Sciþþisc īsmæȝden
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Þæt Sciþþisc īsmæȝden is Pazyryk byrȝen þe Natalia Polosmak fand in 1993, seldcūðu bisen ānƿīfes þe hæfde ful trēoƿen byrȝen in þǣm fīftan ȝēarhundrede, ȝefolged mid siexum horsum. Hit ƿæs for 2,400 ƿintrum byrȝed in līċbeorge þe man macode of ȝeholedum learctrēo. Ūtƿeard þǣre līċbeorge ƿǣron biliðas dēora and snāƿpænþra, intō leðere corfen.
Sōna æfter byrȝend, þæt græf āfylede mid frīesendum reȝne and æfrefrost frēas eall byrȝenhordes. Man blēte siex hors ƿeriende ȝearƿan þe lecgaþ on þǣm trēoƿenan hrōfe þǣre byrȝenne.
Þæt mæȝdnes ƿelȝeāspared līċ, nēodlīċe ȝeāspared mid mēose and bēamrinde, leȝþ on hire rihtum handa sƿelċe slǣpende. Hēo ƿæs ȝeong; hire hǣr ȝiet fæȝer, and ƿæs 5 fēt, 6 ynċa miċel. Þā dēormōd tācnunga ƿǣron on hire āblæcum scynne ȝeāspared: dēor mid hornum þe ƿeorðaþ hƿæt blostmliċ.
Man macode hire līċbeorg miċel ȝenug for þǣre hēahan hēafodȝearƿan þe ƿerode hēo, þe man ontō hire fīftīene trēoƿan briddas sēoƿede. Man þōhte þæt hire serc ƿild tussahseolc ƿæs, ac betere scēaƿung onƿrāh þæt se onfeng nis Ċīnisc, ac of ōðrum stede cōm, mæȝ of Indian bēon. Hēo hæfde lange dēoprēade ƿyllene scyrtan, and hƿīte hosa.
Nēah hire ċyst ƿæs drinchorn ȝemacod of ȝeachorne, and discas þe coriander sǣd hæfdon: þis ȝebēacnaþ þæt þā Pazyryk ċīepƿeȝas ȝeond Iranes brādum landum ƿǣron. Man þyncþ hit þæt ȝelīċe discas in ōðrum byrȝum Cannabis satvia hæfdon, þe Herodotus ymbe cƿæþ, ac æfter fandunga, man fandode þæt þæt ȝebland coriander sǣd hæfdon, mæȝ tō ƿreonne þone stenċ þæs līċes bēon.
Tū ȝēar æfter þæt Sciþþisc īsmæȝdenes āfundennesse, Doctor Polosmakes frēa, Vyacheslav Molodin, fandode ȝefroren ƿer, cynstliċ ȝetācned mid eolhe, mid tƿǣm langum bræȝdum þe tō his middle āsprēadedon, ȝebyrȝed mid his ƿǣpnum.
