A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: BYRHTFERTH.Oswald.Epit

Conspicuum retinet bustum memoranda per ævum
Membra locata patris, præsulis eximii
Oswaldi; meritis vivax et pectore gnarus
Qui fuit, et cultor exulis et miseri.
Psalmicen assiduus non noverat otia plectri,
Ad vitam properans, sancta canens obiit,
Normam sectatus Christi, Qui lavit alumnis
Plantas, hic etiam laverat ipse suis.
Illum tunc rapuit, quem nunquam pectore sprevi*,
Septem cum gradibus explicitis abiit.
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Word Form of the Day: torhtre

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

Maxims I 40a: agna ðolian / oftigen bið him torhtre gesihðe || ne magon hi tungl

Metre of the Day

Bliss: Scansion: xxSx|S; Type: 3B1b
Sievers: Scansion: xx / | x /; Type: B1

Syntax: AgN
Double Alliteration

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)