Name: Brosnung
Duration: P00H13M03S
Description: 'The Ruin' is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. The poem evokes the former glory of a ruined Roman city by juxtaposing the grand, lively past state with the decaying present. It is titled 'Brosnung' here, which is the Old English word for 'ruin'.

Brosnung

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'The Ruin' is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. The poem evokes the former glory of a ruined Roman city by juxtaposing the grand, lively past state with the decaying present. It is titled 'Brosnung' here, which is the Old English word for 'ruin'.

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Ƿrætlic is þes ƿealstan, ƿyrde gebræcon;
Bvrgstede bvrston, brosnað enta geƿeorc.
Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras,
Hrvngeat berofen, hrim on lime.

Scearde scvrbeorge, scorene, gedrorene,
Ældo vndereotone. Eorðgrap hafað
Ƿaldend ƿyrhtan forƿeorone, geleorene,
Heardgripe hrvsan, oþ hvnd cnea ƿerþeoda geƿitan.

Nv ic eom efen þis brosnvng.

Crvngon ƿalo ƿide, cƿoman ƿoldagas,
Sƿylt eall fornom secgrofa ƿera;
Ƿvrdon hyra ƿigsteal ƿesten staþolas,
Brosnade bvrgsteall. Betend crvngon
Hergas to hrvsan. Forþon þas hofv dreorgiað.

translation:

Wondrous is this wall-stead, wasted by fate.
Battlements broken, giant's work shattered.
Roofs are in ruin, towers destroyed,
Broken the barred gate, rime on the plaster.

Walls gape, torn up, destroyed,
Consumed by age. Earth-grip holds
The proud builders, departed, long lost,
And the hard grasp of the grave, until a hundred generations
Of people have passed.

Slaughter spread wide, pestilence arose,
And death took all the pose brave men away.
Their bulwarks broken, their halls laid to waste,
The cities crumbled, those who would repair them
Laid in the earth. And so these halls are empty.

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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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