Name: Anforlætan
Duration: P00H12M27S
Description: 'Resignation' is a title often attributed to texts taken from the Exeter Book, dated from the 10th century or older. It is titled 'Anforlætan' (roughly translated: 'abandonment') here, since 'resignation' is a word that did not exist in Old English.

Anforlætan

from Brosnung ond Anforlætan by Ascese

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'Resignation' is a title often attributed to texts taken from the Exeter Book, dated from the 10th century or older. It is titled 'Anforlætan' (roughly translated: 'abandonment') here, since 'resignation' is a word that did not exist in Old English.

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Ic bi me tylgvst secge þis sarspel
Ond ymb siþ spræce, longvnge fvs,
Ond on lagv þence, nat min.
Hƿy ic gebycge bat on sæƿe,
Fleot on faroðe; ic for tæle ne mæg

Ænigne moncynnes mode gelvfian, eorl on eþle.
Ic eom mode seoc, bittre abolgen,
Is seo bot æt þe, gelong æfter life.
Ic on leohte ne mæg bvtan earfoþvm ænge þinga
Feasceaft hæle foldan ...vnian;

þonne ic me to fremþvm freode hæfde,
Cyðþv gecƿe... me ƿæs a cearv symle
Lvfena to leane, sƿa ic alifde nv.
Giet biþ þæt selast, þonne mon him sylf ne mæg
Ƿyrd onƿendan, þæt he þonne ƿel þolige.

Ƿræcsiþ eom ic.

translation:

I speak this pained message mostly about myself,
and jabber on about the journey, ready for longing,
and upon the waters ponder
knowing not my own—
why I should buy a boat upon the sea,
the float upon the shore. I cannot love in my mind

any of mankind for my malice, a noble in his homeland.
I am sick of heart, enraged bitterly!
The remedy is with you, it lies along my life.
I cannot in the light abide for anything in the earth
hardly owning health, having only hardship—

When I have been freed from this alien homeland,
a desirable country, sorrows of my love
were always mine as reward.
Yet it will be best, when one cannot
avert these events from himself,
what he may well endure.

To misery exiled am I.

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from Brosnung ond Anforlætan, released January 3, 2020
Lyrics taken from the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles dated from the 10th century and older.

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Ascese Utrecht, Netherlands

Ascese (English: asceticism) is a sombre black metal outfit from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Ascese channels old English poems and tales of destitution and world-renunciation.

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