healdan

I. ic maguþegnas mîne hâte ... flotan eówerne ârum healdan, _I bid my thanes take good care of your craft_, 293; imp. sg.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

I. ic maguþegnas mīne hāte ... flotan ēowerne ārum healdan, _I bid my thanes take good care of your craft_, 293; imp. sg.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

What’s interesting here is what probably sounds familiar if you’ve any experience of the poem called the Old English Maxims (which essentially function as a kind of catalogue of knowledge of “the way things are”), the first line of which reads: Cyning sceal rice healdan (maxims II, l.

After Elegy: or, Thinking Old English Without Loss Mary Kate Hurley 2008

What’s interesting here is what probably sounds familiar if you’ve any experience of the poem called the Old English Maxims (which essentially function as a kind of catalogue of knowledge of “the way things are”), the first line of which reads: Cyning sceal rice healdan (maxims II, l.

Archive 2008-11-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

3165 Hî on beorg dydon bêg and siglu, eall swylce hyrsta, swylce on horde ær nîð-hydige men genumen häfdon; forlêton eorla gestreón eorðan healdan, gold on greóte, þær hit nu gen lifað

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

3165 Hī on beorg dydon bēg and siglu, eall swylce hyrsta, swylce on horde ǣr nīð-hȳdige men genumen hæfdon; forlēton eorla gestrēon eorðan healdan, gold on grēote, þǣr hit nū gēn lifað

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879