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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.