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Her Aethelstan cyning, eorla dryhten, beorna beag-giefa, and his brothor eac, Eadmund aetheling, ealdor-langetir geslogon aet saecce sweorda ecgum ymbe Brunanburh. Bord-weall clufon, heowon heathu-linde hamora lafum eaforan Eadweardes, swa him ge-aethele waes fram cneo-magum thaet hie aet campe oft with lathra gehwone land ealgodon, hord and hamas. Hettend crungon, Scotta leode and scip-flotan, faege feollon. Feld dennode secga swate siththan sunne upp on morgen-tid, maere tungol, glad ofer grundas, Godes candel beorht, eces Dryhtnes, oth seo aethele gesceaft sag to setle. Thaer laeg secg manig garum agieted, guma Northerna ofer scield scoten, swelce Scyttisc eac, werig, wiges saed.
West-Seaxe forth andlange daeg eorod-cystum on last legdon lathum theodum, heowon here-flieman hindan thearle mecum mylen-scearpum. Mierce ne wierndon heardes hand-plegan haeletha nanum thara-the mid Anlafe ofer ear-gebland on lides bosme land gesohton, faege to gefeohte. Fife lagon on tham camp-stede cyningas geonge, sweordum answefede, swelce seofone eac eorlas Anlafes, unrim herges, flotena and Scotta. Thaere gefliemed wearth North-manna brego, niede gebaeded, to lides stefne lytle weorode; cread cnear on flot, cyning ut gewat on fealone flod, feorh generede. Swelce thaere eac se froda mid fleame com on his cyththe north, Constantinus, har hilde-rinc. Hreman ne thorfte meca gemanan; he waes his maga sceard, freonda gefielled on folc-stede, beslaegen aet saecce, and his sunu forlet on wael-stowe wundum forgrunden, geongne aet guthe. Gielpan ne thorfte beorn blanden-feax bill-gesliehtes, eald inwitta, ne Anlaf thy ma; mid hira here-lafum hliehhan ne thorfton thaet hie beadu-weorca beteran wurdon on camp-stede cumbol-gehnastes, gar-mittunge, gumena gemotes, waepen-gewrixles, thaes hie on wael-felda with Eadweardes eaforan plegodon.
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