very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English." Editions and translations Editions , pp. 3-49; online at the Oxford Text Archive The Advent Lyrics of the Exeter Book, ed. by Jackson J. Campbell (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959) The Old English Advent a Typological Commentary, ed. by R. B. Burlin, Yale Studies in English, 168 (New Haven, CT, 1968) Translations The Christ of Cynewulf, A Poem in Three Parts: The Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgement, trans. by Charles Huntington Whitman (Boston: Ginn, 1900) Cynewulf, Christ, trans. by Charles W. Kennedy (Cambridge, Ontario: In Parentheses, 2000) Notes References External links Old English poems