PREFACE
In presenting this volume as the joint production of Professor Krapp and myself, it seems proper to explain which parts of the book were written by him, and which by me.

INTRODUCTION
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THE MANUSCRIPT
The Exeter Book, the largest and probably the best known of the four great miscellanies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, receives the fact that it is preserved in the library of Exeter Cathedral, having been given to the cathedral by Leofric, the first bishop of Exeter, who died in 1072.