Saint Caedmon C Saints People Christianity
Saint Caedmon C Saints People Christianity
Saint Caedmon
Information on St. Caedmon, earliest person known to compose poetry in English. He died in about 680.
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- Brief profile of the poet-monk of Whitby.
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- Brief biography of St. Caedmon, thought to have been a Celt, and the first known poet of the vernacular in English, by Karen Rae Keck.
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- Very short paragraph.
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- Biography, edited from Edgar C.S. Gibson's "Northumbrian Saints."
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- Article on the laborer for the double monastery of Whitby, composer of hymns and other Biblical poems in Anglo-Saxon, who died between 670 and 680.
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- Excerpt from the Old English version of the Ecclesiastical History by the Venerable Bede. Includes Old English text, modern English translation by Benjamin Slade, introduction, explanatory notes, and sound recordings.
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