Chapter 10 Answers
1. Seo ylce rod siþþan, þe
Oswold þær arærde, on wurþmynte þær
stod.
Afterwards the same cross, which Oswald raised
there, stood there in reverence.
[It often helps to move adverbs of time to the
beginning of the sentence; seo can refer to the
grammatical gender of the noun.]
2. Geseoh þu, cyning, hwelc þeos
lar sie þe us nu bodað is.
See you, king, of what sort this lore, which
is now proclaimed to us, may be.
[Your first approximation for the translation
of the sentence might be: “See you, king,
of what sort this lore may be which is now proclaimed
to us.” Then rearrange into Modern English
word order.]
3. Wæs he, se mon, in weoruldhade geseted
oþ þa tide þe he wæs
gelyfdre ylde.
He, the man, was located in secular life, until
the time in which he was of advanced old age.
4. Ðonne cymeþ Ifling of þæm
mere þe Truso standeþ in staþe.
Then comes the Ifling River from that lake by
which Truso stands on the shore.
5. Ic wolde helpan þæs þe þær
unscyldig wære, ond ne herian þone þe
hine yflode.
I wished to help those who were not guilty and
not to praise those who did evil to him.
6. And þa þe gesawene synt ofer þæt
gode land, ða synd ðe þæt
word gyhyraþ.
And those who are seen (visible) over that good
land, those are those ones who hear the word
7. And he cwæþ, 'Gehyre, se þe
earan hæbbe to gehyranne.'
And he said, “Hear! He who has ears for
hearing.”
[to gehyranne is an example of the inflected
infinitive.]
8. Þa he þa þas andswere onfeng, ða
ongan he sona singan, in herenesse Godes Scyppendes.
When he received that answer, then he began immediately
to sing in praise of God, of the Creator.
9. He þæt wel þafode, and
heo hine in þæt mynster onfeng mid
his godum.
He well agreed to that, and she received him
in that monastery with his goods.
10. On þys geare—þæt
wæs ymb twelf monað þæs þe
hie on þæm, eastrice geweorc geworht
hæfdon—Norþhymbre ond Eastengle
hæfdon Ælfrede cyninge aþas
geseald.
In this year – that was twelve months after
which they had made a defensive work in the east
kingdom—Northumbria and East Anglia had
given oaths to King Alfred.