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## Эцербот, полевое благословение

Экербот, или "благословение поля", датируемый 11 веком, представляет собой длительный ритуал, который использовался для того, чтобы вернуть бесплодному полю плодородие. Этот сборник молитв и песнопений находится в Британской библиотеке МС Коттон Калигула, А. VII, листы 177-178.

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Field Blessing
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her ys seo bot, hu ðu meaht
þine æceras betan gif hi nellaþ wel wexan oþþe þær hwilc unge defe þing on gedon bið on dry oððe on lyblace genim þonne on niht, ær hyt dagige, feower tyrf on feower healfa þæs lan des 7gemearca hu hy ær stod on . Nim þonne ele 7 hunig 7 beor man 7 ælces feos meolc þe on þæm lande sy 7 ælces treocynnes dæl þe on þæm lande sy gewexen butan heardan beaman 7 ælcre nam cuþre wyrte dæl butan glappan anon 7 do þonne haligwæt er ðær on 7 drype þon þriwa on þone staðol þara turfa 7 cwe þe ðonne ðas word . Crescite . wexe . et multiplicamini . 7 gemænig fealda . et replete terre |
ere is the remedy, how you may
hyour fields better if they do not grow well, or if any unhealthy thing has been done to them by sorcery or by poison at night, before it is dawn, [take] four sods from the four parts of your land & mark where they stood before . Then take oil & honey & yeast & milk from each cow that is on the land & of each kind of tree a bit that on the land you grow except hornbeam & of each named herb take a piece except only buckbean & add then holy water & drip thereon three times on the bottom of the sods & say then these words. Crescite .grow. & multiply . & become many- fold . and replete . & fill . terre . the earth. In the name |

patris . et filii . et spiritus
sancti sit bene dicti . 7 pater noster swa oft swa þæt oðer 7 bere siþþan ða turf to circean 7 mæssepreost asinge feower mæssan ofer þan turfon . 7 wende man þæt grene to ðan weofode 7 siþþan gebringe man þa turf þær hi ær wæron ær sunnan setl gange . 7 hæbbe hi gæworht of cwicbeame feower cris tes mælo 7 awrite on ælcon ende . Matheus . 7 marcus, LucaS . 7 Iohes lege þæt cristes mæl on þone pyt neoþeweardne cweðe ðonne . Crux matheus . Crux . marc . Crux . Lucas Crux . Sct. Iohannes. Nim ðonne þa turf 7 sete ðær ufon on 7 cweþe ðonne nigon siþon þas word . Crescite . 7 swa oft . pater noster 7 wende þe þon eastweard 7 onlut nigon siðon eadmod lice . 7 cweð þonne þas word eastweard ic stande, arena ic me bidde bidde ic þone mæran . d[omi]ne bidde ðone miclan drihten |
of the father . and son . and spirit
be blessed . & the pater noster as often as the other & afterwards bear the sods to church & priest sings four masses over the sods . & turn the green side to the altar & afterwards bring the sods to where they were previously, before sunset go. & have one make of mountain ash four crosses [use] meal & write on each end . Matthew . & mark, Luke . & John lay the meal-marked crosses in the holes below then say . Cross matthew . Cross . mark . Cross . Luke . Cross St. John . Take then the sods & set them down there & say then nine times this word . Crescite [grow] . & as often . the pater noster & turn them then eastward & bow nine times afterwards humbly . & say then these words
bid bid
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bidde ic ðone haligan heofonrices
weard . eorðan ic bidde 7 upheofon 7 ða soþan s[an]c[t]a marian . 7 heofones meaht . 7 heahreced þt ic mote þis gealdor mid gife drihtnes toðu ontynan þurh trumne ge þanc aweccan þas wæstmas us to woruld nytte gefyllan þas foldan mid fæste geleafan wlitigi gan þas wancg turf swa se witega cwæð . þæt se hæfde are on eorþ rice se þe ælmyssan dælde dom lice drihtnes þances . wende þe þon . III . sunganges astrece þon on andlang 7 arim þær letanias 7 cweð þonne: s[an]c[tu]s,scs. scs. oþende. Sing þon benedicite aþenedon earmon . manificat . 7 pat[er] noster . III . 7 bebeod hit xpe 7 sca marian . 7 þære halgan rode tolofe . 7 to weorþinga 7 þa are þe þæt landage 7 eallon |
bid I the holy heaven’s
to world knit fullness these
go with the cut turf as the wise
riches gives alms dealing as as his lordly ruler intends . Turn you then . 3 . times sunwise stretch then lengthwise & count there litanies & say then . holy . holy . holy . to the end. Sing then benedicite, extending arms . magnificat . & pater noster . 3 . [times] & commend it to christ & st. mary . & the holy rood for love . & for worthiness & for the land owner & all |

þam þe him under ðeodde synt ðonne
þ[æ]t eall sie gedon þon nime man uncuþ sæd æt ælmes mannu 7 selle him twa swylc swylce man æt hi nime 7 gegaderie ealle his sulh geteogo togædere borige þon on þa beame stor . 7 finol . 7 gehalgode sapan 7 gehalgod sealt nim þonne þt sæd sete on þæs sules bodig . cweð þon Erce . Erce . Erce . eorþan modor geunne þe se alwalda ece drihten æcera wexendra 7 wridendra eacnien dra 7 elniendra sceafta henre scirra wæstma . 7 þæra bradan bere wæstma . 7 þæra hwitan hwæte wæstma . 7 ealra eorþan wæstma . geunne hi ece drihten 7 his halige þeon heofonum synt þæt hys yrþ si gefriþod wið ealra feonda gehwæne 7 heo si gebor gen wið ealra bealwa ge hwylc þara lyblaca geond land sawen Nu ic bidde ðone walden se ðe ðas woruld gesceop þæt ne synan to þæs cwi dol wif ne to þæs cræftig man þæt awendan ne mæge worud þus gecwedene þon man þa sulh forð drife . 7 þa forman furh onsceote . cweð þon hal wes þu folde fira modor beo þu growende ongodes fæþme fodre gefylled firum to nytte . Nim þon ælces cynnes melo 7 abacæ man Innewerdre handa bradnæ hlaf 7 gecned hine mid meolce 7 mid halig wætere 7 lecge under þa forman furh cweþe þonne ful æcer fodres fira cinne beorht blowende þu gebletsod weorþ þæs haligan noman þe ðas heofon gesceop 7 ðas eorþan þe we onlifiaþ se god se þas grundas ge worhte geunne us growende gife þæt us corna gehwylc cume to nytte . cweð þonne . III sit benedicti . Amen 7 pat ns . þriwa . |
those who are his people when that
all is done then take unfamiliar seed from an almsman & give him twice as much as you took from him & gather all his plough gear together bore then into the beam frankincense . & fennel . & blessed soap & blessed salt take then the seed set it on the plow's body . say then Erce . Erce . Erce . earth's mother give us all-wielder ever-ruler acres fruitful & flourishing fertile & strong high shafts bright abundance . & there broad barley crops . & there white wheat crops . & all earth’s abundance . give all ruler Now I bid that these fields themselves this world that nothing created by the spell- binding wife nor of by the crafty man may unravel words thus spoken then one drives the plow forward . & opens the first furrow, saying then health to you, field, the folk's mother be thou growing in the embrace of good food-filled for the people to enjoy Then take each kind of meal & bake as a man's Inner hand broad a loaf & knead that with milk & with holy water & lay it under the first furrow say then fill fields with food for human kind worth heaven shaped & this earth that we
wrought giving us t Say then 3 times . Grow in the name of the father, be blessed. Amen & the pater noster thrice . |