Religion
Cædmon's Hymn: Northumbrian Version (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. E. V. K. Dobbie, vol. VI (1942)
Religion
Nu scylun hergan hefaenricaes uard,
metudæs maecti end his modgidanc,
uerc uuldurfadur, sue he uundra gihuaes,
eci dryctin, or astelidæ.
He aerist scop aelda barnum
heben til hrofe, haleg scepen;
tha middungeard moncynnæs uard,
eci dryctin, æfter tiadæ
firum foldu, frea allmectig.
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Cædmon. “Cædmon's Hymn: Northumbrian Version (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/caedmon/1/.
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