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|fecha de nacimiento =735 Cynewulf (En inglés antiguo "Rey Lobo") fue rey de Wessex desde 757 hasta su muerte en 786. Cynewulf fue nombrado rey de Wessex después de que su predecesor Sigeberht, fuera depuesto. Podría haber llegado al poder gracias a la influencia de Ethelbaldo de Mercia.
Cynewulf was the King of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786. He ruled for about 29 years. He was a direct male descendant of Cerdic. Cynewulf became king after his predecessor, Sigeberht, was deposed.
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Some basic statements can be made by examining such aspects as the spellings of his name and his verse. Although the Vercelli and Exeter manuscripts were primarily late West Saxon in their scribal translations, it is most probable that Cynewulf wrote in the Anglian dialect and it follows that he resided either in the province of Northumbria or Mercia. This is shown through linguistic and metrical analysis of his poems, e.g., Elene, where in the poem's epilogue (beginning l.1236) the imperfect...
Date
All the evidence considered, no exact deduction of Cynewulf's date is accepted, but it is likely he flourished in the ninth century. A firm terminus ante quem that can be put on the date of Cynewulf are the dates of the Vercelli and Exeter manuscripts, which are approximately in the second half of the tenth century.Other than that, no certain date can be put on the author, leaving open the full range of Old English literature between the 7th and the early 10th centuries. Any attempt to link t...
Identity
Cynewulf was without question a literate and educated man, since there is no other way we can "account for the ripeness which he displays in his poetry". Given the subject matter of his poetry he was likely a man in holy orders, and the deep Christian knowledge conveyed through his verse implies that he was well learned in ecclesiastical and hagiographical literature, as well as the dogma and doctrine of the Catholic Church.His apparent reliance on Latin sources for inspiration also means he...
Following the studies of S. K. Das (1942) and Claes Schaar (1949), mainstream scholarship tends to limit Cynewulf's canon to the four poems which bear his acrostic mark:the Exeter Book holds Cynewulf's Juliana and Christ II (The Ascension) and the Vercelli Book his Elene and Fates of the Apostles. Early scholars for a long while assigned a plethora...
All four of Cynewulf's poems contain passages where the letters of the poet's name are woven into the text using runic symbols that also double as meaningful ideas pertinent to the text. In Juliana and Elene, the interwoven name is spelled in the more recognizable form as Cynewulf, while in Fates and Christ IIit is observed without the medial e so ...
Bradley, S. A. J, ed. and tr. (1982). Anglo-Saxon Poetry, London: Everyman's LibraryCook, Albert S., ed. (1900). The Christ of Cynewulf, New York: Books fr Libraries PressFulk, R.D. and Christopher M. Cain (2003). A History of Old English Literature, Oxford: Blackwell PublishingGradon, P. O. E., ed. (1958). Cynewulf's Elene, London: MethuenWorks by Cynewulf at Project GutenbergWorks by or about Cynewulf at Internet ArchiveMorrison, Holmes Sterling. 1986. Historiographical perspectives in the signed poems of Cynewulf,University of Texas at Austin.Foys, Martin et al. Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project(Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019-); surviving poems of Cynewulf in digital facs...Cynewulf was the king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, in England who succeeded to the throne following the deposition of Sigebert. Cynewulf was constantly at war with the Welsh. In 779, Offa of Mercia defeated him and took Bensington.
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Beorhtric (También Brihtric) (del inglés antiguo Gobernante Magnífico), fue rey de Wessex desde 786 a 802. En 786, el rey Cynewulf de Wessex, fue asesinado por el noble exiliado Cyneheard, hermano del anterior rey Sigeberht. Beorhtric fue apoyado para convertirse en rey por Offa, rey de los mercios contra su contrincante Egbert.
Cynewulf (flourished 9th century ad, Northumbria or Mercia [now in England]) was an author of four Old English poems preserved in late 10th-century manuscripts.
Cynewulf († 786) was a West Saxon nobleman, a member of the West Saxon witan, and was King of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786.
