This translation exercise will help you memorize some of the
nouns that occur frequently in the anthology of
Introduction to Old English—especially those that are
not easily recognized from their Modern English descendants
(or that have none). For each sentence, pay careful attention
to the highlighted word.
Don’t take the scoring of this exercise too seriously: of
course a computer program can’t do a good job of evaluating a
translation.
Wē biddað ūs Godes āre.
Wē hātað Godes forescēawung wyrd.
God sent eorþliċe wæstmas gōdum and yfelum.
Hē ġeearnode his hlāfordes miltse.
Iċ ætȳwde þæt ġewrite eallum mīnum witum.
Him wearð on slǣpe swefn ætȳwed.
Ðā flugon þā hǣðnan lēode.
God fordyde Egypta duguðe.
Se cyning benam his eorlum eall þe hīe āhton.
Ælfred rehte þām prēost his synna.
Þæt trēow wēox on þām wange.
Se heretoga fērde mid miċlum werode tō Lundene.
Se biscop wæs ārfæst on þēawum.
Ealle mīne nȳtenu sind on þām felda.
Se ealdorman rīcsað ofer þās scīre.
Se cyning sceal rīcsian ofer his rīċe.
Þū scealt on helle wīte ġeþolian.
God sende his enġel to þām hālgan
were.
Þū ne scealt nān lāc offrian lēasum godum.
Se ealdorman rād mid his ġefēran.
Þis feoh is mīn yrfeweardness.
Ēadweardes mǣġ is Ēadwiġ ġehāten.
Hire māgas oferbrǣddon þæt līc mid þǣre tunecan.
On dōmes dæġ miċele yrmða becumað on
middanġearde.
Se dēma dēmð stīðne dōm þām morþorwyrhtan.
Þēos woruld is lǣne.
Eall þæt folc cōm tō þām symble.
Hīe wunodon on ġeswince on þisse worulde.
Se dēofol tyhte heora mōde tō
bealofullum dǣdum.
Se gōda man ġelaðode his frȳnd tō þām
symble.
Rēðe wulfas wuniað on þām wuda.
Ōswald fremede fela gōdra weorca.
Enġlas sungon Gode wuldor on
hēannyssum.
Þǣr ðǣr iċ mē self bēo, þǣr bið ēac mīn þeġn.
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