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Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site]

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

: Wiga is on eorþan      wundrum acenned
dryhtum to nytte,      of dumbum twam
torht atyhted,      þone on teon wigeð
feond his feonde.      Forstrangne oft
5: wif hine wrið;      he him wel hereð,
þeowaþ him geþwære,      gif him þegniað
mægeð ond mæcgas      mid gemete ryhte,
fedað hine fægre;      he him fremum stepeð
life on lissum.      Leanað grimme
10: þam þe hine wloncne weorþan læteð.

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