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Byrdling is eorþdweliend dēor þæt is in scylle gehūsed. Slāw be fōtum is byrdling.

Se byrdling hæfþ ceald blōd and ymbgān in þæs dæges lēohte.  Oftost findeþ man þis dēor in wearmum landum, tō bysene on þǣm landum ymbe Wendelsǣ and on manigum īegum þāra wearman brima, ac man mōt sumne byrdling habban swā hūsdēor.

Ge inbānas ge ūtbānas habbaþ byrdlingas. Hiere micelnes on hiere cynn is fram fēa ynca ōþ siexe fēt. Byrdlingas gewunelīce wyrcaþ dægþerne, and hwīlum wyrcaþ hīe geornost on glōme, æfter þǣm stōwlīcum gewederum. Hīe sind gewunelīce ānlēpgu dēor.

Þǣre worulde mǣste byrdlingas sind entbyrdlingas þā oneardiaþ þā īega þæs Sericus Gārsecges.  Ǣrost fand man swylc dēor in þǣm 16. gēarhunde ac ūþwitan ne gēafon him Lǣdenne naman ōþ þæt 18. gēarhund forþǣm þe fōre þǣm gēare nān ne cwōm to Lundene, swylce swēte wæs heora flǣsc to lidmanna swæcce.

Man segþ þe Æschylus, sē Crēcisca plegwyrhta, forþfērde þā fēoll byrdling of lyfte on his hēafod, þe wæs gedōn feallan fram earne.

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