Three Northumbrian poems
Subtitle: Caedmon's Hymn, Bede's Death song, and the Leiden riddle.
By: Edited by A. H. Smith.
Contributors: Caedmon.; Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Series: Methuen's Old English library.; [A. Poetic texts. 1]
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.; English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Dialects -- England -- Northumbria (Kingdom); Northumbria (Kingdom) -- Languages.
Other titles: Leiden riddle. 1968.; West Saxon riddle. 1968.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 48-50.
Each text is given in two versions; the Northumbrian one and a later version or a West Saxon one. The Leiden riddle is a version by an unknown poet of Aldhelm's Latin riddle, De lorica; the West Saxon riddle which accompanies it is the 35th riddle of the Exeter book.
Reprint of the 1933 London ed.