Cynewulf (/ˈkɪniwʊlf/, Old English: [ˈkynewuɫf]; also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf) is one of twelve Old English poets known by name, and one of four whose...

Cynewulf was the King of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786. He ruled for about 29 years. He was a direct male descendant of Cerdic. Cynewulf became...

Look up Cynewulf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cynewulf may refer to: Cynewulf (8th century), Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf of Lindisfarne (died 783)...

from power by the witan, a council of nobles. This council was led by Cynewulf who succeeded Sigeberht. Sigeberht was given control of Hampshire. There...

Brihtric) (died 802) was the King of Wessex from 786 to 802, succeeding Cynewulf. During his rule, however, his wife and father-in-law had most of the power...

Christ II, also called The Ascension, is one of Cynewulf's four signed poems that exist in the Old English vernacular. It is a five-section piece that...

Cynewulf of Lindisfarne was appointed as Bishop of Lindisfarne in either 737 or 740. He resigned the see in 779 or 780 and died in 782 or 783. In 750 Cynewulf...

relationship between Offa and Cynewulf, who was king of Wessex from 757 to 786, is not well documented, but it seems likely that Cynewulf maintained some independence...

attribute The Dream of the Rood to Cynewulf, a named Old English poet who lived around the ninth century. Two of Cynewulf's signed poems are found in the Vercelli...

followed in the Exeter Book by a poem on Jesus's Ascension composed by Cynewulf, generally known in modern scholarship as Christ II, which in turn is followed...

True Cross. It was translated from a Latin text and is the longest of Cynewulf's four signed poems. It is the last of six poems appearing in the Vercelli...

prefix or suffix in their names. Examples include Wulfhere ("Wolf Army"), Cynewulf ("Royal Wolf"), Cēnwulf ("Bold Wolf"), Wulfheard ("Wolf-hard"), Earnwulf...

Cyneheard, brother of the late king Sigeberht, ambushes and kills his rival Cynewulf of Wessex, while he is at Meretun (now called Marten) with his mistress...

the story, made famous in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 755, of Cynewulf and Cyneheard, in which the followers of a defeated king decided to fight...

same author. Andreas is often tied to Cynewulf because of its religious theme; although the exact identity of Cynewulf is unknown, all of the proposed identities...

common even in prose, as in the well-known tale of Cynewulf and Cyneheard, which begins Hēr Cynewulf benam Sigebryht his rīces ond westseaxna wiotan for...

West in the Crusader States. Peeters. ISBN 90-429-1287-1.. Cynewulf (1904). The Elene of Cynewulf. Yale Studies in English. Vol. 21. Translated by Holt, Lucius...

Fates of the Apostles" (Vercelli Book, fol. 52b–54a) is the shortest of Cynewulf’s known canon at 122 lines long. It is a brief martyrology of the Twelve...

are known with any certainty; the primary three are Cædmon, Aldhelm, and Cynewulf. Bede is often thought to be the poet of a five-line poem entitled Bede's...

of the oldest manuscript traditions, with authors such as Cædmon, Bede, Cynewulf and Aldhelm. Late Old English (c. 900 to 1150), the final stage of the...

Ascension), a poem on Christ's Ascension written by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf. Crist III (also Crist C), a poem on the Last Judgment written by an unknown...

the agreement of the Witan. Cynewulf of Wessex succeeded as King. In 786 Cynewulf "wished to drive out" Cyneheard. Cynewulf went, thinly attended, to a...

of the four signed Old English poems ascribed to the mysterious poet, Cynewulf, and is an account of the martyring of St. Juliana of Nicomedia. The one...

(2016). "1 Sepulchral Jews and Stony Christians: Supersession in Bede and Cynewulf". The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton. Ithaca:...

date show Cynewulf in Offa's entourage, and there is no evidence that Offa ever became Cynewulf's overlord. In 786, after the murder of Cynewulf, Offa may...

386–396. Elliot, Ralph W. V. (1998). "'Runes in English Literature' From Cynewulf to Tolkien". In Duwel, Klaus (ed.). Runeninschriften Als Quelle Interdisziplinärer...

Sigeberht Distant relative of Cuthred. Deposed (and killed?) by Cynewulf 757 to 786 Cynewulf Assassinated by Cyneheard, who was the brother of Sigeberht....

vernacular works with any certainty: Cædmon, Bede, Alfred the Great, and Cynewulf. Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known,[pages needed]...

Cenulph may refer to: Coenwulf of Mercia (died AD 821), King of Mercia Cynewulf of Wessex (died AD 786), King of Wessex This disambiguation page lists...

7: 330–335. doi:10.1353/tks.0.0066. S2CID 171003460. Smith 2003, p. 43. Cynewulf, Elene, lines 43–45 Morawski, Marcin (2006). "Poland: Reception of Tolkien"...