Ancient poem rediscovered: A 9th-century Old English version of 'Caedmon’s Hymn' was found in Rome, preserving the poet’s original Northumbrian dialect. Why it matters: The find highlights Old English ...

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Researchers have uncovered a 1,200-year-old manuscript in Rome containing the oldest surviving English poem, “Caedmon’s Hymn,” written entirely in Old English. The find preserves early Northumbrian ...

Learn more about Caedmon’s Hymn, the first poem written in English, and a new copy recently found in Rome thanks to archival ...

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

Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner, School of English, write in The Conversation about their discovery of a new copy of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have located in the National Central Library of Rome a 9th-century copy of the first ...