Composed in Old English by a Northumbrian agricultural worker in the 7th century, "Caedmons Hymn" appears within some copies of the “Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” written in Latin by a monk and saint known as the Venerable Bede.

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library. The poem, "Caedmon’s Hymn," was composed in Old English by a Northumbrian worker in the…

Composed in Old English by a Northumbrian agricultural worker in the 7th century, "Caedmons Hymn" appears within some copies of the “Ecclesiastical History of the English People,”…

Researchers in Dublin discovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library.

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A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough. Researchers studying a medieval manuscript in Rome…

A team of Irish researchers has unearthed what they believe to be the oldest surviving English poem, a remarkable discovery made while poring over a medieval manuscript in a Roman…

Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library

The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marvelling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitised pages and found their…

A Roma riaffiora una copia di Caedmon’s Hymn, il poema inglese più antico, nascosta in un manoscritto medievale.