Bede's Death Song is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old English poem that survives in the largest number of manuscripts — 35[1] or 45[2] (mostly later medieval manuscripts copied on the Continent). It is found in both Northumbrian and West Saxon dialects.
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