A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: were

Number of occurrences in corpus: 17

Genesis B 713b d þam wordum || þe heo þam were swelce / tacen oþiewde || and
Genesis A 979b r sceawian || þæt wæs torn were / hefig æt heortan || hygewæl
Genesis A 2220a || ongann þa ferhþcearig / to were sinum || wordum mæþlan / me
Genesis A 2430a unu arones / þæt þam gleawan were || geonge þuhton / men for his
Genesis A 2631b e siþe / wif abrahames || from were læded / on fremdes fæþm || h
The Fortunes of Men 50a owosan || ealdor oððringeð / were winsadum || bið ær his word
Guthlac B 849b es / wuldorcyninges || ond hyre were sealde / ðurh deofles searo ||
Guthlac B 984a || ond heo adame / hyre swæsum were || siððan scencte / bittor b
The Paris Psalter 139:1 3a || ece drihten / and fram þam were || þe wom fremme / / # / þa eal
The Metres of Boethius: Metre 17 4a of anum twæm || ealle comon / were and wife || on woruld innan / a
Metrical Psalm 91:14 1a cal Psalm 91:14 / / Cwedæn þet were soðfest || silua drihtæn / an
Metrical Psalm 93:16 2b es fot / ful sarlice || asliden were% / þæ me mildheortnes || mihti
The Menologium 162a nd middangeard / betux wife and were || wurde acenned / ond þæs ym
Maxims II 33a reow sceal on eorle / wisdom on were || wudu sceal on foldan / blæd
The Lord's Prayer II 87a risað / ðe fram wife and fram were || wurdon acænned / beoð ða
Grave 1b es bold gebyld, er þu iboren were. / ðe wes molde imynt, er ðu o
Grave 4b s gyt iloced, hu long hit þe were. / Nu me þe bringæð, þer ðu