 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1856 - 812 pages
...contrary^ ebwulf was nearly Hengest's contemporary. "The poem contained in the Colt. MS. VilcUius. A. xv., and of which as accurate a copy as I could...which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to A. n. 597. But it is also obvious that an older and far completer poem has once existed : of which,... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 pages
...language are most numerous in the New Engin the Cottouian MS., British Muscum, is not so old ; and there occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to AD 597. * Forhy's Introd. to the Vocab. of East Anglia, p. 31. t Latham on the English Language, p. 45. 1st... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 572 pages
...language are most numerous in the New Engin the Cottonian MS., British Muscnm, is not so old ; and there occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to AD 597. * Forby's Introd. to the Vocab. of East Anglia, p. 31. t Latham on the English Language, p. 45. 1st... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1860 - 570 pages
...language are most numerous in the New Engin the Cottonian MS., British Museum, it not so old ; m,d there occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least nt a period subsequent to AD 597. -^ • Forbv's Introd. to the Vocah. of East Anglia, p. 31. t l«atham... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 998 pages
...Kemble, states that the poem as contained in the Cottonian MS., British Museum, is not so old ; and there occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to AD 697. The large number of invaders who followed Hengist compelled the ancient inhabitants to retire... | |
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A. xv, and of which as accurate a copy as I could make is now presented to the reader, is, no doubt, not in its present form referable to so high an antiquity. In spite of its generally heathen character there occur in it Christian allusions which fix... 
