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[[Fasciculus:MemorialToCaedmon(RichardThomas)Jul2006.jpg|thumb|Monumentum Caedmoni<!--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''' (floruit circa annos [[657]]–[[684]]) fuit primus poëta Anglicus ([[Regnum Northanhymbrorum| Northanhymbrus]] cuius nomen notum est. <!--[[Anglosaxones|Anglo-Saxon]] who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century historian [[Beda|Bede]]. He later became a zealous [[Monachus|monk]] and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet.
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