Professor Paul Russell, from the University of Cambridge's department of
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic studies, and PhD student Myriah Williams have worked on finding the manuscript's secrets using different imaging techniques for three years.
The seven, with subject and college in brackets, are Michael Armitage, 17 (politics, philosophy and economics, Balliol, Oxford); James Dibb-Simkin, 17 (economics, Queens, Cambridge); Laura Evans, 19 (
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Trinity Hall, Cambridge); Ben Franklin, 18 (earth sciences, Exeter, Oxford); Clare Harris, 17, (law, Trinity Hall College, Cambridge); William Mack, 17, (classics, Corpus Christi, Oxford); Rowena Scar-brough, 17, (French and Czech, New, Oxford).