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Rh  ne scalt þu næver halden dale of mine lande; ah mine dohtren ich wille delen mine riche. and þu scalt worðen warchen, and wonien in wansiðe, for navere ich ne wende þat þu me woldes þus scanden, þarfore þa scalt been dæd ic wene: fli&#x0293; ut of min eæh-sene, þine sustren sculen habben mi kinelond, and þis me is iqueme; þe due of Cornwaile seal habbe Gornoille, and þe Scottene king Regan þat scone; and ic hem &#x0293;eve all þa winne þe ich æm waldinge over. and al þe alde king dude swa he hafvede idemed.

The above lines are taken from Layamon's Brut, compiled, as it would seem, in Worcestershire about the year 1205. The proportion of Teutonic words, now obsolete, to the whole is the same as in the Ormulum. The poet has both hât and hôt for calidus; but the words lond, hond, are written instead of land, hand, just as we find in the oldest Worcester charters printed by Kemble, Codex Dip. I. page 100. And this is also done by our kinsmen in Friesland.

We sometimes find in Layamon þeo for the Old English hi; a token that he did not live to the South of