Cynewulf of Lindisfarne was appointed asBishop ofLindisfarne in either 737 or 740. He resigned the see in 779 or 780 and died in 782 or 783.^[1]

In 750 Cynewulf was imprisoned byEadberht of Northumbria^[2] for giving sanctuary to Prince Offa during a dynastic clash.

Some 19th-century scholars believed him to beCynewulf, the poet only known through the runic signature appearing in several Old English poems. Besides the fact that the dialect used in these poems shows features ofNorthumbrian Old English, there is no solid proof for this theory.^[3]

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• Kirby, D. P. (2000).The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge.ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

• Cynewulf 3 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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