Nine Ƿorts Galder

This is an Anglish translation of the "Nine Herbs Charm", an Old English incantation. The meanings of the words BRYODEDON, FREABEGDE, WERGULU, and RUNLAN are unknown to me, so I didn't touch them.

Beware: this article uses Anglish Spelling, which has had foreign influence reverted.

The Writ
geƿ, mugƿort, hƿat geƿ ,

hƿat geƿ at þe.

geƿ, oldest of ƿorts.

Geƿ may stand III and ƿiþer XXX,

Geƿ may stand ƿiþer and ƿiþer ,

Geƿ may stand ƿiþer þe loaþsum hƿo þe land fare.

And geƿ, ƿaybroad, ƿorts moþer,

from þe east open, migty inside.

Ofer geƿ creaked, ofer geƿ cƿeens rode,

ofer geƿ brides BRYODEDON, ofer geƿ snorted.

Geƿ ƿiþstood and em all.

So too geƿ ƿiþstood atter and onfly

and þe loaþsum hƿo geond þe land fare.

Stun higt þis ƿort, it ƿaxed on stone,

it stood ƿiþer atter, it stuns.

Stiþe it higt, it ƿiþstuns atter,

it þe  one, it  ute atter.

Þis is þe ƿort þat fougt ƿiþer a.

Þis may ƿiþer atter, it may ƿiþer onfly

It may ƿiþer þe loaþsum hƿo geond þe land fare.

Fly geƿ nu, atterloaþe, þe less þe more,

þe more þe less, boot is for boþ ƿiþ him.

Mun geƿ,, hƿat geƿ melded,

hƿat geƿ ended at Alderford.

Nefer sell for

geared maþe as for him.

Þis is þe ƿort þat ǷERGULU higt,

þis a seal ofer seas ricg,

atters, oþers boot.

Þese VIIII may ƿiþer nine atters.

A ƿorm came sneaking, it slit a man,

þen Ƿooden num VIIII

þen he sleƿ þe and it fleƿ into VIIII bits.

Þere ended appel and atter,

þat it nefer ƿould bue in a huse.

Fill and fennel, migty tƿo.

Þese ƿorts ƿere scaped by a ƿitty ,

holy in heafens, hƿen he hung

he set and sent into VII ƿorlds

for and for, all for boot.

It stood ƿiþer ƿark, it stuns ƿiþer atter.

It may stand ƿiþer III, and ƿiþer XXX,

ƿiþer hand, and ƿiþer FREABEGDE,

and ƿiþer  ƿigts.

Nu þese VIIII ƿorts may ƿiþer nine ,

ƿiþer VIIII atters, and ƿiþer nine onflies,

ƿiþer þe red atter, ƿiþer þe RUNLAN atter,

ƿiþer þe hƿite atter, ƿiþer þe atter,

ƿiþer þe gelloƿ atter, ƿiþer þe green atter,

ƿiþer þe ƿan atter, ƿiþer þe atter,

ƿiþer þe brune atter, ƿiþer þe atter,

ƿiþer ƿormblad, ƿiþer ƿaterblad,

ƿiþer þornblad, ƿiþer þistelblad,

ƿiþer iseblad, ƿiþer atterblad,

if any atter cum flying from þe east

or if any cum from þe norþ,

or if any cum from þe ƿest ofer.

Crist stood ofer, one of a kind.

Only I þe running.

Þere þe nine nadders behold.

All ƿeeds must nu spring as ƿorts.

Seas slip all salt ƿater

hƿile I bloƿ þis atter off þee.

Mugƿort, ƿaybroad hƿic is open from þe east, lambscrest, atterloaþe, maþe, nettel, ƿoodsureappel, fill and fennel, old soap.

Ƿork þe ƿorts into dust, ƿiþ þe soap and ƿiþ þe appels gore. Ƿork a of ƿater and of asc.

Nim þe fennel, in þe slip and  ƿiþ  hƿen he puts on þe salfe, ere and after.

Sing þe galder on eac of þe ƿorts þrise ere he ƿorks, and on þe appel also. And þen sing in þe muþe of men, and in boþ þe ears, and on þe ƿund þat galder, ere he puts on þe salf.