The Capture of the Five Boroughs

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Her Eadmund cyning,         Engla þeoden,
mæcgea mundbora,         Myrce geeode,
dyre dædfruma,         swa Dor scadeþ,
Hwitanwyllesgeat         and Humbra ea,

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brada brimstream.         Burga fife,
Ligoraceaster         and Lincylene
and Snotingaham,         swylce Stanford eac
and Deoraby.         Dæne wæran æror
under Norðmannum         nyde gebegde

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on hæþenra         hæfteclommum
lange þrage,         oþ hie alysde eft
for his weorþscipe         wiggendra hleo,
afera Eadweardes,         Eadmund cyning.

Notes

2. MS maga.<text>

8. MS eac.<text>

8. MS ær.<text>

11. MS þraga.<text>