Sciþþisc īsmægden
Þæt Sciþþisc īsmægden is Pazyryk byrgen þe Natalia Polosmak fand in 1993, seldcūðu bisen ānwīfes þe hæfde ful trēowen byrgen in þǣm fīftan gēarhundrede, gefolged mid siexum horsum. Hit wæs for 2,400 wintrum byrged in līċbeorge þe man macode of geholedum learctrēo. Ūtweard þǣre līċbeorge wǣron biliðas dēora and snāwpænþra, intō leðere corfen.
Sōna æfter byrgend, þæt græf āfylede mid frīesendum regne and æfrefrost frēas eall byrgenhordes. Man blēte siex hors weriende gearwan þe lecgaþ on þǣm trēowenan hrōfe þǣre byrgenne.
Þæt mægdnes welgeāspared līċ, nēodlīċe geāspared mid mēose and bēamrinde, legþ on hire rihtum handa swelċe slǣpende. Hēo wæs geong; hire hǣr ȝiet fæger, and wæs 5 fēt, 6 ynċa miċel. Þā dēormōd tācnunga wǣron on hire āblæcum scynne geāspared: dēor mid hornum þe weorðaþ hwæt blostmliċ.
Man macode hire līċbeorg miċel genug for þǣre hēahan hēafodgearwan þe werode hēo, þe man ontō hire fīftīene trēowan briddas sēowede. Man þōhte þæt hire serc wild tussahseolc wæs, ac betere scēawung onwrāh þæt se onfeng nis Ċīnisc, ac of ōðrum stede cōm, mæg of Indian bēon. Hēo hæfde lange dēoprēade wyllene scyrtan, and hwīte hosa.
