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

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...

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

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