History & Politics

The Coronation of Edgar (Old English)

by Anonymous (Old English) c. 7th–11th century

From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. E. V. K. Dobbie, vol. VI (1942)

History & Politics

Her Eadgar wæs, Engla waldend,
corðre miclum to cyninge gehalgod
on ðære ealdan byrig, Acemannesceastre;
eac hi igbuend oðre worde
beornas Baðan nemnaþ. þær wæs blis micel
on þam eadgan dæge eallum geworden,
þone niða bearn nemnað and cigað
Pentecostenes dæg. þær wæs preosta heap,
micel muneca ðreat, mine gefrege,
gleawra gegaderod. And ða agangen wæs
tyn hund wintra geteled rimes
fram gebyrdtide bremes cyninges,
leohta hyrdes, buton ðær to lafe þa get
wæs wintergeteles, þæs ðe gewritu secgað,
seofon and twentig; swa neah wæs sigora frean
ðusend aurnen, ða þa ðis gelamp.
And him Eadmundes eafora hæfde
nigon and XX, niðweorca heard,
wintra on worulde, ða þis geworden wæs,
and þa on ðam XXX wæs ðeoden gehalgod.

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Anonymous (Old English). “The Coronation of Edgar (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/182/.

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Anonymous (Old English). “The Coronation of Edgar (Old English).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/182/.

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