Bede and Caedmon's Hymn

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Bede (673-735) and Caedmon’s Hymn

§ Wrote in Latin and produced many theological works. His most famous work in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People which tells about the Anglo-Saxon conquest and the various kingdoms of Anglo Saxon England. But, he mainly

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[acciptersolis]

Bede wrote in Latin, including the copy of Caedmon's Hymn, which he did not give any sort of lines or meter for, rather translating what he called "the sense" of the lines. Later scribes added marginal notation and included a poem in Anglo-Saxon that is what we now call Caedmon's Hymn. Whether this is the poem that Bede had in mind, or which Caedmon actually sang, is up for debate. I tend to lean towards it being accurate, within a certain variation of word choice, since I think Caedmon's Hymn must have been a very popular story and verse, which the scribes might easily have known