Which dialect of Old English is most commonly associated with the surviving copies of Cynewulf’s work?
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Correct answer: Late West Saxon English
While Cynewulf may have originally written in an Anglian dialect, the surviving manuscript copies are transcribed in Late West Saxon, the dominant literary standard of the Anglo-Saxon period.
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