English Literature, From the Beginning to the Norman Conquest;
English Literature, From the Beginning to the Norman Conquest;
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916
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A number of small oratories were scattered over the hillside, and many of them no doubt occupied the long and narrow platform where St. Mary's Church stands now among the tombs of drowned sailors. It was a fitting home for the first poet 126 Digitized by Google CiEDMON [660-680] 127 of the nation which has ruled and loved the sea. Csedmon was his name, and he was attached in a secular habit to the monastery — one of its dependents, and living in the village at the foot of the cliff. Whence he c...ame we cannot tell, but he may have come to Whitby with Hild from Hartlepool. He was born a heathen, and the heathen note rings clear in some of the poems attributed to him. His name is scarcely English, and this and the similarity of his story to other stories of shepherds suddenly gifted with song have made some persons deny his real existence. But Baeda's account makes it clear, by evidence almost contemporary, that he was himself, and not a mere name. Whether he was truly an Englishman is an undecided question.
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