The Coronation of Edgar

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Her Eadgar wæs,         Engla waldend,
corðre miclum         to cyninge gehalgod
on ðære ealdan byrig,         Acemannesceastre;
eac hi igbuend         oðre worde

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beornas Baðan nemnaþ.         þær wæs blis micel
on þam eadgan dæge         eallum geworden,
þone niða bearn         nemnað and cigað
Pentecostenes dæg.         þær wæs preosta heap,
micel muneca ðreat,         mine gefrege,

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gleawra gegaderod.         And ða agangen wæs
tyn hund wintra         geteled rimes
fram gebyrdtide         bremes cyninges,
leohta hyrdes,         buton ðær to lafe þa get
wæs wintergeteles,         þæs ðe gewritu secgað,

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seofon and twentig;         swa neah wæs sigora frean
ðusend aurnen,         ða þa ðis gelamp.
And him Eadmundes         eafora hæfde
nigon and XX,         niðweorca heard,
wintra on worulde,         ða þis geworden wæs,

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and þa on ðam XXX wæs         ðeoden gehalgod.

Notes

2. MS micelre.<text>

7. MS þonne.<text>

13. MS A and *G agan. MS BC get.<text>

19. MS BC þa. Not in MS A or *G<text>