Religion

Black Book of Caermarthen XII

by Anonymous (Old Welsh) c. 6th–12th century

Translated by D. Silvan Evans (1868) · From Black Book of Caermarthen

Religion

In the name of the Lord, mine to adore, whose praise is great.
I will praise the great Ruler, whose blessing is great on an alms-deed;
The God that defends us, the God that made us, the God that will deliver us,
The God of our hope, blessed, perfect, and pure is his true happiness.
God owns us; God is above, the Triune King,
God has been felt a support to us in affliction;
God has been, by being imprisoned, in humility.
May the blessed Ruler make us free against the day of doom,
And bring us to the feast, for the sake of his meekness and lowliness,
And happily receive us into Paradise from the burden of sin,
And give us salvation, for the sake of his agony and five wounds,
Terrible anguish! God delivered us when he assumed flesh.
Man would have been lost, had He not ransomed him, according to his glorious ordinance.
From the bloody Cross came redemption to the whole world.
Christ the mighty Shepherd, his merits will never fail.

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Skene no. LXXXII (group R: Anonymous Poems on Religious Subjects).

MLA

Anonymous (Old Welsh). “Black Book of Caermarthen XII.” Translated by D. Silvan Evans. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-welsh/34/.

Chicago

Anonymous (Old Welsh). “Black Book of Caermarthen XII.” Translated by D. Silvan Evans. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-welsh/34/.

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