A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: Judith

|| tweode
gifena in ðys ginnan grunde || heo ðar ða gearwe funde
mundbyrd æt ðam mæran ðeodne || ða heo ahte mæste ðearfe
hyldo ðæs hehstan deman || ðæt he hie wið ðæs hehstan brogan
gefriðode frymða waldend || hyre ðæs fæder on roderum
torhtmod tiðe gefremede || ðe heo ahte trumne geleafan
a to ðam ælmihtigan || gefrægen ic ða holofernus
winhatan wyrcean georne || ond eallum wundrum ðrymlic
girwan up swæsendo || to ðam het se gumena baldor
ealle ða yldestan ðegnas || hie ðæt ofstum miclum
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Word Form of the Day: theosophica

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

ALCVIN.Carm 104.6 7: . / Haec studiis floret sacris, theosophica iura / Perlegit, et tractat cla

Metre of the Day

Bliss: Scansion: ~+|xSx; Type: 1A1a
Sievers: Scansion: ~+ x | / x; Type: A1

Syntax: NI

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