Capture of the Five Boroughs (Old English Reading)

The Anglo Saxon records that in the year 942 AD King Edmund challenged The Norse/Danish in the Midlands of England, securing West Saxon dominance in all five boroughs.

Old English Text:

Her Eadmund cyning, Engla þeoden,
mæcgea mundbora, Myrce geeode,
dyre dædfruma, swa Dor scadeþ,
Hwitanwyllesgeat and Humbra ea,

brada brimstream. Burga fife,
Ligoraceaster and Lincylene
and Snotingaham, swylce Stanford eac
and Deoraby. Dæne wæran æror
under Norðmannum nyde gebegde

on hæþenra hæfteclommum
lange þrage, oþ hie alysde eft
for his weorþscipe wiggendra hleo,
afera Eadweardes, Eadmund cyning.

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[resurgam44]

@maarhoefe

We have evidence of runes being written in both directions, depending on the location and time period in which they were carved. That's one of the many things that makes runeology so damn tough.

[quilope]

Whoa! This is intense.

[maarhoefe]

the runes should be from right to left becus the old peaple read oposite direction we do