 According to his disciple Cuthbert , Bede was also <unk> in nostris carminibus ( " learned in our songs " ) . Cuthbert 's letter on Bede 's death , the Epistola <unk> de <unk> <unk> , moreover , commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede 's Death Song 
