Tuesday, January 16, 2007

As an Act of Contrition for Saying Shite in an Earlier Post, Here is the Lord's Prayer

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/paternoster-oe.html

Listen to a continuous recording: LP-all.wav (518k)

The Lord's Prayer in Old EnglishMatthew 6:9-13.

Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; [59k] Father our thou that art in heavens

Si þin nama gehalgod [44k] be thy name hallowed

to becume þin rice [37k] come thy kingdom

gewurþe ðin willa [43k] be-done thy will

on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. [53k] on earth as in heavens

urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg [68k] our daily bread give us today

and forgyf us ure gyltas [55k] and forgive us our sins

swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum [65k] as we forgive those-who-have-sinned-against-us
and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge [57k] and not lead thou us into temptation

ac alys us of yfele soþlice [69k] but deliver us from evil. truly.

A continuous recording: LP-all.wav (518k)

This version of the Lord's Prayer is from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 140 [WSCp], a translation of the Gospels written in Bath in the first half of the 11th century; edited by Liuzza (1994).
Read by Cathy Ball (Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University) for Edward Vanetten's Sunday School class.

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