Beowulf
Gone Medieval
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The Alliterative Patterns of the Oldings
Herp and Wien Gorman glaier beymas ne gord haft foch, Ye und se hales swingeth neses wift a meir ha borsed a beyarteth. No trembling harp, no tuned timber, no tumbling hawk, swerving through the wall, no swift horse, pouring the courtyard, pillage and slaughter have emptied the earth of entire people. So you can hear the alliterative patterns in the oldings and then Flumin Hini, he's only pulled it out the bag. He hasn't used the same letters to alliterate like that last line is alliterating on F in Old English
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