Caedmons Hymn

Caedmon’s Hymn
1. Eternal Lord - God existed

 eternal Lord, the beginning established.
2. Heaven-kingdom’s Guardian - God

 Now must we praise heaven – kingdom’s Guardian,
3. Holy Creator – God

 heaven as a roof, holy Creator;
4. Mankind’s Guardian - God

 then middle-earth mankind’s Guardian,
5. Master Almighty
 for men earth, Master almighty.
6. Middle-earth – our world

 then middle-earth mankind’s Guardian,
7. Mind-plans – thoughts
 the Measurer’s might and his mind-plans,
8. The Glory-Father – God

 the work of the Glory-Father, when he of wonders of every one,
ABEL, Katleen Shane D.

Grade 9 – Faith
Excerpts from “Beowulf”
Grendel the Murderer
Apportion – to allocate or divide.
- The glory apportion, God ever-holy,
Atheling – a man of royal blood

- The long-worthy atheling, sat very woful,
Bide – to stay
- And bade him bide with his battle-equipments.
Liege man – a devoted follower

- Suffered great sorrow, sighed for his liege men,
Scyldings – a member of the royal family of Danes and sometimes their people
- The friend of the Scyldings, every affliction,
Thaneman – a member of the aristocrat class

- Thirty of thanemen ;thence he departed
Welkin – sky, upper atmosphere

- He went under welkin where well he knew of
Woful - grievous
- The long-worthy atheling, sat very woful,

Excerpt from “Beowulf”
Beowulf’s fight with Grendels Mother
1. Bairn – child
 For her son to take vengeance, her one only bairn.
2. Burnie – armor
 His body unscathed: the burnie out-guarded
3. Carnage – the flesh of slain animals or men

 Who had bided in combat the carnage of haters
4. Corslet – breast plate

 Close-woven corslet comfort and succor
5. Doughty – courageous
 Doughty of spirit, rejoiced in his sea-gift
6. Eddy – a current of water or air running contrary to the main current

 Went up to the ocean; the eddies we’re cleansed
7. Fray – a fight or battle

 Beowulf is eager for the fray.
8. Putrid – rotten
 We’re speedily loosened: the ocean was putrid
9. Requital – something given in return or compensation for a good or bad action.

 She gave him requital early thereafter
10. Succor – aid, assistance

 Close-woven corslet comfort and succor

Excerpts from the “Le Morte d’Athur”
Arthurian Legend by Sir Thomas Malory
BOOK XXI. CHAPTER IV, V, VI
1. Adder - any of various other venomous or harmless snakes resembling the viper
> Right soon came an adder out of a little heath bush, and it stung a knight on the foot.
>…,he looked down and saw the adder,…
>…, and then he drew his sword to slay the adder, and thought of none other harm.
2. Devoir - something for which a person is responsible
>…; and Sir Mordred that day put him in devoir,
3. Everych - each one
>…, and everych of them should bring fourteen persons;…
4. Fathom - a unit of length equal to six feet
>…, with a foin of his spear, throughout the body, more than a fathom.
5. Foining - thrusting with a pointed weapon
>…; for there was but rushing and riding, foining and striking, and many a grim word was there spoken
either to other, and many a deadly stroke.
6. Grovelling/Groveling - crawling with the face downward
>…, he saw where lay an hermit groveling on all four, there fast by a tomb was new graven.
7. Haft - the handle of a knife
>So Sir Bedivere departed, and by the way he beheld that noble sword, that the pommel and the haft was
all of the precious stones;…
8. Interred - burried
>Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there interred that ye pray so fast for?
9. Jesu - Jesus
>Jesu mercy, said the king, where are all my noble knights become?
10. Pillers - ones who take booties, same as robbers
>…, he saw and hearkened by the moonlight, how that pillers and robbers were come into the field,…
11. Pommel - the knob at the hilt of the sword
> So Sir Bedivere departed, and by the way he beheld that noble sword, that the pommel and the
haft was all of the precious stones;…
12. Rede - advice
>Therefore by my rede, said Sir Lucan, it is best that we bring you to some town.
13. Swoon - faint
>…; and the noble Arthur fell in a swoon to the earth, and there he swooned ofttimes.
14. Tapers - candle
>…, and brought hither a dead corpse, and prayed me to bury him; and here they offered a hundred
tapers, and they gave me a hundred besants.
15. Wan - pale and gloomy
>Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and waves wan.
16. Wap - hit, blow
>Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and waves wan.
17. Weened - supposed, thought
>Who would have weened that, thou that hast been to me so lief and dear?
18. Yede - simple past tense of go
>And so as he yede, he saw and hearkened by the moonlight,…

Grade 9 – Faith
Excerpts from Le Morte d’ Arthur (The death of King Arthur)
1. Anvil - heavy iron block
* And in midst thereof was like an anvil of steel, and therein stuck a fair sword naked by the point.
2. Assayed - examined or analyzed
* And when they saw the scripture some assayed, such as would have been king.
3. Candlemas - a festival in honor of the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple and the purification of the
Virgin Mary.
* So at Candlemas many more great lords came thither for to have won the sword, but there might none prevail.
4. Hallowmas - the feast of all saints
* And Sir Kay was made knight at All Hallowmas afore.
5. Indignation - strong displeasure at something considered unjust
* And as Arthur sped before, so did he at Easter; yet there were some of the great lords had indignation that
Arthur should be king, and put it off in a delay till the feast of Pentecost.
6. Matins - morning prayers
* And when matins and the first mass was done, there was seen in the churchyard, against the high altar, a great
stone four square, like unto a marble stone.
7. Obeissance/Obeisance - a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy
* But within few years after Arthur won all the north, Scotland, and all that were under their obeisance.
8. Pentecost - the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles.
* All these, with many other, were always about Arthur, day and night, till the feast of Pentecost.
9. Purvey - to provide or supply
* But this is my counsel, said the Archbishop, that we let purvey ten knights, men of good fame, and they to
keep this sword.
10. Realm - kingdom
* Then stood the realm in great jeopardy long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong.
11. Seneschal - household of a medieval prince
* I will ask no more for you, but that ye will make my son, your foster brother, Sir Kay, seneschal of all your
lands.
12. Weened – hoped or supposed
* And many weened to have been king.

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Caedmon’s Hymn

1. Eternal Lord - God existed

2. Heaven-kingdom’s Guardian - God

3. Holy Creator – God

4. Mankind’s Guardian - God

6. Middle-earth – our world

8. The Glory-Father – God

ABEL, Katleen Shane D.

Atheling – a man of royal blood

Liege man – a devoted follower

Thaneman – a member of the aristocrat class

Welkin – sky, upper atmosphere

ABEL, Katleen Shane D.

3. Carnage – the flesh of slain animals or men

4. Corslet – breast plate

6. Eddy – a current of water or air running contrary to the main current

7. Fray – a fight or battle

9. Requital – something given in return or compensation for a good or bad action.

10. Succor – aid, assistance

ABEL, Katleen Shane D.

ABEL, Katleen Shane D.

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