Pater Noster in Middle English

Language: Middle English (Wikipedia)

Fader that art in heavin riche,
Thin¹ helge nam it wurth the blisse,
Cumen and mot thy kingdom,
Thin holy will it be all don,
In heaven and in erdh also.
So it shall bin full well Ic tro.
Gif us all bread on this day,
And forgif us ure sinnes.
As we do ure wider winnes:
Let² us not in fonding fall,
Oac fro evil thu syld us all. Amen.³

Footnotes

1: Chamberlayne: blisse, Thin
2: Chamberlayne: widerwinnes: Let
3: Chamberlayne: Amen.

Attested In

• Remains Concerning Britain p. 17 (the time of King Henry the third)
• Chamberlayne p. 72 (Anglice seculi XIIItii) – ex Libello Orationis Dominicae Versiones Septentrionales continentis
  Text

  Fader that art in heavin blisse,
  Thin helge nam it wurth the blisse,
  Cumen and mot thy kingdom,
  Thin holy will it be all don,
  In heaven and in erdh also.
  So it shall bin full well Ic tro.
  Gif us all bread on this day,
  And forgif us ure sinnes.
  As we do ure widerwinnes:
  Let us not in fonding fall,
  Oac fro evil thu syld us all. Amen.
• Martin p. 15 n. 55
• Hervas p. 190 n. 218 (Inglese de'secoli decimo-terzo)
• Pantographia p. 66 (English 5) – In the year 1260, in the reign of King Henry III, the annexed translation of the Lord’s Prayer is also given in rhyme. Wilk. Ess. p. 7

Notes

This version comes from MS Arundel 292 fol. 3, dated to the 13th century, currently in the British Library. The text from the MS is published in Reliquiae Antiquae, p. 235.