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Memorial to Cædmon, St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby. The inscription reads, "To the glory of God and in memory of Cædmon the father of English Sacred Song. Fell asleep hard [near] by, 680"

Cædmon ( or ) is the earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals and was attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet.

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Bede's Story of Cædmon Bede's Story of Cædmon www.heorot.dk/bede-caedmon.html - Web

Bede's World Bede's World www.bedesworld.co.uk - Web

St. Hilda and Cædmon Page at St. Wilfrid's St. Hilda and Cædmon Page at St. Wilfrid's www.wilfrid.com/saints/hilda.htm - Web

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English verse-translation of Cædmon's Hymn English verse-translation of Cædmon's Hymn poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/.../cadmons-hymn-from-old-english.html - Web

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