DescriptionEala Earendel engla beorhtast - Exeter Book folio 9v top two lines.jpg
English: Eala Earendel engla beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended (Hail Earendel, brightest of angels, sent to men over middle-earth) - Exeter Book folio 9v top two lines, being lines 104-105 of the poem Crist I. These lines inspired J. R. R. Tolkien, in around 1913, to start his legendarium.
Date
c. 800 AD
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Selection and image cleanup: Own work Medieval manuscript: Exeter Book
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