minum cynne. ofer heora dæg. ac ic wille [[1] ofer] hyra dæg þæt hit gange on þa nyhstan hand me. butan hyra hwylc bearn hæbbe. þonne is me leofast þæt hit gange on þæt stryned on þa wæpned healfe. þa hwile þe ænig þæs wyrðe sy. min yldra fæder hæfde gecweden his land on þa [2]spere healfe. næs on þa spinl healfe. þonne gif ic gesealde ænigre wif handa ꝥ he gestrynde. þonne forgyldan mine magas. 7 gif hy hit be þan libbendan habban wyllan. gif hit elles sy. gange hit ofer hyra dæg swa swa we ær gecweden hæfdon hy foð to minum þe ic syllan mot swa wif handa swa wæpned handa swaðer ic wylle.
7 ic bidde on godes naman 7 on his halgra. ꝥ minra maga nan. ne yrfewearda ne gespence nan. nænig cyrehf þara þe ic foregeald. 7 me west-seaxena witan to rihte gerehton þæt ic hi mot lætan swa freo swa
- ↑ The Word ofer seems to be wanting here.
- ↑ Spere healfe......Spinl healfe. The Sexes are here denominated from the Implements peculiar to their respective Occupations; the Male from the Spear, the Female from the Spindle. And hence, I cannot but think it probable, that the word wæpened, signifying also masculine (though derived, by the Authors of our Vocabularies, from wæpen, which they suppose to have been a Saxon Word correspond
