Death & Dying
Bede's Death Song: Northumbrian Version (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. E. V. K. Dobbie, vol. VI (1942)
Death & Dying
Fore thaem neidfaerae naenig uuiurthit
thoncsnotturra, than him tharf sie
to ymbhycggannae aer his hiniongae
huaet his gastae godaes aeththa yflaes
aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae.
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Bede, The Venerable. “Bede's Death Song: Northumbrian Version (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bede/1/.
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Bede, The Venerable. “Bede's Death Song: Northumbrian Version (Old English).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bede/1/.
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