Cædmon's Hymn
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title:
Cædmon's Hymn
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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, miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator. The poem is Cædmon's only known composition. The poem has a claim to being the oldest surviving English poem: if Bede's account is correct, the poem was composed between 658 and 680, in the early stages of the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England; even on the basis of the
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Old English poem composed 658 to 680
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%27s_Hymn
date created:
2005-06-20T23:11:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T20:01:45Z
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