Directory of Cynewulf Resources

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Cynewulf is the only Anglo-Saxon poet who signed his name in his poems. All other Anglo-Saxon poems, except for Caedmon's Hymn, are anonymous.

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• Christ, Juliana, The Fates of the Apostles, Elene

  http://www.bartleby.com/211/0407.html
  A brief discussion of Cynewulf's four poems.

• Cynewulf. Christ

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Christ_Kennedy.pdf
  Charles W. Kennedy's modern English translation of Christ I (Advent Lyrics), Christ II (Ascension) and Christ III (Doomsday).

• Cynewulf. Christ

  http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/lcc/ID/778
  Charles H. Whitman's modern English translation of Christ I, II, and III.

• Cynewulf. Christ I: Advent Lyric 5

  http://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/advent.html
  Old English text of the fifth Advent lyric. Each word of the text is linked to a modern English definition.

• Cynewulf. Christ III

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/christiii/christiii.html
  Old English text with modern English translation by S.A.J. Bradley

• Cynewulf. Elene

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14781
  Modern English translation by Lucius H. Holt. Project Gutenberg eBook.

• Cynewulf. Elene.

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Elene_Kennedy.pdf
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Cynewulf. Fates of the Apostles

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Fates_Apostles_Kennedy.pdf
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Cynewulf. Fates of the Apostles: Runic Signature

  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/54752
  A modern English translation by Robert Hasenfratz and Penelope Pelizzon of the passage in which Cynewulf spells out his name in runes. See the Anglo-Saxon Runes article in Wikipedia for pictures of the runes and their Old English names and equivalent Roman letters.

• Cynewulf. Juliana

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Juliana_Kennedy.pdf
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Cynewulf. Juliana

  https://digitalrepository.wheatoncollege.edu/bitstream/handle/11040/24314/Rosetta%20M.%20Berger%20Senior%20Honors%20Thesis%20copy.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  Modern English translation by Rosetta M. Berger. Includes detailed introduction, extensive notes, the Old English text, and a bibliography.

• Cynewulf: Encyclopedia Article

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04581d.htm
  An article on Cynewulf from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

• Cynewulf: His Personality

  http://www.bartleby.com/211/0406.html
  A discussion of Cynewulf''s place in Anglo-Saxon literary history.

• Riddle of the Runes

  http://www.illinoismedieval.org/ems/VOL9/gleason.html
  Article by Raymond Gleason on the runic passage in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles.

• Schools of Caedmon and Cynewulf

  http://www.bartleby.com/211/0413.html
  Views Caedmon and Cynewulf as representative of different stages of Old English Christian poetry and shows how the poetry of Cynewulf's time marks an advance over the poetry of Caedmon's time.

 

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