A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: BEDE.NatRer.Praef

  1. Naturas rerum uaris labentis et aeui
  2. Perstrinxi titulis, tempora lata citis,
  3. Beda Dei famulus. Tu fixa obsecro perennem
  4. Qui legis astra, super mente tuere diem.

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Word Form of the Day: þæne

Number of occurrences in corpus: 13

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Metre of the Day

Riddles 77 1a

Bliss
Scansion: S|xSx
Type: 1A1a
Sievers
Scansion: / x | / x
Type: A1

Syntax: NV
Notes: Interesting

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Other places with this scansion (sievers)

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