Baeda synonyms

Although many amongst the Angles had, following his example, essayed to compose religious poetry, none of them, in Baeda's opinion, had approached the excellence of Cwdmon's songs.

Baeda's account of Cadmon's deathbed has often been quoted, and is of singular beauty.

In the old English version of Baeda, ascribed to King Alfred, and certainly made by his command if not by himself, it is given in the text.

It was formerly maintained by some scholars that the extant Old English verses are not Baeda's original, but a mere retranslation from his Latin prose version.

The argument was that they correspond too closely with the Latin; Baeda's words, "hic est sensus, non autem ordo ipse verborum," being taken to mean that he had given, not a literal translation, but only a free paraphrase.