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Rh biclypped, gredig and hnngrig, and for Gode ne dyrste clasped þæs hæfdes onburigen, ac heold hit wið deor. Ða taste but held wurdon heo ofwundroden þæs wulfes hordrædene, and became amazed at guardianship þæt halige heafod hám feroden mid heom, þankende home carried þam Almihtigan alre his wundræ. Ac þe wulf fologede for all forð mid þam heafde, oððet heo on túne comen, swylce town as if he tome wære, and wende æft syððan to wude ongean. tame again Ða lond-leodan þa sytððan lægdan þæt heafod to þam land-folk halige bodige, and burigdon, swa swa heo lihtlucost easiest mihten on swylce rædinge, and cyrce arærdon onuppon such haste a kirk reared him.

VII.

(A.D. 1220.)

(Camden Society), 388.

A lefdi was þet was mid hire voan biset al abuten, lady foes and hire lond al destrued, and heo al poure, wiðinnen she poor