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Experts stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding oldest English poem
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 sought-after treasure: the oldest surviving English poem.
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A medieval book in Rome has been hiding the oldest English poem
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…
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English literature's 'first-ever poem' hidden in lost medieval book in Rome revealed and it was composed by agricultural worker
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,”…
