I recite Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" ('Anglo-Saxon' version)
Channel: armadillozenith
Date: 13/09/2011

More dressing-up! (also available in Victorian version)

My mocked-up Anglo-Saxonised version ("I weandred ylonle sa a culod") of Wordsworth's famous poem.. made up by rearranging the letters in each word, and then pronouncing suitably. The result can be seen below. 
My aim was for a plausible 'Old English' effect, not accuracy.. I will be delighted to hear from any true Anglo-Saxon scholars who can advise me if it works! 

The Anglo-Saxon period is reckoned from about AD 550 until 1066. 
I have rendered 'daffodils' as 'offasddli' in reference to Offa, King  from 757 to 796 of the Anglian realm of Mercia: the central part of England, bordering Wales. 
I like the idea of some Anglo-Saxon Wordsworth finding a host of these golden flowers by a lakeside somewhere along Offa's fortified earthen boundary wall, and commemorating this in verse:

I weandred ylonle sa a culod
Htat asflot no hgih ore veals nda hllsi,
Hwen lla ta once I swa a cwrod,
A hsot, of geoldn offasddli;
Ebside het leak, ebenaht het trese,
Eftltringu nda ingcnda ni het bereze.

Oncniusuot sa het sarst htat eshin
Nda itwenkl no het ymlki ywa,
Hyet estrdetch ni ervne-ndinge elin
Ongla het imrang fo a bya:
Ent tandhosu swa I ta a gleanc,
Itssong herit heasd ni ysprghtli deanc.

Het weavs ebside htem deancd; ubt ythe
Uot-did het isprinkgla weavs ni gele:
A peot culod ont btu eb yga,
Ni shcu a djocnu ycompna:
I geazd---nda geazd---btu littel htoghut
Hwat hwealt het hwos ot em hda broghut:

Ofr fot, hwen no ym occhu I eli
Ni vancat ro ni vipense omod,
Ythe shlaf opnu htat wrinad eey
Hwihc si het sbils fo esliutod;
Nda hten ym herta hwit eplaesur fllsi,
Nda deancs hwit het offasddli.