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Bede's Death Song: The Hague Version

Verse Early Saxon

Fore ðaem nedfere      nenig wiorðeð
ðonosnottorra      ðon him ðearf riae
to ymbhycgenne      aer his hinionge
hwet his gaste      godes oððe yfles
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ester deaðdege      doemed wiorðe.