Cynewulf biography of albert

Cynewulf
Biography

CYNEWULF, the only Old-English vernacular poet, known by name, of whom any undisputed writings are extant. He is, the author of four poems preserved in two. MSS., the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book, both of the early 11th century.

An epilogue to each poem contains the runic characters answering to the letters c, y, n (e),w, u, 1, f. The runes are to be read as the words that served as their names; these words enter into the metre of the verse, and (except in one poem) are significant in their context.

The poems thus signed are the following.

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(1) A meditation on The Ascension, which stands in the Exeter Book between two similar poems on the Incarnation and the Last Judgment. The three are commonly known as Cynewulf�s Christ, but the runic signature attests only the second.

(2) A version of the legend of the martyr St Juliana, also in the Exeter Book. (3) Elene, in the Vercelli Book, on the story of the empress Helena and the "Invention of