A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: city

Number of occurrences in corpus: 41

A.3.4 475 shall be established / in the city of glory as a recompense for
A.3.4 666 with glory in that beautiful city. / The author of light has gran
A.4.2 137 see / the walls of that lovely city glimmer, / Bethulia. Bejeweled
A.4.2 203 es in helmets, from that holy city / at the very break of day. Sh
A.4.2 326 ore and bore / to the glorious city of Bethulia / helmets and hip-
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 15 suddenly we caught sight of a city shining exceedingly bright-wh
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 3 ominent poet, a native of the city of Rome / once in mellifluous
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 18 ancient cradle / of the famous city of York in appreciative verse
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 41 tons then held control of the city. / Crushed by almost continuous
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 135 most renowned citizen of the city of Rome / strengthened by the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 196 under the lofty walls of the city of York; there, in the little
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 202 walls of that aforementioned city, / whose heights he then raised
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 207 mediately commanded that this city / should be reckoned the head a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1078 rn / to the archbishops of the city of York, for she has wandered
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1228 was doing these things in the city of York, / he adorned other ch
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1297 ile within the borders of the city of Langres, / and there that b
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1431 promoted as a teacher in the city of York. / There he watered thi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1458 / He also came devoutly to the city of Rome, / rich in the love of
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1602 rtain young man raised in the city of York, / simple in spirit, b
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 2 2 pious steps throughout every city, / or hamlets, homesteads, or cr
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 7 t dear to God hastens to this city, / sent by the leader of the Fra
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 11 1 shop was granted a see in the city of Utrecht, / and the whole nat
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 21 1 ught. / / # / There is an ancient city well-armed with walls thick w
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 23 , / laid siege to the spacious city with armed soldiers, / until a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 25 osed within the prison of the city walls. / It was a time when a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 34 once / throughout the wretched city with its inhabitants doomed t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 541 p SILVESTER was living in the city of Rome: / and this holy man go
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 634 in her barren old age, / is the city which folk commonly call by t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1838 the guilty consul came to the city of Rome / so that a heavy venge
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2082 arriors were paralysed in the city. / Then, the nobleman, with the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2092 gh straightaway defending the city, / as the enemy troops retreated
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2095 d, the leader returned to the city , / having received wreathed ba
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2294 he lofty heights of the Roman city / so that they would not know a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2300 h hastily brought back to the city once warriors had been dispat
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2386 was taken to the exile of the city of Tribula. / Where a deadly dr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2390 / now preferred to abandon the city poisoned by its breath; / they
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2615 wn and fell of that shattered city, / which had stood for a long ti
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 357 erished, / founded an ethereal city with a terrestrial earthwork,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 104 prelate of the aforementioned city, who was guarding the walls / an
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1139 ‘Hurrah!’ throughout the city. / They joined in singing fixed
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1236 he beloved burden to a walled city. / They duly placed him, half-c