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, mighty inside.

Ofer thee creaked, ofer thee cweens rode,

ofer thee brides BRYODEDON, ofer thee snorted.

Thue withstoodst and hem all.

So too thue withstoodst atter and onfly

and the loathsome who yond the land fare.

Stun hight this wort, it waxed on stone,

it stood wither atter, it stunneth.

Stithe it higt, it withstunneth 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 loathsome who yond the land fare.

Fly thue nue, atterloathe, the less the more,

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

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, 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 in bue in a huse.

Fill and fennel, migty two.

These worts were scaped by a witty ,

holy in heafens, when he hung

he set and sent into VII worlds

for and for, all for boot.

It stood wither wark, it stunneth wither atter.

It may wither III, and wither XXX,

wither hand, and wither FREABEGDE,

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 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 cummeth flying from the east

or if any cummeth from the north,

or if any cummeth 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

while I blow this atter off thee.

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.