| |  | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au... |  | Alfred (also "Ælfred" from the Old English: "Ælfrēd" //) (c. 849 - 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871... |  | Cynewulf is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets that are known by name today, and one of four whose work survives today. He is famous for his religious... |  | Albert Stanburrough Cook was an American scholar and philologist. Cook graduated Rutgers College in 1872 and studied at Göttingen and Leipzig from 1... |  | Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is... | | | Byrhtnoth ("Byrhtnoþ", also spelled "Byrhtnoð", "Byrihtnoð", "Brihtnoþ", "Beorhtnoþ", "Beorhtnoð", "Baeorhtnoð") was a 10th century Ealdorm... |  | Professor Edwin Morgan OBE (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely... |  | Hereward the Wake, known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th century leader in the Kingdom of England who... |  | Bill Griffiths (born 1948) is a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival. Griffiths was born in Middlesex. As a... |  | Ethelwulf, Old English: "Æþelwulf", means 'Noble Wolf' (c. 795-858) was the elder son of King Egbert of Wessex. He conquered Kent on behalf of hi... | |
