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New copy of earliest English poem discovered in Rome

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Trinity researchers identified an early 9th-century manuscript in Rome containing the Old English version of Caedmon’s Hymn, making it the third oldest surviving copy of the poem. The find was enabled by digitisation and sheds new light on how early readers valued English poetry. [tcd.ie]

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