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  • : Sawyer 679, MS 2, Boundary 1: York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1
  • : York
  • : Nottinghamshire
  • : Scrooby
  • : 1

Dir sint da land sem ara1 to scroppen þorpe <7> þuresby

of lansanforda dic <7> lans dices yon þa miclandic <7> lans dicesa on blidan et celfab seƿeade <7>lans blidan on beo lese suðeƿeardec þupda miclanstrat <7> lans þtrat ut þurh2 beolease norðd ut þone felðe þ adun on blidan up be blidan on iddil · up be id del on þone fulan broc <7> lans brocci ert on lans anforðf ·

 

1
The scribe misreads 'g' as 's', 's' as 'r' and 'e' as 'f' amongst many other miscopyings, and in this script wynn, thorn and 'y' are identical apart from the dot over the 'y'. In this transcript wynn and thorn are transcribed according to context. Variant readings re. Farrer's 'y'/wynn/thorn are not noted
2
With crossed 'h'

Variant Readings from Farrer, EYC, no. 3

a
dicas
b
clefa
c
sude yearde
d
nord
e
feld
f
lans anford