Scyttisc spræc
(Edlǣded of Scots English)
Se Scyttisc gereord spricð manig menn in easternum dælum and iegum on Irlande and on Scotlande. On Scotttum het men swylc spræc Gàidhlig. Hie is Celtisc spræc, þe fram Irlande aras in geardagum and todæg fint man þes gereorde on westernum Irlande and on Scotlandes heahlandum and his westernum iegum. Lang wæs se Irisca Scyttisca gereord seo modorspræc be Irlandes heafordrim and Scotlandes Scyttisca gereord wæs geond eallum þara beorgfæstum landum. Today an man in hundred spricþ Scyttisc in Scotland and on Irum feower menn in hundred spricaþ þisne gereord in afortþum midwiste.
Bēda wrat ðe Scyttisc wæs an of fif gereordas gesprocen in Breten:
| “ | Brytene igland is ehta hund mila lang and twa hund mila brad, and her synd on þam iglande fif geþeodu, Englisc, Brytwylsc, Scottysc, Pihttisc and Boclæden. | ” |
He wrat eac ðe Scottas oneardoden Igberia þæt iegland and ðider cwomen on Breten:
| “ | and þa gelamp ymbe geara ryne þæt Scotta sum dæl gewat of Ybernian on Brytene, and þæs landes sumne dæl geeodon, and wæs heora heretoga Reoda gehaten, fram þam hy synd genæmnede Dalreodi. | ” |
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