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  • Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

    Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

    Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

    Poetry Friday 2006

  • Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • On ðare ealde laȝe hit was i [h] oten þ̵ alle dier. ðe me gode scolde offrin þat hie lokeden wel ðat ðe tail ware on auriche netene.

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

  • +N+e scolde neuer yongmon   howyen to swiþe. þeih him his wyse   wel ne lykie.

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

  • Ȝíef wé were wise men. ðis wé scolde ðenche. bute wé wurðe us íwer. ðeos woruld wule us for {} drenche.

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

  • Duckinges over hed and eres becowse she was a common scolde and fyghter.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • Nǣnig heora þōhte þæt hē þanon scolde eft eard-lufan ǣfre gesēcean, folc oððe frēo-burh, þǣr hē āfēded wæs,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • See swīn. syððan (seðian, Gen. 1525), w. v., _to punish, avenge_, w. acc.: inf. þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde (_then the edge of the sword should avenge it_), 1107. syððan.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

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