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- Cynewulf, Anglo-Saxon poet
- He is thought to have been a Northumbrian
- monk and is the undoubted author of `Juliana'
- and part of the `Christ' in the Exeter Book
- (a collection of poems now in Exeter
- Cathedral), and of the `Fates of the
- Apostles' and `Elene' in the Vercelli Book (a
- collection of Old English manuscripts housed
- at Vercelli, Italy), in all of which he
- inserted his name by using runic acrostics.
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