Lucy Toulmin Smith

“ H. Leo, in 1857, first tried to prove, from the runic letters forming the poet's name (in the three first poems above named) , that Cynewulf was a Northumbrian. He contended that the form should be Cynevôlf, although Dietrich pointed out that wulf, not wolf, is the Northumbrian form. On the assumption that Cynewulf is the author of the ‘Riddles,’ his northern origin is corroborated by the existence in a manuscript at Leyden of a riddle in Northumbrian dialect which is evidently one of the Exeter riddles (both in Sweet, Oldest English Texts, Early English Text Soc., 1885, p. 150) . ”

“ From all which it appears that Bartholomew was an Englishman born, that he studied in the Paris schools, entered the French province of the Minorite order, and became a famous professor of theology in Paris ”

“ KYNEWULF, CYNEWULF, or CYNWULF (fl. 750) , Anglo-Saxon poet, flourished in the eighth century. All the poems, with certainty and uncertainty, ascribed to him are contained in two manuscripts: the ‘Exeter Codex,’ a volume of Anglo-Saxon poetry given by Leofric, bishop of Exeter, in 1046, to his cathedral library, where it still remains; and the ‘Vercelli Codex,’ a book of Anglo-Saxon poetry preserved in the cathedral library at Vercelli, where it was found and made known by Dr. ”