Chapter 5.

First- and second-person pronouns: Fill in the

blanks and translate
A.
1. _______ hæfst ānne scilling.
a. Þū b. Þē c. Þīn
2. _______ hæbbe ān pund.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
3. Ætla _______ ġeaf þisne scild.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
4. Hwæt ġeaf hē _______?
a. þū b. þē c. þīn
5. Iċ wille _______ helpan.
a. þū b. þē c. þīn 1
6. Þū wēnde _______ lange þrāge.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
7. _______ etað þone hlāf and drincað þā meolc.
a. Ġē b. Ēow c. Ēower
8. _______ sōhton þīn horse, ac hit nā ne fundon.
a. Wē b. Ūs c. Ūre
9. Hæbbe ġē _______ ġeseġen?
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
10. Canst þū _______ ġehelpan?
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
11. Se lǣċe _______ ġehǣlde.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
12. Se wælhrēowa wiga wille _______ ofslēan.
a. þū b. þē c. þīn
13. Se goldsmiþ _______ ġeworhte gyldenne bēag.
a. wē b. ūs c. ūre
14. God _______ ġifð forġifenesse ēowra synna.
a. ġē b. ēow c. ēower
15. —

1
As some examples in this exercise show, there are verbs that take direct objects in cases other than the
accusative (see also Baker [2007: 38]). However, unless informed otherwise by the Glossary or the question,
assume that direct objects should be in the accusative case in questions in exercises and on the exam.
B.
1. I do not wish to obey my lord’s killer.

2. A shining angel came to me.

3. /The/Those/ people chose you as (their) king.2

4. —

5. We come from the same family.3

6. The king gave us these shields.

7. —

8. —

9. The priest sent us to you.

10. Your lord feeds you, and you fight for him.

2
In Present-day English, people is always plural (except when it refers to a particular ethnic group, as in The
Swedes are a proud people), so those must be used as a demonstrative; in Old English, however, folc was singular,
so it takes the neuter nominative singular þæt instead of nominative plural þā. Note the similarity with the
Present-day Swedish construction välja någon till kung (literally, ‘choose someone to king’).
3
Note the importance of vowel length: mǣġþ ’family’ vs. mæġþ ’maiden’. As both nouns are feminine, they
would also have taken the same forms of pronouns and adjectives in the noun phrases (though the dental-
stem noun mæġþ exceptionally has the dative singular mæġþ rather than mæġþe, so there would have been an
additional difference in the dative singular form of the two nouns).