Die ältere Genesis. [The text of the Junius Manuscript of Caedmon's ...

86 V. 2264^2287. Isaaks Opferung.
swä him scegde ser swegles aldor.
2265 Da Abraham spraec tö his ombihtum:
(2880) 'Rincas mine, restad incit
'her on J)issum wicum ! Wit eft cumad,
"^siddan wit serende uncer twega
'^gästcyninge ägifen habbad.'
2270 Gewät him |)ä se sedeling 07id his ägen sunu
(2885) tö J)8es gemearces, |)e him metod tgehte,
wadan ofer wealdas; wudu beer sunu,
fseder fyr ond sweord. Da |)8es fricgean ODgann
wer wintrum geong wordum Abraham:
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2275 'Wit her fyr ond sweord, frea min, habbad: [S.140]
(2890) 'hwser is l)xf tiber, l>iet |)ü torht gode
"^tö J)äm brynegielde bringan J)ence8t?'
Abraham madelode (hsefde on an gehogod,
J)8et he gedgede, swä hine drihten het):
2280 'Him liiet södcyning sylfa finded,
(2895) 'moncynnes weard, swä him gemet f)inced.'
Gestäh |)ä stidhydig steape düne
üp mid his eaforan, swä him se eca bebead,
J)«^ he on hröfe gestöd hean landes
2285 on |)Eere [stöwe], |)e him se stranga tö,
(2900) wserfaest metod wordum t^hte.
Ongan J)ä äd hladan, äbled weccan,
5. dixitque ad pueros suos: 'Expectate hie : ego et puer illuc
usque properantes, postquam adoraverimus, revertemur ad vos.'
6. (2270) Tulit quoque ligna holocausti, et imposuit super Is. filium
suum; ipse vero portabat ignem et gladium. Cumque duo pergerent
simul, 7. dixit Isaac patri suo: Tater rnü' 'Ecce', inquit,
"^ignis et ligna; ubi est victima holocausti?' 8. Dixit autem Abr:
''Deus providebit sibi victimam holocausti
'
(2282) Pergebant
ergo pariter et venerunt ad locum, quem oslenderat ei deus, in
quo aedificavit altare et desuper ligna composuit: cumque alligasset
Isaac filium suum, posuit eum in altare super struem lignorum.
2285 stowe Bou.