Crossword-Solution: EHT 3 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Ein übergülde ist eȥ aller der sælikeit, diu ie wart oder iemer mēr eht werden mac, swer got ansehende eht wirt, alsō süeȥe und alsō wünneclich ist diu gesiht, die man an got siht.

Swelher hundert jār alt würde under uns, der wære den liuten alse smæhe an ze sehenne von ungestaltheit und von dem gebresten, den daȥ alter an im hæte gemaht: sō mālet man die engele--dā sehet ir wol, swā man sie mālt, daȥ man sie eht anders niht enmālt wan als ein kint von fünf jāren, als junclich, oder von sehsen.

The Jesuits later adopted the custom, whenever a monk ventured to demur against a task assigned, of putting into his hand this book, YAW DEREVOCSID EHT, and telling him that he might spend his time in quiet linguistic studies, that he might acquire the language in which these few pages were written, and when he had accomplished this, he might go as a missionary to the people who wrote and spoke this language.

Now listen, and I will recite you a sweet song: 'Wolb sdniw hguor eht nehw neve, Skaerc kao tuots eht nehw neve, Woleb ssarg eht ni terewolf eht, Skaerw yruf rieht tahw ton sraef.' Did you understand? Arabic, isn't it? Now just read it backward and you will understand at once.

The secret of this lock Father Peter had learned from the YAW DEREVOCSID EHT, and at every one of his underground visits he had made fast the lock.