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Trinity College Researchers Find Caedmon’s Hymn in 9th-Century Manuscript in Rome

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have identified what is believed to be the oldest surviving English poem, embedded in a medieval manuscript housed in Rome. Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner made the discovery after consulting digitized pages of a copy of the Ecclesiastical History of the

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