Bede's History Of Caedmon
He was a northumbrian.
Bede's history of caedmon. Cædmons Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was according to the Northumbrian monk Bede miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator. He was a zealous monk and inspirational christian poet. Bede was an official of the church of Rome plus housed and compensated by same with the equivalent of.
The so-called Venerable Bede c. Bede was a monk in the Northumbria district of England and he was one of the most learned scholars of his day. 731 IV23-4 Bede the Venerable the most learned writer of the Anglo-Saxon period was born in Northum-bria around 673.
The coming of the Holy Ghost and the preaching of the apostles. From the Old English version of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People read by Peter S. He also wrote about Caedmon in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Otherwise we know no more about him than what is stated in the few pages that include the Hymn. 673 and long before Bede wrote in Latin the Ecclesiastical History completed 731. 673-735 embeds this Anglo-Saxon hymn and the legend of its creation within his Latin text An Ecclesiastical History of the English People a book that describes the spread of Christianity in EnglandThe hymn itself was composed in the mid- or late-7th century and so is the earliest surviving Old English poem.
Bedes account of Cædmon 11 Bede tells the story of the herdsman Cædmon and how he learned to sing in Book IV Chapter 24 of the eighth-century Historia ecclesiastica ed. His story is related in historia ecclesiastica by bede who described. The work in which this story is found is his most popular and tells the history of the Anglo-Saxon conquests the spread of Christendom and the growth of the English church.
Then in a dream a stranger appeared commanding him to sing of the beginning of things and the herdsman found himself uttering verses which he had never heard. The Venerable Bede London Oxford University Press pp62-98. Caedmon later composed verses based on Scripture which.

