It's been a towering landmark in the world of English literature for more than two centuries, but Beowulf is still the subject of fierce academic debate, in part between those who claim the epic poem ...

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The newly-discovered ...

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. In the archives of ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem, hiding in a medieval book in a Roman library.

Caedmon’s Hymn said to have been written by a cattle-herder from Whitby 1,300 years ago Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans. He has ...

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