In the 10th century an Old English translation of the Gospels was made in the Lindisfarne Gospels: a word-for-word gloss inserted between the lines of the Latin text by Aldred, Provost of Chester-le-Street.

This translation is lost we know of its existence from Cuthbert of Jarrow's account of Bede's death. 672вЂ“735) produced a translation of the Gospel of John into Old English, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death. ДЄldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne and Abbot of Malmesbury (639вЂ“709), is thought to have written an Old English translation of the Psalms.Д«ede ( c. Translations of the Bible often included the writer's own commentary on passages in addition to the literal translation. Most of the books of the Bible existed separately and were read as individual texts. Very few complete translations existed during that time. Such translations were generally in the form of prose or as interlinear glosses (literal translations above the Latin words).

Parts of the Bible were first translated from the Latin Vulgate into Old English by a few monks and scholars. In the centuries before this, many had translated large portions of the Bible into English. John Wycliffe is credited with producing the first complete translation of the Bible into English in the year 1382. Main article: Old English Bible translations

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