ABSTRACT
From the earlier School of Cædmon we pass on through the Andreas poem to Cynewulf and his School, and here we are less fortunate in the matter of external information than in treating of Cædmon. Many poems have been ascribed to him from time to time besides the four with the runes but, as he had apparently a habit of signing his works, it may perhaps be assumed that no complete work is his unless the runes are there. The poems which he certainly wrote are the following: first, one on the martyrdom of St. Juliana; secondly, a hymn to Christ, and, thirdly, a poem on the finding of the Cross by St. Helena, or Elene, as the name appears in it, and that is probably the order in which he wrote them. He must have been a scholar since all his works have Latin sources.
