The Capture of the Five Boroughs
Translated by J.A.Giles
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Here Edmund king, ruler of Angles, protector of men, Mercia obtained, dear deed-doer, as the Dor flows, course of the white-well, and Humber’s river, broad sea-stream. Five towns, Leicester, and Lincoln, and Nottingham, so Stamford eke, and Derby, to Danes were erewhile, under North-men, by need constrained, of heathen men in captive chains, a long time; until again redeemed them, for his worthiness, the bulwark of warriors, offspring of Edward, Edmund king.
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