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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — St. Lucy…

He ƿearð þa gebroht on bendum to rome ·⁠143
⁊ þa ƿitan heton hine beheafdian ·
þaþa he ne mihte his mán-dæda betellan ·
Seo eadiga (sic) lucia on þære ylcan stoƿe ƿunode ·⁠146
þe heo ofslagen ƿæs · oð sacerdas coman ·
⁊ hí gehusloden · mid haligre (sic) gerynu ·
⁊ heo geƿát to criste · mid þam þe hí cƿædon amen.
Þa arærde þa leoda · þær heo læg cyrcan ·⁠150
⁊ on hire naman gehalgodon · þam hælende to ƿurðmynte
seðe æfre rixað on ecnysse god.
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — St. Lucy…

Ac heton acƿellan  clæne mæden mid sƿurde ·⁠126
heo ƿearð þa geƿundod ·  hire ƿand se innoð út ·
ac heo ne ge|ƿát sƿa þeah · ac þurh-ƿunode on gebedum ·
sƿa lange sƿa heo ƿolde · ⁊ to þære leode cƿæð ·
Ic secge eoƿ to soþan ·  sib ís forgifen ·⁠130
godes gelaðunge · ⁊ se gramlica casere
dioclytianus · is gedón of his rice
maximianus se man-fulla is dead ·
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