Durham

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Is ðeos burch breome         geond Breotenrice,
steppa gestaðolad,         stanas ymbutan
wundrum gewæxen.         Weor ymbeornad,
ea yðum stronge,         and ðer inne wunað

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feola fisca kyn         on floda gemonge.
And ðær gewexen is         wudafæstern micel;
wuniad in ðem wycum         wilda deor monige,
in deope dalum         deora ungerim.
Is in ðere byri eac         bearnum gecyðed

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ðe arfesta         eadig Cudberch
and ðes clene         cyninges heafud,
Osuualdes, Engle leo,         and Aidan biscop,
Eadberch and Eadfrið,         æðele geferes.
Is ðer inne midd heom         æðelwold biscop

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and breoma bocera Beda,         and Boisil abbot,
ðe clene Cudberte         on gecheðe
lerde lustum,         and he his lara wel genom.
Eardiæð æt ðem eadige         in in ðem minstre
unarimeda         reliquia,

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ðær monia wundrum gewurðað,         ðes ðe writ seggeð,
midd ðene drihnes wer         domes bideð.