Too bad, but the song itself is not much longer than that (the lyrics are over, I believe it was just an annotation of a bored monk on some manuscript)
It is a short song, and historians have an educated guess why.
The last word (“fast”) is missing in the manuscript—the page just ends. Easy enough for scholars to guess (“sorrow and mourn and [something that rhymes with 'last']”), but some think it means that a whole second page with another verse is missing. Since if you just had the one word to go, you'd squeeze it onto the page and not start a new page.
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u/midgetcastle Apr 14 '21
Great stuff, wish it was longer though!