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"Caedmon's Hymn" is one of the oldest poems known written in Anglo-Saxon, the language which centuries later became English. It's a poem about the creation of the world, written by an illiterate farmhand named Caedmon who worked for the monastery of Whitby in northern England.
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.
This poem is found added by scribes to the margins of various manuscipts of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Book 4, chapter 24. Bede’s text is in Latin, but the scribes have added the poem in Old English. West Saxon version. or onstealde. 1 weard ] Cædmon employs many names for God.
"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.
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30 Ιουλ 2024 · The only known survivor from Cædmon's oeuvre is his Hymn. The poem is known from 21 manuscript copies, making it the best-attested Old English poem after Bede's "Death Song" (35 witnesses) and the best attested in the poetic corpus in manuscripts copied or owned in the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon period.
