Cædmon

American  

[kad-muhn] / ˈkæd mən /

noun

1. fl. a.d. c670, Anglo-Saxon religious poet.

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Cædmon British  

/ ˈkædmən /

noun

1. 7th century _ad , Anglo-Saxon poet and monk, the earliest English poet whose name survives

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Cædmon

The Saxon poets Cædmon, the Venerable Bede, Alcuin, the friend, teacher and adviser of that mighty genius Charlemagne, were minds of the first order.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

The Christian poem of Cædmon is tinctured on every page with ideas derived from the legends of the old heathen mythology.

From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

Cædmon may be one of them: the question has been the cause of immense discussion, and remains doubtful.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand

Cædmon was a lay brother, a tender of cattle at the Abbey of Whitby under the Abbess Hilda who founded it.

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

We hear of an English poet, Cædmon, as early as Bede's time, a century before Charlemagne.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson