Smith Albert Hugh (ed.). Three Northumbrian Poems: Cædmon’s Hymn, Bede's Death Song, and the Leiden Riddle

Revised edition. — University of Exeter Press, 1990. — IX, 56 p. — (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies).Edition of 'Cædmon’s Hymn', 'Bede’s Death Song' and 'The Leiden Riddle' with contextual introduction, notes and glossary.
The grouping of these three short poems in one volume is made possible by the nature of the problems involved in their study. These problems have been elaborately treated, but the texts have never before received in a single study that estimate of their literary and historical value which their early date warrants. At the same time an attempt is made to reassess systematically their relative merits as linguistic sources.