Judith (poem)

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Judith is an Old English poem retelling the legend of the beheading of Holofernes, an Assyrian military leader, by the eponymous heroine, as recorded in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith.

Only one copy of the poem survives, following Beowulf in Cotton Vitellius A. xv. The text is damaged, with 348 verses preserved; the opening of the work has certainly been lost, and some scholars have argued that material is also missing from the end.

As with most Anglo-Saxon poetry, the work is anonymous and hard to date; it is usually assigned to the late 10th or early 11th century.

Editions

• Mark Griffith, University of Exeter Press, 1997, ISBN 0859895688

 

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