of the Twelve Apostles written in the standard alliterative verse. The Fates recites the key events that subsequently befell each apostle after the Ascension...
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Cynewulf (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
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...
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poems: The Dream of the Rood, Andreas, The Fates of the Apostles, Soul and Body, Elene and a poetic, homiletic fragment. A part of The Dream of the Rood...
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Vercelli Book (redirect from The Vercelli Book)
prose vita of Saint Guthlac, interspersed with six poems: Andreas The Fates of the Apostles Soul and Body Dream of the Rood Elene a fragment of a homiletic...
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poem entitled The Fates of the Apostles, written by Cynewulf. Since both works have similar subjects, and because of their proximity in the Vercelli book...
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Old English literature (category History of literature in the United Kingdom)
the early part of the 9th century. Four poems are attributed to him, signed with a runic acrostic at the end of each poem; these are The Fates of the...
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Northumbria (redirect from Northumbria in the Early Middle Ages)
sole surviving work is Cædmon's Hymn. Cynewulf, prolific author of The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, and Christ II, is believed to have been either...
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Cædmon's Hymn (redirect from The First Christian Hymn)
to the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator. The poem is Cædmon's only known composition. The poem...
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yflaes aefter deothdaege ‖ doemid uueorthae. For þam nedfere ‖ næni wyrþeþ þances snotera, ‖ þonne him þearf sy to gehicgenne ‖ ær his heonengange hwæt his...
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Killing Jesus (category Massacre of the Innocents)
Twenty-One has the account of the women at the tomb. The "Afterword" describes non-Christian mentions of Jesus, the fates of the Apostles according to Catholic...
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Elene (category Fiction about the Devil)
contains The Fates of the Apostles, Andreas, Soul and Body I, the Homiletic Fragment I and Dream of the Rood. The poem is the first English account of the finding...
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The Lacnunga ('Remedies') is a collection of miscellaneous Anglo-Saxon medical texts and prayers, written mainly in Old English and Latin. The title Lacnunga...
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Christ II (redirect from Crist of Cynewulf)
Elene, and Fates of the Apostles. Christ II draws upon a number of ecclesiastical sources, but it is primarily framed upon Gregory the Great’s Homily...
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The Phoenix is an anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave...
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Beast reveals their identities and fates (17:1–18) New Babylon is destroyed. (18:1–8) The people of the Earth (the kings, merchants, sailors, etc.) mourn...
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Old English rune poem (section History of preservation)
Scandinavia, which record the names of the 16 Younger Futhark runes. The poem is a product of the period of declining vitality of the runic script in Anglo-Saxon...
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contained within the Lacnunga, which seek to heal an afflicted person by ridding them of a dwarf. The remedies LXXXVIIc and LXXXVIIIc consist of writing Christian...
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messenger from God, the Apostle Bartholomew, orders the demons to free Guthlac and return him to his wilderness dwelling unharmed. The demons have no choice...
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Bald's Leechbook (category Encyclopedias of medicine)
Latin probably compiled in the mid-tenth century, possibly under the influence of Alfred the Great's educational reforms. The term Leechbook is not related...
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D of the Chronicle,: 31 which begins in prose: Her com Ælfred, se unsceððiga æþeling, Æþelrædes sunu cinges, hider inn and wolde to his meder, þe on...
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Frankish lands of Europe Cynewulf, The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, and Christ II in Old English Llywarch Hen in Welsh Sequence of Saint Eulalia...
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"Pharaoh" is the editorial name given to a fragmentary, eight-line Old English poem on folio 122r of the later tenth-century anthology known as the Exeter Book...
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Genesis A (category Works based on the Book of Genesis)
Genesis) is an Old English poetic adaptation of about the first half of the biblical book of Genesis. The poem is fused with a passage known today as Genesis...
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beginning of the text known as 'Claudius Pontifical I'. The poem speaks with the voice of this pontifical or benedictional, interceding on behalf of Thureth...
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of the Five Boroughs" (also "Redemption of the Five Boroughs") is an Old English chronicle poem that commemorates the capture by King Edmund I of the...
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concluding passage of the poem; Monigfealde sind geond middangeard god ungnyðe þe us to giefe dæleð ond to feorhnere fæder ælmihtig, ond se anga hyht ealra...
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Genesis B (category Works based on the Book of Genesis)
Genesis B, also known as The Later Genesis, is a passage of Old English poetry describing the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Man, translated from an Old...
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V. Penelope Pelizzon (category Year of birth missing (living people))
those of the late 1920s and early 1930s, using a combination of narrative and film theory. “Runic Signature from Cynewulf’s Fates of the Apostles,” with...
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Scholars have argued that since the author of the letter has not identified himself as an apostle and also refers to the apostles as a third party, he cannot...
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Winfred P. Lehmann (category Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Virginia F. Dailey) The Alliterations of the Christ, Guthlac, Elene, Juliana, Fates of the Apostles, and Dream of the Rood, Department of Germanic Languages...
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