Se Bordweall Wille Astigeð Agen

Post date: Mar 27, 2013 10:36:32 PM

Poet Laureate, October 9, 2004

Title: Se Bordweall Wille Astigeð Agen

Author: Master Victor Hildebrand vönn Köln

MKA: Richard Lobinske

Se bordweall

wille astigeð agen

fram ða land

Seo hearte of ðis folc

und na se leodhata

Ure worda forseon

Huntað swa se heort

Gereord of heora

spring swa unhælu

Tima mynie naht

swa Knut und suna

His boc na rimmaþ

Utan ealdor geanwyrde

From dægas of istoria

to Alfred astigen

und ða unræd

Niehst ða fyll of

Denelagu se gemynd

Norþmandisc licettanas

þis folc hyldu to

Seo igland wille

se bastard hæfde stalode.

se soþ cynnig gesið

to haebhe.

swa na clæne, werhð

in ða weald.

elreord und biter

on heora tunge.

we hæfden gearas geðyld

geasced beforan.

seo soð of ða land.

næfre weorð.

Hengist und Horsa

fram Guthrim forspillan,

gegiefen Æðelred.

Harold Godwinson.

Haardrada geasced.

na cunnan maceþ na treow

land und cynnig.

wuneð, Angleland

The shieldwall will arise again

from the lands the bastard has stolen.

The heart of the folk is the true king’s companion

and never the tyrants to own.

Our words are treated as unclean, cursed

hunted as a hart in the forest.

Speech of theirs, strange and painful

spread as disease on their tongues.

Time means naught, we have patience for years

as Knut and sons learned before.

His book reckons not the truth of the land.

Outside lords are noted, never honored.

From days of legend, Hengist and Horsa,

to Alfred rising from Guthrim’s spoils

and the evil counsels given Æthelred.

Lastly, the fall of Harold Godwinson

Danelaw is a memory, Haardrada learned.

Norman pretenders cannot make untrue

the folks loyalty to land and king.

The island will remain, Angleland