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[[Fasciculus:MemorialToCaedmon(RichardThomas)Jul2006.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Cædmon, St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby. The inscription reads, "To the glory of God and in memory of Cædmon the father of English Sacred Song. Fell asleep hard by, 680."]]

 

Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in [[Medium aevum|medieval]] sources, and one of only three of these for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived.<ref>The twelve named Anglo-Saxon poets are [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86duwen Æduwen], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldhelm Aldhelm], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great Alfred the Great], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anlaf_(poet) Anlaf], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldulf Baldulf], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede Bede], Cædmon, [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut Cnut], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynewulf Cynewulf], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunstan Dunstan], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereward Hereward] and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfstan_the_Cantor Wulfstan] (or perhaps Wulfsige). Most of these are considered by modern scholars to be spurious—see [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%23odonnell2005 O'Donnell 2005, Introduction 1.22]. The three for whom biographical information and documented texts survive are Alfred, Bede, and Cædmon. Cædmon is the only Anglo-Saxon poet known primarily for his ability to compose vernacular verse, and no vernacular verse survives that is known to have been written by either Bede or Alfred. There are a number of verse texts known to have been composed by [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynewulf Cynewulf], but we know nothing of his biography. (No study appears to exist of the "named" Anglo-Saxon poets&#x2014;the list here has been compiled from [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%23frank1993 Frank 1993], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%23opland1980 Opland 1980], [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%23sisam1953 Sisam 1953] and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon%23robinson1990 Robinson 1990].)</ref> His story is related in the ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]'' ("Ecclesiastical History of the English People") by Bede who wrote, "[t]here was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain brother particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was wont to make religious verses, so that whatever was interpreted to him out of [[Biblia|scripture]], he soon after put the same into poetical expressions of much sweetness and humility in [[Lingua Anglo-Saxonica|Old English]], which was his native language. By his verse the minds of many were often excited to despise the world, and to aspire to heaven."

Cædmon's only known surviving work is ''Cædmon's Hymn'', the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of God which he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream. The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of [[Lingua Anglo-Saxonica|Old English]] and is, with the [[Runae|runic]] Ruthwell Cross and Franks Casket inscriptions, one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. In 1898, Cædmon's Cross was erected in his honour in the graveyard of St Mary's Church in Whitby.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Time to move Caedmon’s Cross?|url=http://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/time-to-move-caedmons-cross/|accessdate=24 October 2014|publisher=The Heritage Trust}}</ref>

 

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