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The Lord's Prayer I
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The Lord's Prayer I
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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...g fæder, þu þe on heofonum eardast,
geweorðad wuldres dreame. Sy þinum weorcum halgad
noma niþþa bearnum; þu eart nergend wera.
Cyme þin rice wide, ond þin rædfæst willa
- 5
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aræred under rodores hrofe, eac þon on rumre foldan.
Syle us to dæge domfæstne blæd,
hlaf userne, helpend wera,
þone singalan, soðfæst meotod.
Ne læt usic costunga cnyssan to swiðe,
- 10
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ac þu us freodom gief, folca waldend,
from yfla gehwam, a to widan feore.