Maldon

I translate the celebrated Old English poem

                                   were broken;
He then told those heroes:       “hold back the horses,
send them far off       for we're forging forward,
think now of what your hands       hold, and God on High.”
For then Offa's folk    first found-out
that their famous earl       was fully fearless.
He freed from his wrist       his much-loved flier
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