Ic nat, hwæþer se swamm is meteswam. Wene?
Hit hatte “worhanas bæc”, Polyporus squamosus of snottorum. Hit is ætlic, geongwesende, ac micel toh in ealdnes.
Þis – þis is meteswam:
“For mete heo sceal sume hwile swamma brucan;” – Lacnunga. i. 346, 8.