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Who wrote Anglo-Saxon prose?

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Two preeminent Old English prose writers were Ælfric , Abbot of Eynsham, and his contemporary Wulfstan , Archbishop of York. Their sermons (written in the late 10th or early 11th cent.) set a standard for homiletics.

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