And the host of the holy who in heaven before
155 Dwelt in glory when their God arrived,
The Lord Most High, at his home at last.
[39.] The lines that follow appear with some changes on the Ruthwell Cross in Dumfriesshire.
[44.] This and the following line form the basis of an inscription on a reliquary containing a cross preserved in the Cathedral at Brussels.
JUDITH
[Critical edition: Cook, Judith, Boston, 1904.
Translation: Hall, Judith, Phoenix and Other Anglo-Saxon Poems.
Manuscript: The same as the one containing Beowulf. It was injured by a fire in 1731. It had been printed by Thwaites in 1698 before the injury.
Authorship and date: The mixture of dialect forms seems to indicate that a northern original passed through one or more hands and that at least the last scribe belonged to the late West Saxon period. Cook thinks that it is not earlier than about 825 nor later than 937, and that it is possibly by Cynewulf.