See eorcnanstan on Wiktionary
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"english": "The field fell into a ruin, broken to heaps, where was many a man once, glad-minded and bright with gold, the decked-out splendors, proud and wine-flown, shone with war-trappings; looked at a hoard, at silver, at armor-gems, at mirth, at strength, at a pearl, at the bright town of the broad kingdom.",
"ref": "10th century, The Ruin:",
"text": "Hryre wong ġecrong, ġebrocen tō beorgum, þǣr iū beorn moniġ, glædmōd ond goldbeorht, gleoma ġefrætwed, wlonc ond wīngāl, wīġhyrstum sċān; seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searoġimmas, on ēad, on ǣht, on eorcanstān, on þās beorhtan burg brādan rīċes.",
"translation": "The field fell into a ruin, broken to heaps, where was many a man once, glad-minded and bright with gold, the decked-out splendors, proud and wine-flown, shone with war-trappings; looked at a hoard, at silver, at armor-gems, at mirth, at strength, at a pearl, at the bright town of the broad kingdom.",
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"ref": "10th century, The Ruin:",
"text": "Hryre wong ġecrong, ġebrocen tō beorgum, þǣr iū beorn moniġ, glædmōd ond goldbeorht, gleoma ġefrætwed, wlonc ond wīngāl, wīġhyrstum sċān; seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searoġimmas, on ēad, on ǣht, on eorcanstān, on þās beorhtan burg brādan rīċes.",
"translation": "The field fell into a ruin, broken to heaps, where was many a man once, glad-minded and bright with gold, the decked-out splendors, proud and wine-flown, shone with war-trappings; looked at a hoard, at silver, at armor-gems, at mirth, at strength, at a pearl, at the bright town of the broad kingdom.",
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"word": "eorcnanstan"
}
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