Note 353 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 4)
Reading edition
Madden, ut supra, vol. ii. p. 476. The original text (printed in short lines by Madden and here in long ones) runs thus:
Tha loh Arthur · the althele king, And thus yeddien agon · mid gommenfulle worden: Lien nu there Colgrim · thu were iclumben haghe Thu clumbe a thissen hulle · wunder ane hæghe, Swulc thu woldest to hævene · nu thu scalt to hælle; Ther thu miht kenne · muche of thine cunne, And gret thu ther Hengest · the cnihten wes fayerest, Ebissa and Ossa · Octa and of thine cunne ma, And bide heom ther wunie · wintres and sumeres, And we scullen on londe · libben in blisse.