Cædmon Poems

Cædmon is the earliest known English poet whose name is recorded in writing. Records indicate that he was a lay brother who worked at the monastery of Streonæshalch, now Whitby Abbey. His only surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn which is written in traditional alliterative verse. 

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