Ohthere's Voyage

A Norwegian trader tells King Alfred about the far north, around 890. Click on a word to see what it means and its grammar.

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subject does it verb object has it done to them

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Text and grammar tags from the ISWOC treebank (Bech, Kristin and Kristine Eide. 2014. The ISWOC corpus. University of Oslo), used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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