[Ravensfort] Gesæliglic Geol
James Northfolke
jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 08:42:30 PST 2008
At our Yule party, Lord Alaric and I worked a bit on the
Vince Guaraldi "Christmastime is Here" piece from the Peanuts special. His
Qwouthe request gave me an idea. Here are the lyrics to "Christmastime is
Here" in Old English. I make no claims to form or style as the translation
is primarily literal, though I have made some concessions to sense where I
could not find a particular word or proper meaning in my dictionaries. The
form and meter of the original is quite different than that of Old English
which used patterns of variable syllables with fixed stresses in each line.
The lyrics in this translation do not rhyme. Finally, I could not find the
words of, or allusions to, sleigh bells (though sleigh and sled are American
words that come from the Anglo-Saxon word "slidam," which means to slide);
so I used war horn.
How bored am I?
Happy Yule,
James
Cristesmæssetid is her
ead eac wistfulnes
dream to eal þæt lytlingen
hiera gewilnian sael
smaw in þa lyft
ymen gehwær
ealdantid eac gamol leoðorun
of þā frēondscipas eac gesihþ to bryttigean
guþhorn in þa lyft
wlite gehwær
geoltid be se lieg
eac gefeonde þā gemynda þær
Cristesmæssetid is her
hīe dōþ secan gehende
eala, þæt we æfre geseon
swelc gebære gearmælum
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