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
yew, mugwort, hwat yew ,

hwat yew at the.

yew, oldest of worts.

Yew may stand III and wither XXX,

yew may stand wither and wither ,

yew may stand wither the loathsum hwo the land fare.

And yew, waybroad, worts mother,

from the east open, migty inside.

Ofer yew creaked, ofer yew cweens rode,

ofer yew brides BRYODEDON, ofer yew snorted.

Yew withstood and em all.

So too yew withstood atter and onfly

and the loathsum hwo yond the land fare.

Stun higt this wort, it waxed on stone,

it stood wither atter, it stuns.

Stithe it higt, it withstuns atter,

it the  one, it  ute atter.

This is the wort that fougt wither a.

This may wither atter, it may wither onfly

It may wither the loathsum hwo yond the land fare.

Fly yew nue, atterloathe, the less the more,

the more the less, boot is for both with him.

Mun yew,, hwat yew melded,

hwat yew ended at Alderford.

Nefer sell for

yared mathe as for him.

This is the wort that WERGULU higt,

this a seal ofer seas ridge,

atters, others boot.

These VIIII may wither nine atters.

A worm came sneaking, it slit a man,

then Wooden num VIIII

then he slew the and it flew into VIIII bits.

There ended appel and atter,

that it nefer would bue in a huse.

Fill and fennel, migty two.

These worts were scaped by a witty ,

holy in heafens, hwen he hung

he set and sent into VII worlds

for and for, all for boot.

It stood wither wark, it stuns wither atter.

It may stand wither III, and wither XXX,

wither hand, and wither FREABEGDE,

and wither  wigts.

Nue these VIIII worts may wither nine ,

wither VIIII atters, and wither nine onflies,

wither the red atter, wither the RUNLAN atter,

wither the hwite 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 cum flying from the east

or if any cum from the north,

or if any cum from the west ofer.

Crist stood ofer, one of a kind.

Only I the running.

There the nine nadders behold.

All weeds must nue spring as worts.

Seas slip all salt water

hwile I blow this atter off thee.

Mugwort, waybroad hwic 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 appels gore. Work a of water and of asc.

Nim the fennel, in the slip and  with  hwen he puts on the salfe, ere and after.

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