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Caedmon's Hymn. By Caedmon. Translated By Roy M. Liuzza. Caedmon's Hymn (2 versions) Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of the glory-father—of every wonder, eternal Lord. He established a beginning.
"Cædmon's Hymn" was composed sometime between 658 and 680 AD and a ppears to be the oldest extant poem in the English language. According to the Venerable Bede (673-735), Cædmon was an illiterate herdsman who was given the gift of poetic composition by an angel.
Crossley Holland, The Anglo-Saxon World, a collection of Old English poetry. A unique translation of Caedmon's hym with notes, an imagining of the shepard himself, context relating to Wynd cottage and the importance to the history of Whitby.
3 Φεβ 2010 · All of these distinguishing features of Old English poetry—the regular alliterative meter, the frequent parallelisms, the “kennings,” and the general dark outlook on life will be found illustrated in the poems selected in this book.
Cædmon’s only known surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of the Christian god he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream. The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry.
9 Νοε 2023 · Caedmon's Hymn: Early English masterpiece - divine praise, alliteration, and poetic beauty in 7th-century Old English.
Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator. The poem is Cædmon's only known composition.
