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The Death of Edward

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 34 sections

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   Her Eadward kingc, Engla hlaford,

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   sende soþfæste sawle to Criste

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   on godes wæra, gast haligne.

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   He on worulda her wunode þrage

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   on kyneþrymme, cræftig ræda,

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   XXIIII, freolic wealdend,

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   wintra gerimes, weolan britnode,

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   and healfe tid, hæleða wealdend,

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   weold wel geþungen Walum and Scottum

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    and Bryttum eac, byre æðelredes,

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    Englum and Sexum, oretmægcum,

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    swa ymbclyppað cealde brymmas,

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    þæt eall Eadwarde, æðelum kinge,

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    hyrdon holdlice hagestealde menn.

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    Wæs a bliðemod bealuleas kyng,

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    þeah he lange ær, lande bereafod,

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    wunode wræclastum wide geond eorðan,

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    syððan Cnut ofercom kynn æðelredes

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    and Dena weoldon deore rice

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    Engla landes XXVIII

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    wintra gerimes, welan brytnodon.

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    Syððan forð becom freolice in geatwum

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    kyningc kystum god, clæne and milde,

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    Eadward se æðela, eðel bewerode,

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    land and leode, oðþæt lungre becom

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    deað se bitera, and swa deore genam

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    æþelne of eorðan; englas feredon

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    soþfæste sawle innan swegles leoht.

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    And se froda swa þeah befæste þæt rice

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    heahþungenum menn, Harolde sylfum,

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    æþelum eorle, se in ealle tid

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    hyrde holdlice hærran sinum

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    wordum and dædum, wihte ne agælde

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    þæs þe þearf wæs þæs þeodkyninges.

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