Difference between caedmon and cynewulf biography
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Cynewulf, also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf (flourished 9th century ad, Northumbria or Mercia [now in England]), author of four Old English poems preserved in late 10th-century manuscripts. Elene and The Fates of the Apostles are in the Vercelli Book, and The Ascension(which forms the second part of a trilogy, Christ, and is also called Christ II) and Juliana are in the Exeter Book. An epilogue to each poem, asking for prayers for the author, contains runiccharacters representing the letters c, y, n, (e), w, u, l, f, which are thought to spell his name. A rhymed passage in the Elene shows that Cynewulf wrote in the Northumbrian or Mercian dialect. Nothing is known of him outside his poems, as there is no reason to identify him with any of the recorded persons bearing this common name. He may have been a learned cleric since all of the poems are based on Latin sources.
He is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by name today, and one of four whose work survives today. He is famous for his religious compositions, and is regarded as one of the pre-eminent figures of Old English Christian poetry. Posterity knows of his name by means of runicsignatures that are interwoven into the four poems which comprise his scholastically recognized corpus.
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Cynewulf
Old English poet
For other uses, see Cynewulf (disambiguation).
Cynewulf (, Old English:[ˈkynewuɫf]; also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf)[1][2] is one of twelve Old English poets known by name, and one of four whose work is known to survive today.[3] He presumably flourished in the 9th century, with possible dates extending into the late 8th and early 10th centuries.
Cynewulf is a well-attested Anglo-Saxon given name derived from cyne "royal, of a king" and wulf "wolf".[citation needed]
Known for his religious compositions, Cynewulf is regarded as one of the pre-eminent figures of Anglo-SaxonChristian poetry. Posterity knows of his name by means of runic signatures that are interwoven into the four poems which comprise his scholastically recognized corpus. These poems are: The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, and Christ II (also referred to as The Ascension).
The four signed poems of Cynewulf are vast in that they collectively comprise several thousand lines of verse. In comparison, the one work attributed to Cædmon, Cædmon's Hymn, is quite succinct at nine lines.
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I. RELIGIOUS POETRY
CAEDMON AND CYNEWULF
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