The Albion Series.

This series will comprise the most important Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poems in editions designed to meet the wants of both the scholar Each volume will and the student. ordinarily contain a single poem, critically edited, and provided with an introduction, notes, and a full glossary.

Ecce lingua Britanniae, quae nil aliud noverat quam barbarum frendere, jamdudum in divinis laudibus Hebraeum coepit Alleluia resonare. Ecce quondam tumidus, jam substratus sanctorum pedibus servit Oceanus, ejusque barbaros motus, quos terreni principes edomare ferro nequiverant, hos pro divina formidine sacerdotum ora simplicibus verbis ligant; et qui catervas pugnantium infidelis nequaquam metuerat, jam nunc fidelis humilium linguas timet. Quia enim perceptis caelestibus verbis, clarescentibus quoque miraculis, virtus ei divinae cognitionis infunditur, ejusdem divinitatis terrore refrenatur, ut prave agere metuat, ac totis desideriis ad aeternitatis gratiam venire concupiscat.

GREGORY THE GREAT, Moral. 27. 11.

THE

CHRIST OF CYNEWULF

A Poem in Three Parts

THE ADVENT, THE ASCENSION, AND
THE LAST JUDGMENT

EDITED

WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY

BY

ALBERT S. COOK

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
IN YALE UNIVERSITY

BOSTON, U.S.A.

GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

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