Hē wӕs swӯše spēdig man on šǣm ǣhtum še hiera spēda on bēoš,
šӕt is,
on wildrum.
[« trans]
(
He was a very wealthy man in those possessions which their riches are in, that is, in wild animals.
)
Hē hӕfde šā gӯt šā hē šone cyninge sōhte,
tamra dēora unbe bohtra syx hund [« trans]
(
He still had then, when he visited the king, six hundred unsold tame deer.
)
Šā dēor hī hataš hrānas;
šara wǣron syx stӕlhrānas;
ša bēoš swӯše dӯre mid Finnum,
foršǣm hīe fōš šā wildan hrānas mid
.
[« trans]
(
They call these wild animals, reindeer; six of them were decoy-reindeer; they are valuable to the Fins, because they capture the wild reindeer with [them].
)
Hē wӕs mid šǣm fyrstum mannum on šǣm lande:
nӕfde hē šēah mā šonne twēntig hrӯšera,
and twēntig scēapa,
and twēntig swӯna;
and šӕt lӯtle šӕt hē erede,
hē erede
mid horsum.
[« trans]
(
He was with the first people in the land: though he did not have more than twenty cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine; and the little that he ploughed, he ploughed with .
)
Ac hyra ār is mǣst on šǣm gafole še šā Finnas him gyaldaš.
[« trans]
(
But their property is mostly in the tribute which the Finns pay to them.
)
Šęt gafol biš on dēora fellum and on fugela fešerum and hwęles bāne and on šǣm sciprāpum šē bēoš of hwęles hӯde geworht and of sēoles.
[« trans]
(
The tribute is (paid) in deer hide, and (paid) in bird feathers, and (paid) in whale bone, and (paid) in that ship-rope which is made of whale and seal hide.
)
Ǣghwilc gylt be hys gebyrdum.
[« trans]
(
Each pays according to his rank.
)
Se byrdesta sceall gyldan fīftӯne mearšes fell,
and fīf hrānes,
and ān beren fel,
and tӯn ambra fešra,
and berenne kyrtel ošše yterenne,
and twēgen sciprāpas;
ǣgšer sӯ syxtig elna lang,
ōšer sӯ of hwęles hӯde geworht,
ōšer of sīoles.
[« trans]
(
The highest born shall pay fifty martens hides, and five reindeer, and one bear hide, and ten measures of feathers, and a bear or otter coat, and two ship-ropes; both shall be sixty ells long, and shall be made of whale or seal hide.
)