This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

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 ...

A copy of the earliest known poem written in English has been discovered with the help of “old-fashioned sleuthing” in Rome.

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 ...

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...

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 discovered a medieval manuscript in Rome containing Caedmon’s Hymn, the first known poem in the English language.