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'''Cædmon''' (floruit circa annos [[657]]–[[684]]) fuit primus poëta Anglicus [[Regnum Northanhymbrorum|Northanhymbrus]] cuius nomen notum est. [[Beda]] tradit Cædmonem fuisse saecularem fratrum in monasterio [[Streonæshalch]] (Whitby), [[Sancta Hilda|Hilda]] abbatissâ (657–680), qui canendi artem primum nescientem, somnio didiceret, et postea monachus et poëta studiosus piusque fieret.
Cædmon est unus ex duodecim poëtis Anglosaxonicis in fontibus {[Medium aevum|Medii aevi]] commemoratus, et unus ex tribus tantum de quibus facta vitae et opera ex libris ipsorum aetatis cognoverimus.<ref>Duodecim poëtae Anglosaxonici nomine noti sunt [[Æduwen]] [[Aldhelm]], [[Alfredus Magnus]], [[Anlaf]], [[Baldulf]], [[
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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