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'''''Crist''''' is the title given to a group of [[Old English language|Anglo-Saxon]] religious [[poem]]s by the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] poet [[Cynewulf]], divided into ''Crist I, [[Christ II (poem)|II]], III'' (or ''A, B, C''), and dealing with Christ's Advent, Ascension, and Last Judgment respectively. A total of 1664 lines are preserved. Together with [[Beowulf]] it is one of the primary examples of Anglo-Saxon literature.
==Influence on other writers==
[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] was deeply influenced by the following couplet from Crist:
<blockquote>
''"Eálá Earendel engla beorhtast''<br>
''Ofer middangeard monnum sended."''
</blockquote>
Translated,
<blockquote>
''"Hail [[Earendel]] brightest of angels,''<br>
''over Middle Earth sent to men."''
</blockquote>
("[[Middangeard]]" was an ancient expression for the everyday world between Heaven above and Hell below.)
These lines were one of the inspirations for J. R. R. Tolkien's [[Middle-earth]] and his character [[Eärendil]]. <ref>{{ME-ref|Bio|"Reunion", pp. 72, 79}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a3.1.html The Old English poem]
* [http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Christ_Kennedy.pdf A Modern English translation] ([[PDF]]), by Charles W. Kennedy. From "[http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/ In Parentheses]".
[[Category:Old English poems]]