or ORMIN ORM BIOGRAPHY

or ORMIN ORM BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

ORM, or ORMIN ( fl. 1200). —Was an Augustinian canon of Mercia, who wrote the Ormulum in transition English. It is a kind of mediæval Christian Year , containing a metrical portion of the Gospel for each day, followed by a metrical homily, largely borrowed from Ælfric and Bede. Its title is thus accounted for, "This boc iss nemmed the Ormulum , forthi that Orm it wrohhte."