Biographia Britannica literaria; or, biography of literary characters of Great Britain and Ireland. Anglo-Saxon period / arranged in chronological order.
- Thomas Wright
- Date:
- 1842
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Biographia Britannica literaria; or, biography of literary characters of Great Britain and Ireland. Anglo-Saxon period / arranged in chronological order. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Introd. | vi. ge-brobor, and hera sweoster mid, heefdon feorg cwico ; fell hongedon sweotol and ge-syne on seles weege, anra gehwylces ne wes hyra engum by wyrs, ne side py sarra, beah hy swa sceoldon, reafe bi-rofene, rodra weardes meahtum a-weahte, mubum slitah haswe blede ; hregl bid ge-niwad, bam be er ford-cymene freetwe leton licgan on laste ge-witan lond tredan. (Ex. MS. fol. 104, r°.) The Anglo-Saxons were six brothers, and their sisters with them, they had a living soul ; they hanged their skins, openly and manifestly on the wall of the hall, to any one of them all it was none the worse, nor his side the sorer, although they should thus, bereaved of covering, [and] awakened by the might of the guardian of the skies, bite with their mouths the rough leaves ; clothing is renewed to those who before coming forth let their ornaments lie in their track, to depart over the earth. Wer set et wine, mid his wifum twam, and his twegen suno, and his twa dohtor, swase ge-sweostor and hyre suno twegen, freolico frum-bearn ; feeder wees beer-inne bara epelinga eghwedres, mid eam and nefa : ealra weeron fife eorla and idesa in-sittendra. (Ex. MS. fol. 112, ve) VOL. I. There sat a man at his wine, with his two wives, and his two sons, and his two daughters, own sisters, and their two sons, comely first-born children ; the father was there of each one of the noble ones, with the uncle and the nephew : there were five in all men and women sitting there.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33096740_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
