Chapter 14 Answers
1. Ðære sunnan beorhtnys, monan leoht,
and ealra tungla sind gemæne þam
rican and þam heanan.
The sun’s brightness, the light of the
moon, and of all the stars are common to the
rich and the poor.
2. Ne is þær on þam londe
laþgeniþla, ne wop ne wracu.
Nor is there in that lands foes, nor weeping
nor suffering.
3. Letan him behindan hraw bryttigean salowigpadan, ðone
sweartan hræfn, hyrnednebban, and ðone
hasopadan earn.
They left behind them corpses to share among
the darkfeathered one, the black raven, horn-beaked,
and the grey-coated eagle.
[A literal translation would be “left by
them behind.” The Anglo-Saxon writer uses
this construction because he wants to emphasize
the corpses, not the ones doing the leaving.]
4. Faraþ ardlice, and befrinað be ðam
cilde, and þonne ge hit gemetað,
cyðað me, þæt ic mage me
to him gebiddan.
Go quickly and ask about that child, and when
you find it, inform me, so that I may pray to
him.
5. Ða geworden wæs þæt
hie hine eft betyndon on þam carcerne.
Then is happened that they afterwards imprisoned
him in that jail.