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  • : Sawyer 1036, MS 1, Boundary 2: London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius C. ix
  • : Waltham
  • : Essex
  • : South Weald
  • : 3

Ðis synd þa land gemæra into ƿelde

eresta of dellen norð into þere gemyðe east in to hafegeæte1 · of hafegeæte east in to þam ƿulfpytte · of þam pytte <!> suð into þam purce · of þam purce suð to freobearnes hlype · <7> sƿa in to mannes lande · <7> þanon eft into dellen ·

 

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Altered from '-geute'

Variant Readings from Kemble, no. 813

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Ærest