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Exeter Book

Exeter Book manuscript volume of Old English religious and secular poetry, of various dates of composition, compiled c.975 and given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (d. 1072).

Bibliography: See edition by G. P. Krapp and E. V. K. Dobbie (1936). See studies by C. Williamson (1977), J. Roberts (1979), and J. E. Anderson (1986).

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Exeter Book, The a major manuscript of Old English poetry, containing some of the most famous shorter poems, such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; it dates from c.940, and was given by Bishop Leofric (d. 1072) to Exeter Cathedral, where it remains.

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Exeter Book, the, one of the most important manuscripts containing Old English poetry, copied about 940, given by Bishop Leofric (d. 1072) to Exeter Cathedral, where it still remains. It contains many of the most admired shorter poems, such as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, Widsith, The Ruin, ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’, and The Husband's Message, most of which are grouped together as ‘The Exeter Book Elegies’, as well as a famous collection of Riddles and some longer religious poems, notably Guthlac, The Phoenix, and Cynewulf's Juliana.

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