[82]Grein, "Bibliothek der Angelsæchsischen poesie."
[83]Thorpe, "Cædmon," 1832, XLVII. p. 206.
[84]Ibid. II. p. 7. A likeness exists between this song and corresponding portions of the Edda.
[85]Ibid. IV. p. 18.
[86]This is Milton's opening also. (See "Paradise Lost," book I. verse 242, etc.) One would think that he must have had some knowledge of Cædmon from the translation of Junius.
[87]Thorpe, "Cædmon," IV. p. 23.
[88]They themselves feel their impotence and decrepitude. Bede, dividing the history of the world into six periods, says that the fifth, which stretches from the return out of Babylon to the birth of Christ, is the senile period; the sixth is the present, "ætas decrepita, totius morte sæculi consummanda."
[89]Died in 901; Adhelm died 709, Bede died 735, Alcuin lived under Charlemagne, Erigena under Charles the Bald (843-877).
[90]Fox's "Alfred's Boethius," chap. 35, sec. 6, 1864.
[91]All these extracts are taken from Ingram's "Saxon Chronicle," 1823.