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“Migulgl zol er vern in a henglayhter, by tog zol er hengen, un bay nakht zol er brenen!”

Archive 2006-09-03

“Me henged bi the þu {m} bes other bi the hefed. ⁊ hengen bryniges on ` her´ fet.”

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts

“Also this yere were too bargemen hanged in Tempse beyownde seynt Katerines, for scleying of iij Flemynges and a child, beynge in a schip in Tempse of there contre, and weren homward; and there they hengen til the water hadde wasted them be ebbyng and flowyd, so the water bett upon them.”

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum

“On his time þe iudeus of Noruuic bohton an xpisten cild be {} foren estren ⁊ pineden hi {m} alle þe ilce pining ð ure drihten was pined. ⁊ on langfridæi hi {m} on rode hengen for ure drihtines luue. ⁊ sythen byrieden hi {m}. wenden ð it sculde ben for {} holen. oc ure dryhtin  {110} atywede ð he was hali m {arty} r.”

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts