Cynewulf
Anglo Saxon poet
Cynewulf was one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by the name, who flourished in the 9th century.
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Quotes edit
- 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
- Hail Éarendel, brightest of angels
