Sciþþisc īsmægden

Þæt Sciþþisc īsmægden is Pazyryk byrgen þe Natalia Polosmak fand in 1993, seldcūðu bisen ānƿīfes þe hæfde ful trēoƿen byrgen in þǣm fīftan gēarhundrede, gefolged mid siexum horsum. Hit ƿæs for 2,400 ƿintrum byrged in līcbeorge þe man macode of geholedum learctrēo. Ūtƿeard þǣre līcbeorge ƿǣron biliðas dēora and snāƿpænþra, intō leðere corfen.

Þæt Īsmægden, 5a gēarhundred BCE

Sōna æfter byrgend, þæt græf āfylede mid frīesendum regne and æfrefrost frēas eall byrgenhordes. Man blēte siex hors ƿeriende gearƿan þe lecgaþ on þǣm trēoƿenan hrōfe þǣre byrgenne.

Þæt mægdnes ƿelgeāspared līc, nēodlīce geāspared mid mēose and bēamrinde, legþ on hire rihtum handa sƿelce slǣpende. Hēo ƿæs geong; hire hǣr giet fæger, and ƿæs 5 fēt, 6 ynca micel. Þā dēormōd tācnunga ƿǣron on hire āblæcum scynne geāspared: dēor mid hornum þe ƿeorðaþ hƿæt blostmlic.

Man macode hire līcbeorg micel genug for þǣre hēahan hēafodgearƿan þe ƿerode hēo, þe man ontō hire fīftīene trēoƿan briddas sēoƿede. Man þōhte þæt hire serc ƿild tussahseolc ƿæs, ac betere scēaƿung onƿrāh þæt se onfeng nis Cīnisc, ac of ōðrum stede cōm, mæg of Indian bēon. Hēo hæfde lange dēoprēade ƿyllene scyrtan, and hƿīte hosa.

Nēah hire cyst ƿæs drinchorn gemacod of geachorne, and discas þe coriander sǣd hæfdon: þis gebēacnaþ þæt þā Pazyryk cīepƿegas geond Iranes brādum landum ƿǣron. Man þyncþ hit þæt gelīce discas in ōðrum byrgum Cannabis satvia hæfdon, þe Herodotus ymbe cƿæþ, ac æfter fandunga, man fandode þæt þæt gebland coriander sǣd hæfdon, mæg tō ƿreonne þone stenc þæs līces bēon.

Tū gēar æfter þæt Sciþþisc īsmægdenes āfundennesse, Doctor Polosmakes frēa, Vyacheslav Molodin, fandode gefroren ƿer, cynstlic getācned mid eolhe, mid tƿǣm langum brægdum þe tō his middle āsprēadedon, gebyrged mid his ƿǣpnum.