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Codex Exoniensis fæder
alwealda "Father all-ruler"
Beowulf (630)
Weard "Guard"
heofonrices Weard "the
heavenly kingdom's Guard" Cædmon's hymn Beowulf...
- gesceōp
heofon tō hrōfe, ða middangeard, ēce Dryhten, fīrum foldan, /
heofonrīces Weard, / and his mōdgeþonc, / swā hē
wundra gehwæs, / ord onstealde....