Chapter 15 Reading Practice

 


Her lædde Beornhelm abbud Westseaxna ælmessan to Rome 7 Ælfredes Cyninges. 7 Godrum, se norþerna cyning forþferde, þæs fulluhtnama wæs æþelstan (se wæs ælfredes cyninges godsunu). 7 he bude on Eastenglum, 7 þæt lond ærest gesæt. 7 þy ilcan geare for se here of Sigene to Sant Laudan, þæt is butueoh Brettum 7 Francum, 7 Brettas him wiþ gefuhton, 7 hæfdon sige, 7 hie bedrifon ut on ane ea, 7 monige adrencton.

 

 

 

From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 890:


Here abbot Beornhelm took the donations of the West Saxons and of King Alfred to Rome. And Guthrum passed away, the northern king whose baptized name was Athelstan (he was King Alfred’s godson). And he lived in East Anglia and [of the Danes] settled that land first. And in this same year the [Danish] army went from the Seine to St Lo, that is between the Bretons and the Franks, and the Bretons fought against them, and had victory, and drove them out into a river, and many were drowned.

 

 

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