A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: Deor

welund him be wurman || wræces cunnade
anhydig eorl || earfoða dreag
hæfde him to gesiððe || sorge ond longað
wintercealde wræce || wean oft onfond
siððan hine niðhad on || nede legde
swoncre seonobende || on syllan monn
ðæs ofereode || ðisses swa mæg
beadohilde ne wæs || hyre broðra deað
on sefan swa sar || swa hyre sylfre ðing
ðæt heo gearolice || ongieten hæfde
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Word Form of the Day: samuhelis

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

ALCVIN.Carm 4 25: cta pedester / Atque sacerdotis Samuhelis tecta require. / Castalido port

Metre of the Day

Fragment of Psalm 69 1a

Bliss: Scansion: xSx|S; Type: 3B1a
Sievers: Scansion: x / | x /; Type: B1

Syntax: ANg

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)