The Death of Edward

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Her Eadward kingc,         Engla hlaford,
sende soþfæste         sawle to Criste
on godes wæra,         gast haligne.
He on worulda her         wunode þrage

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on kyneþrymme,         cræftig ræda,
XXIIII,         freolic wealdend,
wintra gerimes,         weolan britnode,
and healfe tid,         hæleða wealdend,
weold wel geþungen         Walum and Scottum

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and Bryttum eac,         byre æðelredes,
Englum and Sexum,         oretmægcum,
swa ymbclyppað         cealde brymmas,
þæt eall Eadwarde,         æðelum kinge,
hyrdon holdlice         hagestealde menn.

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Wæs a bliðemod         bealuleas kyng,
þeah he lange ær,         lande bereafod,
wunode wræclastum         wide geond eorðan,
syððan Cnut ofercom         kynn æðelredes
and Dena weoldon         deore rice

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Engla landes         XXVIII
wintra gerimes,         welan brytnodon.
Syððan forð becom         freolice in geatwum
kyningc kystum god,         clæne and milde,
Eadward se æðela,         eðel bewerode,

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land and leode,         oðþæt lungre becom
deað se bitera,         and swa deore genam
æþelne of eorðan;         englas feredon
soþfæste sawle         innan swegles leoht.
And se froda swa þeah         befæste þæt rice

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heahþungenum menn,         Harolde sylfum,
æþelum eorle,         se in ealle tid
hyrde holdlice         hærran sinum
wordum and dædum,         wihte ne agælde
þæs þe þearf wæs         þæs þeodkyninges.