Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem
A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the first poem ever written down in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of the left page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, at Rome's Nati.
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- Published: May 17, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC
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