Wulf & Eadwacer (Old English Reading)
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Wulf & Eadwacer is an Anglo Saxon poem composed between 960 and 990 AD. Of famously difficult interpretation, it has been variously characterised, (modernly) as an elegy, (historically) as a riddle, and (in speculation on the poem's pre-history) as a song or ballad with refrain. The only extant copy is found in the Exeter Book.
Old English text: Leodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife; willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð. Ungelic is us. Wulf is on iege, ic on oþerre. Fæst is þæt eglond, fenne biworpen. Sindon wælreowe weras þær on ige; willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð. Ungelice is us. Wulfes ic mines widlastum wenum dogode; þonne hit wæs renig weder ond ic reotugu sæt, þonne mec se beaducafa bogum bilegde, wæs me wyn to þon, wæs me hwæþre eac lað. Wulf, min Wulf, wena me þine seoce gedydon, þine seldcymas, murnende mod, nales meteliste. Gehyrest þu, Eadwacer? Uncerne earne hwelp bireð Wulf to wuda. þæt mon eaþe tosliteð þætte næfre gesomnad wæs, uncer giedd geador.
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It's so interesting to hear the influences of german in this...like I="eech"
VonBimoburg 3 months ago
when is the 'c' pronounced as a 'ch'?
lecrapauddejerri9 4 months ago
My favorite part is around 0:28 seconds the part that i can actually understand without translation. However I will try to learn Anglo saxon
FANADICALCOWHEAD 5 months ago
@TaTaAlwulf
The translation of this poem is one of the most difficult of the old English poetry because nobody knows who wrote it, who´s the speaker and what´s the story behind it. This is 1 of the most favoured translations though.
What I am unsure of is his pronunciation. For example, letter "f" in old En. was pronounced "v" between 2 vowels or voiced conson. Hence "gife" should be pronounced "give". That´s only a really basic 1, I´m surprised that someone who likes old En. doesn´t know it.
StromyCZ 7 months ago
Same as modern german "ich"?
Plastrio 7 months ago
"Ic" reads like "each"?
Plastrio 7 months ago
beautiful poem
keithmanchester 8 months ago
Marvellous reading. Im a bit unsure of accuracy of the translation though. Not only was it written in Old English (Anglo Saxon) language but it was also written in obscure words for the time it was written.
TaTaAlwulf 10 months ago
Wonderful. Beautiful too.
brychar66 1 year ago 2
I'm Confused , com haha
YoStudioMovie 1 year ago