Durham

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

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.