Two Gentlemen of Verona, II, 4.
[26.] From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, record of the year 457.
[27.] According to Sweet the original home of the Aryans is placed in central or northern Europe, rather than in Asia, as was once assumed. See The History of Language, p. 103.
[28.] "Cædmon's Hymn," Cook's version, in Translations from Old English Poetry.
[29.] Ecclesiastical History, IV, xxiv.
[30.] Genesis, 112-131 (Morley).
[31.] Exodus, 155 ff. (Brooke).
[32.] Runes were primitive letters of the old northern alphabet. In a few passages Cynewulf uses each rune to represent not only a letter but a word beginning with that letter. Thus the rune-equivalent of C stands for cene (keen, courageous), Y for yfel (evil, in the sense of wretched), N for nyd (need), W for ivyn (joy), U for ur (our), L for lagu (lake), F for feoh (fee, wealth). Using the runes equivalent to these seven letters, Cynewulf hides and at the same time reveals his name in certain verses of The Christ, for instance:
Then the Courage-hearted quakes, when the King (Lord) he hears
Speak to those who once on earth but obeyed Him weakly,
While as yet their Yearning fain and their Need
most easily Comfort might discover.... Gone is then the Winsomeness
Of the earth's adornments! What to Us as men belonged
Of the joys of life was locked, long ago, in Lake-flood.
All the Fee on earth.
See Brooke's History of Early English Literature, pp. 377-379, or The Christ of Cynewulf, ed. by Cook, also by Gollancz.