Religion
Cædmon's Hymn: West Saxon Version (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. E. V. K. Dobbie, vol. VI (1942)
Religion
Nu sculon herigean heofonrices weard,
meotodes meahte and his modgeþanc,
weorc wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,
ece drihten, or onstealde.
He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum
heofon to hrofe, halig scyppend;
þa middangeard moncynnes weard,
ece drihten, æfter teode
firum foldan, frea ælmihtig.
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Cædmon. “Cædmon's Hymn: West Saxon Version (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/caedmon/2/.
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