130 Trdiisartiniig. 



" On-girded Him, 

 God Almighty, 

 When he would 

 On gallows mount. 

 Proud before 

 All men 

 Bow [durst not Ij." 



Fii tlip spfond column the cross itself speaks, and says — 



" (Ahof) Ik riiknre kyningk 



heafunres hlafard, 



hrelda ik ni darstte, 



bisma3rredu ungket men ba fetgadre 



ik wtes mith blodre bistemid 



bigoten of. . . ." 

 " I upraised the mighty King, 



Heaven's Lord, 



Heel (over), I durst not, 



Men reviled us both together. 



I was with blood besmeared. 



Poured from [the man's side]." 



We turn now to the third column, on the other side of the monu- 

 ment, and there read — 



" + Krist waes on rodi, 



hwethrffi ther fusw 



fearran kwomu 



ajththilas til anum. 



ik thast al biheald 



sare ik wajs mith sorgum gidra'fid.'" 

 " Christ was on Rood, 



Whither there readily, 



(Men) came from afar 



The Prince to aid — 



I that all beheld. 



Sore I was with sorrow troubled." 



The fourth column gives — 



" Mith strelum giwundsed, 



alegdun hite hina? limweerignre 



gistoddun him (pet) his likeas heafdum 



bihealdun hife ther heafun. . . ." 

 " With missiles wounded, 



Laid they him limb-weary — 



They stood at his corpse's head, 



Beheld they there Heaven ['s Lord]." 



The lines here given will be found to be in clo.se agreement with 

 the dying words of Bede, the few English lines embedded in tlie 

 Latin text, and also with the Northumbrian original of Cadmon's 



