Social Commentaries
A Proverb from Winfrid's Time (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. E. V. K. Dobbie, vol. VI (1942)
Social Commentaries
Oft daedlata dome foreldit,
sigisitha gahuem, suuyltit thi ana.
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Old English text as in ASPR; hand-keyed e-text via sacred-texts.com.
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Anonymous (Old English). “A Proverb from Winfrid's Time (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/188/.
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