The Exeter Book
(Redirected from Exeter Book)
- The Exeter Book, ed. and trans. by Israel Gollancz (1895). IA
- The Exeter Book, ed. by Tony Jebson (online-only edition, 1995).
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
"EXETER BOOK [Codex Exoniensis], an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry presented to Exeter cathedral by Leofric, bishop of Exeter, England, from 1050 to 1071, and still in the possession of the dean and chapter. It contains some legal documents, the poems entitled Crist, Guthlac, Phoenix, Juliana, The Wanderer and others, and concludes with between eighty and ninety riddles." —"Exeter Book," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)