Three short poems of the Exeter book: The panther, The whale, and The partridge; often ascribed to Cynewulf.
Language
en
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Series
Yale Studies in English: LXIII
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by David Starner, Ben Beasley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Release date
2004-12-30
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Little is known for certain about this early medieval poet, but the surviving work is unforgettable: vivid Old English Christian verse marked with a distinctive runic signature. Four poems are generally accepted as his, making him one of the very few Anglo-Saxon poets known by name.
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