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==Text==
From Skeats' ''Anglo-Saxon Reader'', rev. C. T. Onions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), 167.

''M''oððe word fræt; ''m''ē þæt þūhte

''w''rǣt''t''licu ''w''yrd, þā ic þæt ''w''undor gefrægn,

þæt se ''w''yrm forswealg ''w''era gied''d'' sumes,

þēof in ''þ''ȳstro ''þ''rym''m''fæstne cwide

and þæs ''st''rangan ''sta''þol: ''st''ælgiest ne wæs

''w''ihte þȳ glēawra þe hē þām ''w''ordum swealg.

==Translation==

From ''The Anglo-Saxon World'', tr. Kevin Crossley-Holland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 247.

A moth devoured words. When I heard

of that wonder it sruck me as a strange event

that a worm should swallow the song of some man,

a thief gorge in the darkness on a great man's

speech of distinction. The thievish stranger

was not a whit the wiser for swallowing words.

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Jargogle: Created page with "==Text== From Skeats' ''Anglo-Saxon Reader'', rev. C. T. Onions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), 167. ''M''oððe word fræt; ''m''ē þæt þūhte ''w''rǣt''t''licu ''w''yrd,..."