Editorial note — APPENDIX.

Here are the first few lines of “Æthelstan’s Song of Victory.”

Æthelstan cyning Æthelstan king

eorla drihten of earls the lord

beorna beah-gyfa rewarder of heroes,

and his brothor eac and his brother eke,

Eadmund Ætheling Eadmund Ætheling

ealdor langyne tyr, elder of ancient race,

geslogon æt secce slew in the fight

sweorda ecgum with the edge of their swords

ymbe Brunan-burh the foe at Brunanburh.