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Dorpat is ceaster on Estum and þæs folces mǣste burg æfter Reval.

Oft hycgþ man þe Dorpat is Estlandes andgietes hēafodburg siððan hēr sind þæs landes brēme eormengyld, se is Dorpates Eorengyld. Ēac in þisse byrig sittaþ Estlandes Ealdordōmærn, þæt Lēornunges and Lārsēcunge Ambeht, and nīw bold þæs Estiscan Þēodlican Museum.

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In þære ylde þāra Norþernra Fara þæs 13. Gearhundes  wæs Dorpatburg gefangen be fēðum þāra Livoniscra Cnihta þā hāten þā Swēordbrēþer. In 1224 æfter miclum wig healden þā Swēordbrēþer anīhst þisne stōwe.  In 1236 weard þā Swēordbrēþer gecnytted mid þæm Þēodiscum Cnihtum.

In þāra Middelyldum weard Dorpat rīce cēapungstōwe and se stōl þæs Bisceoprīce of Dorpat se wæs his agan underrīce.

In 1262 adieglode Dmitri Pereslavl Brego þā burg ac þæs bisceopes burgsteal anstōd.

Æfter 1280 wæs Dorpat in midwist mid þæm Hansageþoftscipe.

Þære ceastre ceapmenn and hlāfordas wæron Germanisce menn swa swa in eallum Estlande and in Lettlande oþ þæm ende þæs 19. Gearhunde and his boldas wæron getimbrode in Germanie bysne. Þæs eormenguldes leornungcnihtas wæron Germaniaware.  Noþȳlæs æfter 1939 wæron þone miclen dæl þisses folce adrūfen.

Byrig on Estum