Song of the Plantagenet

Modern English

Lost to imperial | black eagle of sin

Whose stench so rotten | of rancid cattle,

The lion passes | into monasteries

Leaving behind its | boiled shepherd’s tongue.

Middle English

Three lions now seek | Alba’s golden grass

Three li-ohns now seek | Ahl-bahs gohld-ehn grahss

They glow blue with their | lye soaked grey schalis

They glow blue with their | lyeh sohked grey schal-is (chalice)

Upon the eagle’s knotte | the felines were wed

Upon the eagle’s knoht-teh | the feh-lines were wed (knot)

 Tiel to blue and red | they silensed the steed

Tihl toh blue ahnd red | they sih-lensed the steed (tied) (silenced)

Old English

Hléoðor bleónd ohnd maca | æfensceop acwánde leóþsang

Hleh-outh-thor bleh-ohnd ohnd mah-cah | aven-sceh-ohp ac-wahn-deh leh-oth-sahng

Aswárnung náwa gebirgede | swá biterlic wordcræft

Ath-swarn-nung naaa-wah guh-bir-geeed-eh | swah beee-ter-lic wohrd-craft

Boldan forþframede fram spátl | pípdréam aweól

Bohld-ahn forth-frahm-muhd-eh frahm spahtl, | pip-dreh-ahm aaah-weh-ohl

Of sé æsctír | forþframede fégede reord

Ohv seh asc-tihr | forth-frahm-muhd-eh feh-gede reh-ord

Song of the Plantagenet �" Old English

(Voices mixed and matched | Bards melted a song)

(Confusion never tasted | so bitterly poetic)

(Castles grew from saliva, | the sound of the pipe flowed forth)

(Out of the glory of war | grew a united tongue)