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New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

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New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-earliest-poem-english-language-rome.html#google_vignette

“Caedmon’s Hymn” at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677

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I can't read a single word. This English is completely alien to me.