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  • But the main difference which separates the modern passage from its ancient prototype is the consistent dropping of the grammatical inflexions in _hlaforde_, _Ælfrede_, _ealra_, _feawum_, and _fandian_, where we now say, _to his lord_, _of all_, _in few_, and _to enquire_.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

  • He sæde theah thæt thæt land | though, that that land was sie swithe lang north thonan; | [or extended] much north ac hit is eall weste, buton on | thence; eke it is all waste, feawum stowum styccemælum | but [except that] on few stows wiciath Finnas, on huntothe | [in a few places] piecemeal on wintra, and on sumera on | dwelleth Finns, on hunting on fiscathe be thære sæ.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

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