Vercelli Book
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There are two specially interesting collections of manuscript Anglo-Saxon poems, known respectively as the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily
His poems, and some others, more or less doubtfully attributed to him, are contained in the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
We might as well assign to him, as has been suggested, all the poems in the two great manuscripts, the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book, and be done with it.
From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer
The Vercelli Book had not yet been discovered.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
The Vercelli Book takes us back in the writings of Cynewulf to the eighth century; the Exeter manuscript looks back even farther and introduces us to the singers of heathen or semi-heathen times.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
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