Nine Ƿorts Galder

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

Beware: this article uses spellings which have had foreign influence reverted.

The Writ
thue, mugwort, what thue ,

What thue at the ,

thue, oldest of worts,

thue  III and wither XXX,

thue may wither and wither ,

thue may wither the loathsome who the land fare.

And thue, waybroad, wort's mother,

From the east open, inside mighty;

ofer thee creak, ofer thee cweens rode,

ofer thee brides BRYODEDON, ofer thee snorted.

All thue withstoodst and ;

so too thue withstoodst atter and onfly

and the loathsome who yond the land fare.

Stun hight this wort, it on stone waxed

Stood it wither atter, stunneth it

Stithe it hight, withstunneth it atter,

it the one,  ute atter.

This is the wort that wither fought

This may wither atter, it may wither onfly

It may wither the loathsome who yond the land fare.

Fly thue nue, atterloathe, the less the more,

the more the less, with him boot for both is

Mun thue,, what thue meldedst,

what thue endedst at Alderford

that nefer for  sell

for him mathe as

This is the wort that WERGULU hight;

This a seal ofer sea's ridge

atter's, other's boot

These VIIII may wither nine atters

A worm came sneaking, slit he man

then Wooden VIIII

slew then the that it into VIIII bits flew

There ended appel and atter,

that it nefer would in huse bue

Fill and fennel, mighty two

These worts scaped witty

holy in heafens, when he hung

he set and sent into VII worlds

for and for, all for boot.

Stood it wither wark, stunneth it wither atter,

it may wither III, and wither XXX,

wither hand, and wither FREABEGDE

wither  wights

Nue may these VIIII worts wither nine

wither VIIII atters and wither nine onflies

wither the red atter, wither the RUNLAN atter

wither the white atter, wither the atter

wither the yellow atter, wither the green atter

wither the wan atter, wither the atter

wither the brune atter, wither the atter

wither wormblad, wither waterblad

wither thornblad, wither thistelblad

wither iseblad, wither atterblad

if any atter cometh, from the east flying

or any from the north cometh

or any from the west ofer

Crist stood ofer, one of a kind

Only I the running

there the nine nadders behold

all weeds nue as worts spring

seas slip, all salt water

while I this atter off thee blow

Mugwort, waybroad whic is open from the east, lambscrest, atterloathe, mathe, nettel, woodsureappel, fill and fennel, old soap.

Work the worts into dust, with the soap and with the appel's gore. Work a of water and of asc.

Nim the fennel, in the slip and  with  when he doth on the salfe, ere and after.

Sing the galder on eac of the worts thrise ere he worketh, and on the appel also, and sing then men in the muthe, and in both the ears, and on the wund that galder, ere he doth on the salfe.