Note also the characteristic long _a_; as in _swa_ for _swo_, so; _gast_, ghost; _fra_, fro; _faas_, foes.

It was pronounced like the _a_ in _father_.
A much longer specimen of the _Metrical English Psalter_ will be found in _Specimens of Early English_, ed.

Morris and Skeat, Part II, pp.

23-34, and is easily accessible.

In the same volume, the Specimens numbered VII, VIII, X, XI, and XVI are also in Northumbrian, and can easily be examined.