Ave Maris Stella

Avl be þow, ster of se!
godis moder, blessed þow be
and euer maden haldand state,
of hewen þow are þe sely yate.
taket an þat ilke gretyn vncowþe
þat þe was sayd of Gabriel mowthe,
settand man in pes ful fane,
tornand þe name of heue a-gayne.
onely maden þorw gois gast,
of alle wemen meked mast,
vs of syn þow lees in aste,
and make vs boþe mylde and chaste.
Sew tyle vs þi moderhede;
þow help vs euer at alle ower nede,
þat he þorw þe owre prayer be-take,
wat was borne of þe for vrre sake.

or:

From a post on twitter by Joshua Jennings.

Fæder ure

This is the Old English version of the "Our Father" that I picked up on twitter from @14KaratGEM. Notice something about it? Old English has letters of the alphabet we no longer have. But the Icelandic alphabet, unchanged for the last 1,000 years, still does. So, I can actually write this prayer out fair. Here it is:

Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum;
Si þin nama gehalgod
tobecume þin rice
gewurþe ðin willa
on oerðan swa swa on heofonum.
urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg
and forgyf us ure gyltas
swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum
and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge

ac alys us of yfele soþlice

(Font: Baskerville, Regular, 16-pt)