The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry From Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred
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A similar gift of song in sleep is told of the writer of the Heliand but this is probably taken from the story iu Baeda. There is no reason to doubt of the person of Caedmon. Baeda lived not far off from Wliitby. He was born in 673, and Caedmon died iu 680. He gives a free Latin translation of Caedmon's hymn, and an Index of his work. He knew the poems.
' I have introduced here and there into Baeda's account a few expressions added by Alfred in his translation of this story.
284 EARLY ENGLISH L...ITERATURE brethren in the monastery, and ordered him to be taught the whole series of sacred history. Thus Caedmon, meditat- ing within himself all that he had heard, and, like a clean animal ruminating, turned it into the sweetest verse; and his song and his verses were so winsome to hear that his teachers themselves learned from his mouth. He sang j the Creation of the world and the Origin of man, and all the history of Genesis, and of the departure of Israel from Egypt and the entrance into the land of promise, and of many other stories in the sacred Scriptures, and of the Incarnation of the Lord and of His Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension, and of the coming of the Holy Ghost, and of the doctrine of the Apostles.
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A similar gift of song in sleep is told of the writer of the Heliand but this is probably taken from the story iu Baeda. There is no reason to doubt of the person of Caedmon. Baeda lived not far off from Wliitby. He was born in 673, and Caedmon died iu 680. He gives a free Latin translation of Caedmon's hymn, and an Index of his work. He knew the poems.
' I have introduced here and there into Baeda's account a few expressions added by Alfred in his translation of this story.
284 EARLY ENGLISH L...ITERATURE brethren in the monastery, and ordered him to be taught the whole series of sacred history. Thus Caedmon, meditat- ing within himself all that he had heard, and, like a clean animal ruminating, turned it into the sweetest verse; and his song and his verses were so winsome to hear that his teachers themselves learned from his mouth. He sang j the Creation of the world and the Origin of man, and all the history of Genesis, and of the departure of Israel from Egypt and the entrance into the land of promise, and of many other stories in the sacred Scriptures, and of the Incarnation of the Lord and of His Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension, and of the coming of the Holy Ghost, and of the doctrine of the Apostles.
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