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  • Their "ealo," or the height of felicity, is a passive rather than an active state.

    A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889

  • 1945 Hûru þät onhôhsnode Heminges mæg; ealo drincende ôðer sædan, þät hió leód-bealewa läs gefremede, inwit-nîða, syððan ærest wearð gyfen gold-hroden geongum cempan,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • 1945 Hūru þæt onhōhsnode Heminges mǣg; ealo drincende ōðer sǣdan, þæt hīo lēod-bealewa lǣs gefremede, inwit-nīða, syððan ǣrest wearð gyfen gold-hroden geongum cempan,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

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