Ƿiþer Ferstic

Foreward
This is an Anglish translation of the Old English text Wið Færstice.

The Writ
Hie were loud, loe, loud when hie rode over the low.

wǣran ānmōde ðā hȳ ofer land ridan scyld ðū ðē nū þū ðysne nīð genesan mōte ūt lȳtel spere gif hēr inne sīe stōd under linde under lēohtum scylde þǣr ðā mihtigan wīf hyra mægen berǣddon ⁊ hȳ gyllende gāras sændan ic him ōðerne eft wille sændan flēogende flāne forane tōgēanes ūt lȳtel spere gif hit hēr inne sȳ · sæt smið slōh seax lȳtel īserna wund swīðe ūt lȳtel spere gif hēr inne sȳ syx smiðas sǣtan wælspera worhtan ūt spere næs in spere gif hēr inne sȳ īsenes dǣl hægtessan geweorc hit sceal gemyltan gif ðū wǣre on fell scoten oððe wǣre on flǣsc scoten oððe wǣre on blōd scoten oððe wǣre on lið scoten nǣfre ne sȳ ðīn līf ātǣsed gif hit wǣre ēsa gescot oððe hit wǣre ylfa gescot oððe hit wǣre hægtessan gescot nū ic wille ðīn helpan þis ðē tō bōte ēsa gescotes ðis ðē tō bōte ylfa gescotes ðis ðē tō bōte hægtessan gescotes ic ðīn wille helpan flēo [?MS fled] þǣr on fyrgenhǣfde hāl westū helpe ðīn drihten nim þonne þæt seax ādō on wǣtan ·