Ælmer

Ælmer was a frimdig geong broðer hwa gelifd at Malmsburgh bedehus, and lufd steoran locian. Behwil ða geateld eorlic tidan ðaes 11th gearhundred, hwen Britain was stil hildan uferseas þolian hildan, Vikingas oft cirican besettan wolde and anigwer insid gesmittan. Betweonan, wolde Elmer sweglum locian for bodung thingas tocuman ... and elswa utweg heolorian ...

An daeg, bruce Ælmer his afandung Greekisc godlore, namlic he dan tal of Daedalus, hwa gehyrd bi cyning Minos was for his maze in Crete tobildan. For hydels his maze gebeorgan, Minos then upgelocd Daedalus and his sunu Icarus, hwa ænlic forgefled by shafting hiersilfan flydgan leðer and wæx.

Elmer cyred tale Daedalus tofandian bi makan flydgan for himsilf, then waeg flydgan from stipel ðaes bedehus (manig Saex cirican high bell geshaft habban, both as a lookout and warning maðelan; hwenefr Vikinga gehealdan cirican, bellen were always erst thing they dun tearn ; its dearworþ bloma colde into high wened sweorden and helman gebeatan ...). Lyftfarung hiran edgemakeþ Elmer's flyhta, and hycgan ðat his launch level must have been at least 18 mete up, hwic is the height of the last Saxon cirican in Englalond todaeg. Ealswa þink ðat build his glidung claddung from welig or aesce, mast lihtwiht and limber wudena in ða neah Cotswoldan.

Wilhelm of Malmsburh tellð us ðat Elmer wolde dunweard glyda of sum 200 meta fore he landung gespowað.