Þæs Wulfes Larspell þæm Englum
Þæs Wulfes Larspell þæm Englum is rædelsword gesceapen on Englalande betwux þam geārum 1010 and 1016 of Wulfstane II se wæs Ercebisceop of Eoferwice. He swutolde hine under title on Boclæden: Sermo Lupi ad anglos quando Dani maxime persecuti sunt eos, quod fuit anno millesimo .xiiii. ab incarnatione Domine Nostri Iesu Cristi. Se Sermo Lupi is Wulfstan's mæst gewiten weorc. On þyssum, he wiðgǣð unāwede æþelriht æfter his fēorðhāðe Englisca, swā þe is gēoc fæges Godes yrre ofer Englisc, þæt hæfð geþweolod þritig wintra Wicinga forþfēodes ofer Englalande. Wulfstan biddeð þæt Englisc liðe betwux þæm mid more æþelice to God, and speciþlice to libban æfter þæm lage þe ðære Circean and ðæs cyninges. Sermo Lupi is gemæne for his rædelscipe, and is witeged to hæbban þæt heahswið Wulfstan's fæle þurh his homilisc and rædelscipe. Þe text of Sermo Lupi is fægere geræd wordum manega, hæfst ðæt nyhst be Dorothy Bethurum.[1]
- ↑ Bethurum, ed., The Homilies of Wulfstan, pp. 255-75; Bethurum prints three versions, each numbered 'XX'.