When I'm Dead is a song by E.V. Gordon. It is published as the 27th song in Songs for the Philologists in 1936.
It is presented in three languages: Old English, Scots, and Gothic.
In Old English
Þa ic beo dead.
no byrgaþ lic min,
at doð min ban
on blod-read win.
Sete fullne belg
æt heafd' and fet,
wel þæt mines lices
brosnung bett.
In Scots
Quhan deid me tais,
O biri nocht me,
bot sett ilk a bain
in cleir clarré.
Sett ane bottel o bouse
at mi heid and mi foit,
and in rest and in ro
everma i moit.
In Gothic
Gadauþna' ic þan,
ni allis filh mik,
ak daupiþs in wein
fagino ik.
Satei fairnana balg
and haubiþ mein —
ganisand auk baina
daupida, in wein.