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  • : Sawyer 702, MS 1: London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. X
  • : Westminster
  • : Middlesex
  • : Sunbury
  • : 2

Ðis sindon þa land gemæro to sunnanbyrig ·

Ærest on sunnan hyg þanon <7>lang streames oncrudan scypsteal þanon ofer ða mæde on ecelesa broc <7>lang broces on ða mearcdic <7>langdices onhƿætedene norðeƿeardreb of hƿæte dene on þa oðre mearcdic <7>langdices on cottes hyrste ƿesteƿearde of cottes hyrste onriscmere ofriscmere oneadbryhtes hlæƿ of þam hlæƿe on þone ellen stub ðonon on mearc ƿill of mearcƿille onduddes byre of duddes byrec on þone clofenanbeorh of þam beorhge on sunnan hyg ·

 

Variant Readings from Birch, no.1085

a
ecles
b
norðeƿearde
c
'of duddes byre' omitted