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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 21 sections

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   Is ðeos burch breome geond Breotenrice,

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   steppa gestaðolad, stanas ymbutan

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   wundrum gewæxen. Weor ymbeornad,

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   ea yðum stronge, and ðer inne wunað

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   feola fisca kyn on floda gemonge.

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   And ðær gewexen is wudafæstern micel;

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   wuniad in ðem wycum wilda deor monige,

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   in deope dalum deora ungerim.

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   Is in ðere byri eac bearnum gecyðed

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    ðe arfesta eadig Cudberch

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    and ðes clene cyninges heafud,

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    Osuualdes, Engle leo, and Aidan biscop,

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    Eadberch and Eadfrið, æðele geferes.

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    Is ðer inne midd heom æðelwold biscop

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    and breoma bocera Beda, and Boisil abbot,

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    ðe clene Cudberte on gecheðe

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    lerde lustum, and he his lara wel genom.

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    Eardiæð æt ðem eadige in in ðem minstre

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    unarimeda reliquia,

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    ðær monia wundrum gewurðað, ðes ðe writ seggeð,

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    midd ðene drihnes wer domes bideð.

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