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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Forty Soldiers…

Þa het se ealdor-man hi ardlice lædan⁠111
æft Into cƿearterne · ⁊ mid carfullū mode
smeade ƿið his rædboran hƿæt him to ræde þuhte ·
hu he mihte his hosp on þam halgū geƿrecan ·
Hi ƿurdon þa gebrohte binnan þam cƿearterne ·⁠115
⁊ sungon þysne sealm mid sƿyþlicre blysse ·
Ad te leuaui oculos meos qui habitas in celis · et cetera · [ is on englisc] [added in a later hand] ⁠117
To þe ic ahæbbe mine eagan drihten ·⁠118
þu þe eardast on heofonum · ⁊ hi ealne ðone sealm sungon ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Forty Soldiers…

On þam timan ƿæs sƿiþe hefig-time ƿynter ·⁠142
⁊ se fore-sæda mere ƿæs mid forste ofer-þeaht ·
⁊ se ƿinterlica ƿind ƿan mid þam forste ·
Þa scufon þa hæþenan þa halgan Into þam mere ·⁠145
to middes þam ise ealle unscrydde ·
⁊ heom [←him] ƿeardas setton þurh-ƿacole menn ·
 heora nan ne mihte mid fleame æt-berstan ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Forty Soldiers…

Hƿæt ða færlice ƿearð mycel ƿundor ðurh god ·⁠195
þær com heofonlic leoht to þam halgum martyrum ·
sƿa hát sƿa sunne scinende on sumere ·
⁊  ís formealt on eallum þam mere
⁊  ƿæter ƿearð aƿend to ƿynsumum baðe
Ealle þa ƿeard-menn ƿæron ǽr gesƿefode ·⁠200
buton heora anum þe þyses ealles hlyste
hu hi hí gebædon · ⁊ hú se án forferde ·
Þa beheold se ylca hƿanon  leoht scean ·⁠203
ða geseah he bringan mid þam beorhtan leohte
ufan of heofonum an leas feoƿertig kyne-helma ·
þam halgum martyru · þe on ðam mere stodon ·
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