Andreas

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 279 words | Copyright

Andreas, an Old English poem of 1,722 lines in the Vercelli Book, based on a Latin version of the Greek Apocryphal Acts of Andrew and Matthew amongst the Anthropophagi. It was previously believed to be by Cynewulf but it is now thought to have been written in the late 9th cent.

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