The Sources and Literary Qualities of Bede’s Doomsday Verses.

L. Whitbread.

The short poem usually styled ‘Versus de die iudicii’, a distinctive account in hexameters of doomsday and its sequel, can only be reckoned a minor work of Bede. It achieved however a remarkably wide and lasting popularity in later centuries, and towards the close of the Anglo-Saxon period was competently translated into Old English verse. The following notes and comments attempt to indicate something of the source texts on which Bede drew for this work, and something of its special literary and stylistic qualities, not always wisely handled by modern critics.

L. Whitbread. The Sources and Literary Qualities of Bede’s Doomsday Verses. Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 95. Bd., H. 4, pp. 258-266. Oct., 1966.

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