ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.Ut auidum mare . s. ad egrediendum . coerceat fluctus certo fine . ne uagis . s. fluctibus liceat tendere latos terminos in terris.
Táz óuh ter mére . dér gérno ûzkîenge . eruuénde ze guíssero márcho . sîne únstâten uuéllâ . nóh ín . íh méino dîen sélbên uuéllôn . nehénge férrôr stádôn ûz . án daz lánt.
1. See note 1 to Book II, Prose 7.
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.that the see, greedy to flowen, constreyneth with a certein ende hise flodes, so that it is nat leveful to strecche hise brode termes or boundes up-on the erthes , that is to seyn, to[ ]covere al the erthe:—
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