Bede's Death Song: The Hague Version
Verse Early Saxon
Fore ðaem nedfere
nenig wiorðeð
ðonosnottorra
ðon him ðearf riae
to ymbhycgenne
aer his hinionge
hwet his gaste
godes oððe yfles
5
ester deaðdege
doemed wiorðe.
nenig wiorðeð ðon him ðearf riae aer his hinionge godes oððe yfles doemed wiorðe.