Durham

Is ðeos burch breome       geond Breotenrice,
steppa gestaðolad,       stanas ymbutan
wundrum gewæxen.       Weor ymbeornad,
ea yðum stronge,       and ðer inne wunað
feola fisca kyn       on floda gemonge.
And ðær gewexen is       wudafæstern micel;
wuniad in ðem wycum       wilda deor monige,
in deope dalum       deora ungerim.

Is in ðere byri eac       bearnum gecyðed
ðe arfesta       eadig Cudberch
and ðes clene       cyninges heafud,
Osuualdes, Engle leo,       and Aidan biscop,
Eadberch and Eadfrið,       æðele geferes.
Is ðer inne midd heom       Æðelwold biscop
and breoma bocera Beda,       and Boisil abbot,
ðe clene Cudberte       on gecheðe
lerde lustum,       and he his lara wel genom.


Eardiæð æt ðem eadige       in in ðem minstre
unarimeda       reliquia,
ðær monia wundrum gewurðað,       ðes ðe writ seggeð,
midd ðene drihnes wer       domes bideð.

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