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Researchers find rare and lost copy of oldest known poem in English

Video. The earliest known English poem has been found in an unexpected place

Updated: 13/05/2026 - 15:41 GMT+2

A 9th-century manuscript held in Rome has revealed the earliest known Old English poem, Caedmon’s Hymn, hidden within a copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

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