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The Coronation of Edgar

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 20 sections

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   Her Eadgar wæs, Engla waldend,

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   corðre miclum to cyninge gehalgod

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   on ðære ealdan byrig, Acemannesceastre;

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   eac hi igbuend oðre worde

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   beornas Baðan nemnaþ. þær wæs blis micel

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   on þam eadgan dæge eallum geworden,

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   þone niða bearn nemnað and cigað

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   Pentecostenes dæg. þær wæs preosta heap,

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   micel muneca ðreat, mine gefrege,

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    gleawra gegaderod. And ða agangen wæs

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    tyn hund wintra geteled rimes

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    fram gebyrdtide bremes cyninges,

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    leohta hyrdes, buton ðær to lafe þa get

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    wæs wintergeteles, þæs ðe gewritu secgað,

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    seofon and twentig; swa neah wæs sigora frean

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    ðusend aurnen, ða þa ðis gelamp.

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    And him Eadmundes eafora hæfde

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    nigon and XX, niðweorca heard,

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    wintra on worulde, ða þis geworden wæs,

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    and þa on ðam XXX wæs ðeoden gehalgod.

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