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A remarkable manuscript discovered in Rome has brought to light a rare early copy of Cædmon's Hymn, widely considered the oldest known poem in the English language. Dating to the early ninth century, ...

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The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from ...

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

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Researchers discovered a medieval manuscript in Rome containing Caedmon’s Hymn, the first known poem in the English language.

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