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A medieval book in Rome has been hiding the oldest English poem

Posted 5/17/26

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 seventh century. …

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