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What do you (have to) say, merchant? hwaet —> what, accusative nominative neuter segst —> say þū —> thou, you, personal pronoun singular nominative I say that I am very useful to the king and the noblemen and the seafarers and the general public ic —> personal pronoun first person singular nominative secge —> I speak, first person singular þæt —> that, demonstrative pronoun nominative singular eom —> I am, first person singular swiþe —> adjective, strong cyninge —> king, dative singular How? (so) I board my ship with my cargo and travel over sea, and I sell my things, and I buy valuable things that cannot be produced on this land, and I bring them to your shore, hither, over the sea with great danger, and while I suffer shipwrecks so that I escape with all my cargo, and for myself a difficult quick escape

astige —> first person, I ascend/mount/board, singular scip —> accusative singular hlæstum —> cargo, dative (indirect object) fare —> travel, go// first person singular þing —> accusative plural bycge —> to buy, first person singular sea —> accusative, dative hilum —> dative, plural What things do you bring us across the sea? Purple robes, silk, rare armour, a mixture of herbs and spices, wine, oil, ivory, valuable gems, gold, tin, brass, copper, silver, glass and many other things wilt - second person singular, want þu — you þin — your, second person singular genitive (of you) hīe —> them wiþ —> in return for ilcan —> same þæm — that

Do you want to sell your your things here at the same value that you got them for? No, what benefit would that grant with my labour? But I wish more for selling them then...