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The Exeter Scribe and the Unity of the Crist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Augustine Philip
Augustine Philip*
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Manhattan College
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The view that the first three pieces in the Exeter Book really constitute a single poem was first put forward in 1853 by Franz Dietrich who, as a convenient designation for the texts which he had thus joined together, called them der Crist, a title which was adopted by Grein in 1857 in his Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie and has been employed by subsequent scholars generally.

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PMLA , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , December 1940, pp. 903 - 909
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1940

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References

1 Franz Dietrich, “Cynevulfs Crist,” Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, ix (1853), 193–214.

2 Christian W. M. Grein, Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie, 2 vols. (Göttingen, 1857–58).

3 Edward Sievers, “Zur Rhythmik des germanischen Alliterationsverses.” III. Beiträge, xii (1887), 455–456.

4 Matthias Cremer, Metrische und Sprachliche Untersuchung der altenglischen Gedichte Andreas . . . . Ein Beitrag zur Cynewulffrage (Bonn, 1888).

5 Moritz Trautmann, “Der sogenannte Crist,” Anglia, xviii (1896), 382–388.

6 F. A. Blackburn, “Is the Christ of Cynewulf a Single Poem?” Anglia, xix (1897), 89–98.

7 Albert S. Cook, The Christ of Cynewulf (New York, 1900). Introduction.

8 A. Brandl [Review of Cook, The Christ of Cynewulf], Archiv, cxi (1903), 447–149.

9 Franz Schwartz, Cynewulf s Anteil am Christ. Eine metrische Untersuchung (Königsberg, 1905).

10 Gustav Binz, “Untersuchungen zum altenglischen sogenannten Crist,” Festschrift zur 49ten Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner (Basel, 1907), pp. 181–197.

11 Humphrey Wanley, Antiquae lileraturae Septentrionalis Liber Alter (Oxford, 1705), pp. 279–281. Reprinted by Wülker, Grundriss zur Geschickte der angelsächsischen Literatur (Leipzig, 1885), pp. 218–220.

12 Cook, op. cit., p. xvi.

13 Benjamin Thorpe, Codex Exoniensis (A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry . . . with an English Translation, Notes, and Indexes). London, 1842.

14 Ibid., p. iv.

15 Dietrich, op. cit., p. 194.

16 Israel Gollancz, Cynewulf's Christ (London, 1892), p. 191. Cook in the Notes to his Christ (p. 225) quotes this statement by Gollancz, but in his text, curiously enough, the question of lines 1665–93 is left wholly undecided.

17 Blackburn, op. cit., p. 96.

18 Trautmann, op. cit., p. 383.

19 Cook, op. cit., p. 70.

20 Ibid., pp. xxi–xxii.

21 The reproductions are taken from R. W. Chambers, Max Förster, Robin Flower, The Exeter Book of Old English Poetry (London: P. Lund, Humphries & Co., Ltd., 1933).

22 Israel Gollancz, The Caedmon Manuscript of Anglo-Saxon Biblical Poetry, Junius XI in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1927).

23 Massimiliano Foerster, Il Codice Vercellese con Omelia e Poesie in Lingua Anglo-Sassone (Rome, 1913).