Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne and Abbot of Malmesbury (639–709), is said to have written an Old English translation of the Psalms,[4] although this is disputed.
[5] Cædmon (~657–684) is mentioned by Bede as one who sang poems in Old English based on the Bible stories, but he was not involved in translation per se.
As England was consolidated under the House of Wessex, led by descendants of Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder, translations continued.
[16] At about the same time as the Wessex Gospels (~990), the priest Ælfric of Eynsham produced an independent translation of the Pentateuch with books of Joshua and Judges.
Seemingly unrelated to Ælfric's translation are two versions of the Gospels: The Junius manuscript (initially ascribed to Cædmon) was copied about 1000.