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The Seafarer §88b-90

Edited by Tarrin Wills

Blæd ‘The glory’

nom. sg.

blæd (noun m.; masc noun): glory, splendour

is ‘is’

3rd pers. pres. sg.

beon (verb; anom verb): to be

gehnæged ‘humbled’

3rd pers. pret. sg. participle;

hnægan (verb; Class 1 wk verb): cause to bend down, humble

eorþan ‘the earth’s’

gen. sg.

eorðe (noun f.; fem noun): earth

indryhto ‘nobility’

nom. sg.

indryhto (noun f.; fem noun): nobility

ealdað ‘ages’

3rd pers. pres. sg.

ealdian (verb; wk verb): age, grow old

ond ‘and’

and (conj.; conj): and

searað ‘withers’

3rd pers. pres. sg.

searian (verb; wk verb): become dried-out, barren

swa ‘so’

swa (adv.; adv): so, thus, also, as, in such a way that; when;

nu ‘now’

nu (adv.; adv): now

monna ‘of the men’

gen. pl.

man (noun m.; masc noun): man, person; one

gehwylc ‘each’

nom. sg.

gehwilc (pron.; pron): each

geond ‘throughout’

geond (prep.; prep): throughout, through, around

middangeard ‘the middle world’

acc. sg.

middangeard (noun m.; masc noun): earth, the world (esp. in opposition to heaven and/or hell); mankind

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Blæd is gehnæged,
eorþan indryhto
ealdað ond searað,
swa nu monna gehwylc
geond middangeard.

86-88a The Seafarer 91-93

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