PREFACE

Apart from their general subject, these papers have a certain unity in that most of them are concerned with problems of textual transmission.

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CYNEWULF AND HIS POETRY
It is common ground that Cynewulf was a pre-Conquest poet whose name is found in runic letters at the end of an Old English poem on St. Juliana in the Exeter Book; at the end of a poem on the Finding of the Cross by St. Helena (Elĕne) in the Vercelli Book; and, again in association with English verse, on f. 19 of the Exeter Book and f. 54 of the Vercelli Book.