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Stonehenge

Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy

Kent (Cent) Essex (East-Seaxe) Wessex (West-Seaxe) Sussex (Sūþ-Seaxe) East Anglia (Ēast-Angle) Mercia (Mierce) Northunbria (Norþ-hymbre)

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Hwæt, wë Gär-Dena in geärdagum

þëodcyninga þrym gefrünon, hü ðä æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scëfing sceaþena þrëatum, monegum mågþum meodosetla oftëah; egsode Eorl[e], syððan årest wearð fëasceaft funden; hë þæs fröfre gebäd; wëox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þäh, oðþat him åghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronräde hÿran scolde, gomban gyldan: þæt wæs göd cyning! So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness. We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns. There was Shield Sheafson, scourge of many tribes, a wrecker of mead-benches, rampaging among foes. This terror of the hall-troops had come far. A foundling to start with, he would flourish later on as his powers waxed and his worth was proved. In the end each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute. That was one good ling.

(trans. by Seamus Heaney)

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Danelaw

The Lindisfarne Gospels（「リンディスファーン福音書」大英図書館蔵） [259 葉 羊皮紙 340 x 245 mm]

Codex Amiatinus The Lindisfarne Gospels

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[The Lindisfarne Gospels, fol.95]

INI TIÜ EUAN GE LII IHU XPI FILI DI SICUT SCRIPTUM EST IN ESAIA PROPHETA Initium evangelii Iesu Christi Filii Dei / sicut scriptum est in Esaia propheta

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Oxford

London

Exeter

Vercelli

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The Exeter Book (10th century; Exeter D. & C. MS. 3501, fol.