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The Oldest English Poem. This Anglo-Saxon (or, as it is sometimes called, "Old English ") literature is preserved in several large manuscripts in the libraries of the British

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EXETER CATHEDRAL.

Where many valuable manuscripts are kept.

Museum, Oxford University, Exeter Cathedral, and in a few fragments elsewhere. The Exeter Book contains many poems, including what is probably the most ancient piece of writing in Anglo-Saxon. This ancient piece is called Widsith (pronounced Weedseeth), "Far-Traveler," possibly the author's name, but more probably a mere epithet applied to him.

This poem of 143 lines tells the wanderings of the bard, or "scōp," as he was called, through many lands. He is pictured as a true artist, whose chief delight is in the practice

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