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story of caedmon
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caedmon was an alliterate hersman employed by the monastary. A man appeard to him in a dream demanding for him to "sing him a song." upon caedmon stating that he didnt know how to sing, the man told him to sing about creation. Bede recorded this song
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Ceadmons hymn structure
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germanic verse, two stressed and two or more unstressed, linked by alliteration, interweaving, various epithaphs
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Now [we] must honour the guardian of heaven,
the might of the architect, and his purpose, the work of the father of glory[b] as he, the eternal lord, established the beginning of wonders; he first created for the children of men[c] heaven as a roof, the holy creator Then the guardian of mankind, the eternal lord, afterwards appointed the middle earth, the lands for men,[d] the Lord almighty. |
Caedmon's hymn
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scyld scefing herot wiglaf |
beowolf
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beowolf organized by
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alliteration, strssed symbols only
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