{"id":341,"date":"2021-08-26T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:41:14","slug":"ela4-wretched-wulf-and-eadwacer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/341","title":{"rendered":"ELA4 &#8211; &#8220;Wretched&#8221; (Wulf and Eadwacer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWretched\u201d (Wulf and Eadwacer)<br \/>\n<em>Authorship unknown<br \/>\n<\/em>Translated by Elaine Treharne<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For my tribe it\u2019s like being given a tribute.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll want to consume him if he comes on that crowd.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not like that for us.<br \/>\nWulf\u2019s on one island, I\u2019m on the other.<br \/>\nFast-bound is that island, surrounded by fen.<br \/>\nThey are murderous men there on the island.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll want to consume him if he comes on that crowd.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s unlikely for us.<br \/>\nI traced the wide travels of Wulf in my wonderings<br \/>\nwhen it was rainy weather, and I sat weeping.<br \/>\nThen he, battle-hardened, laid arms about me.<br \/>\nThat was pleasure for me; still, there was pain for me too.<br \/>\nWulf, my Wulf, my wonderings of you<br \/>\nmade me sick\u2014your seldom comings,<br \/>\nmy mourning mind\u2014not the missing of meals.<br \/>\nCan you hear, Eadwacer? Wulf will carry our wretched whelp to the woods.<br \/>\nThat may easily be split apart what was never spliced, the riddle of us both together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>In Old English:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leodum is minum \u00a0 \u00a0 swylce him mon lac gife.<br \/>\nWilla\u00f0 hy hine a\u00deecgan \u00a0 \u00a0 gif he on\u00a0\u00dereat cyme\u00f0.<br \/>\nUngelic is us.<br \/>\nWulf is on iege, \u00a0 \u00a0 Ic on o\u00deerre.<br \/>\nF\u00e6st is\u00a0\u00de\u00e6t eglond, \u00a0 \u00a0 fenne biworpen.<br \/>\nSindon w\u00e6lreowe \u00a0 \u00a0 weras\u00a0\u00de\u00e6r on ige.<br \/>\nWilla\u00f0 hy hine\u00a0a\u00deecgan \u00a0 \u00a0 gif he on\u00a0\u00dereat cyme\u00f0.<br \/>\nUngelic is us.<br \/>\nWulfes Ic mines widlastum \u00a0 \u00a0 wenum dogode<br \/>\n\u00deonne hit w\u00e6s renig weder, \u00a0 \u00a0 one Ic reotugu s\u00e6t.<br \/>\n\u00deonne mec se beaducafa \u00a0 \u00a0 bogum bilegde:<br \/>\nW\u00e6s me wyn to\u00a0\u00deon; \u00a0 \u00a0w\u00e6s me hw\u00e6\u00dere eac la\u00f0.<br \/>\nWulf, min Wulf, \u00a0 \u00a0wena me\u00a0\u00deine<br \/>\nseoce gedydon, \u00a0 \u00a0\u00deine seldcymas,<br \/>\nmurnende mod, \u00a0 \u00a0nales meteliste.<br \/>\nGehyrest\u00a0\u00deu, Eadwacer? \u00a0 \u00a0 Uncerne earmne hwelp bire\u00f0 wulf to wuda.<br \/>\n\u00de\u00e6t mon ea\u00dee toslite\u00f0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00f0\u00e6tte n\u00e6fre gesomnad w\u00e6s, uncer giedd geador.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWretched\u201d (Wulf and Eadwacer) Authorship unknown Translated by Elaine Treharne For my tribe it\u2019s like being given a tribute. They\u2019ll want to consume him if he comes on that crowd. It\u2019s not like that for us. Wulf\u2019s on one island, I\u2019m on the other. Fast-bound is that island, surrounded by fen. They are murderous men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}