L685.0.00

  • : Sawyer 685, MS 1: London, British Library, Harley 436
  • : Wilton
  • : Wiltshire
  • : Stanton St Bernard [2]
  • : 1

Þia synt þa land gemære to stantune ·

Ærest of holan ƿylle onþaruƿan hola þo<ń> on þone ealdan ƿeg up to þam hæþenan byrgelse · þonon onþryfyld dene of þære dene on þone scearpan stan · þonon oncobben1 stan · of þan stane on ane hlinc ræƿe oþ hit cymð to blacan2 grafum þonon on þone mær stan · of þā stane on ða foxholu · þo<ń> on þane stanigan beorh on þorndune norþeƿearde ofþam beorge onþa stanas <7>lang dene neoðeƿearde ofþā onanne stan · þonō onanne þorn · þonon on þa ƿearh rode on ƿodnes dic · þonon on þa ealdan burh middeƿearde · of þære ealdan3 on oxna mere · þonon on anne crundel lið án stan ond of þā stane on þone midmestan hrycg on east cumbum · þo<ń> oneast mores heafod toþam hæþenan byrgelse onbromlace þonne and lang streames eft onholan ƿylle ·

 

1
Here there is a line-break between 'on' and 'cobben', but a clear hyphen at the end of the line
2
With a minim-stroke erased after the 'n', so apparently first written as 'blacam' and then corrected
3
Sic

Variant Readings from Birch, no. 1053

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