. Unbeapmnja. Fýpenu pxpe. Fpemman pillad. Deopmob hxlej». Ne jeppxjn íc. Ac on pacnigea^Ö nu* J?pa ^5a bupu heolbe. Nxppe pupjihcop. pijenb mine. SijejcepJ) íp min Nama cpejihe. Æt pepa hilbe. fcabba"5?) eoppe lanba. Ic eom pecgena leob. Sixtij pigebeopna. fcie jeaJ» on eilen. J>pecten pibc cutt. Sei ^ebæpann. JJinba7?) on opbe. Fxla ic peuna jebab. Ne neppe ppa noc hpitne mebo. Fepa^ on mobe. fceopbpa hilba. Sei popgýlban. Da apap mænij £olbl Ðe ip gýt heppitob. Ðonne hnxpe julban. ’Öe^n. Spxþep =6u pýlje to me. toip hæjptealbap. Eýpbe hine hip ppupbe. Secean pýlle. Ö15 puhton pip bajap. Da to bupa eobon. Da paep on healle. Spa hýpa nan ne peol. Dpihtlice cempan. pxl-plihta gehlýn. Dpihtjepi^a. Ac hij bupu heolbon. Abpocen pæpe. Folcep hýpbe. Ða jepat him punb hæle%. JÞepe pceoppum bpop. Öu %a pijenb hýpa. On px5 janjan. Anb eac pxp hip helm ^6ýpl. punba jenxpon. Sxbe jí hip býpne. Ða hine pona ppxgfl* O^S^e hpæ]>ep ^æpa hýppa* Hickes’s Thesaurus I, 192-3 F I N N S B U R H Fragment and Episode Edited by Donald K. Fry Methuen & Co Ltd I I NEW FETTER LANE LONDON EC4P 4EE First published in 1974 by Methuen & Co Ltd Copyright © 1974 Introduction, Notes etc. Donald K. Fry Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome and London SBN 416 78930 7 Distributed in the USA by HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS INC. BARNES & NOBLE IMPORT DIVISION CONTENTS Plate: Hickes’s Thesaurus I3 192-3 Frontispiece Map X Preface xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction I The Manuscripts I II Language and Date 4 III The Story 5 IV Style 25 The Finnsburh Fragment: Text, with textual variants and footnotes 31 The Finnsburh Episode: Text, with textual variants and footnotes 37 Select Bibliography 47 Glossary 58 Names 81
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