Sciþþisc īsmægden
Þæt Sciþþisc īsmægden is Pazyryk byrgen þe Natalia Polosmak fand in 1993, seldcūðu bisen ānwīfes þe hæfde ful trēowen byrgen in þǣm fīftan gēarhundrede, gefolged mid siexum horsum. Hit wæs for 2,400 wintrum byrged in līcbeorge þe man macode of geholedum learctrēo. Ūtweard þǣre līcbeorge wǣron biliðas dēora and snāwpænþra, intō leðere corfen.
Sōna æfter byrgend, þæt græf āfylede mid frīesendum regne and æfrefrost frēas eall byrgenhordes. Man blēte siex hors weriende gearwan þe lecgaþ on þǣm trēowenan hrōfe þǣre byrgenne.
Þæt mægdnes welgeāspared līc, nēodlīce geāspared mid mēose and bēamrinde, legþ on hire rihtum handa swelce slǣpende. Hēo wæs geong; hire hǣr giet fæger, and wæs 5 fēt, 6 ynca micel. Þā dēormōd tācnunga wǣron on hire āblæcum scynne geāspared: dēor mid hornum þe weorðaþ hwæt blostmlic.
Man macode hire līcbeorg micel genug for þǣre hēahan hēafodgearwan þe werode hēo, þe man ontō hire fīftīene trēowan briddas sēowede. Man þōhte þæt hire serc wild tussahseolc wæs, ac betere scēawung onwrāh þæt se onfeng nis Cīnisc, ac of ōðrum stede cōm, mæg of Indian bēon. Hēo hæfde lange dēoprēade wyllene scyrtan, and hwīte hosa.
Nēah hire cyst wæs drinchorn gemacod of geachorne, and discas þe coriander sǣd hæfdon: þis gebēacnaþ þæt þā Pazyryk cīepwegas geond Iranes brādum landum wǣron. Man þyncþ hit þæt gelīce discas in ōðrum byrgum Cannabis satvia hæfdon, þe Herodotus ymbe cwæþ, ac æfter fandunga, man fandode þæt þæt gebland coriander sǣd hæfdon, mæg tō wreonne þone stenc þæs līces bēon.
Tū gēar æfter þæt Sciþþisc īsmægdenes āfundennesse, Doctor Polosmakes frēa, Vyacheslav Molodin, fandode gefroren wer, cynstlic getācned mid eolhe, mid twǣm langum brægdum þe tō his middle āsprēadedon, gebyrged mid his wǣpnum.