'Caedmon died before AD 700, his hymn must therefore have been composed in the last decades of the previous century, that is to say, within fifty years of acknowledged Heathenism in Northumbria. Caedmon was born into a Pagan world....' (Quote from The Lost Gods of England by Brian Branston) |
Caedmon's Hymn |
'Caedmon died before AD 700, his hymn must therefore have been composed in the last decades of the previous century, that is to say, within fifty years of acknowledged Heathenism in Northumbria. Caedmon was born into a Pagan world....' (Quote from The Lost Gods of England by Brian Branston) |
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