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Adam lived here in exile nine hundred and thirty years, and his bones are buried not far east of the city that is named Cebron, and for him the head is turned south and the feet north ...
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Adam lifde hér on wræcsíðe nigon hund ġéara ond ðrítiġ ġéara, ond his bán syndon bebyrġed noht feorr be éastan ðǽre byriġ ðe is nemned Cebron, ond him is ðæt héafod súð ġewend ond þá fét norð – OE Martyrology
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Biþ men ful lýtle ðý bet, ðéah ðe hé gódne fæder hæbbe, gif hé self tó náuhte ne mæġ. – OE Boethius
It is/will be very little the better for a person, though he have a good father, if he can't make something of himself (on his own).
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ġif sweordhwíta wǽpn tó feormunge onfó, oððe smið monnes andweorc, híe hit ġesund béġen áġifen swá hit hwæðer hiora ǽr onfénge – Laws of Ælfred
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Wēnst ðū ðæt ðū ðæt hweorfende hwēol ðonne hit on ryne wyrþ mǣġe onċyrran?
Do you imagine that you can shift the spinning wheel (of fate/chance) when it is in motion? -- Boethius
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Hwí ne synt wé múþfréo? Hú ne móton wé sprecan ðæt wé willaþ? – OE Psalms
Why aren't we at liberty to speak (lit., mouth-free)? How (why) aren't we allowed to say what we want?
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ðá wæs on úhtan mid ǽr-dæġe
Grendles gúð-cræft gumum un-dyrne – Beowulf 126-127
Lit., Then was just-before-daybreak, with early-day
Grendel's war-craft (skill, strength) to-men/warriors un-secret.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ġewyrċe him ġemilscode drincan, ꝥ is miċel dǣl bewylledes wæteres on huniġes gōdum dǣle—Leechdoms.
Make for him a honey-sweetened drink, that is a great deal of boiled water in a good deal of honey.
Both great deal and good deal survive in ModE as idioms.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Hē ne flāt, ne ne hrȳmde, ne nān mann his stemne on strǣtum ne ġehȳrde– Ælfric Homilies.
He did not contend, nor shout, nor did any person hear his voice in the streets.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Steorran hīe ætīewdon fulnēah healfe tīd ofer undern.
Stars showed themselves very nearly half an hour after nine [a.m. ] -- Chronicle 540, BT Dictionary translation
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Ðā ġenam hē his bogan and hine ġebende and ðā mid ġeǣttredum strǣle ongan scēotan—Homilies.
Then he took his bow and bent it and then with a poisoned arrow began to shoot.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ǣlċum nihtum hæfð wel-ġeġearwod scop ōðre tale for ġebēorscipum. -- BT Dictionary
On every night the well-prepared scop has another story for the feasts.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Hy twegen sceolon tæfle ymbsittan þenden him hyra torn toglide forgietan þara geocran gesceafta. -- OE Maxims
Two should sit at a game board together until [lit. while] their troubles slip away, forgetting sad events.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Þú eart fulnéah forþóht. Ac ic nolde ꝥ þú þé forþóhte ... for ðǽm sé ðe hine forþencð, sé bið ormód. Thou art well-nigh desperate. But I would not that thou shouldst despair ... for he that is without hope is without heart. -- OE Boethius (BT Dict. translation)
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Þā of wealle ġeseah weard Scyldinga,
se ðe holmclifu healdan scolde,
beran ofer bolcan beorhte randas… – Beow. 229-231
Shippey trans.:
The Scylding warden, whose job it was
to guard the sea-cliffs, saw from his rampart
men bearing bright shields … across the gangplank.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
On emnihtes dæġ, ðæt is ðonne se dæġ and séo niht ġelíċe lange béoþ – Bede, De Natura Rerum.
On the day of the equinox (emnight's day), that is when the day and night are equally long.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Þā cwæþ Iācōb heora fæder: Bearnlēasne ġē habbaþ mē ġedōnne. Næbbe iċ Iōsēp & Simeon is on bendum; nū ġē nimaþ Beniamin æt mē–Genesis
Then said Jacob their father: Childless you have made me. I don't have Joseph & Simeon is in chains; now you're taking Benjamin from me
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And hiera se æþeling ġehwelcum feoh and feorh ġebēad and hiera nǣniġ hit ġeþicgean nolde.
The atheling offered every one of them money and life and none of them would accept it. Chronicle 755
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Man déð swá hé byð þonne hé mót swá hé wile – Durham Proverbs
People do as they are when they can do what they want.
Lit., A person does as he is/will be when he may [do] as he wishes.
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Witodlíċe ne mágon lǽċeas [MS. B. lǽċas] náht myċel hǽlan bútan ðisse wyrte. – Leechdoms
Certainly, doctors cannot heal much without this plant.
Náht/náwiht/náuht (not a whit, naught) ná + wiht not a wight
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Þá wæs swýðe myċel ġenip ġeworden in þám wolcnum, and unmǽte rénas ríndon. – OE Dialogues of Gregory
Then a very great cloud appeared in the heavens, and an immense deluge rained down.
An excellent passage to discuss word choice in translation.
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Uton gán on þysne weald innan, on þisses holtes hléo. OE Genesis (poetic)
Let's go into this forest, into the protection of this wood.
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Góde sind ðás þing (bread, fish, &c.) be heora mǽþe. – OE Homilies
These things are good as far as they go. -- BT Dict translation
Lit., Good are these things by/according to their extent.
Se/séo mǽþ: capacity, measure, extent, “reach”
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ne cúþe hé nǽnige bócstafas, ac swáþéah hé gebohte him sylfum þá béc þæs hálgan gewrites, and bæd ꝥ man rǽdde þá béc beforan him. -- Dialogues of Gregory.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Hér forþférde Æðelstán abbot on Abban dúne and féng Spearhafoc munuc tó of Sc̃e Éadmundes byriġ. Chronicle for 1046
Here died Æthelstan, abbot of Abingdon, and the monk Spearhawk of St. Edmundsbury succeeded [him].
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ne flīt ðū wið ānwilne monn ne wið ofersprǣcne. Manegum menn is forġifen ðæt hē spræcan mæġ ond swīðe fēawum ðæt hē sīe ġescēadwīs.
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Æt ðám féower tóðum fyrestum, æt gehwylcum . vi. scillingas; se tóð se ðanne bí standeþ . iv. scill ; se ðe ðonne bí ðam standeþ . iii. scill. ; and ðonne siþþan gehwilc scilling. -- Laws of Æðelbirht of Kent
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Nim ða bétan, ðe gehwǽr weaxaþ
take the beet, which groweth anywhere
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wyrc drenc of ðǽre bétan—Leechdoms
work (= make) a drink of the beet.
(Two Leechdom excerpts, linked with the [and])
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Ðū woldest witan his naman and his ġelimp-- BT Dictionary.
You wanted to know his name and what had befallen him.
þæt ġelimp: 'accident, chance, event; what happens in a person's life; a person's lot' < ġelimpan to happen, occur (Strong 3)
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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD
Iċ lufiġe ǽlċ ðing be ðám dǽle þe iċ hyt nytwyrðe onġyte—BT Dictionary (not further attributed, but in a series of quotations from the OE Boethius)
I love each thing by/for the part of it that I perceive [to be] useful/advantageous/beneficial.
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