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  • In Old English, grammar would determine whether someone would use that word as scip, scipes, scipe, scipu, scipa, or scipum.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In Old English, grammar would determine whether someone would use that word as scip, scipes, scipe, scipu, scipa, or scipum.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Ȝif heo grið sohten {;}   ⁊ of his freond {} scipe rohte {n}.

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

  • Him wæs bām samod on þām lēod-scipe lond gecynde, eard ēðel-riht, ōðrum swīðor

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Hē frætwe gehēold fela missēra, bill and byrnan, oð þæt his byre mihte eorl-scipe efnan, swā his ǣr-fæder; geaf him þā mid Gēatum gūð-gewǣda

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • He frätwe geheóld fela missera, bill and byrnan, ôð þät his byre mihte eorl-scipe efnan, swâ his ær-fäder; geaf him þâ mid Geátum gûð-gewæda

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Him wäs bâm samod on þam leód-scipe lond gecynde, eard êðel-riht, ôðrum swîðor

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Here's the UK story on the photog that did the pics and his scipe he used. here comes the sun '.

    Knowledge is Power 2009

  • Here's the UK story on the photog that did the pics and his scipe he used. here comes the sun '.

    Knowledge is Power 2009

  • _Si ego p {ate} r u {bi} {est} honor m {eus}. si d {ominus} u {bi} {est} ti {m} ` or´ m {eu} s. _ þ̵ is. gif ic fader ha {m}. wer his mi ma {n} scipe. ȝif ic. hlaford wer hís mine aȝéíe? þer {} fore.

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

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