King Ecgbryht and His Fight

Elena Fernández created using Old English Translator at 2024-11-11

Original Text

& wiþ Ecgbryht West Seaxna cyning winnende wæron. þa he þæt hierde & mid fierde ferde & him wiþ feaht æt Hengestdune & þær gefliemde ge þa Walas ge þa Deniscan. "Her Ecgbryht cyning forþferde, & hine hæfde ær Offa Mierna cyning & Beorhtric Wessexna
cyning afliemed iii. gear of Angelcynnes lande on Fronclond, ær he cyning wære," & þy fultomode Beorhtric Offan þy he hæfde his dohtor him to cuene;

Translation Result

And with Ecgbryht, king of the West Saxons, they were striving. When he heard this, he marched forth with an army and fought against him at Hengestdune and there expelled both the Welsh and the Danes. "Here King Ecgbryht died, and he had previously been banished for three years from the land of the Anglo-Saxons by Offa, king of Mierna, and Beorhtric, king of Wessex
before he was a king," as Beorhtric assisted Offa in that he took his daughter to wife;