These Are The Only Four Surviving Original Manuscripts of Poetry in Old English

Source: Neatorama

For having given birth to the modern English language, you would think that Old English – the now defunct language spoken in medieval Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers – would have a lot of surviving written records.

But in case of original manuscripts of poetry in Old English, there are only four surviving books.

Four. That’s it.

Josephine Livingstone wrote this interesting article over at The New Republic about them:

They are: the Vercelli Book, which contains six poems, including the hallucinatory “Dream of the Rood”; the

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