The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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.
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