worship
A relic of christian poetry
caedmon's hymn
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aedmon’s Hymn is the oldest poem to be recorded in Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxon settlers of Great Britain. Its author, Caedmon, was supposedly an illiterate cow-herder who nonetheless could compose lyrics in praise of God. The Hymn is his only known work, surviving to this day and age mainly through the Venerable Bede’s ex libris, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, first written in 731 AD.
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