The Coronation of Edgar

Dobbie, 1942 21-2; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York).
 
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.