Cynewulf

Cynewulf was one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by the name, who flourished in the 9th century.

Quotes

• Bliss within the burghs, when I burst forth
  with a cadenced song
  • Riddle IX, 'Riddle, The Nightingale', quoted by F. S. Flint, Preface, 'Otherworld Cadences', Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920

• Éala Éarendel engla beorhtast
  ofer middangeard monnum sended.
  • Hail Éarendel, brightest of angels
    above the middle-earth sent unto men.
  • "Crist", as translated by Humphrey Carpenter in Tolkien: A Biography (1977), p. 64

External link

• Works by Cynewulf at Project Gutenberg