Elene [The Vercelli Book, fol.121a-133b], is the longest of Cynewulf’s four signed poems. Although it is written in a West-Saxon dialect, certain Anglianisms and metrical evidence concerning false rhymes suggest it was written in a non-Anglian dialect. Constituting 1,321 lines, and only surviving in the Vercelli manuscript, the poem is the first English account of the finding of the Holy Cross by Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine.