A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: Christ

|| cyninge
ðu eart se weallstan || ðe ða wyrhtan iu
wiðwurpon to weorce || wel ðe geriseð
ðæt ðu heafod sie || healle mærre
ond gesomnige || side weallas
fæste gefoge || flint unbræcne
ðæt geond eorðb/ /g eall || eagna gesihðe
wundrien to worlde || wuldres ealdor
gesweotula nu ðurh searocræft || ðin sylfes weorc
soðfæst sigorbeorht || ond sona forlæt
...

Word Form of the Day: resuscipis

re-suscipio verb pres ind act 2nd sg conj3_io

re-suscipio verb pres ind act 2nd sg conj3_io

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

De actibus apostolorum 02 583: er / Quod reddamus agis donique resuscipis usum! / Nomine uenturi praecurs

Metre of the Day

Bliss: Scansion: S|xxxSx; Type: 1A1c
Sievers: Scansion: / xxx | / x; Type: A1

Syntax: NP
Double Alliteration

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)