New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...
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Forget Beowulf, Old English Text Has Cure for MRSA

Could a thousand-year-old text written in Old English contain a recipe for killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)? Microbiologists from the University of Nottingham teamed up with ...
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Lost Old English poem copy discovered in Rome manuscript

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have identified a ninth-century manuscript in Rome containing Cædmon’s Hymn, the earliest known English poem, embedded within Bede’s Ecclesiastical History. The ...
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Old English meets state-of-the-art animation

There are masterpieces that you know you should read but don't really want to sit down and study. "Beowulf," an Old English text that has tormented generations of students, is one of them. Thankfully, ...