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One of the earliest surviving Anglo Saxon poems, Widsith, is the autobiographical record of such a scop.

Here, Surviving is a Participle or a Gerund?

Can we say "Widsith is one of the earliest Survived Anglo Saxon" omitting conjunction and a helping verb( which have).

Widsith is one of the earliest Anglo Saxon poems which have survived.

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    No, we can't omit which have (or to have). To do so makes it look as though surviving was something done to the poems.
    – Kate Bunting
    Commented Feb 1, 2021 at 16:16
  • It means ,doing so would make it look like like a passive structure...
    – RADS
    Commented Feb 1, 2021 at 16:37
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    It's essentially a metaphoric extension of survive = remain alive into remain accessible to future generations. Where the continuous participle is being used adjectivally to mean one of the earliest Anglo Saxon poems that are [still] accessible (we can still find the actual text, from "originals" or from later copies).
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Feb 1, 2021 at 17:49

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