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

20 V. 519—545. Seth, Enos und Cainan.
äerest ealra, siddan Adam stöp
520 on grene grass gaste geweordad.
Seth wses gesselig, siddan strynde
seofon winter her suna ond dohtra
(1140) ond eahtahiind: ealra hafde
XII ond nigonhund, {)ä seo tid geweard,
525 '^xt he fridgedäl fremman sceolde.
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Hirn gefter heold, J)ä he of earde gewät, [S. 57]
Enos j'^rfe, siddan eorde swealh
(1145) sEedberendes Sethes lice.
He wses leof gode ond lifde her
530 wintra hundnigontig, är he be wife her
I)ur[h] gebedscipe bearn ästrynde:
him J)ä cenned weard Cainan £erest
(1150) eafora on edle. Siddan eahtahund
ond fiftyno on frido drihtnes
535 gleawferhd hseled geogode strynde,
8una otid dohtra: swealt, {)ä he hsefde,
fröd fyrnwita, V ond nigonhund.
(1155) fsere cneorisse wses Cainan siddan
sefter Enose aldordema,
540 weard ond wisa: wintra hsefde
efne hundseofontig, ^r him sunu wöce. ||
fä weard on edle eafora feded: [S. 58]
(1160) mago Cain[an]es Malalehel wses häten.
Siddan öahtahund sedelinga rim
545 ond feowertiöf eac feorum geicte
(521). III, 7. Vixitque Seth, postquam genuit Enos, LXXXVII
annis, genuitque filios et filias. 8. Et facti sunt omnes dies Seth
CMXII annorura, et mortuus est. 9. Yixit vero Enos (530) XC annis
et genuit Cainan. 10. Post cuius ortum vixit DGCGXV annis et
genuit filios et filias. 11. Factique sunt omnes dies Enos CMV anni
et mortuus est. 12. (540) Vixit quoque Cainan LXX annis et genuit
Malalehel.
526 earde ] worulde. 531 |)urh Ju. 537 wita Cos. ] witet. 538 an
nach Cain getilgt. 543 Cainanes Bon. 545 feowertig Ship. ] -tigum.