Cædmon's Hymn

Versions of
Cædmon's Hymn (7th century)
by Cædmon

The only known survivor from Cædmon's oeuvre is his Hymn. The poem is known from 21 manuscript copies, making it the best-attested Old English poem after Bede's "Death Song" (35 witnesses) and the best attested in the poetic corpus in manuscripts copied or owned in the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon period. The Hymn also has by far the most complicated known textual history of any surviving Anglo-Saxon poem.Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of Cædmon's Hymn include:

Northumbrian aelda rescension:

"Cædmon's Hymn" in the Moore Bede
"Cædmon's Hymn" in the Saint Petersburg Bede

West Saxon eorðan rescension:

"Cædmon's Hymn" from manuscript Tanner 10