LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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in a monastery
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on a farm far from town
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at the village inn
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at the local university
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Bede, Cædmon was a lay brother who cared for the animals at the monastery Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey).
Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest named English poet was a cowherd named Cædmon who lived at the Abbey of Whitby. We know about this man because the story of his life is described in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People written by the 8th-century monk, Bede.
Detailed explanation-3: -The abbess St. Hilda believed that Caedmon was divinely inspired and, to test his powers, proposed that he should render into verse a portion of sacred history, which the monks explained. By the following morning he had fulfilled the task. At the request of the abbess he became an inmate of the monastery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cædmon’s only known surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of God he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream.