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stangreopum worpod wære he hafaþ wigges lean blæd butan blinne sint in bocum his wundor þa he worhte on gewritum cyþed ongan þa wilfægen æfter þam wuldres treo elnes anhydig eorþan delfan under turfhagan þæt he on twentig fotmælum feor funde behelede under neolum niþer næsse gehydde in þeostorcofan he þær þreo mette in þam reonian hofe roda ætsomne greote begrauene swa hio geardagum arleasra sceolu eorþan beþeahton iudea cynn hie wiþ godes bearne niþ ahofun swa hie no sceoldon þær hie leahtra fruman larum ne hyrdon þa wæs modgemynd myclum geblissod hige onhyrded þurh þæt halige treo inbryrded breostsefa syþþan beacen geseh halig under hrusan he mid handum befeng wuldres wynbeam ond mid weorode ahof of foldgræfe feþegestas eodon æþelingas in on þa ceastre asetton þa on gesyhþe sigebeamas þreo eorlas anhydige fore elenan cneo collenferhþe cwen weorces gefeah on ferhþsefan ond þa frignan ongan on hwylcum þara beama bearn wealdendes hæleþa hyhtgifa hangen wære hwæt we þæt hyrdon þurh halige bec tacnum cyþan þæt twegen mid him geþrowedon ond he wæs þridda sylf on rode treo rodor eal geswearc on þa sliþan tid saga gif þu cunne on hwylcre þyssa þreora þeoden engla geþrowode þrymmes hyrde ne meahte hire iudas ne ful gere wiste sweotole gecyþan be þam sigebeame on hwylcne se hælend ahafen wære sigebearn godes ær he asettan heht on þone middel þære mæran byrig beamas mid bearhtme ond gebidan þær oþþæt him gecyþde cyning ælmihtig wundor for weorodum be þam wuldres treo gesæton sigerofe sang ahofon rædþeahtende ymb þa roda þreo oþ þa nigoþan tid hæfdon neowne gefean mærþum gemeted þa þær menigo cwom folc unlytel ond gefærenne man brohton on bære beorna þreate on neaweste wæs þa nigoþe tid gingne gastleasne þa þær iudas wæs on modsefan miclum geblissod heht þa asettan sawlleasne life belidenes lic on eorþan unlifgendes ond up ahof rihtes wemend þara roda twa fyrhþgleaw on fæþme ofer þæt fæge hus deophycgende hit wæs dead swa ær lic legere fæst leomu colodon þreanedum 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