Article. Whitbread. The Sources and Literary Qualities of Bede’s Doomsday Verses. 1966.
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…