Saynt Erkenwolde

St. Erkenwald

Author

Pearl Poet

Language

Middle English

Year

c. 1380-1400

Country

England

Genre

Epic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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St Erkenwald is a fourteenth-century alliterative poem in Middle English, perhaps composed in the late 1380s or early 1390s. It has sometimes been attributed, owing to the Cheshire/Shropshire/Staffordshire Dialect in which it is written, to the Pearl poet who probably wrote the poems Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.