Caedmon
See also: Cædmon
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English Cædmon.
Proper noun
Caedmon
- A famous Northumbrian poet, the author of Cædmon's Hymn.
- 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet’s Tale. The Birds of Killingworth.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 189:
- It was the season, when through all the land / The merle and mavis build, and building sing / Those lovely lyrics, written by His hand, / Whom Saxon Cædmon calls the Blithe-heart King; […]
Further reading
- Cædmon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cædmon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “Caedmon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.