6      The poem appears in Thomas Smith’s 1696 catalogue of the Cotton Library: 3 Fragmentum quoddam Historicum de Eadrico &c., Saxonice.
More information is given in 1705 by Humfrey Wanley: Fragmentum capite et calce mutilum, sex foliis constans, quo Poetice et Stylo Caedmoniano celebratur virtus bellica BEORHTNOTHI Ealdormanni OFFAE et aliorum AngloSaxonum, in praelio cum Danis (Wanley, H., Liborum Vett. Septentrionalium, Oxford, 1705)