1. Ða eodon hie ut.
Then they went out.
2. Hwær sindon seledreamas?
Where are hall-joys?
3. He on þa duru eode.
He went in through the door.
4. Hiera mægas him mid wæron.
Their kinsmen were with him/them.
[From this sentence alone you cannot tell whether the object is singular or
plural.]
5. He wrecca wæs.
He was an exile.
6. Hie þa swa dydon.
They did just so.
7. Yfel deþ se unwritere.
The bad scribe does harm.
8. Ga on þa ceastre.
Go then into that castle.
[note that the verb is in the imperative mood. Just as in Modern English, the
subject (you) is missing.
9. Hiera ryhtfæderencyn gæþ to Cerdice.
Their ancestry goes (back) to Cerdic.
10. Hwi dest þu swa?
Why are you doing so?
[A more literal, but archaic, translation is “Why doest thou so?”]