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XIII. Communication of an inedited Fragment of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, in a Letter from the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, M.A. Anglo Saxon Professor in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

J.J. Conybeare
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If the inedited fragment of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, which accompanies this letter, appear to you worthy of being submitted to the Society of Antiquaries it is entirely at your disposal.

It occurs towards the conclusion of a Manuscript Volume of Homilies contained in the Bodleian Library, and supposed by Wanley (who notices it in his catalogue affixed to Hicke's Thesaurus, page 15.) to have been written about the time of King Henry the second.

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Archaeologia , Volume 17 , 1814 , pp. 173 - 175
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1814

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page 174 note § Deorcæ. This word in writings of an earlier date is uniformly spelt deore, or deorce. The subsitution indeed of the œ for the quiescent e appears not to have prevailed till after the conquest. This will shew that the copy of C's hymn, given by Wanley (page 287 of his Catalogue) is not, as some have supposed, more pure in its orthography than those published in Hickes and in Alfred Bede.

page 174 note † Of the signification of the last two words in this line I am entirely ignorant.