Death & Dying
Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. E. V. K. Dobbie, vol. VI (1942)
Death & Dying
For þam nedfere næni wyrþeþ
þances snotera, þonne him þearf sy
to gehicgenne ær his heonengange
hwæt his gaste godes oþþe yfeles
æfter deaþe heonon demed weorþe.
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Bede, The Venerable. “Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bede/3/.
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Bede, The Venerable. “Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version (Old English).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bede/3/.
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