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The Capture of the Five Boroughs

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 13 sections

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   Her Eadmund cyning, Engla þeoden,

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   mæcgea mundbora, Myrce geeode,

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   dyre dædfruma, swa Dor scadeþ,

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   Hwitanwyllesgeat and Humbra ea,

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   brada brimstream. Burga fife,

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   Ligoraceaster and Lincylene

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   and Snotingaham, swylce Stanford eac

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   and Deoraby. Dæne wæran æror

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   under Norðmannum nyde gebegde

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    on hæþenra hæfteclommum

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    lange þrage, oþ hie alysde eft

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    for his weorþscipe wiggendra hleo,

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    afera Eadweardes, Eadmund cyning.

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