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St. Caedmon (847 words) |
 | While Caedmon's part in the authorship of the so-called Caedmonian poems has been steadily narrowed by modern scholarship, the events in the life of this gifted religious poet are definitively established by the painstaking Bede, who lived in the nearby monastery of Wearmouth in the following generation (see BEDE). |
| Caedmon, having further shown his gift by turning into excellent verse some sacred stories recited to him, yielded to the exhortation of Hilda that he take the monsastic habit. |
| The manuscript consists of poems on Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and a group of poems in a different hand, now called collectively "Christ and Satan", and containing the Fall of the Angels, the Descent into Hell, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Last Judgment, and the Temptation in the Wilderness. |
| CAEdmon: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (1496 words) |
| Caedmon seems to have been one of a community...prior to his vision it had been noted of Caedmon that he always refused to sing when the... |
| Caedmon has been a hive of activity in recent...school system; and there are plans for Caedmon to link up with schools in France for... |
| Caedmon whose story is charmingly told by the Venerable Bede, who...Although the body of his work has been lost, the school of Caedmon is responsible for poetic narrative versions of biblical stories... |
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