Mosul

Mosul on Tigris þǣre ēa and his brycg

Mosul (Arabisc: الموصل‎ / al-Mawṣil) is miclu burg on Iraclandes norðdæle þærin ƿundaþ þūsenda þūsend men, ac beforan ðe onsettede Daesc se here þēos burg ƿæron þridd healf þūsenda þūsend. Hie standeþ 250 mīla benorþen Bagdade and æfter Bagdad is hie Iraces mæste burg.

Sēo gamle ceaster standeð on Tigris Ēa ƿestofer, geond Nineveh þǣre ealdan Assyrie ceaster on his ēastofre.

Ǣr in þissum gearhund oneardaþ in Mosule Arabas þā ƿæron his hēafodgerīm, mid ēac Assyriscum Crīstnum, Iraciscum Turcmannum and Curdum. Æfter Daesces tōcyme bīd nān ac Arabas þæs Sunni ǣfæstnesse.