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Caedmon
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Caedmon (
fl. 670), entered the monastery of Streaneshalch (Whitby) between 658 and 680, when already an elderly man. He is said by
Bede to have been an unlearned herdsman who received suddenly, in a vision, the power of song. In 1655 François Dujon ( Franciscus Junius) published at Amsterdam from the unique Bodleian MS Junius II (
c.1000) long scriptural poems, which he took to be those of Caedmon. These are
Genesis,
Exodus,
Daniel, and
Christ and Satan, but modern scholarship denies attribution to Caedmon. The only work which can be attributed to him is the short ‘Hymn of Creation’, quoted by Bede.
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Scalby and Caedmon star in league finale.
Newspaper article from: Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England); 12/4/2007; 638 words
; ...team displays by pupils from Scalby and Caedmon saw them dominate the final Scarborough...won three of the eight trophies, while Caedmon won four. On a bright but raw morning...Scalby were split into first and third by Caedmon's Harry Smith who came second. The...
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Bede's Caedmon, "The Man Who Had No Story" (Irish Tale-Type 2412B).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Magazine article from: Folklore; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...cited to Bede's account of the poet Caedmon, none are very close. The plot of a...Clinching this connection is the motif that Caedmon, a lowly cowherd, is called by name...tale. Moreover, he added the story of Caedmon's later life and pious death. Bede...
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 "Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England)")
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Hockey glory makes it a double for Caedmon.
Newspaper article from: Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England); 4/24/2006; 664 words
; CAEDMON School year nine girls' hockey team landed...Whitby and Esk Valley Astroturf sited at Caedmon, it was hoped the skills of Whitby hockey...College this year, hopes were high until Caedmon realised they had drawn the team that had...
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Caedmon on the ball as football teams land two district trophies.
Newspaper article from: Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England); 5/19/2008; 510 words
; CAEDMON School claimed a great double when both...a 7-5 win . In the quarter-final, Caedmon travelled to Pindar School and led 2...surge clinched a place in the last four for Caedmon, who won 4-2. The semi-final paired...
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Nu scylun hergan (Caedmon's Hymn, 1a).(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; In his monograph on Caedmon's Hymn, Daniel P. O'Donnell reconstructs...In the famous account of the poet Caedmon in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis...century, the manuscript resources for Caedmon's Hymn have increased considerably...
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Caedmon runners land four out of six trophies.
Newspaper article from: Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England); 12/11/2007; 450 words
; CAEDMON School runners have had a fantastic season, winning...clean sweep with the following results: Year seven: 1 Caedmon 73 pts, 2 Ryedale 68, 3 Scalby 65; year eight: 1 Caedmon 73, 2 Eskdale 47, 3 Ryedale 45; year nine:1 Caedmon...
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Profile: Creation of Caedmon Audio
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 12/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Creation of Caedmon Audio Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 10:00...a very highbrow started a revolution. Caedmon Audio recorded words instead of music...etherized upon a table... EDWARDS: Caedmon was the first to market spoken word recordings...
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CD REVIEW: Christian coffeehouse group Caedmon's Call's latest lacks substance
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/10/2000; ; 376 words
; ...WIRE) WACO, Texas -- It looks like Caedmon's got its calling wrong this time. In 1997, Caedmon's Call defined and made popular Christian...a self-titled CD. Three years later, Caedmon's Call has strayed from its raw originality...
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For 50th anniversary, Harper Audio is re-releasing Caedmon titles.(Knight Ridder Newspaper)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...as it turns out, the founding of Caedmon, one of the early audio-book companies...Roney still live in New York, but Caedmon has since been absorbed by Harper Audio. For a while, some of the old Caedmon titles fell out of print, the master...
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Literary Lions' Chance to Roar; For Half a Century, Writers Have Read For Caedmon Records
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...home. Holdridge is a co-founder of Caedmon Records, one of the first American companies...They live in Florida. Back when they ran Caedmon, named for an Old English poet, the...Listening Library and Spoken Arts. But Caedmon was always queen of the recorded word...
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Caedmon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Caedmon Old English poetry appears in two forms...poetic form to present a moral perspective. Caedmon (died ca. 680) is recognized as being...the Christian poets. Information about Caedmon's life is sketchy. The English theologian...
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Caedmon’s Call
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Caedmon’s Call Rock group For the Record… Selected discography Sources Caedmon’s Call took an unusual path...touring away from their families. Instead, Caedmon’s Call slowly built a grassroots...
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Junius Manuscript, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...first printed it at Amsterdam in 1655, calling it ‘Caedmon the monk's poetical paraphrase of Genesis, etc.’...Daniel , and Christ and Satan ) continued to be associated with Caedmon for some time, but it is clear that they are unconnected with...
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Cynewulf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...authorities to be of high literary quality. Christian poetry began to appear around the 7th century, with Caedmon and the subsequent school of Caedmon style. Cynewulf is recognized as the second Anglo-Saxon poet to write Old English Christian verse...
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Robinson, Peter
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...End. Toronto, Viking, 1990; New York, Scribner, 1992. Caedmon's Song. Toronto, Viking, 1990. Past Reason Hated. Toronto...non-series novels, among them the psychological thriller Caedmon's Song and a police procedural set primarily in Los Angeles...
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