L766.4.00
- : Sawyer 766, MS 1, Boundary 4: London, British Library, Harley 436
- : Wilton
- : Hampshire
- : Watchingwell in Calbourne, Isle of Wight
- : 1
Þis synt þare · x · hida land gemærea to hƿætincg le1 þehyrað into niƿantune ·
Ærest ofþære sæ <7>lang stiðes fleotes heafod · of þā heafde on þageclyppedan treoƿa of ðā treoƿan onheort lege · <ŧ>b ón þaƿylle <ŧ>c ón þa ræƿe onðane haliganstan · þanon on þære ealdan heortd heges ræƿe ón mot beorh · þanon on hretescumbes2 heafde on þane lim pyt · þa<ń> ón hrece3 leage middeƿeardre · þonō on æsc stede · of æsc stede <ŧ>e eft on þa sæ ·
- 1
- Erasure of one character after 'le'?
- 2
- Written more like 'hretes-' than 'hreces-'
- 3
- Clearly 'c' here
Variant Readings from Searle 1894, pp. 211-13
- a
- land-gemæra
- b
- þanon
- c
- þanon
- d
- heorc
- e
- þonon