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Bede's Death Song: Northumbrian Version

Verse Early Anglian

Fore thaem neidfaerae      naenig uuiurthit
thoncsnotturra,      than him tharf sie
to ymbhycggannae      aer his hiniongae
huaet his gastae      godaes aeththa yflaes
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aefter deothdaege      doemid uueorthae.