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'''Mierce''' (ēac hāteþ '''Myrce''' and '''Merce''') ƿǣron cynerīce on [[Englaland|Englum]], ān þāra seofona þæs tīman. Hīe ƿǣron be Trentan ēa on middelum Englum. Be Mercum ƿǣron [[Norþhymbra Rīce|Norþhymbre]], [[Pauia]], [[Sūþwēalas|Sūþƿēala rīcu]], [[Westseaxe|Ƿestseaxe]], [[Sūþseaxe]], [[Ēastseaxe]], and [[Ēastenglas]].
Heora forma cyning ƿæs Icel, and heora æftermest ƿæs [[Ælfwynn|Ælfƿynn]] Cƿēne, ac on þǣm 918. gēare ƿæs þæt rīce gefangen fram Ēadƿearde Ƿestseaxa, þe hæftode Ælfƿynne. Æfter þǣm ƿǣron hīe synderlīce tƿegra mǣla selfƿealdende: āne fram þǣm 955. gēare þǣr ƿearþ Ēadgār Merca cyning, and eft þæs 1016. gēares, þǣr fēng Cnut tō rīce.
Mierce ƿæs ān hǣðenisc cynerīce oþ þæt læt 7 gēarhundrede. Se cyrrednesse Miercna fram [[Germanisc Hǣðenscipe|hǣðenscipe]] ƿæs fram [[Norþhymbra Rīce|Norþhymbriscum]] munucum ʒedon, þe ādrugon
[[Se hālig Ceadda]] ƿære ān [[Norþhymbraland|Norþhymbrisc]] uncūðanforelærend, ēƿæs tō macian þā Mierciscum [[Crīstendōm|crīsten]] besended. Hē ƿæs se fīfta bisceop Miercna bēon ʒeforecosen. Hē ƿæs fram [[:en:Theodore_of_Tarsus|Theodore of Tarsus Arcebisceop]] āfaren fram his bisceopþēnunge innan [[Norþhymbra Rīce|Norþhymbre]]. In 669, seah [[:en:Wulfhere_of_Mercia|Wulfhere Miercna Cyning]], bearn Pendas Miercna Cynings, þone his cynerīce hæfde nā bisceopas, swā hē āscode Theodore ān bisceop besendan. and Ceadda ƿæs fram him besended. Wulfhere ʒeaf him þæt bisceopland, on þǣm hē bylde ān mynster in Licitfeldan ([[:en:Lichfield|Lichfield]]). Þā fōrewarde bisceopas hatteþ þā bisceopas þāra [[Middelenglisc sprǣc|Middilængla]] and/ oþþe Mierciscra and for Ceaddan eallswā [[Lincolnscīr|Lindesegefolces]]: bisceoprīceu ƿǣron for þǣm folce þāra landa, ʒelic þǣm Celtisce ʒelēafincel. Ceadda macode, nā tēorende, hira innan Crīstenmenn, and [[se hālig Bede]] hæfþ ymbe him gōdʒewrit, þæt hē ʒelærde Mierciscum [[Crīstendōm|Crīstendom]].
Þā suna Pendas ʒēafon micel helpe and feoh crīstnum uncūðanforelærendum. Wulfhere gifede feoh for his cynmynster in Medeshamstede ([[:en:Peterborough|Peterborough]]). Eallswā īecte hē þone lande, þone hē hæfde Ceaddan ʒeʒefan, þruh ʒiefende mynsterland in Barwæ (soþþyncanlic Barrow upon Humber). [[:en:Merewalh|Merewalh]], undercyning [[:en:Magonsæte|Magonsætes]], ān healfbroþer oþþe broþer Wulfheres , ongan ān abbodessecynn; īecte ān mynster in Lenemynstere ([[:en:Leominster|Leominster]]) and soþþyncanlic eallswā þæt in Micele Wenlocan ([[:en:Much_Wenlock|Much Wenlock]]), þone his dohtor, Mildburh, belǣdde.
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