Durham

Dobbie, 1942 27; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York).

 

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.