he usband's essage Verse Indeterminate Saxon     Nu ic onsundran þe secgan wille     ...... treocyn ic tudre aweox;     in mec æld... sceal ellor londes     settan ...... sealte streamas     ...sse. Ful oft ic on bates 5   gesohte     þær mec mondryhten min ......     ofer heah hofu; eom nu her cumen     on ceolþele, ond nu cunnan scealt     hu þu ymb modlufan mines frean 10   on hyge hycge. Ic gehatan dear     þæt þu þær tirfæste treowe findest.     Hwæt, þec þonne biddan het se þisne beam agrof     þæt þu sinchroden sylf gemunde     on gewitlocan wordbeotunga, 15   þe git on ærdagum oft gespræcon,     þenden git moston on meoduburgum     eard weardigan, an lond bugan,     freondscype fremman. Hine fæhþo adraf     of sigeþeode; heht nu sylfa þe 20   lustum læran, þæt þu lagu drefde,     siþþan þu gehyrde on hliþes oran     galan geomorne geac on bearwe.     Ne læt þu þec siþþan siþes getwæfan,     lade gelettan lifgendne monn. 25   Ongin mere secan, mæwes eþel,     onsite sænacan, þæt þu suð heonan     ofer merelade monnan findest,     þær se þeoden is þin on wenum.     Ne mæg him worulde willa gelimpan 30   mara on gemyndum, þæs þe he me sægde,     þonne inc geunne alwaldend god     ...... ætsomne siþþan motan     secgum ond gesiþum s...     næglede beagas; he genoh hafað 35   fedan goldes     ...d elþeode eþel healde,     fægre foldan     ...ra hæleþa, þeah þe her min wine...     nyde gebæded, nacan ut aþrong, 40   ond on yþa geong ...... sceolde     faran on flotweg, forðsiþes georn,     mengan merestreamas. Nu se mon hafað     wean oferwunnen; nis him wilna gad,     ne meara ne maðma ne meododreama, 45   ænges ofer eorþan eorlgestreona,     þeodnes dohtor, gif he þin beneah     ofer eald gebeot incer twega.     Gecyre ic ætsomne %%S%% %%R%% geador     50 %%EA%% %%W%% ond %%D%% aþe benemnan,     þæt he þa wære ond þa winetreowe     be him lifgendum læstan wolde,     þe git on ærdagum oft gespræconn.