Beda's Death-song, C{ae}dmon's Hymn, and the Riddle, are all printed, accessibly, in Sweet's _Anglo-Saxon Reader_.
There is another relic of Old Northumbrian, apparently belonging to the middle of the eighth century, which is too remarkable to be passed over.

I refer to the famous Ruthwell cross, situate not far to the west of Annan, near the southern coast of Dumfriesshire, and near the English border.

On each of its four faces it bears inscriptions; on two opposite faces in Latin, and on the other two in runic characters.
Each of the latter pair contains a few lines of Northern poetry, selected from a poem (doubtless by the poet Cynewulf) which is preserved in full in a much later Southern (or Wessex) copy in a MS.
at Vercelli in Piedmont (Italy).

On the side which Professor Stephens calls _the front_ of the cross, the runic inscriptions give us two quotations, both imperfect at the end; and the same is true of the opposite side or _back_.

The MS.