Two Old English Legal Texts

Transcribe the following excerpt from Two Old English Legal Texts. The word spacing is tricky here, as orthographical conventions at the time were different to our current ones. Try to thus separate unsegmented text into single words and to combine spaced out morphemes to form a word. The Tironian nota ⁊ is consistently used for the word ‘and’. As the text is Old English, we find the letters ash (æ), wynn (ƿ) and thorn (þ). Flat-topped 'g' (ᵹ) character is an insular G and hence written as 'g' and has a long pointed tail. Note that there are two variants of the letter y, namely straight-limbed y (with straight branches) as well as f-shaped y (with both upper branches curved to the right). Abbreviations should be written out in full; their explanations can be found at the end of each exercise. According to the Ad fontes transcription rules, all words are written in lower case, except for proper nouns (e.g. place names and personal names) and the beginning of sentences. Otherwise, the text must be transcribed line by line and character by character.

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