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Riddle 46

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Wer sæt æt wine      mid his wifum twam
ond his twegen suno      ond his twa dohtor,
swase gesweostor,      ond hyra suno twegen,
freolico frumbearn;      fæder wæs þær inne
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þara æþelinga      æghwæðres mid,
eam ond nefa.      Ealra wæron fife
eorla ond idesa      insittendra.