The Holy Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions: Synoptically Arranged, with Collations Exhibiting All the Readings of All the Mss, Tom 4

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Walter William Skeat
The University Press, 1878

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Strona xii - Anglian, with a tendency to be slightly more northern, perhaps as being somewhat later, than its original; but the translation of St Matthew is in a dialect which differs but little from the West Saxon of the period, and may probably be Mercian or, at least, West Saxon written by a Midland man.
Strona viii - And St John's part for himself, together with four oras of silver, (deposited) with God and St Cuthbert ; to the end that he may gain admittance into heaven, through God's mercy, and on earth happiness and peace, promotion and dignity, wisdom and prudence, through St Cuthbert's merits.
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